For the Sleepwalkers + Sleepwalking Wiki

These activities can be as benign as sitting up in bed, walking to the bathroom, and cleaning, or as hazardous as cooking, driving, violent gestures, grabbing at hallucinated objects, or even homicide

flying back to the glove of our chests

That's why I want to say something astonishing

like: Our hearts are leaving our bodies

to step out of their bodies into the night,

Tonight I want to say something wonderful

arrow carved into the carpet, the worn path

We have to drink the stupefying cup of darkness

Our hearts are thirsty black handkerchiefs

in their legs, so much faith in the invisible

We have to learn the desperate faith of sleep-

Always they return home safely, like blind men

and walk through the skin of another life

and wake up to ourselves, nourished and surprised

And always they wake up as themselves again

Although generally sleepwalking cases consist of simple, repeated behaviours, there are occasionally reports of people performing complex behaviours while asleep, although their legitimacy is often disputed

Sleepwalkers often have little or no memory of the incident, as their consciousness has altered into a state in which it is harder to recall memories

that leads to the stairs instead of the window,

And now our hearts are thick black fists

Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family

flying through the trees at night, soaking up

Sleepwalkers arise from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and perform activities that are usually performed during a state of full consciousness

palming the blank spaces, touching everything

I love the way that sleepwalkers are willing

of owls, the motion of wind-torn branches

We have to learn to trust our hearts like that

to raise their arms and welcome the darkness,

for the sleepwalkers who have so much faith

who know it is morning by feeling shadows

Although their eyes are open, their expression is dim and glazed over
Sleepwalking may last as little as 30 seconds or as long as 30 minutes

the gaping doorway instead of the seamless mirror

walkers who rise out of their calm beds

the darkest beams of moonlight, the music

INPUTS: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking 

+  

http://www.edwardhirsch.com/poetry/for-the-sleepwalkers//124/

Systems Thinking about Food Desert Mitigation

Using Donnella Meadow's model for identifying leverage points we focused on thinking about Ron FInley's South L.A. gardening project within the greater food systems norm for context. 

CONSTANTS, PARAMS, INDIVIDUALS :  finley, city council, residents, volunteers, malnutrition persists

BUFFERS : ready availability of poor quality food

STRUCTURES : vacant lots/parkway availability 

DELAYS : legal action against finley; community awareness

BALANCING PROCESS : increase in nutrition-related disease

REINFORCING PROCESSES : "if a kid plants kale, a kid eats kale" + 1 tomato yields seeds + volunteer access to food 

INFORMATION FLOWS : understanding city land laws; access to info about healthy food + gardening techniques

RULES OF THE SYSTEM : food is free because people give their time; city mandates on parkway maintenance

POWER TO SELF-ORGANIZE : finley as positive, inclusive community leader; community, families come together

GOAL OF THE SYSTEM : "mitigate LA food deserts"

PARADIGMS : parkways are worthless, farming = countryside, good food is expensive, can't grow my own food. 

POWER TO TRANSCEND PARADIGMS : community understanding of personal connection to where its food comes from. 

Perceptual Time Project Progress

We plan to pair light and auditory cues [energy waves] - expressed via a logarithmic demarcation [our created "time" is divided twice as fast as the original time period's "half-life" is exceeded, and so on] to expand and deepen our understanding of human perception.

Our basic premise is to create a [science-fictive] speculative work to help synthesize a nonverbal understanding of the difference between human time-scale and linguistic/culturally based time perception and TIME AS IT REALLY IS.   How are these things different? Can we sense that? Can we articulate that via immersive, interactive experience [perhaps analogous to the way a film manipulates time-perspective]?  How? 

Other Questions: 

If dominant language or culture did not dictate our perception of time would we make different decisions as a species? 

Does our cultural understanding of time [you are born and told you will die within a certain span of time] have a large role to play in our arrival at the Anthropocene? 

Does an astrophysicist [or a neurologist, or an anthrologist, or linguist] understand time differently because of their knowledge base?

What are we told about time through our language and our culture?

