lee

2024-07-05 Mid-summer. Back in NYC. Went to Berlin and travelled with Y and M. It was the Project Space Festival so I went to a dozen artist-run spaces and performances. Also got to meet up with Dante, kokerama (sp?), my old roommate mike (ran into him on the subway), and jayrope. Last night we went to berghain. . back in nyc, it's hot and oppressive. birthday bike ride to the beach was fun. working out of flux on gov island this month. 2024-05-23 School finished up last week with commencement. I also performed in a concert at a gallery in Chelsea, with Patrick. It's really nice to play with him. We have a good freeflowing improv style together. We're going to play one more show together this week before he heads back to Vienna next week. Last week I worked on a game (an old text resource management sim in the style of The Oregon Trail, just in text mind you). I presented it at WordHack. This week I worked a bit on my robot programming roguelike game (working title: Prog-like), and another game for a friend, something small. I was supposed to visit my parents but I got sick and my dad was sick. Maybe I caught something at commencement or at one of the parties or art openings over the weekend. Oh yeah, I should mention my work Pennslytucky opened in the Flux 30th anniversary exhibition that opened Saturday at Governor's Island. I made plans to travel to Berlin in June in a few weeks. I'm looking forward to it. Beyond that, I'm biking, working on some art projects, making things in Love2d and Pico-8, working on music, and waiting to hear on some grants and proposals I submitted to things.

latest music reading

  • Dub as an Act of Love https://dwellerforever.blog/2022/12/dub-as-an-act-of-love-an-interview-with-edward-george
  • Fourth World in the 21st Century https://ra.co/features/2984
  • Sounds of the Zomia, Sounds of Resistance: An Interview with Kink Gong https://www.popmatters.com/sounds-of-zomia-kink-gong-2608153653.html
  • Meet KMRU, the Ambient Musician With His Ear to the World https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/meet-kmru-the-ambient-musician-with-his-ear-to-the-world/
  • Field Recordings are Music, Material, and Method https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/field-recordings-list

My websites

  • https://leetusman.com
  • https://artistsandhackers.org
  • https://ashgreyseafoam.com
  • http://faculty.purchase.edu/lee.tusman/
  • https://github.com/lee2sman
  • https://www.instagram.com/leetusman/
  • http://experimentalarchive.space
  • https://purch.us
  • https://mess.cafe
  • https://mess.life
  • https://leetusman.com/nosebook (my blog)
  • probably others

fave talks and tutorials videos

  • Patrick Michael Ballard at Processing Community Day, omg the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00S9_sb2GQE
  • Joseph White talks about Pico-8 and Fantasy Consoles: https://youtu.be/87jfTIWosBw
  • Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone, by Kate Compton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU
  • Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins: https://youtu.be/VAhHkJQ3KgY
  • VPRI-0857 Seymour Papert on Logo: Teaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG9cYhekB8A

Recent bookmarks

  • https://brutalistwebsites.com/ Brutalist Websites, always an inspiration. (I'm on there with spam.cafe, RIP)
  • http://frogfind.com/ Search engine optimized to support ancient, slow computers
  • https://agraef.github.io/purr-data-intro/Purr-Data-Intro.html A tutorial to get started with Purr Data
  • https://nocss.club Websites without CSS
  • https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html Project Gemini FAQ (I really like reading gemini (b)logs!)
  • http://mewbies.com/acute_terminal_fun_telnet_public_servers_watch_star_wars_play_games_etc.htm fun in the terminal
  • https://itch.io/c/574927/the-hermits-club-all-solo-ttrpgs-and-larps-on-itchio solo ttrpg's. haven't tried it yet.
  • https://tokipona.org/ Toki Pona
  • https://nluqo.github.io/broughlike-tutorial/ JS "Broughlike" tutorial
  • https://www.photoxels.com/have-some-audacity-databend-your-images/ Databend your images with Audacity
  • https://www.nts.live/shows/youarelisteningto/episodes/youarelisteningto-27th-october-2018 you are listening.to the joy of painting

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