Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The flu's -greatest hits-




Zielinski took the genetic sequence of a variant of hemagglutinin and created a computer algorithm to turn it into music. -CNN


You heard it from CNN! this link is a link to Stephan Zielinski's song. Which was taken from the genetic sequence of swine flu and made into music.

It seems Swine flu kills people by producing a very lengthy, repetitive, midi quality sound track in the bloodstream. I cant help but wonder what part of the strand causes the snare and tambourine to come in. I'll admit thats a nice touch and choice in instrumentation on swine flu's behalf, i mean, though the tambourine was overused in contrast to the melody, i will give it credit for being an acellular organism.


"[the song]... is a curiously melodic, innovative, somewhat soothing work." -Zielinski CNN


Woah woah, Stephen, I said it had a nice touch with the tambourine, thats it..don't give it false hopes.

Stephen you keep tinkering with music and viruses, because meanwhile, I have made my own computer algorithm to represent Swine flu...lets take a look at the output


Here is swine flu had it been Andy Warhall inspired Pop art:
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Who says swine flu is a strand who randomly hits a tambourine in cheesy synth lead in Quicktime 7? No, this work shows another side to the virus, one of refined taste and post-modernism. Truely avant-garde...


This program setting shows the famous H1N1 represented as a body art piece:
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(this is one of my favorites)



This program setting has virus being represented as an abstract painting:


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In a world full of color, who made the assumption we are always full of color? Swine flu didnt. Some roam the earth color blind by inner turmoil and lack of satisfaction, just to strive for a higher meaning and self actualization. This representation shows us just that.




Hopefully these works can show us what this strand truley is all about, and not limiting it to a simple music composer...Zielinski!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Me Dushko And Juha had quite a run living together here, so in the middle of typing a four page paper we figured we better make a trip to Canada on friday for one of our last hang outs. We were gonna run our credit cards up so high and spread out that the banks would think they were stolen....however, the banks ended up not caring and just sent me my statement in which Im still mourning over...

So, once we got permission from 90 government officials, Dushko to revoke his citizenship, and Obama's signature, Canada was okay with having a Macedonian (Dushko) come visit for 3 days (as long as he didnt bring any fruit). The trip went through Seattle and Vancouver, CA.
Here are some pics....

Finn X-ing
Everyone has a cheesy picture of them in front of landscape.
This one is mine....




My little Canadian friend










JEEEbba!

Heres me driving us back from Canada

Dushko infiltrating the Canadian Navy base, just begging to be mailed back to Macedonia

Mysterious force pulling me to the right...

get me out of this hick town!

FINNISH ROCK!

Houston...I want my money back

*nn tiss nn tiss nn tiss*

Heeeeeeyyy

bar that specializes in Whisky! Janu should be here! :*

:D

David: Hi! I have no idea what this is, but i will look more travel savvy if I get my pic in front of it!*

Finland has 0 Starbucks.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Knoledge is powwer

things learned this weekend:


*Rainman really isnt that great. It ends weird and and leaves you with a very unfinished feeling. Could be I was away from the TV longer than I thought, but unfinished nonetheless.

*The RHA is serious when they say they will fine you $50 for removing the screen from your dorm window and shooting foam missiles out of it.

*a scoop of butter can look like vanilla ice cream, but tastes completely different

*global variables can be reinitialized in the scope of int main() and be considered a different place in memory so you cant edit the original global. :O

*When an Eastern European says "Im gonna throw this orange so hard at the wall its going to splatter", for god sakes cover your groin

*Did I mention be ready when an Eastern European throws a football at you indoors? same rules apply


ok!..with this bag of ice and new knowledge, Im ready for next weekend

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