What kinds of decisions do we make based on these 'facts' about time? 

Notes: 

As we get older, we understand what a minute "feels" like on a factorial level.  I have been alive for over 15 million minutes.  I have experienced what a minute feels like millions of time by now.  

Some visual reference for non-verbal manipulation of time perception (James Turrell, Elias Olufssun, Thomas Wilfred, Helen Pasgian, Kubrick (2001). Interstellar's time-space representation)

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Assignment Text:Banality in half

Create a Python program that behaves like a UNIX text processing program (such as cat, grep, tr, etc.). Your program should take text as input (any text, or a particular text of your choosing) and output a version of the text that has been filtered and/or munged. Be creative, insightful, or intentionally banal. text, or a particular text of your choosing) and output a version of the text that has been filtered and/or munged. Be creative, insightful, or intentionally banal.  text that has been filtered and/or munged. Be creative, insightful, or intentionally banal.  Be creative, insightful, or intentionally banal.  or intentionally banal.  banal.

A time intervention for the Anthropocene

A new, nonverbal understanding/exploration of the perception of time as a resource and its impact on humans living in the Anthropocene. 

This is an intervention for the massively entropic shift of many of the earths  evolved energy systems across the biosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere toward maladaptive human energy and biomass.

The project's main posit is that as intelligent animals humans perceive time through a distorted lens: through language we come to understand tense. Humans are aware of possibilities future events, in particular the eventual extent of our individual life/time (emphasis in the word 'lifetime' being on time as a perceived parameter of a human life.)   E.g. My individual, lonely understanding that 'life/time' will run out for myself causes me to buy into the (a human? Western? Post-modern?) idea that I need to control my time by maximizing it. 

Underneath this priority of maximizing (my) individualized human time is there a less articulable urge to be able to expand time? To control it in its very essence and function around us? 

Q. Speculative, informed observation makes us ask: If time is the most prized resource (one which is both infinite and finite on the human scale) what are the mechanisms by which we attempt to gain better access to this resource? 

A. In exploring the commonalities between the body of facts and ideas surrounding the global Green Revolution and the ideas of Planetary Boundaries (of existing resources and systems) we wanted to find the lowest common denominator to these problematic concepts.  This base idea is that if time is a resource and it is the most highly prized then consequently there must be many human behaviors and ideas which have us throwing 'good money after bad.' We use other all other available resources in order to 

What is the project physically? 

This project aims to create a new space for a nonlinear perception of time, an escape from the linear procession of time which does not match often our subjective experience of time passage. As a private timespace it will hopefully be a meditative, therapeutic, informative installation to briefly break the user's painful experience of time.

The diagram above is a first sketch of a private dark space in which the user experiences, through light and sound, a time experience which is fluid and controllable slowing and speeding with a logarithmic curve.  

Specific aspects of this installation/space may include: 

moment-divisive strobe lights which grow or slow exponentially in their frequency, interval-timed visuals projection mapped onto the user's face representing the human time scale and the ways in which resources are used to adapt to the normative industrial and post-industrial relationships to time.  A quad of mirrors at head-level which give a sense of time and space expanding limitlessly in four dimensions. A light-tight, sound-proofed dark space, separate from the outerspace around it, which is governed by linear clocks and time language. 

Further brainstorming using Operations: 

Analogy (what’s it like? what’s it not like?) Exemplification, Comparison, Metaphor, Simile, Allegory, Parable

Similar to: suicide box (Futurama), TARDIS, Willy Wonka’s pyschedelic boat ride, shivasana,

Metonymy (standing in for the whole)

Conflation (blending two entities or systems into one)

one human mapped to a basic human need

Green Revolution + Planetary Boundaries for a holistic, reciprocal and systematic understanding of how they each connect to humans, at the center of the anthropocene.

