Dorkboat on Stubnitz
Last night, there was a gathering of the Dorkbot London on the Ship Stubnitz moored
in the dock. I went there with James and John-san of SPC.org (Wireless Workshop).
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Wednesday, this time aboard the amazing MS Stubnitz. One *important*
thing, if you want to come, just email invited@stubnitz.com for entry.
* Where: MS Stubnitz, Connaught Bridge Pier, London, E16 2BU
* Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=loc%3A+n+51+30.34+e+0+02.2
– Chrisantha Fernando and Ed Burton presenting Darwinian Neurodynamic
Cognitive Architectures for Playful Robot Kittens.
– Ben Garrod working around and through and away-from technology’s
relationship with humanity.
– Alias Cummins opendorking on Open Source C++ Development with
Cinderblock SpriteSheet.
Presentation of Newrodynamic control (photo left) and Shauna Concannon’s Hacked
Human Orchestra (photo right = which demonstrated an electronic system to play the
sounds by the switches mounted on the various part of the body.)
And Ben Garrod (photo left) and Alias Cummins (photo right) showed their creativities.
And it’s always the case, nature of the gatherings —– what ever the excuse, meet the
friends and chat over the drinks 😀 —– And it is a well known fact, electronic geeks
are not necessary only talking about technology but quite often very
trivial silly things as well 😀
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PS : They are going to DO the same in the STUBNITZ.
Avast!
Back due to popular demand It’s….
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People seemed to like it last time (http://bit.ly/Uct5Du) – so come!
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|*NB* email invited@stubnitz.com to inform the crew you’ll be coming.|
|If you would like the Stubnitz to stay in London, you can also chip |
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dorkbotlondon #83When: 19:00-23:59, 19 December 2012
Where: MS Stubnitz, Connaught Bridge, E16 2BU (directions below)
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Featuring the bright and glittering…
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Liam Donovan: Two projects, maybe more
– a talking guitar and a barely working self-typing type-writer
Rachel Freire: Imogen Heap’s Musical Gloves
– think minority report for musicians brought to you by the DIY/maker
revolution.
Jokubas Dargis: Echo
– A game where you collect, recycle and destroy sounds on your way to
the king of space, and possibly other adventures.
And open dorks from:
Tim Monsees Stubnitz Projections
– the experience and challenges of a multi-projector setup on a ship
(work in progress)
Maybe you? If you have a 5-10 minute opendork/performance, bring it on
the night! Let us know if you want us to list you on the site:
dorkbotlondon@dorkbot.org
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Location
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MS Stubnitz,
Connaught Bridge
E16 2BU
map link: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=loc%3A+n+51+30.34+e+0+02.2
The Motorship Stubnitz is an 80 meters long ex East German fishing
vessel transformed in 1992 into a moving platform for cultural research
and exchange.
Nearest public transport Pontoon Dock DLR.
Turn right out of the station and walk to the next roundabout, take
first exit. Walk to second roundabout (with sculpture of giant woman)
first exit of that roundabout is the gates to the mooring.
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Life-Form ???
Chinese name of this, is Sea-zi or Shi-zi. And it has glorious Latin name Diospyros.
So, how you guess what are they ?
(This time, they are not plastic, in fact, they are pretty god to eat as well 😀 )
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Impressionist photo of Autumn
They are utterly vague fuzzy images though, strangely we can see enough information,
or we feel enough of what is going on there. And it is enough to carry on our life.
( The detail of Concentric Double-density Pinhole can be found in this post (link))
Some one said, ” To know the name of Plant is the start to respect and love the Nature”
Is it ? —– I think, ” To realize, How little I know, lead me to just accept what’s there,
regardless any name or details, —– This must be the Truth to be there”.
= Therefore, see nothing is what clear eyes can see at it’s best ! Ha ha ha 😀 😀
So, those fuzzy images may be what our eyes are actually seeing. And so-called sharp
photographic images were, the results of the heavy manipulation in the brain.
