Shadows

Q&A with the Creators of Acedia

New Show - ACEDIA

Beautiful Experimental Film

"032" The Canadian Affair from departement on Vimeo.

Website edited

what you can do with good projection and lighting

PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE from 1024 on Vimeo.

George Bernard Shaw....

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

in love with the city

NYC - Mindrelic Timelapse from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

Loverly - Seattle Artist Casey Curran

unification from casey curran on Vimeo.

Sonata In Red from casey curran on Vimeo.

Moving with the new year

the ability to create my world is at my fingertips. i reach out to those i feel in kinship with to create a phenomenon.

My next Show: Fefu and her Friends

Circles of the body

"Tony Orrico performs a graphite drawing of 8 circles. Each circle is drawn by four patterns consisting of 31.25 efforts each, 1,000 efforts total. The roll is measured by the torso and one arm. This event took place in 2009 at PlacMark, a residency and performance space in Hudson, New York.

Next show I"m in, Next show I am directing.....

A quick update, come see me sing in Murder in the Cathedral in September and then come see me direct Fefu and her Friends in November! See below for details on Murder....

Alec Duffy directs T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral

Don't miss Eliot's classic poetic drama in a dynamic, site-specific production at one of Brooklyn's most majestic cathedrals, featuring original music by composer Dave Malloy. Performances runSept. 16 - Oct. 2. Pictured: Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.

Alarm bells in my brain....Is this okay?

Recently, students from Northwestern University in Illinois planned a terrorist attack. Researchers from the university were subsequently able to learn details of the attack, even though the students never admitted to anything. How was this possible? Well, essentially, the researchers read the students’ minds. More specifically, they monitored their P300 brain waves – brief electrical patterns in the cortex, which occur when meaningful information is presented to someone with “guilty knowledge.” In this case, it was a mock planned attack, but the research team believe their process could be used to prevent the real thing.

The study involved attaching electrodes to the students’ scalps, then presenting them with a number of stimuli on a computer monitor. Those stimuli included the names of cities such as Boston, Houston, New York, Chicago and Phoenix, shuffled and presented at random. In almost every case, the name of the location of the planned attack evoked the largest P300 responses.

"Without any prior knowledge of the planned crime in our mock terrorism scenarios, we were able to identify 10 out of 12 terrorists and, among them, 20 out of 30 crime-related details," said J. Peter Rosenfeld, professor of psychology in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "The test was 83 percent accurate in predicting concealed knowledge, suggesting that our complex protocol could identify future terrorist activity."

Given that the students only had 30 minutes to hatch their dastardly plan, it is assumed that real terrorists, who would put much more time and effort into their plan, would give even stronger responses.

Of course, using technology to discern what people are thinking is nothing new. Besides the highly-controversial polygraph, people have experimented with lie detectors that read facial gestures, glasses that indicate lies through voice stress analysis, and voice stress reading devices for screening passengers at airports. Even P300 waves have been studied since the 1980s, although current technology has made them a more viable option.

"Since 9/11 preventing terrorism is a priority," Rosenfeld said. "Sometimes you catch suspicious people entering a building. You suspect that they're terrorists, and you have some leads from the chatter. You've heard they're going to attack one city or another in one fashion or another on one date or another. Our hope is that our new complex protocol – different from the first P300 technology developed in the 1980s – will one day confirm such chatter in the real world."

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