Juxtaposition (placing two objects or concepts next to each other)

Juxtaposing the abstract (time as an infinite/unpolluting/but very desired by humans) with the real (real resources). Also, a false reality (the one we live in which has allowed the anthropocene to come into being) with a hyper-false reality (the idea that we can control time)

Amplification (exaggeration, increase in amount of)

Within our topic-relevant systems - there are boundaries, and time is a boundary we perceive on one hand as abstract but as human animals we’re conscious enough to know our human lifetime scale has a deadline and it’s pressing.  All of our furious birthing and industry et cetera is a panicked reaction to the individual’s sense of running out of time.  We are amplifying this concept human of lack of control over time by . Ironically this panic about time running out for the collective individual has created a truly collective time crisis.

We are prescribing time perception to our public (to prescribe: state authoritatively or as a rule that (an action or procedure) should be carried out).

Speculation (create counterfactual narratives, what-ifs?

“Alternate or counterfactual narratives imagine a world whose history diverged at some point from the course of events as we know them. Much discussed in terms of military history and science fiction, counterfactual methods can also be seen in theoretical speculations in physics, political movements for redress, innovations in statistical analysis, military training, legal proceedings, historical regret, digital technology, and literary experimentation.” (Source)

What IF we could control time? We wonder/speculate whether that would that heal us and our needs? This is a concept which has been explored so often in literature, cinema, TV - really with Jules Verne’s work which coincides with the advent of the industrial revolution.

Our speculation is based on assumptions that humans inside Westernized cultures are aware of and count time as a resource (resources = money = time) which all other resources are being thrown after the pursuit of this resource. This being contrasted with the time-poor (those whose life-time is undervalued, and used to convert into the time resource of the more privledged) as well as human cultures which experience time completely differently (native cultures).

Mimicry

(borrow visual and methodological forms from other practices as disguise and association, such as from the sciences, social sciences, psychology, theater, labor, politics) We’re using the ideas of logarithmic time expansion and compression - this is a sort of neuroscience/psychology mimicry as well as an appropriation of theatre and metaphysics/meditation.

False Mythology (what is the origin story? What celebrity status did it once have?)(what is the origin story? What celebrity status did it once have?)

Things we discussed in our process: Gaia Earth Hypothesis, Sea of Consciousness, Creating a religion

The Absurd (Rendering the absurd) (Surrealists Futurists Dadaists)

Futurism, Surrealism? It’s absurd because it’s seen as impossible to control time and step into a different, nonlinear time progression.  What is possible, we posit, is to control and realign our perceptions about time as it relates to our personal self and the great human and natural world around us.

Research/expert ideas: 

David Eagleman - time perception neuroscientist.  Anthropologists,  physicists, linguist, People with No Language. 

Proposed Materials: 

black cardboard/foam board/paper

4-5 mirrors (glass or acrylic)

black paint

black velvet or sound baffles

strobe

pico projector (x2?)

madmapper software

processing sketch?

sensor/potentiometer to allow user to interactively control time.

4x 4x8 ply

Adjustable Strobe Circuit http://www.aaroncake.net/circuits/strobe2.asp

In Preparation for a Schematic: The Green Revolution

This is a sketch reflecting the closed multipartite energy system of post-Green Revolution Planet Earth.

The Green Revolution as a topic covers the post WWII explosion of agricultural technologies which brought about unprecedented grain production and birth rates and the ecological, geopolitical, nutritional, economic.  

  My intention with this sketch was to use color to show a transfer of energy into different forms on a planetary human scale..  It is composed of minerals, elements, fuel from within the earth which are sucked up by the beige mass smoke-stacking into the sky. The beige mass is humanity and reflects in its form the "bacterial growth" rate of humanity since 1950.

I am considering using Unified Modeling Language to construct a comparison between the poor efficiencies (transfer of energy and matter into human mass) of today's system resulting from the Green Revolution in order to visually and structurally process it.  

Can I bring a new understanding for myself and others? Is a schematic the best way? Can I use the schematic as a beginning to dictate a more visceral representation of this robbing of Peter to pay Paul? 

100 W is a short hand for the total energy of one human being at rest.  

In Energy class today I learned the sentiment of "Can't break even. Can't win." Energy is always lost from a closed system when it is converted. 

