View allAll Photos Tagged brainwaves
I’ve been experimenting the with the Neurosky Mindwave mobile EEG headset to send my attention and meditation brainwave data to an Arduino for visualising, by pairing it with a Bluetooth dongle. In this pic I’m showing both my attention and meditation data levels beside each other on an LED matrix.
For Christmas I bought Mrs B a whizzy new scanner for "her" computer. She wanted it because it scans 120-size negatives, of which she has a considerable number. The inferior all-in-one scanner-printer we had both been using has now become "mine". The inferior scanner scans and prints negatives but, as far as I can make out, will not save them as a file. Brainwave! Why not use Mrs B's scanner to scan and save my negs, then transfer the files to "my" computer using a Flash drive?
The overwhelming bulk of all the photographs I have taken are of extremely poor qulity. Early on I used to assume that the fault was with my pre-war Coronet Cub camera. Not one in ten of the pictures I took with it were worth keeping. But once I had replaced it, in December 1973, with an SLR, I came to suspect that the fault lay with the photo-lab processing. Many pictures went straight into the bin as soon as I'd picked them up from Boots or Hodders. When, in 1983, I first bought a house, I disposed of hundreds of worthless photos at the council rubbish dump. Presciently however ...for PCs, scanners and image-editing software were yet things of the future... I retained all my negatives. These have now come into their own and the new scanner has confirmed my suspicions about the iffy processing. The original of the photograph above was one of those I dumped in 1983. The whole film of which it was part was so dark that the subjects appeared almost as silhouettes. It is fascinating to see these pictures properly for the first time. In many cases I have no memory at all of the subject and cannot even be sure where it is. Yet evidently I was there ...wherever "there" might have been... and my old eyes must have looked out at these things. Seeing these forgotten scenes again is an odd experience.
A problem is that since I no longer have the original prints, there is often no record of the date. Sometimes it can be conjectured or somehow worked out from other sources ...often an enjoyable and interesting exercise. I happen to know, (because I kept a few of the less atrocious pictures I took that day) that this was taken on Monday 21st September 1981. It shows the chimney, since demolished, of Middle Pit, Radstock, Somerset.
There is another photo of this colliery and some details of its history at:
Kim Sherwood (left) and Sara Sherdian (right), just before they were about to go on for the opening event of the first ever Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival.
I spotted Sara's non-fiction book about how many female figures are left out of the history books, entitled Where Are the Women?, and had a sudden brainwave - it was a women's literary festival, why not get them to hold up that book so we could ask Where Are the Women? Here they are!!!
During the Brain Waves weekend, Dr Peter Lovatt and his team of dancers performing the 'Brain Flash'.
Rain Room, 2012
Created by rAndom International, installed at the Barbican Centre, October 2012 to March 2013.
Rain Room is a hundred square metre field of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process.
[rAndom International website]
Sensors register a person walking into the area and the water above stops, creating a (mostly) dry zone surrounded by the simulated rain.
If you could only see the intense brainwave activity between these two heads. Kyle Lightner and Ryan Lovelace : BrainStorm
Beverly...(With the holy virgin having mistaken beverly’S big upper lip as a landing strip)... Seen here just prior to a conjunction of two conflicting and explosive moments... One occurring within, and the other without... (One in beverly’S bottom, and the other behind)... And with little mort becoming alarmed the normally effective breeze generated from his propeller-topped yarmulke would not be sufficient to diminish the heat... (It was going to be incendiary... It was inevitable)...
With beverly on the very edge of becoming her other self - mrs. Rogers...Becoming misaligned in her mind...Suffering from shorted-out brainwaves... Conflicted but simultaneously arriving messages...Being sent to her from two big daddies, even if both daddies only imagined... The one whom her half-sister kathleen had told her was god... (Living in the top of the castle on the nut farm in arkansas, where beverly normally spent her days) ... And the other living someplace in a recently constructed castle, of sorts, in georgia... (With both locations being states of mind, to boot)...
And the flora and the fauna were hopelessly mixed... (And it was all getting ready to blow)...
Workshop "VVVV & Brainwaves for AV performance & Programming" Led by Lanvideosource @ LPM 2012 (2012.liveperformersmeeting.net/artists/Zeno_Lanvideosourc...)
Joan Robinson is prepping her patient that is about to undergo a sleep study at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro, IL. The prepping for the study takes roughly thirty minutes before the patient is ready for bed. The rooms are supposed to be as much like home as possible so the patient can feel more comfortable and relaxed during their sleep test. The patients are fitted with an array of multicolored wires that are placed in specific areas on of the head in order to measure brainwaves, and then fitted with black cables that stretch around the chest and abdomen to measure heart rate and breathing. During the night Joan along with another colleague will monitor each patient from a control room, and will make notes through each cycle of sleep. (Photo By Ian McComas)
Having found that the ATtiny85 didn't have enough memory to hold my brainwave visualisations code, I put together a little Shrimp circuit to hook up the LED matrix and Bluetooth dongle. Attention data levels is visualised as red LEDs and meditation data levels as green LEDs.
Using Mindwave Mobile, Bluetooth and Arduino. Levels indicated as red LED = attention and green LED = meditation
During the Brain Waves weekend, Dr Peter Lovatt and his team of dancers performing the 'Brain Flash'.
Rain Room, 2012
Created by rAndom International, installed at the Barbican Centre, October 2012 to March 2013.
Rain Room is a hundred square metre field of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process.
[rAndom International website]
Sensors register a person walking into the area and the water above stops, creating a (mostly) dry zone surrounded by the simulated rain.
During the Brain Waves weekend, Dr Peter Lovatt and his team of dancers performing the 'Brain Flash'.
Rain Room, 2012
Created by rAndom International, installed at the Barbican Centre, October 2012 to March 2013.
Rain Room is a hundred square metre field of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process.
[rAndom International website]
Sensors register a person walking into the area and the water above stops, creating a (mostly) dry zone surrounded by the simulated rain.
By Matt Brown.
BATHE IN SOUND? YOU BET! Three Brainwave oscillators stimulate your mind — and two underwater speakers stimulate your brain. Tweak your sulfur levels and maybe you'll discover what your sacral plexus has known since the beginning of time. Maybe you'll just make a pretty tune. Either way, once you bathe in sound you'll never feel clean doing it any other way.
So, why are there lots of birch 'trees' and a garden shed in Helsinki Airport?
It's someone's brainwave as a fascinating piece of PR to have a volunteer live in the airport for thirty days and recount his experiences in video.
Intrigued? You can see more here.
This was taken earlier - much, much, much earlier - today. The problem with coming home from Finland isn't the jet lag - it is after all a difference of only two hours - it's the getting up at effectively 3am!
Feeling more than a bit zombie like today...