RED nights in Vienna!

Pheer my leet photoshop skills.

This is me with a RED I built together myself. Huzzah times three for me!

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Flyer to Dailies, my Comedy show.

Since this is not a work of Leo or Skyman, and I am stating otherwise, leave my shit alone!

EDIT: thanks, skyman! I appreciate the exception! Now, onward to icecream!

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Synaesthesia, a plug-in for GIMP

Synaesthesia, according to Merriam–Webster, is:

Gimp-supported synaesthesia emulation (click for full size!)

… chiefly British variant of syn·es·the·sia:

noun \ˌsi-nəs-ˈthē-zh(ē-)ə\

1: a concomitant sensation; especially: a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated

2: the condition marked by the experience of such sensations

— syn·es·thet·ic \-ˈthe-tik\ adjective

The Wikipedia article is a bit more detailed. Synaesthesia, the term first coined by Charles Darwin‘s half-cousin Francis Galton, is an umbrella term for many different brands of this super-power, the most common of which is probably grapheme–colour synaesthesia, meaning that numbers and letters are perceived as “having” a colour. This is the kind of synaesthesia that I have; see this neat web-app for a hands-on demo: Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Mapper. For an excellent talk on the matter, see V. S. Ramachandran on TED (starts at 17:40; there are more talks of his focusing more on synaesthesia on youtube, also, his private homepage also has some neat illusions).

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A book

(Go here to read the story first, if you prefer not being spoiled!)

A book, by Andreas Skyman

For longer now, than I care to count, most of my creative efforts have been oriented along the lines of creating a book for my brother. The idea was first born from an off-side remark by him, saying that he wanted to see something written by me in print. As I recall, it was said as a compliment for my christmas gift rhymes (one of the few traditions of that holiday that I can say without hesitation that I like), and — flattered — I decided this would make for a suitable birthday present, later christmas gift, later still birthday present, and so on… The book was finally finished in December last year, and though the stories stay with me, I must say that I am glad to finally be able to put the work behind me, as unfinished projects always tend to clog my creative pipes and give me a terribly bad conscience in the progress.

As per usual, I’m going write something about the creative process here; if you prefer reading without any imposed prejudice, I suggest you go here for downloads.

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The Police and the Post-Vanburenist

This poem may require some explanation. In essence, it was written almost in real time (I have only corrected some spelling mistakes) during a Skype session, when Skyman suddenly presented me with the first line, set to the rhythm of one of the parts of Johan Ludwig Runeberg’s “Fänrik Ståls Sägner”, a great collection of war poetry from Sweden’s last war. I added the following lines, and so it continued until Skyman got tired and made a hurried ending to it. “S” denotes the lines given by Skyman, whereas “G” are the lines written by me.

A post-vanburenist is a follower of the critics of Jochem Josquin Van Buren, the famous 23rd century philosopher, scuba-diver, re-designer of the Bracknell Upright, and literary critic. Obviously. It should be noted that Skyman is a firm believer in post-vanburenism.

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I dreamed I saw Jong Il last night…

The small conference room was impeccably clean; the oval table with seats for half a dozen shone, the windows showing the enormous playing-field below us where spotless and the smartly off-white hairs of broadloom carpet looked as if though no-one had violated them with shoes before we’d entered. It smelled like newly unwrapped plastic toys.

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