Is it useful to think about an ideal scheme? How can we win and how can we break even within the closed system of our solar system and human time scale?

How can we get enough energy to finally be humans at rest? Can I write a Unified Modeling Language schematic which reflects this perfectly and ideally - assuming I excise any excess human work? 

Applications Presentation

Alternating images of nature and the Anthropocene.  A live audience's 'yes' or 'no' responses were recorded.  Communal participation seemed to encourage honesty within the partial anonymity of a dark auditorium and chorus of voices. 

Physical Computing Final Documentation

FEATURES OF LATEST PROTOTYPE: using a blue tooth audio receiver we sent square-wave tones of varying length to communicate between the Javascript program on our web site serverside to the Arduino Mini to  communicate step by step directions: left, slight left,  right, slight right, and straight.  When transitioning to bluetooth - an important aspect of making this a user-testable mobile prototype — we had to use amplifiers in our circuit to increase the gain and make the signal usable again after moving from hardwired data to getting it to the arduino over a thirdparty BlueTooth hack. 

This prototype's form factor went through some rapid reshaping - we ended up with press-fit magnets for the enclosure's lid and lasercut layers for a sturdier, customized, more design-conscious prototype. Plan for final form factor: miniaturize to fit completely into handlebars. 

FEEBACK from our final class and users at the Winter Show was consistent: this is a practical application and there where many questions about how soon a rider would be alerted to an upcoming turn. People appreciated the secondary feedback of the LEDs.  Miniaturizing and unifying the form factor was also a concern.  Many people we spoke to wanted to know about safety and whether the system could communicate more detailed Google Maps information about traffic lanes or the best bike route etc.  The answers to these kinds of questions as it currently occurs to us  seem too complex for the simplicity of the haptic feedback we are envisioning.  This is where we feel our next prototype in the programming aspect will help: our True North/True Destination mode in which a destination is treated as a compass bearing and feedback is a general notification as to its relative position to the bike rider's current direction of travel. This leaves the complex safety computing to the bike rider - where it belongs - while giving them basic information for orientation utility.  We are not interested in lessening the connection of a rider with their decision making and the environment - rather the guiding principle has been to increase it.  

Our vibration motors as our haptic feedback were slightly subtle by the show once we remounted them and implemented our improved circuit.  The higher DC voltage/amperage that could have helped wasn't wise so soon before our presentation at the Winter Show and we also did not have time to engineer a good insulation system within the handlebars. 

 NEXT PROTOTYPES: Some new ideas for next prototype include mounting the motors strategically to prevent vibration splash, and produce more distinct vibrations and enable us to create higher-resolution informational signals through haptic feedback.  Maybe multiple localized inlays which receive the vibration could communicate directionality along each handlebar in sweeping waves, etc.  We are also curious to explore different types of haptic technology.  We have yet to implement the True North user mode but exploring that is a top priority for the next step in the project.

LEARNING: I learned a lot in positive ways: about good teamwork ethics and dynamics, about the importance of early user testing,  and about how deep one must go in designing user interaction— particularly in understanding the mental model and put into place various real-world constraints and scenarios with user testing and interviews.  User test early and often.  Don't worry about a prototype idea being imperfect - just do a version and improve upon or change that.  Nothing begets nothing. 

Click: BoM 

Click: LATEST INTERACTION DIAGRAM

Our final circuit.  BlueTooth audio receiver, lithium ion battery,  Arduino mini, battery charger, system power switch. 

Documentation capturing our first user test! Sam reported that the pre-compiled step-by-step directions and vibration signals worked. 

Evolution of the form factor and circuit.

Some attempts at branding.

Fabrication of a Bike Navigation Module Prototype

This is a prototype enclosure for the Haptec Bike Navigation System I am presenting with my team for the ITP Winter Show.  The angular design fits well inside a bike frame and suggests forward motion and directionality. 

Some features: an inset & interior support for a power switch.  Slots for straps to affix to the bike & I'm especially pleased with the pressfit insets for ceramic disc magnets for the removable lid.   

