About@robin
| Name | Robin |
| About Me | When asked where I come from, I reply the Northeast United States. If pressed further, I allow Maryland, New York and Vermont. Lived with both parents for the first six years, with mom the next six years and with dad the six years after that. When I was 18 I moved to NYC and went to film school, and then worked in the independent film scene for a few years, but moved over to theater/live music for more regular pay. I did ritzy events, like the Giorgio Armani / Gio perfume release party, and numerous fashion shows in Manhattan, glamourous weddings on Long Island, pipe-n-drape trade shows on the three passenger piers on the West Side Highway, corporate meetings in the ballrooms of midtown hotels, live music in Prospect Park and in a 150 year old brownstone cathedral in Brooklyn Heights. I met the woman of my dreams when I was 30 and 5 years later we made a baby together. One day, after 9/11 I came home and looked at the bars on the windows (standard on ground floor apartments in Brooklyn) and the baby-gates in the doorways, and I thought of how we strapped our child into a stroller or backpack carrier, and there was no vast expanse of grass that didn’t have broken glass embedded just below the surface. I thought: my baby is in a prison! So we relocated to Vermont, where I joined the stagehands union, bought a nice video camera, went on tour as projection tech for a bulgarian opera company, directed a 4-camera live TV remote truck, installed interactive AV gear in various museums, run the smallest public access TV station in the state, and have a multimedia company. Now my days are spent in a blurred frenzy, one day I am the sole operator of a 3-camera live select board meeting, the next I am babysitting a 12K lumen projector for a DVD screening at Dartmouth, the next I am shooting b-roll footage, the next I take the girls to ballet rehearsal (they are in the Nutcracker). Monday Stephanie has her radio show so I am usually home with Errol doing housework, the next day we meet with Jerome to discuss MemoirSite and in the evening I go to the TV station to edit select board meetings and make DVDs, and the last day of my week I might edit some concert or wedding footage. So that’s a little bit about me. |
| Website | http://webweavermultimedia.com |
-
12 years ago
-
12 years ago
-
13 years ago
How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain
BY STEVEN LEVY04.25.139:30 AM
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/Google has always been an artificial intelligence […]
-
13 years ago
The singularity is nearer than we think.
-
13 years ago
Every so often, I check news regarding the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Project – the lab closed in 2007 but it’s purpose — “to study the potential vulnerability of engineering devices and information processing systems to the anomalous influence of the consciousness of their human operators.” — has been carried on and…[Read more]
-
13 years ago
I’ve never really studied dreams as a singular persuit but reference to dreams constantly pop up in a lot of the New Agey, Searching for answers literature and record of channeled messaging…and all that. ONE […]
-
13 years ago
dawnb replied to the forum topic Science Fiction and the Singularity in the group
Singularity & Change
Thank you for the question re the fact of singularity…it prompted me to look up the term, which I’d thought of only as an infinite point in the gravitational field – there are fascinating results online to the […]
-
13 years ago
-
13 years ago
I believe there are different types of dreams, ie the mundane and the meaningful. Alternatively, the thought occurs that the meaningful type of dreams come to us in the vehicle of the mundane dreamstate that our […]
-
13 years ago
Yes, cerebellum, I HEARD that!
While dreaming are we no longer in the third dimensional space in which we spend our waking
hours?I ask this because of something I have […]
-
13 years ago
After recovering from the shock of discovering ‘mom’s dissolute youth’ her son may appreciate the depth of knowing mom as real and three dimensional, and her honesty as well.
-
13 years ago
-
13 years ago
I’m a fairly avid viewer of all shows about the paranormal on the TV, although am getting a bit jaded about “Ghost Adventures” show.( “If this is the Portal Of Hell why don’t you come up and GET US” has always made me squirm)…I believe in ghosts, certainly. Have never seen one, that I’m aware of , but I certainly have HEARD a few.
Coming from…[Read more]-
I believe we encounter these phenomenon as we become more aware of the possibilities. Consider Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the observor effect in physics. We interact with reality as we put our attention to it…
-
I don’t know if that’s true, Dawn,because very few of us, I imagine, go through life on the lookout for ghostly happenings…my experience is that they simply arrive out of the blue while we are making shopping lists, reading a book, putting a baby to bed or involved in other mundane everyday activities. I haven’t read Heisenbergs Uncertainty…[Read more]
-
I made a common mistake when referring to Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle; what I meant to bring up was instead the Observor Effect – here is a brief definition from Wikipedia:
In science, the term observer effect means that the act of observing will influence the phenomenon being observed. For example, for us to “see” an electron, a photon must…[Read more]
-
-
-
-
13 years ago
My favorite book right now is about Quantum Mechanics and the multiple-cosmos interpretation, disguised as a speculative fiction novel.
The title is “Anathem”, by Neal Stephenson. It is set on another planet […] -
13 years ago
Thoughts on consciouseness…
Popular culture is increasingly reflective of a swelling interest in awakening from the mundane conception of reality…think ‘The Matrix’
The new cability of the common […]
-
13 years ago
-
13 years ago
THE MONSTERS OF ACAMBARO AND THE STONES OF ICA”
I found this interesting piece in the Appendix of the book “The Ancient Stones Speak” by David D. Zink.( jgcoleman)
“There are two collections of artifacts which the archaeological world has not accepted as authentic. If these collections were to become a part of the evidence for the planet’…[Read more]
-
13 years ago
THE KILLING STICK
Years ago, while I was living in northern Vermont, I met and became friends with the two daughters of Shirley Jackson , the writer of the well known story “The Lottery”. It was the early 70’s and, in retrospect, always summer with another epic party going down.One afternoon, at the farmhouse of the youngest daugh…[Read more]
-
13 years ago
Jerome started the forum topic My Father, Young Salinger & ”The Laughing Man” in the groupWrite Now!
Hello Swede —
Once again I am noting another instance of the reflected glow that shines for only a moment on someone on the periphery of the periphery of a celebrated individual. I once wrote up this […] -
13 years ago
Jerome started the forum topic Early Years… Off To School on Miss Cawley’s bus in the groupWrite Now!
In one of those blizzardy winters of the late 1940’s, I was old enough to begin school and, on weekdays, I rode between my home on the Eastside of New York City to a Westside boys school in Miss Cawley’s, even […]
-
Load more ...
Yes, and getting closer every day.