( Do remember, our eyes never able to see a straight line, as the Retina is not flat =
impression of straight line was created in the brain ! = so did any images. The facts
in the Argumented Reality showed, our vision is very very flexible. 😀 )
They looks like just common tall grass though, this one is the Japanese Susuki Grass.
And I’m very very attached to it.
So, this is it. It was my Autumn moment of this year. 🙂
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Not so sharp Fall — (Since, it’s done by Pinhole)
It’s a middle of November, fully qualified Autumn. And rather murky light
invites yet another murky image. Double-density pinhole photo again.
In last moment, for short time, the nature gives bright flash —– like their last gasp ?
( No no, it’s a too humanized dramatization. Nature is not making any fire-work.
Simply, as green-colored Chlorophyll has vanished, orange or red colored Carotene
which had been masked by the green become more visible. = that’s all.
—– m m m ? Am I spoiling your game ? 😉 )
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Blue Wall — (By Pinhole and Normal Lens)
This photo above was taken by the Double-density Pinhole.
But those photos were taken by normal 100mm lens.
What for ? —– don’t ask. They are just photos.
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Stop SMOKING
In England, there was a health campaign held on October, which was
dubbed as “Stoptober” to stop smoking.
—– I was talking with a local man, who remember me used to smoke. As he has been
trying to stop smoking, asked me how I managed to give-up, “Was that thanks to Zen ?”
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My smoking seemed to be a mystery to others, long time. = How a Zennist who doesn’t
drink alcohol, never take drug, even managed to give-up woman, still keep smoking ? ? ?
My joke was “I’m perfectly clean Holy-man except smoking. So, if I stop smoking
Lord Buddha wants me to work there. It’s mean, I will be called up straight.
—– in other words, me to stay in this dirty world, I was forced to smoke = if I stop,
I would be just gone.” —– then other friend advised me “If you need one vice to stay
in this world, change smoking to woman. It’s would be much healthier and exciting”
“I know, but to have a woman is much more expensive :-D”
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The local man (in fact he is a musician) asked me what sort of mind-set needed to
stop smoking ? —– I answered, there was non. I just stopped. That’s all.
—– people seemed to have a misunderstanding such as
= [To Stop Smoking, it needs a firm determination and lots of efforts] —–
utterly contrary to popular belief, such mind-set has opposite effect.
= People think, [Stop Smoking] is [TO DO Stop Smoking] hence strong will and
the proper mind-set is needed = IT MUST BE a matter of Mindfulness.
—– is utterly wrong. And it is not Zen.
[Stop Smoking] mean, [Smoking is no longer exists] = Just disappeared.
Put a Mind or Effort to a thing which is not exists = is nothing but a delusion.
If you need to DO, you have to deal with it with your Mindfulness and the effort.
But, when you deal with a thing which is not exist = you do nothing
(can you DO anything ? ) = you don’t even notice it.
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So that, when I stopped smoking = I just stopped.
The last packet on the desk was still containing 4 cigarettes. (I still remember 😀 )
Technically I could have re-started any moment = anyhow there was no obligation,
nobody watching me still, no such thoughts came up —– because, the notion of
smoking itself had been disappeared = when the target is not there where to put an effort ?
I didn’t need to have such high tension in my mind at all. The harder, it will crack.
= So, it’s better to be relaxed. —– (easy, easy, it’s only about smoking 😀 )
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People has been inventing lords of excuse “Not to Stop Smoking” before-hand, such
as it is addictive etc etc. Therefore, when they try to stop, they put so much Preparation
and the “Determination” —– from many Rituals (such as to destroy all the related objects,
ashtray, lighter, etc etc) to Declaration to others — 😀
In reality, the more you put Effort or Ritual kind, they stack to your mind and
remind you again and again = prevent you to get rid of the notion of SMOKING.
As long as the notion of Smoking is in your mind = it IS viable CHOICE to DO.
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So, the best tactics is, just stop it, even to take notice of it = when you see a
cigarette —– “What is CIGARETTE ?”
In Zen term, this is Mushin.
= vacates the Mind, not mention any related thinkings.
If you need to stop smoking = JUST DO IT IN THIS WAY
= You will succeed.