The circuit design is still in process so more openings for a battery charger and a bluetooth module are in order.  

Things I would do differently or will do further: create contoured layers to constrain the interior components/circuit as well as external contours to acommodate the main bike frame bar this will enclosure hang from. 

This design is an improvement on a few previous prototypes and is based on/related to the LED circuit enclosure. 

Visual Screenplay

http://104.236.52.219:3000/final_networked_media/Marblehead_screenplay_viz_demo.html

This is a demo of a screenplay visualization program for the web. The idea is to provide writers, readers, studio executives, producers, talent and other crew the ability to quickly scan an entire screenplay to visually get a feel for tone or to assess how much of an element or talent a particular story involves. 

I feel strongly about this coming from the film industry.  Screenwriters rarely get the chance to see an entire screenplay come to visual fruition.  This is a valuable tool for directors and producers looking for a script to option with limited time and attention span. 

 Currently it is front-end/client-side only but ideally it will be expanded to server-side.  In the next iteration FinalDraft native XML files can be used to neatly reformat for HTML/CSS with JQuery JSON or XML parsing. 

This was my first foray into using JQuery with CSS and HTML.  I avoided using p5.js because it seemed like treading old ground.   I struggled with the selector logic & syntax - do I use (this) or ('*') or the '#div id tag'?  I had difficulty with the CSS style placement but eventually figured it out with help.  Another issue I ran into was using a span class to get screenplay character names for their own hover function.  This caused formatting issues.  I ended up using (body) in my hover() methods.  Another nice CSS discovery was the background-size:cover argument which made sizing my differntly sized images a snap. 

Fabricating Multiples

Since I was moving the week of this assignment I built five identical shelves for my new apartment using poplar from Home Depot and copper plumbing pipes and 90 degree couplers.  Copper pipe brackets for attaching to the wall. 

In retrospect I would not have selected poplar - I chose it because it was cheaper than the nicer red oak and because I wanted to try something different from pine.  I should have chosen either of the other options as sanding and planing the poplar only seemed to increase the furry stack-of-construction-paper feel.  I didn't give the wood a finish because it seemed hard to imagine it ever being nice - seems too pithy for my taste.  I plan to paint it with a high gloss before installing the shelves. 

I enjoyed the monotony of measuring out the poplar to be even, and discovering the pipe cutter was a delight - so easy.  I used the drill press, the mitre saw, the rotary sander, block sander, handheld sander and a nice planer lent to me by a classmate with a furniture design background.  I never knew about the joys of planing— very satisfying.  

Enclosure Fabrication

This is an enclosure prototype I made for my Physical Computing final.  Since I made this it's undergone further iterations using different materials and a simplified form.  

It holds an iphone and an arduino uno and has an opening for battery connection access. 

I chose Legos because they are familiar, yet I haven't played with them in a long time.  They're also a good way to make precise things for someone without a technical materials or engineering background. 

 I selected one of the Creator kits because it came with several nice joints and specialized pieces while also having a nice range of basic blocks.  I started by re-familiarizing myself with the types of pieces and how they fit together.  It occurred to me what a great stress free aspect legos could be if I chose to incorporate it into my process for physical projects at ITP and beyond.  I'm really satisfied this was presented as an option in the assignment syllabus. 

Materials + Fasteners

I used found materials around the shop - a VCR head I pulled from an old unit on the junk shelf and a piece of red oak from the scrap wood. 

I used a circular saw bit in the drill press and did a kind of medieval cartoon to get the screw holes accurately.   I used the rotary sander to shape the wood and a Dremmel to make sure that the head's spinning pieces would have enough room to spin. 

Things I would do differently: 

I wanted to inset the head more into the wood - possibly at an angle but I didn't give myself enough time to ask someone for a router tutorial which would have been a better choice. 

I should have given myself time to scan the bottom of the head and then create an illustrator file to laser etch the screw positions into the wood too.  I like the VCR head enough as an objet that I might redo this the correct way. 

