[Mind-Speak] - ing

Elation.

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:54:03 -0500

Elation.

A close up of the mask without the LED eyes lit. Can we say...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:49:59 -0500

A close up of the mask without the LED eyes lit. Can we say “AWESOME”?

Costume Commissioned from Clockwork Creature Studios. I will...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:47:40 -0500

Costume Commissioned from Clockwork Creature Studios. I will never be embarrassed on Halloween ever again. Not pictured is the fact that there’s a spring-loaded hinge to the jaw, so when I speak, so does the mask. :)

Validation :)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:48:13 -0500

Validation :)

Music Monsters

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:54:13 -0400

Music Monsters:

Zyks start out as small spheroid creatures - only then they get ears. Keep in mind we’re going back in time; this was the first game where I was lead designer. :) (GDIAC Spring 07)

Symbiosis

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:43:15 -0400

Symbiosis:

I really love this concept. I want to remake the game, one day, with proper funding and ability and scheduling. Minimal communication, cooperative play, surreal world. (GDIAC Fall 07)

Comet

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:27:00 -0400

Comet:

The spheroid main character in this game was a comet. Fantastic graphics by an MEng who went on to work at Valve and is currently swamped in L4D2 crunch (Hi Don!). (GDIAC Fall 08)

Restibo

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:25:19 -0400

Restibo:

A more direct blobular game, without the deformation. Gravity/non-gravity physics platformer. (GDIAC Spring 09)

Atomik

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:23:23 -0400

Atomik:

More proof that every game I make must somehow involve small spheroid creatures. More to come. (GDIAC Spring 09)

Creamy blue streams -> more procedural Processing art

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:26:18 -0400

Creamy blue streams -> more procedural Processing art

The Power of the Pentatonic Scale

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:09:53 -0400

The Power of the Pentatonic Scale

Automatis(c)h

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:04:18 -0400

Automatisch’ chorus is so different and so much better than Automatic’s. Bitte bleiben sie immer auf deutsch, TH.

http://www.tokiohotel.com/de/#video/music-videos-1—.html

Never Stop Learning

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:32:24 -0400

Never Stop Learning

The flock blossoms out from a single point; clusters form petals...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:13:11 -0400

The flock blossoms out from a single point; clusters form petals off the bloom. [visual adaptation of Processing’s flocking example]

Lenses in Overlap.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:12:18 -0400

Lenses in Overlap.

Linguistic Interlude

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:14:00 -0400

Manojalpa is a Sanskrit word derived from manas and the root jlp.

From the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon:

Manas. n. mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers), intellect, intelligence, understanding, perception, sense, conscience…cont
Jalpa. m. talk, speech, discourse (also pl.)…

In combining the two, one gets the closest representation of what might be termed the “Imagination,” (a nickname of mine in high school, that thusly stuck and was reincarnated over my three semesters of Sanskrit). Manojalpa literally means the mind speaking - creating narratives, worlds, fanciful imagery. But I romanticize.

Manojalpa has a tighter, much more restricted meaning derived in a school of yoga (Yogācāra) which focuses on meditation as the ultimate path to enlightenment. There, it’s considered “mental chatter” and following a string of links mutates its definition anywhere from “Discursive thought and examination; one of the mental functions (caitta), classed as morally neutral, it is the mental process which picks out the details of any object presented to the mind” (vicāra) to the more negative but possibly more personally meaningful (vikalpa) “ ‘Imagining’, an intellectual process which leads to the formation of concepts, judgements, views, and opinions. In Buddhist thought, the term usually signifies deluded or erroneous thinking which is tainted with emotions and desires and fails to grasp the true nature of things as they are. In this sense it is synonymous with the term prapañca, meaning ‘mental proliferation’, an activity of the deluded and unenlightened mind.”

I lost myself in a very satisfying linklabyrinth after that, but that’s the simple version.

Manojalpa = Imagination.

Universe

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:22:03 -0400

Universe:

Final project in Music3421 with Esbie. Game style, of course.

This is me, exploring the internet one social site at a time.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:39:00 -0400

This is me, exploring the internet one social site at a time.