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INTUITION / Face reading in the Szondi Test
In the previous post I gave rather vague and not 
necessary positive impression about the Intuition.
It’s because of the invisible nature of the
subconscious brain activities.
Yet still, (strangely, or as a family tradition ?) I got
pretty good accurate intuition.
I can assess the person in one glance, even in a
distance or from a photograph.
Trouble is, even if visible phenomenon is there, still
I have to give a guess-work to analyze its mechanism = how it’s works.
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It’s strange though, every body can see the personality from a portrait photograph
—– or at least able to judge like or dislike at once.
No body knows how it was done, but this is an obvious fact.
Even with its vagueness of the Intuition, still, some way of the practical use
has been exploited with significantly high reliability.
—– One area is to read the air reconnaissance photograph in the military front. (This is a fact,
not a joke 🙂 ) Instead to scan the details of whole area which is utterly time consuming
laborious work, but just see all the aria with open-eyed detachment —– then
suddenly somewhere catch the attention. The photograph was not necessary showing
typical military installation but giving somewhat odd impression. Then give a detailed
inspection = Boila, enemy’s activities ! This intuitive method is actually employed in
the Military ground image analysis, because of its quick process with
amazing accuracy.
—– And somewhere in this blog, I wrote about a Rail-way Ticket-inspector who
can intuitively distinguish ticket-cheats among hundreds of passengers
passing through in every minutes, with almost 100% accuracy.
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In Psycho-analysis , there is a test called [Szondi Test] invented by a
Hungarian Dr Leopold Szondi. = It is a very simple test = Just chose which person
you like and dislike among 48 photos of the faces.
(You can read this in the Wikipedia, please see yourself its detail.)
—– In fact, when I was in my secondary school, we had this test which gave the result
such as “You are an aggressive sadist” or “Depressive, passive person” and so on, rather
not nice to tell to the 13,14 year old kids though, we were very surprised as its
assessment was amazingly spot-on.
Originally, those 48 photos were in fact, Mental Hospital Patients whose Character or
Pathological symptom was clearly known, such as a person who was a sadistic murderer or
suffering depression etc etc and the person under the test feel like to chose a face who
got the same character, which the person can Intuitively see from a photo
= hence, if you are a maniac, you chose the photo of a maniac as your favourite.
(— sound awful though, this is what we do unconsciously / Intuitively !
= Hence feather gathers :-))
(The test I had, was an American version which was using 4 or 5 sets of 48 photos of
the Prisoners —– that’s what the teacher told us, after the test)
—– As an intelligent decent boy I was (might not true now. 😀 :-D), I’ve chosen looked like
decent-faced, intelligent man’s photos (= hence, I got the assessment, saying “You are an
intelligent decent man with good common-sense, etc = Yes, that’s who I was. Honest. :-D)
Seeing the photos, I couldn’t imagine if anybody dare to chose another gloomy looking faces
—– then we realized, somebody had actually chosen those gloomy faces, hence received the
assessment “You are a sadist” ! = In fact this boy was a notorious bully, so, all of us burst
into laughing. —– (Before 60s, there wasn’t a kind of Human Right notion to protect
sensitive personal nature and anyhow, we all knew the character of every body, we took it
more like yet another mocking = Nobody complained that its assessment was wrong, nor
complained that his secret has been exposed. = It was a fun for the kids. :-D)
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Though, it may not a fun, this psychological test strip you naked = as you intuitively, feel
like particular face and put a mark without knowing why, you can’t hide who really you are.
And, because of this test is blatantly accurate and ruthlessly explicit, yet as no scientific
explanation (= as in a nature of the invisible psychological phenomenon ), and especially in
the today’s “Human Right, Sensitive Privacy, Political-Correctness etc etc” kind of awkward
social climate, it became out of fashion, so that, not many psychologist is using it now.
Yet, this is the most visible demonstration of how our subconscious mind /
intuition actually works, by showing the character with known pathological symptom,
and observe direct coloration between the viewed person (photo) and the viewer.