I also need to find the exact gauge machine screw to secure the head evenly. 

Response to Berner's Lee Long Live the Web.

 "If we want to track what government is doing, see 
what companies are doing, understand the true state of the 
planet, find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, not to mention easily 
share our photos with our friends, we the public, the scientific 
community and the press must make sure the Web’s principles 
remain intact—not just to preserve what we have gained but to 
benefit from the great advances that are still to come." - David Berner's-Lee

 This man has so much agency concentrated into one person: he has degrees in electronics, engineering, and computer science.  He generally knows how to make all the electrons go exactly where he wants. 

What he is calling for is a breakdown in the walls of capital's innate need for exclusivity.  Unfortunately it is often capital which can afford to pay for skills like his which take a long time to cultivate in the right conditions. If everyone had his skills then everyone could use their security and oversight and faculty and facility to engineer what they needed and it could possibly work better to share the information which everyone would then be able to determine they needed to get and share. 

"Allowing any site to link to any other site is necessary but not 
sufficient for a robust Web."

He wants royalty-free, tested, open standards for internet design covering every major facet or terminus. And there should be many options for the birth of new facets and termini.  I think Berners-Lee is obviously a visionary, he speaks the truth and he's barking up one of the right trees but like most people he's missing the one key tree.  It's the tree no one knows how to practically look at and address. It's agency.  I have curiousity/hopes that educational models like ITP could spread - but it needs to be accessible and normalized.  Then I think the internet would stay free because it would be made of even more people's minds and so it would be even more dynamic and would be less tied to capital infrastructure investments. 

The threat to net neutrality is terrifying. What are some technical innovations someone like myself could pursue?  Obviously someone should and assumedly is working somewhere on ways to reduce resources required for server and network infrastructure.  Food for thought.  Also happy he called iTunes out for being a hellish prison.  

http://jblomo.github.io/webarch253/slides/Long_Live_the_Web.pdf

H A P T E C : touch bicycle navigation

After several combinations of interface concept circuit, enclosure, and code iterations we have a bike which can read geo loc data via Google's API and relay instructions for a calculated route via haptic vibration and LED signals.  

Over the next two weeks our team plan to continue to iterate through our next two Physical Computing section finals and in preparation for the winter show.  Iterations will incorporate user testing to learn more about user interaction needs, install the project into a smaller bike frame to facilitate user testing and, magnetic North orientation mode, and further enclosure development. 

User testing questions: 

• Is the vibration feedback satisfying/how does it feel? 
• Do the signals make sense to you? 
• Would you like north orientation? 
• Do the LED signals add anything/help you feel more confident. 
• Do/would you trust the signals your receiving from the system to guide you? 

Final Project Brainstorm : Networked Media

• Create an online user-generated dynamic MIND MAP of ITP ideas, skillets, areas of interest.  Designed to connect ITP student collaborators where they would otherwise only randomly bump into each other over the  peanut butter and jelly or the equipment room counter. Using p5.js, CSS, Javascript and of course HTML.  This is a challenge but the goal here is to create a live version of the demo from my ICM final, practice more with p5 and utilize some of the server side skills introduced in this lab class. 

• Design a Facebook hack.  I thought of this after I learned that Facebook’s servers request your pre-post status field inputs.  This means Facebook is taking your private thoughts and storing them, selling them.  These are private thoughts which users are under the impression are just keystrokes made on the PC they personally purchased using an internet connection which they likely pay for.  This is an ethical gray area I would like to explore.  I am wondering if I can create a bot (not sure what a bot is) or other program which can find the Facebook status field and simply input flagged terms and delete them without posting at a random interval. I’m curious to see if there will be any action taken from Facebook - provocative.  It's ambitious technically for me but it would be a fun goal; and one creative aspect that interests me is: what are the flaggable terms I would use - names from Homeland Security no-fly lists? 

