Hi M,
Interactive Avatar Bots from Actual People from Videos for Conversation? (Think an application for converting Youtube videos into OpenSim/SL, but realistically).
Curious about a film / video to 3D virtual world conversion application ... could this lead to an interactive Richard Rorty avatar bot? (He was a Stanford professor of comparative literature and philosopher toward the end of his academic career, and brilliant; I've blogged about him with videos of him here - https://scott-macleod.
On with my poetry book assemblage ~ "Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry"! In this process, I'm recalling particular poems I've written that express a feelings / experiences in words I think somehow soar ... Almost all of my poems are here -
https://scott-macleod.
Charlotte is an excellent, knowledgable, literary and very experienced word smith as English to French translator, as were both of her parents, but especially her father as a professor of English ... probably contributes to the potential prize Mathias Énard's "Compass" may win for its English translation.
Curious how my upcoming poetry book, which will be much shorter than Harbin ethnographic book, but also beautiful I hope, will get translated, say, into French (before WUaS's universal translator is
working well enough for poetry)!
Just followed up about my Harbin book review with Visual Anthropology's editor, P.H., whom I met with UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Nelson Graburn before my talk a few weeks ago in the Cal Anthropology department.
(New water filtration system for my place in Canyon from Ikea's? Ikea thinks differently and in smart ways - but no, they don't carry them any more. Just went into the Ikea near Stanford and am struck by how diverse it is consumer-wise, but they don't carry this. So I may get a new Brita pitcher just to increase the chances that the seal between filter and my pitcher is tight, since my current pitcher is years' old, and the "calcification" stuff in the water has accumulated around the base of the Brita-filter-holder too).
Headed to the new and glorious Stanford Bing auditorium (it's like an egg, with seating like a vineyard) to hear Stanford's CCRMA - https://events.stanford.edu/
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://live.stanford.edu/
Hearing a lot of good music at Stanford these days which is great {and which is free, so even better}, but the quarter ends soon on June 7th.
How is your weekend going?
L,
Scott
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Re OpenBand for Scottish Country Dancing in Berkeley (https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand)
Hello Patti!
Welcome home!
Have you already emailed the sheet music for Monday, 5/29? Because I was off some of the lists for a while recently, I'm checking. Thank you!
Happy music-making :)
Scott
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Have not sent music, spaced it out completely. Sent B the program a few minutes ago, sure she'll send it out sooner than I could get to it.
Patti
Via iPhone, hopefully not via Siri, or my message may be garbled ...
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Thank you, Patti!
Bruno Latour's Twitter @LatourBot - https://twitter.com/LatourBot - often machine translates 140 characters from his many books from French into English with interesting garble. I wonder how World University and School's planned universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - (and for poetry as well eventually - like a professional translator) will navigate the "garble" language.
Scott
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