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http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/help-stop-sopa-pipa/

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“Using WordPress to blog, to publish, to communicate things online that once upon a time would have been relegated to an unread private journal (or simply remained unspoken, uncreated, unshared) makes you a part of one of the biggest changes in modern history: the democratization of publishing and the independent web. Every time you click Publish, you are a part of that change, whether you are posting canny political insight or a cat that makes you LOL. How would you feel if the web stopped being so free and independent? I’m concerned freaked right the heck out about the bills that threaten to do this, and as a participant in one of the biggest changes in modern history, you should be, too.”

This is a project that I am designing and producing to be explored in the winter of 2012. Here is more information about the site and how it will works with phones.

Here is an abstract to give you some more background about the project.

Locusono is an innovative platform through which one can experience personal stories, public events, and histories of the City of Flint. By linking a Global Positioning System (GPS) location with the story recorded on the phone, Locusono weaves the physical space where the story is recorded with the content of the story to create a more impactful and immersive experience.

Over the past five years, I have developed techniques to create an experience similar to Locusono using FM radio technology. For Locusono, I will develop a new platform for sharing audio recordings of stories that will be realized as a mobile phone application. This phone-based software would give partcipants the possibilities of posting stories on GPS coordinates to give the story a “place” as if it were a monument in a local city park or street.

The use of this application will create a valuable resource to the community for listening to and sharing stories about the City of Flint and the public history of the area. Also, it will allow people to become part of a collective body of local participants listening and sharing to learn and inform others about the local community and the rich and multi-faceted history of Flint, Michigan.

http://joereinsel.org/locusono/

If you are interested in learning more about this project please leave me a comment.

Ok now I know that I have done this before and I always kind of kick myself when it happens but what happened to the rest of 2011. I guess this whole idea of working on this project got thrown out the window somewhere around the time that I got swamped with work from last semester. Knowing that I am not alone is saying this but I guess I got busy and this project became less important. But I would like to continue the posts now and see where we go. This exploration into the volumes of media that I accumulated has interesting edges that I would like to understand at least in my own life and hopefully it is somewhat entertaining to you.

Projects, teaching, a kid. These are my excuses. Take them and use them as you like. I am back. See you soon.

This is the first folder. I think that I will be posting other bits of media and information while working on this project but I will tag these with “Digital Hoarding” so they are easier to find in the stream of media.

Of the five items in this folder I think I remember everything except for the info.plist file at the top. Not really sure what this was and I think that it is probably connected to something unrelated to these files. It seems at the point I put this folder together I was going through a simliar(but unsuccessful) process at the time.

The first folder is a collection of images that I created in a residency that I did at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY A large amount of these were produced into a series of large format prints that I have framed and shown at galleries in the past. The images were created by electrical signals manipulating a video display. I have another post that would explain this in more detail. Also I will make a slideshow so you can view these on your own.

I am seemed to have also collected a series of lyrics and poems over the years too. Not sure if you all will see these yet.

I also have a number of PDF’s that were press releases from shows. I will make a Collected PDF of the docs and make a another post about them.

The last is a photo shoot that I did with fellow collaborators James Rouvelle and Steve Bradley. We did a few good size projects together and Steve B. is using the URBANtells name for his present work. Here is a link of the projects that we did together. So in summary, this probably wasn’t the most interesting of folders yet but we have many more to go through.

Does this seem interesting so far. Comments!?

I am in the midst of reorganizing my site. New header soon and images in posts need to be reconnected. My plan for the site is to move my media to a downloadable portfolio(PDF) with previews online. I think this will give me more room to write. While I have enjoyed this gallery format for my site I think we all will enjoy the new virtual “joe”.

This is the title of the first folder that I saw on the drive and it looks like I was thinking of consoldating files sometime back. When I get info on this folder this is what I get.

Looks like the last time that I used this folder was when I lived in Ecuador. I think I remember that I might of been trying to working on this drive in a similar way; minus the ramblings I plan to do this time. The reason the “+” sign is there is because I forced this folder to be at the top of the finder window by starting it with a symbol. Why I wanted it at the top is unknown but I probably thought I would see it first when I started the drive. Obviously since the folder never was “burned” it sits here in “waiting”, very patiently.  I wonder if I will want to burn the files when I see them next. Burning files to disks is an action that I do rarely at this point unless I am backing something up that can’t live in some sort of cloud computing utopia or a flash drive. My values have changes for media over the past 4 years too. At least I think that they have.