• I’m also interested in created a searchable, interactive image-based online version of my latest spec screenplay.  I don't know if I'll ever get to direct it or see it produced but I'm great at image research - I used to do it professionally in the production and development world, so it would be interesting and satisfying to develop a visual reference for every sequence, scene, scene beat, character and location connected via hyperlink or as a more dynamic server-side response and request interaction.  To start I have a JSON file created from Final Draft's native XML format as well as a database of film and visual references when I was doing pitch research a year ago.  

ICM Final Documentation : M I N D M A P demo : Proto 1.0

This sketch includes some demo'd functionality of using the mouse to add both User-representative circles as well as Topical Categories.  The color gradient is a simple example of how intuitive connections would be made between categories and user projects.  The user-representative circles fluctuate in size to reflect Users or projects with multiple collaborators.  

First next steps are to transpose it to p5.js so that it can be user play-tested online for interface design feedback.  I am mainly curious to know where the priority should lie in terms of customizability, proliferation, and delineation between user projects, ideas, interests and then the outer 'super class' of overarching category.  Estimating a good balance will be key to understanding what functionality will be most useful moving forward. 

Functionality left to be implemented: 

Lines between the user objects would should cross collaborations. 

mouseHover() will reveal user name, contact, and specific project information.  

Dynamically repositioned users and categories would reflect increased affinity between clusters. 

Potentially draggable handle controls will allow people to custom "mix" or weight their own projects and topics. 

Response to Anil Dash's The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost

Anil Dash's The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost

I agree with Dash's posits, and: 

The internet is a last frontier of "Democracy" and the "Free Market."  Sadly, those concepts are flimsy to begin with since they are based on middlemen and uppermen aggregating for themselves all the tiny bits the laboring masses can squeeze out.  Kook-sentiments, sure.  The elements at play are based on power-and-choicemaking-by-proxy as well as the consideration of the planet's finite resources (and even those considered as such) to be infinite. 

So even though we saw the rise of the 'Net as a beautifully heterogenous landscape nothing nice ever goes unnoticed by dividend-seekers.  If we are to currently secure that Internet  more will have to change in what our society does about what they know about much more beyond the internet.  Maybe just in the knick-of-time, before its sun slips behind the mountains it will be from the Internet itself that a great (r)evolution will come? ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)?

**Addendum: 

Despite my tirade of blunt agreement I'd like to add that Dash's proposed ameliorations are admirable.  The diversity of start ups seems key.  The consideration for the social responsibility of giants like Facebook and the affect it has on teens and other socially vulnerable people is also an astute note. 

JSON p5.js

Desired project process & outcome: 

1) Load validated JSON document from FinalDraft .FDX (.XML) file. 

2) Get "Locations" data from screenplay property: array of Locations. 

3.) Then load and display Google search images representing each location in the JSON array. E.g.:

