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David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy and the loss of it.

Charlie Huston is most recently the author of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. To listen to our previous interview with Mr. Huston, check out The Bat Segundo Show #98. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Looking for an efficient and affordable cleanup service. Author: Charlie Huston Subjects Discussed: Huston s concern for locative detail, unusual sentence structures, sequential details within sentences, the run-on sentence in relation to narrative action, the burdens of writing novels quickly, rhythm and alternating sentences, whether or not the word motherfucker haunts Huston in his dreams, sentences repeating and following a character demand, getting across pace without having characters describe the pace, working over sequences amidst restrictive writing conditions, pushing the story forward with aggression, trying to steer around cliches, being subconsciously funny with the books, the burden of the Joe Pitt books, masturbating on the page, avoiding violence directed at dogs in the most recent books, consciously playing down the violence, on going soft, slipping into habit, the typographical dash mistake in Mystic Arts, on whether John Wayne is the standard for the roundhouse haymaker, why almonds were chosen over pecans, agricultural hijacking, cockroaches, transcribed speech and fey okays, the culinary horrors of Slim Jims, and conducting research. VIDEO CLIP: EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Huston: Sometimes, if you use the same words, you can put a little tinkle of irony into it. In the fact that you describe him doing it exactly the way the person just told him. So you use the exact same words. It s hard for me to answer questions about the writing that are that precise. Because so much of the process is not that precise for me. So much of it is shoveling. And you re not too terribly conscious of how you shovel while you re doing it. Whether you re good at it or not. Correspondent: But you just confessed to me that the heartbeat sequence was worked over. I mean Huston: That one, yes, absolutely. But in general, I m saying. Like if you re asking general questions about the way I use rhythm and use repetitions and stuff, I can draw out an example like that. Where it was very specific and where I had very particular goals that I m articulating now with much more depth than I ever articulated to myself at the time. But in terms of being able to generally say why those rhythms appeal to me, why I use them, I don t know. I m kind of making it up right now the same way I m making it up as I write it. Well, I think it works like this. But does it? That s kind of where I am with that stuff. Correspondent: Yeah. But this is interesting to me because you have such restrictive deadlines. And here you are working over a specific sequence. This is why I m kind of interested in how you re developing your rhythm, even with these constrictive conditions. Huston: And that may also just be part of it. You know, some of those things. You know, Ed, I just don t know, man. I mean, that s really the bottom line. I don t know how far I can penetrate into this and have it not just be bullshit at a certain point. I mean, it s just coming out that way. It s just coming out that way. And I don t know if the time frame has as much to do with it. The time frame tends to play more into things that slip through the crack that might be messy. Like that long sentence that you had. And how it s a combination of I find myself making connections that I might not otherwise make because I m writing clip clip clip and also a situation in which I find myself writing sloppy things that I might otherwise clean up if I had more time. The time constriction tends to manifest itself more in pushing the story forward very aggressively. In sometimes making choices that, fifty pages later, I wish I hadn t made. Because there were implications I hadn t considered, but with enough time to go back and unchoose that choice. So I have to do some more tap dancing to make it all work. And it also plays a large role in the extent to which I will more willingly embrace some genre conventions and cliches that I might otherwise try to find ways to steer around if I had a little more time. (Photo credit: Mary Reagan)

A Short film depicting the unwritten law of the Mafia, Omerta; blood in blood out. An NYU Thesis Written and Directed By Esh Gunturu Starring: James Schram Author: JimiItie Keywords: James Schram Omerta mafia nyu shorts acting drama murder violence gangsters new york jersey money clothes independent film cars food power respect family friends death wacking clipping erasing removing silence jail song bird undercover cop police good guys bad Sopranos drugs shake downs shylocking protection organized crime District Attorney Sing on the lam brownsville east Albert Anistasia Lucky Luciano Abe Reles Pittsburg Phil Buggsy Siegel Meyer Lansky rackets unions Added: January 31, 2009

Sound experiments using OpenFrameworks and Arduino. Arduino is running the Firmata protocol. How it works: Arduino is reading the change in voltage due to the thikness of the line in one of the analog pins. The thicker the line the more current that flows as graphite is a good electrical conductor. These values are being sent via serial communication to the OpenFrameworks program that creates the sound synthesis.

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The dream God has for His church is one of every race, every color, every nationality. This week, lead pastor Pete Hise wants to break down these barriers in a very special worship experience.

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