Azul

Had a tedious meeting at work yesterday where people were trying to pin down the final touches on a new process, make sure everyone across the board understood. Then in the middle someone comes in and derails the whole thing by trying to introduce an entirely new architecture and so a bunch of time was wasted on that until people were finally like "uh, we were going forward and now we're going backwards." Anyway, it finally stopped and then everyone else got on the same page pretty quickly after that. I got some cds in the mail: Jan Beran: Śānti: Piano Concerto No. 2 Electronic Version, Carlos Giffoni / Prurient: Heavy Rain Returns, and KK Null: Kosmista Noisea. Last night Mary Beth and I watched Blue, the Derek Jarman movie. The whole thing is a solid blue screen with narration and sound driving it. It was made as he was going blind due to complications from AIDS. It was really good, and the audio did a good job of driving it in a plot-ish fashion given the highly abstract and minimal and experimental nature of the visuals. It's still highly abstract, but just less so than you might think given the on-paper description. I guess, unsurprisingly the way it was narration-driven and the vaguely similar notion of still image reminded me a little bit of La Jetée. I worked on the site a little bit last night, really just updating the artist information to correspond to the new show and a couple minor changes (realized the date of the show had been displaying the wrong month the entire time! oops! a simple issue of 0 to 11 instead of 1 to 12). Also meant to say the other day that I'd put the code up on github so now it's version controlled. Woo. Speaking of version control...I should get back to work.