5 minutes late because I had to ride my shitty bike in the rain

I love failing at things.  Wait I don't care.  Why? Because jumping through hoops is for circus animals.

Artist Statement

“We will have achieved much for scientific study of aesthetics when we come, not merely to a logical understanding, but also to the certain and immediate apprehension of the fact that the further development of art is bound up with the duality of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, just as reproduction similarly depends upon the duality of the sexes, their continuing strife and only periodically occurring reconciliation.... With those two gods of art, Apollo and Dionysus, we establish our recognition that in the Greek world there exists a huge contrast, in origin and purposes, between the visual arts, the Apollonian, and the non-visual art of music, the Dionysian.* These two very different drives go hand in hand, for the most part in open conflict with each other and simultaneously provoking each other all the time to new and more powerful offspring, in order to perpetuate in them the contest of that opposition, which the common word “Art” only seems to bridge, until at last, through a marvelous metaphysical act of the Greek “will,” they appear paired up with each other and, as this pair, finally produce [Lucas Marsh], as much a Dionysian as an Apollonian [Artist].” -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Spirit of Tragedy, Section 1

Tragically the fallacy to this augmented quote from Nietzsche's The Spirit of Tragedy regards the immediate description of Dyonisian art: music. I pretty much gave up on a 10 year binge of hap hazard music studies starting with classical and jazz piano training then ending with electric guitar and a slew of other mediocre abilities in a range of musical instruments. I do not use music as a means to “create” any longer. However if a superclass¹ were to represent Dionysian art which Nietzsche describes having the effect of “tremendous awe which seizes a man when he suddenly doubts his ways of comprehending illusion, when the principle of reason, in any one of its forms, appears to suffer from an exception.” If we add to this awe the ecstatic rapture, which rises up out of the same collapse of the principium individuationis from the innermost depths of a human being, indeed, from the innermost depths of nature, then we have a glimpse into the essence of the Dionysian, which is presented to us most closely through the analogy to intoxication.” My non-visual abilities to implement Dionysian intoxication for a viewer embody dynamic vector calculus systems, mechanical and electrical engineering concepts, object oriented programming languages, social network databasing, locative sensing (macro and micro) and a slew of knowledge regarding film production, animation and digital image design programs. As a transfer student from the Northeastern University's mechanical engineering program, I intend to apply that which I learned to exemplify the intoxication of my Apollonian abilities.

My current non-visual artistic bridge between the traditional Apollonian embodiment of visual arts where Apollo “is the god of light; he also rules over the beautiful appearance of the inner fantasy world” - section 1 (coincidently my name, Lucas, in latin is defined as “bringer of light”, a definition which also is that of “Lucifer”). Where am I currently creating inner fantasy worlds? I initially started with film in elementary school until my senior year of high school where I bailed to Boston for engineering school. When a best friend from high school and later San Francisco artist Phoebe Washer died tragically, I decided I'd dedicate my next excursion through life studying and practicing that which she had always excelled at and encouraged me to pursue (which I more or less rejected scoffingly at the time).  I spent 2 years practicing painting, drawing, working with a group of friends in a print making studio, studying three concurrent art history classes during a semester in Paris. I focused heavily on Oil Painting and Drawing in order to align those visual projections in my mind with the respective motions of my physical body to portray them.

My current project involves an Augmented Reality Social Network Game Engine which I've been developing since September 2011. Augmented Reality permits access to a realtime overlay of a “dreamworld” within the portal of one's mobile device. With this game engine I have begun to stretch a canvas where innumerable dualities to ones existence may be placed within Apps. I am not creating an “app” but the means to play god with what is conceptually described as a “derive” where one's daily life becomes just one means of existence, paralleled with the number of socialized “m.m.m.o.r.p.g.” or Mobile Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) where the “infinite game maps” of traditional M.M.O.R.P.G.'s, such as “World of Warcraft” are the location on the map which has become the prevalent method of navigation within the contemporary “real world”.

