Comments on: Free at last, free at last, free at last

By: Super Muffin

Super Muffin — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:45:13 +0000

I vote for the Rock Band/Guitar Hero movement!

And no matter what – things are going to get better and far more interesting for you! :D

By: MissSio

MissSio — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:54:35 +0000

exactly! :)

By: p7tms

p7tms — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:27:42 +0000

While a life’s work may be condensed into various media, it does not capture the human condition/ human factor :)

By: MissSio

MissSio — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:17:10 +0000

There are people who can fit their entire career’s worth of work onto a few cds. That’s the amazing and depressing thing about modern technology. A piece of incredibly moving digital art that you spend weeks slaving over and completing can be negated to an email attachment. I have the entire works of Shakespeare on my iPod. His entire life’s work, in my pocket. (along with enough other literature to fill an entire physical library.) It’s incredible. But with the advent of modern technology came modern ideas of how to connect with other people. You have utilized this modern technology in an amazing way to make a community out of wide-spread pockets of like-minded individuals. It’s awesome.

Even if your entire effort can be condensed to a few CDs, all those now-connected people have you to thank for that, and they know it.

Now it’s time to start something else new. It’s up to you whether or not it’s going to be digitally condensible. :)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:17:57 +0000

Marc better not read of these robotic arms being able to paint. After all of the home automation, I can’t even figure out how to turn on a lamp!

Although, a bitch slappin’ arm would bring much joy to my little world.

Forget Guitar Hero, that’s so last year. Rock band is where it’s at!

By: Ania

Ania — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:17:11 +0000

My first book about body modification was your Modcon and it made me cringe a few times. Now it’d be pretty hard to make me feel this way.
I so hope your book projects involve body modification cuz well, I don’t dig robots much.

By: juDe

juDe — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:08:22 +0000

Go on with all the projects Shannon. ;)

By: mat

mat — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:27:08 +0000

” there’s no measure of the pleasure you contributed to the community or the sense of peace you helped people acheive.”

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:54:29 +0000

Your a great painter & doing a book would be awesome & I think many people, would love it…also lauching a new site sounds like great news to me….
you’ll never be forgotten by the people you whos lives you changed.Bme was great because theres not many things in this life were you go “WOW now this is really something new & different here”….thats how bme was for me something that pulled me in & I was never the same after it & I’m very thinkaful for all you did there. Good luck with your pursuits my friend!

By: Torture

Torture — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:19:44 +0000

Yeap, BME is and was just bits and bytes, but it made a link to so many people!
I am glad to be in my own way, part of the community you created, and I must say I am sad that you have left, but I am also happy for you. I see you full of projects, and that makes me happy for you.
I see you moving on, and it is somethimes very very hard.

I will keep visiting you here, and on whatever other project you are involved in.

Best wishes for you Shannon, hope I can go to Canada someday and have a beer with you.

Torture.

By: JenO

JenO — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:44:23 +0000

Just came here to thank you for the job you’ve done, and even though I definitely didn’t agree with you on some of your posts, I still wouldn’t have wanted the site to change one bit. Good luck Shannon.

By: daniel jacques

daniel jacques — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:21:05 +0000

aye, haha, the whatsit… earth house project…looking forward to future updates on this, plus..yeah, thanks a mecca for the community man, i hope it survives your absence, at least i know the friendships ive made there definately will. peas.

By: LotN

LotN — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:32:12 +0000

Yup, much more than a website.

What about building that house? I’m waiting for the announcement that you’re looking for people to help built and live in the technology-infused hobbit holes…

By: valon oddity

valon oddity — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:18:07 +0000

And with regard BME, I’m with the others in that whilst the physical aspect may be on a few DVD’s the real work you did is walking around all over the word with smiles on their faces that you helped put there.

cheers to this.

my first suspension is because of coming to this site and seeing the world in a whole other light once i did it. i have since met tom brazda who had done amazing work on me, the same goes for blair and eventually the truly wonderful brian decker.

you will always have so much appreciation for what you have done to this whole world in opening so many eyes to wonderful new things.

thank you shannon over and over.

By: tyger burning bright

tyger burning bright — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:28:59 +0000

What Don said.

Also, I enjoyed your gallery pages. The colors and brush-stroke details look great!

By: DON

DON — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:07:30 +0000

Some interesting reflections there on how you measure virtuality. In physical terms, the extent of my own personal contribution to BME/IAM would probably fit on a floppy disk! But in the wider sense of all the memories I have of BME, the people I’ve met, the events I’ve attended and the hours of pleasure and enlightenment I’ve had – the effect all that has had on me as person I don’t think can be measured.

By: dresden

dresden — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:50:36 +0000

Hey man, what is this new site you speak of? Mod related?

Did you ever get that trike of yours working?

By: p7tms

p7tms — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:56:33 +0000

Shannon,
What is the saying….”When a door closes, a window opens”?

Yes – you did OOODLES on BME. BUT- I do remember that there was lots to do – and it was needed soo very quickly that you really didn’t have time to enjoy the days. Instead you were usually stuck behind a monitor.

There are many bright sides to not having that site now:

1 — more time to hang out with Nefarious

2 — more time to hang out with Caitlin

3 — more time to do your artwork / other projects

4 — more time to enjoy life and all it offers

Sometimes it isn’t easy to find a “bright side” to things. But if you can, then it opens you up to many other possibilities :)

Now…
You mention a robot arm painter. That sounds very interesting. Between the programming/type/style/ of peinting, I’d like to see how you do it. Hmmm… a robotic vanGogh, or maybe a robotic Monet. Or impressionism versus cubism – anything is possible :)

Heck – you might even attach a webcam and create a program for the arm that would do an “artistic rendering” of whatever the webcam “sees”.

Good Luck!

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:44:58 +0000

It’s always nice to be reminded that while I have trouble getting something electronic to say “HELLO WORLD”, There are others have enough hubris to be thinkning about teaching robots to paint. :)

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:44:35 +0000

It’s always nice to be reminded that while I have trouble getting something electronic to say “HELLO WORLD”, There are others have enough hubris to be thinkning about teching robots to paint. :)