= Because of no information, other than the facial photos, viewer has to use
solely intuitive perception.
Other than this test, it is difficult to visibly test and demonstrate accuracy of our intuition.
( remaining question is how a person’s character or symptom shows up on the face or
even on the photograph —– I wonder, am I looks like Zen Buddhist ?
—– Or was that what Master Kogetsu found on my face ? ? ? :-D)
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It is impossible to teach Intuition, same as a creativity in the art or invention.
And same as a vision of Medicine-man = apprentice may not have the same mental ability,
so-that a second class Medicine-man needed to resort with hallucinogenic drag.
We can not swap the eyes with other person , let alone the mind = without the apprentice
having had a real experience, it is no point to teach the meaning of the vision or even
humble Intuition. Explanation in the words is utterly pointless = because the
part of the brain which perceive Intuition and processing Language are
completely different. = Somebody can do better but not others.
—– Such as a Ticket inspector aforesaid = he was the best in the station, still it was
impossible to teach others because he, himself didn’t know how and why, where to look for.
Neither me can explain why I can see the personality at once = I only feel —– even if
I try to say such as a shape of the mouth brah, brah though, it’s not necessary make an
explanation since, there are too many variations and exceptions.
And all the faces are different.
—– One face contains thousands of the informations, and as in total, it gives off the
impression of who the person is = hence, few parameter of the biometrics wouldn’t and
couldn’t give an answer.
If you imagine, the very same face can express thousands of different
expressions by minute movement of the muscles —– Only Intuitive
perception can grub those informations in total, at once.
But its mechanism is still beyond the our understanding. Funny paradox is, they are all
in the same Brain, yet we don’t know what other part of the Brain is doing.
We know everything else, but not our own brain, let alone its contents = mind.
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INTUITION
Intuition is a tricky subject. 🙂
Every body knows it is there though, as a mater of fact nobody is sure how it works and
works correctly or not. Generally, the woman said to be good at with this though, if it is true,
how come 1/3rd (now it is getting nearly ½) of the marriages end-up in divorce = wasn’t it
correct intuitive choice —– or, correct intuition had been over-ridden by the useless thinking ?
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Many Internet blog sites are keep shouting “Be intuitive” though, funny contradiction is,
in the same time, often the very same blogger also saying “Never judge a person in first
impression but to be Kind to others and Open-minded” or
“Never chose a book with its cover” kind of crèche wisdom.
In most of the so-called WISDOM, there is always opposite wisdom as well.
= Silence is Gold and Eloquent is Silver, still many relation brake down because of lack of
communication —– if intuition is so good, why it needs to speak by the words. 😀 😀
Reality is, to see the situation down to the minute details and to pay attention to every
aspects of its implications and give enough consideration and correct rational judgement
is a heavy task, in fact too much to do —> So, don’t bother JUST react and pick-up first idea
—– IS what people calls “Intuitive Decision”.
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Our subconscious memory-bank has enormous amount of accumulated data, deposited since
we were born —– the more serious matter, it has been imprinted with the more stronger
emotional tag, often with the accompanying pain, or if it is important in the family or in the
society, it has been strengthen by the repeated input as it occurred again and again
= hence, the first INTUITIVE reaction against the situation was based on those
important data without having mere hear-say or “read yesterday” kind of
cheap data and thinking, therefore it is more or less correct, but not necessary
perfect. —– to compare to the result of “Deep consideration” which has been done by
a not necessary very bright brain = may be the probability of hitting right answer
would be the same.
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If the outcome would be the same = right or wrong, half and half, why bother
bothersome consideration or thinking ? Anyhow, we have to pick-up the
consequence — favorable or not = This IS what the LIFE is.
This contemplation is the core of the “Intuitionism”.
And to live the Life in natural flow.
And the more importantly, even the most wisest man in the history,
Lord Buddha has found (= even to such a wisest brain) “the Life is suffering”
= no one can escape from this fundamental truth. (If you feel not seriously suffering
= You’ve done rather well 😉 )
What we can do the most important attitude toward the Life is,
= NOT dwell the idea “IF NOT” = as the situation is changing moment to moment, to
keep regretting a wrong decision which had been made in the past, and a result already
arrived, is in the matter of the fact = have to deal though, the new and current situation is
on front of the eyes and it is burning. = This is what we have to fight against.
