Hooray, the blog is online, but dented. XHTML/PHP page layout is wonky, leading to non-standards compliant pages. The sidebar is a tad barren, header image should probably be reshot, and no IE hacking has been done yet.

Too bad, I’m off to London for a day or two in 10 hours, and sorely in need of sleep. Blog panel beating to follow both.

I’ll begin by posting previous work every couple of days while getting up to speed on current projects. Coming up in September:

• Videogame Aesthetics
• Love is Sane, We Are Blind (Essay on different forms of love and fidelity, inteded to be non-judgmental)
• Time section photos (Time does strange things to people when you cut it up)
• Dawn of War Level design tutorials
• Photos of disturbingly posed and dressed mannequins (I don’t want to know how these got into actual shop windows)
• Photos of burned out cars (Dead cars can be beautiful if looked at with an unbiased eye)

(*deep breath*) and in the next few months:

• A complete theory of human emotion
• A model of culture

You did read those correctly.

The former has implications that range from ethics and morality through adaptation all the way to mental illness and artificial intelligence. The latter is mostly the former, scaled up and applied to groups rather than personality. Emotion and culture are both fairly simple yet incredibly robust systems that operate to maintain life.

I’ve been sitting on it for some years. It’s the reason I’ve not been as active as I could be with other pursuits. Nearly there. Given the feedback I’ve been getting for the past couple of years from academics, peers, and graduates, it’s about time I spoke up.

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