"Locations": {
        "Location": [

          "MANHATTAN OFFICE BUILDING",
          "MANHATTAN HARBOR",
          "DOJO",
          "SAILBOAT - MANHATTAN HARBOR",
          "SAILBOAT - NEW YORK HARBOR",
          "SUBWAY CAR",
          "KATHARINE'S APARTMENT",
          "LAW OFFICE",
          "LOFT STUDIO",
          "MAUSOLEUM",
          "KATHERINE'S APARTMENT",
          "THERAPIST'S OFFICE",
          "STUDIO LOFT",
          "PETER'S APARTMENT/DINNER AT OYSTERIA.",
          "OYSTER BAR",
          "PHOTO STUDIO",
          "SKYWAY",
          "HIGHLINE PARK",
          "CHINATOWN APARTMENT",
          "FLUSHING - TREELINED STREET",
          "CAR - HIGHWAY TO MARBLEHEAD",
          "FLUSHING",
          "CAR - MARBLEHEAD",
          "BED & BREAKFAST - DOWNSTAIRS",
          "BEDROOM",
          "THE LANDING",
          "STATE STREET",
          "BED & BREAKFAST- ROOM",
          "BREAKFAST ROOM",
          "TOWN",
          "MARINA DAY",
          "MARINA",
          "THE LANDING PUB",
          "STREET",
          "WOODS",
          "MARBLEHEAD NECK",
          "ROY'S HOUSE",
          "END OF STREET",
          "DINING ROOM",
          "TIERED BACKYARD",
          "TODD'S APARTMENT- BEDROOM",
          "TODD'S APARTMENT - LIVING AREA",
          "YACHT - DOCK",
          "BED AND BREAKFAST - ROOM",
          "BED AND BREAKFAST ROOM",
          "CAR",
          "LIGHTHOUSE",
          "OUTSIDE UNCLE ROY'S HOUSE",
          "GROCERY STORE",
          "B&B",
          "BED AND BREAKFAST",
          "UNCLE ROY'S HOUSE",
          "BED AND BREAKFAST - BREAKFAST ROOM",
          "POLICE STATION",
          "MARINA YACHT CLUB",
          "VETERNARIAN'S OFFIE",
          "EXAM ROOM",
          "PHONE CONVO",
          "CAR - MARBLEHEAD NECK BRIDGE",
          "BRIDGE",
          "STATEROOM",
          "LUXURY YACHT",
          "STATEROOM - LUXURY YACHT",
          "ROY'S HOUSE DECK",
          "STATE ROOM - LUXURY YACHT",
          "BOAT",
          "UNCLE ROY'S HOUSE/BOATHOUSE",
          "EXT MARINA/YACHTHOUSE",
          "INT.YACHT",
          "YACHT CLUB RESTAURANT",
          "KITCHEN",
          "MARINA RESTAURANT KITCHEN",
          "EXT SAILBOAT",
          "CAR - HIGHWAY",
          "INT TODD'S APARTMENT",
          "INT CAR",
          "FREEZER",
          "SAILBOAT",
          "COAST GUARD BOAT",
          "UPSTAIRS - ROY'S HOUSE - DAY",
          "POLICE STATIONS/POLICE CARS",
          "UNCLE ROY'S HOUSE - DAY",
          "WINE CELLAR",
          "INT/EXT CAR/ROAD",
          "POLICE STATIONS/POLICE CAR",
          "END CREDITS",
          "END CREDITS PLAY TO TOM PETTY'S \"AMERICAN GIRL\"",
          "HIGHWAY",
          "YACHT",
          "LIVING ROOM",
          "GUEST BEDROOM",
          "SIDEWALK",
          "WHITESTONE BRIDGE",
          "GAS STATION - HIGHWAY",
          "HALLWAY - ROY'S HOUSE",
          "PARLOR",
          "GUEST BEDROOM - ROY'S HOUSE",
          "UNCLE ROY'S HOUSE - GUEST BEDROOM",
          "ROY'S HOUSE - DOWNSTAIRS/FOYER",
          "HELEN'S BEDROOM - ROY'S HOUSE",
          "FOYER",
          "JETTY",
          "MARINA - HALLWAY"
        ]

a la this foiled attempt using McCarthy's p5 github examples for a local JSON file: 

However, in testing I kept getting an error locally and via the server/Chrome: 

Marblehead: a Feature Screenplay in JSON via .FDX (XML)

This JSON file is a 120 page screenplay I during in 2013.  It's a mystery thriller in the vein(s) of Blue Velvet, Drive and Funny Games.  Final Draft's native file type is .fdx which is an XML.  It seemed to translate nicely to JSON using an online XML --> JSON converter.  I then validated the JSON formatting via http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/. 

After successfully fixing a few errors I had to go back into FInalDraft 8 and fix some formatting mistakes where "Dialogue" had been misformatted by me in the software as "Action" etc.  

It felt odd to be finagling the formatting of my screenplay in a totally new way.  If someone had told me at the time I was writing the script that I would be obsessing over where a parenthetical should go a year and a half later in the context of XML/JSON I would have laughed in their face because ITP had not yet come through my transom— certainly been a unique perspective on time and the fact of perspective in itself. 

Here the thing is: 

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/yoshimithefloridapanther/c11e3a71a7a7180154e3/raw/gistfile1.txt