You can spend a thousand years in BAD MIND TIME™, but it will only seem like ten minutes. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, we’ll start with BAD MIND TIME™ Classic—click here .
A new browser window will open—Bad Mind Time™ – The Defining Experience! Whoa! This is the MAIN INTERFACE page (a blue-grey motion graphic with a metallic bar on the bottom).
Click on small white triangle in lower right corner to reveal the NAVIGATION BAR.
Click on the BAD MIND TIME™ logo in the upper right corner of each module to reveal an INFORMATION TAB that explains how to operate that particular module. On the MAIN INTERFACE page, the tab is a brief overview of the entire project. Rolling the cursor off the tab will make it the tab disappear.
Explore the icons. For your ten minute tour, click on one icon from each of the following groups that interest you, explore each for a minute or two (click on text links below for individual modules, no navigation bar):
1. Interactive Digital Theatre:
2. Interactive Musics:
3. Comic and MetaComic: Blob Sez™
4. Interactive Visual Art: Body Painting™† *
For the following, we jump outside the BAD MIND TIME™ classic box:
5. Web-browser-based video jams are hidden within the mock-3D BAD MIND TIME™ DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM (PROJECTS) interface, and the DIGITAL MEDIA VOODOO™ overview, but if you want to explore one that’s a bit more out in plain view, try this one , which was designed for ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY™.
6. Interactive Texts:
7. Sample from recent films: Sticky Notes™, and excerpts from the TRIAGE™ DVD.
8. Sample, uhm, do-it-yourself opera:ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY™ which is a site about the opera rather than the actual opera.
9. Attempt to make sense of everything (in progress): DIGITAL MEDIA VOODOO™
10. And you know what? Why not have a bunch of people on different modules at the same time? You know, some doing interactive music, maybe some on the video jams, some reading random texts? It’s a mixable world, after all.
11. You might also want to check out a number of open-source scores, music, and digital media objects/projects archived here at archive.org.
Enjoy, and be disturbed!
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† Contains AMUSING or OFFENSIVE material, depending on your perspective. Maybe the only amusing or offensive thing about any of this is its breathtaking commercial un-viability, coupled with its uneasy independence from an identifiable fine-art ’scene’. Say, you should cook up your own critique of all this!
* Requires Shockwave plug-in (get that here). And by the way, these seem to still work on non-Intel Macs; everything else is a little iffy, and the lovely white text turns black so it’s pretty hard to read, which I’m sure is simply a courtesy feature from Adobe.
