1. Barnaby Walters

    For those unfamiliar with #puredata, the equivalent in python would be creating a script which, in order to get user input, writes another python script containing a reference to the first, which, when run by the user, sends its output back to the first script. Which then launches another python process (based on the results of the first sub-script), and manages it’s status.

    It’s a programming paradigm which makes absolutely no sense in any other environment, but in puredata is surprisingly elegant — a pleasant side-effect of the programming environment and end-user environment being effectively the same.

    Btw, this is the first experimental step towards the most exciting project idea I’ve had in quite some time… watch this space!

  2. Clare Rose

    yes - though TBH not new, 1980s NYC was pretty grim in terms of a capitalist model of intimate relationships with female youth and (narrowly defined) 'beauty' as economic bargaining chips - but onews which were constantly eroding in value. I went dancing instead :-P