The Leviathan Project

Wow, amazing! Thanks for sharing that Patrick. There is no end to where technology cannot go, it is hard to fathom.

Wow, Your Back ! Nice work Mr. Pierson!

All very interesting Patrick, although I find some concepts hard to grasp such as physical world and virtual world coming together. Scientist tell us there are 10 dimensions, I'm still trying to figure out the third dimensions. I recently viewed a video that attempts to explain the ten dimension in 10 minutes, here is the Link to that.

http://youtu.be/p4Gotl9vRGs But this did nothing for me, I found it easier to create my own "Eleventh Dimension" than try to under stand the 10 scientist say exist. I might feel the same about futuristic story telling if it's to complicated to understand, traditional storytelling works fine for me.

Mr. Pierson,

Glad to see you back

Hope you are well

Your old Comrade

Mario. It's more like juxtaposing the virtual within the confines of actual space in real time and getting the added benefit of interaction with the story as it moves along the timeline.

Picture this: You're sitting in a cinema theater in the midst of a large audience, each member of which is holding an iPad. On your iPad, you see an image that matches that on the large screen visible to all of the audience members.

Next, you send a command to the streaming video, in effect capturing one of the elements and directing it along a path of your own choosing, thus shaping the storyline in a very subtle way.

That may be a simplistic representation of the process, but your experience will be unique in that you become one within the game/movie environment, perhaps to the extent that you are able to invite the characters in the presentation to join you and the audience as you sit in the theater – a truly immersive, 3D experience.

Now just imagine that!

I like the triangulation, if you will; an original story set in the past that's updated via cutting edge technology and finally introduced to a lay audience that can simultaneously relate to the original and yet become a part of a contemporary story line themselves and perhaps alter key elements of the plot through their unique input. This collaboration and fluidity that de-emphasizes traditional hierarchies and absolutes is the polar opposite of the entrenched viewpoints we normally settle into. We are too often like barnacles transforming from the free-swimming stage to becoming permanently anchored and stuck without any other recourse.

The concept of 10 (or more) dimensions and simultaneously existing multiverses is both exciting and terrifying because we fear losing our cherished frames of reference. And yet, isn't that largely what art is all about; losing ourselves into another dimension -- albeit momentarily -- when we create our works? As an improvisational bass player I seek to be able to translate between realms at will and for progressively extended periods before returning to this reality (if at all). This video has given me some new ideas to explore towards that end.

Patrick, thank you so much for sharing this.

Patrick,

Seeing your avatar, makes me convinced that the world ain't all that bad...You're back with us.!!

Now about the FUTURE

I can imagine the day, when all this amazing interaction with virtual reality, becomes amazing interaction with actual reality.

I just can't get this befuddled old brain around as to what that might be....But deep down, I know It Will Be.

In the meantime, I have to go downstairs and stick some more crab claws into mussel shells...I have a show coming up.

Welcome back, Patrick

Thanks, Roger!

And thank you, Samuel, for posting such a wonderfully cogent set of comments, including this brilliant observation: "We are too often like barnacles transforming from the free-swimming stage to becoming permanently anchored and stuck without any other recourse."

And this one, "...losing ourselves into another dimension -- albeit momentarily -- when we create our works."

Positively spot on, my friend!

Thanks so much, Patrick!

I believe Samuel to be right in so many ways: Through collaborative processes - such as the current topic: film making and game development - we learn how sharing our ideas with one another boosts our own individual creativity. So many of us lock ourselves away in a studio, cutoff from meaningful interaction with the world as we struggle to create, when we should be sharing ideas with one another, generously offering those ideas to all comers in the hope that someone with a different perspective, a different angle, might find a way to connect them to their own and viola!


Here's a book I strongly recommend you all read as soon as you can get hold of a copy: 'Imagine: How Creativity Works,' by Jonah Lehrer.

If we agree that collaborative processes and sharing are paramount, then we also should acknowledge that "sharing" in a very real sense is becoming more problematic because in our snap-to-grid society that insists on categorizing everything, it's reflexively equated with the dreaded "S" word as a pejorative. At least in the United States, unless it's deemed a 50/50 proposition -- a virtual impossibility given the variables of our individual life experiences -- we tend to separate people into either givers or takers, depending upon their "value" in the human equation that is itself transitory and arbitrary. This social polarity hamstrings many would-be collaborations that would otherwise be mutually beneficial.

I believe we are on the verge of a Seldon Crisis, as Isaac Asimov wrote in the Foundation Trilogy, and that we need to quicken our pace in our search for meaningful questions before we explore their possible answers. I contend each of us must also have the patience to thoroughly evaluate our inner selves, because that to me is the real final frontier. A major inspiration of your posts is the realization that while there are many glimpses of artistic brilliance on this site, more overall brain power probably lurks inside each of us than we can imagine.

My last two cents on the topic. Thanks again, Patrick! Over and out....

(sorry, edited...have no time...enjoy "story's" future :)

What is the point of this, and what does the artist get out of it?

Hello, J L Meadows!

In response to your first query, you'll most likely find the answer in The Zero Theorem. As for the second query: As much as he puts into it, maybe more.

Hello, Lawrence!

Goodbye, Lawrence!

I don't know why you say goodbye...I say hello....hello, hello!
goodbye, goodbye;)

Good to see you Patrick....

need some matches mate?...I'm sure you're always ready to burn down the hood.....:)

Flying F...?

fish

brilliant.

at least yours move - (fly) Damian's (Hirst) are dead in the water.

Lawrence. I say high, you say low, you say why and I say I don't know.



G'day to you, Enver! Always a delight to read your snappy repartee.

Speaking of fish, you mean the necromancer's, 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,' and such., right?

Yeah, well the mermaliens in my studio have recently sprouted wings, so you're prescience is duly noted.

What am I thinking right now, hmm?

yes...that is the "story" of us ;)
Hela heba helloa, woooooo