(If the fire is not big, a pint of beer could be enough to put the fire down otherwise, just run !
Don’t sitting there ! 😀 )
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Yes, don’t sitting there. DO something ! Enjoy a nice and active Weekend. 🙂
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Can Ordinary Bicycle Rider become Zennist ?
I’ve wrote about many samples of the Natural Mushin, such as the examples,
Typing, Riding Bicycle even ordinary Walking, or through the practice to Cut
Lemon, Put a Pen onto a paper, just watching a Flow of Water, Sea Wave etc.
= In our daily life a Moment when our brain fallen into the state of the No-Mind [Mushin]
is not a rare occurrence, far from it, it is quite an ordinary psychological condition.
—– If so, you might ask, what makes the difference between those
common Moment of No-Mind to the ZEN.
= The answer is in the person’s Mind, or what the person thinks and accepts
[this is the ZEN] = then, it is the Zen or at least it is a start.
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While riding a bicycle or cutting a lemon, once you realized that your mind doesn’t have
any thinking other than a mere feeling of “ I’m riding” and the vision “ Land scape is just
passing by” and “ Air is just flowing on my cheek”, or you just see the Knife cutting a Lemon.
—– You need to feel [Oh, this is the ZEN] or feel [I’m in the ZEN] = and
make it a kind of tag bound two together, so that the notion of ZEN is always
stack to the action, Riding, Cutting or Typing what ever be the action.
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And you must became aware, the subject you are acting on, and your action is just passing
on or going on, such as the Landscape, shape of the Lemon or the Letters you are Typing,
next by next and moment to moment, like as to see an endless continuing flow.
= As it is the Flow, it never stays the SAME (of cause, that is what Riding, Cutting or
Typing meant to be = otherwise you can’t reach destination, couldn’t make Lemon Slices
and a cup of tea, or finish Typing).
And you must become aware, “ This is what the action meant, or the situation IS”
= YOU just have to DO, hence the SITUATION CHANGES = You are seeing
its flow as if you are just an observer, despite YOU, Yourself is
ACTING and CAUSING this FLOW.
( You have to see and aware this, as it is just a passing phase = but NOT THINK, just see
as if it is a distant land scape) —– And need to be convinced and become aware,
This IS the ZEN scape.
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This detached eyes is what called OPEN EYES and the OPEN-MINDED MIND.
= with this, you must become aware YOU CAN DO THE THINGS ALMOST
AUTOMATIC, IN QUITE DISPASSIONATE BUT EFFICIENT WAY.
While DOING this or HAVING this eyes, a landscape even a bottom of a woman become
just another landscape ! (fortunately or unfortunately 😀 😀 )
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Ultimately, ZEN is to have this MINDSET and the OPEN EYES (often called
Clear-Eyes), by which, strangely you might think
“ With the detached EYES, I can see the Real Detail more”
Details, hence the Change, in minute Moment to Moment = Hence YOUR response as well.
Because of the open-eyes, you can have more facts, hence you can be much
more PRECISE or less SELECTIVE and more TOLERANT and FLEXIBLE,
(as you can have the More Freedom on YOUR JUDGMENT and the CHOICE)
and able to pay more attention even to the others as well.
This is what the ZEN IS.
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When you try this and became able to DO this, go back to the old posts in this blog
= You must be realized Why, and see What is the psychological mechanism behind.
And see, amazingly all those were taught by
Lord Buddha, 2500 years ago already = this is nothing new or fancy novelty.
( In fact, they are the matter of Subconscious =To see and Feel is done by your intuitive
Subconscious — but Reasoning and Rational Sorting etc is done by the Thinking.
ZEN rely on the Subconscious perception and the straight response = hence
eliminates the bias or distortion caused by the intentional Thinking )
= Have a good try or many = it is not difficult as even I hthinkingave done (as DIY).
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