I don't play video games. They are not creative outlets for me. My intent is not to make money from the video game industry nor android nor apple, but to create new systems in which people interact with the world they exist in, permitting anchors not only to “Joe's statue quo” and Joe's chosen parallel existences through these social augmented realities enabled by the game engine and databasing systems collaboration. Video games today are a waste of peoples' beautiful existence in the world, however people are addicted. There is no "cure" to this addiction like many... transference and deflection are more appropriate actions.  The problem I would like to solve is getting gamer's out of their house and integrating those game concepts which are so popular in MMORPGs, Second Life and The Sims, which provide a hub for like minded individuals to congregate, compete, and even form romantic relationships into the real world which people exist.  Many times people fall out of their real world existence and focus the majority of their waking energy into living within a virtual realm.  


A method to plant those people apt to preferring a residence within a virtual world is to augment their live virtual world existence over actual physical space throughout the earth.  People playing into these augmented dualities will inherently meet like minded individuals as they will be forced to interact with real people face to face as the methods of interaction are based on global positioning technologies. Most psychologists would agree that being in love with a person who lives a mile away from you is much healthier for certain demographics of gamers who find love via webcam through internet based social communities.

The current issue which holds back the perfect implementation into current mobile operating systems and devices is the ability to record real time collider objects which exist in real space and then sharing that mapped 3d data throughout the game engine monitoring system. Most of the other systems which I've linked together already have the capability of immediate implementation into the the lives of mobile smart phone users. I have solutions for projected future hardware implementations in future mobile devices (such as the concept phone “Sea Bird” by Mozilla). There is quite a learning curve involved with the mobile coding and am impacted psychologically when my intellect feels threatened by the extensive knowledge needed which I've only accumulated a fraction. I had to learn Xcode and Objective C, and SQL databasing methods on my own. I had to buy a Mac Pro. I had to buy an iPhone 4s with a developers license. I had to buy books. Staying on top of technology is expensive yet the means to become relevent as a contemporary artist in a visually dynamic and technologically intoxicating age of internet based reasonings. If I produce a prototype I have capital investment who are interested in funding my dream to create a method of creating dreams a reality.

I am a “Neo-Renaissance Man”. Everything I study and practice involves excelling my potential to create. I paint when I have to break from 10 hr coding tutorial or writing sessions. I draw when I'm in my Java Data Structures Class. We are creating an upside down animal menagerie in the living room of our our three artist house/studio dubbed “Palace of Crust”. Artistic invention necessitates the bridge between Dionysian and Apollonian artistic styles, the right and left side of the brain, love and hate, good and evil etc. Since I've realized I excel in both areas, I will pursue a conscious, conceptual, post-modern, pluralistic method of creation, learning and artistic expression which leaves no variable to universal connectedness of human experience unappreciated and misrepresented by society's imbedded limitations to metaphysical freedom using contemporary technologies.

“I am convinced that art is the highest task and the essential metaphysical capability of this life” - Friedrich Nietzsche's The Spirit of Tragedy Preface to Richard Wagner

1Class which all other classes inherit their functions for inheritance hierarchy with object oriented programming languages

Scholarship Notes

"This is not to say that before the invention of the camera men believed that everyone could see everything.  But perspective organized the visual field as though that were indeed the ideeal. Every drawing or painting that used perspective proposed to the spectator that he was the unique centre of the world.  The camera - and more particularly the movie camera - demonstrated that there was no centre." Berger,John, Ways of Seeing, pg.18

-Augmented Reality APIs now permit those who understand the math and code structure to manipulate the center and intention of a video camera.  That is awesome.

thursday

storyboard with sql database communication: http://www.scott-sherwood.com/?p=558
This tutorial will be the basis of account data storage over a universal server.




attached a gps location finder to integrate into pARk library replacing placesofinterest class
need to find a method to attach other users phones to server and a distance calculator to trigger bluetooth connection.
www.techotopia.com/index.php/An_Example_iOS_5_Iphone_Location_Application

http://arctouch.com/beamit/
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/43502/1954

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/GameKit_Guide/MatchesandVoice/MatchesandVoice.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008304-CH10-SW9

A method to call to a database using sqlite queries?
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/SQLiteQuery/Listings/SQLiteQueryPlugIn_m.html

handling saved date within core data after call/recieving data from server
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/iPhoneCoreDataRecipes/Listings/ReadMe_txt.html

ios 5 bluetooth bonjour service?
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/DNSSDObjects/Listings/DNSSDObjects_DNSSDBrowser_m.html

I added a gps location finder aspect into the pARk/ spaceships compilation: