Psychedelic Dancing as Exercise 04 – Fingers with Dan Zen
October 16, 2006
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Here is a mash of two mixes – psychedelic dancing as exercise to Gomper by the Rolling Stones. Here we look at the fingers and how we can use them to represent energy through waves and photonic motion.
Psychedelic dancing helps with carple tunnel syndrom for those of you who sit at a computer a lot. It also gives a good cardio workout even just sitting in your chair. Try it instead of traditional stretching and amuse your co-workers at the same time!
Both these mixes make use of the fact that Zen Mix can use a previously made Zen Mix in place of a picture. http://www.zenmix.com! The background picture is from a series on Bokeh under the set called energy posted on my Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/danzen. The pictures are of leaves out of focus.
Psychedelic Dancing as Exercise With Dan Zen
July 2, 2006
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Please see our Psychedelic Dancing as Exercise on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9691A8BBCBFBE99E
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For years, mad inventor Dan Zen has been psychedelic and digging psychedelic dancing. Now after trying Thai Chi and Yoga and Belly Dancing, he has come to realize that psychedelic dancing is a fantastic free form exercise.
“We are not limited to the structure and monotony of Thai Chi” explains Dan Zen, “nor even the structured story telling of Indian Dances or the Hula. Psychedelic dancing is the story of energy – of freedom and groove!” This makes the dance ideal for exercise as you can go from simple sway to frantic flip outs!
This vlog – click the vlog link above will introduce you to some of the concepts of psychedelic dancing as exercise and we’ll be posting ongoing samples with different psychedelic songs as we go. The feature song in this vlog is Neu’s Hallogallo – some early 70’s German electric mood psychedelia – introduced to me by two people at once – Gaven Dianda and Sam Lades.
Peace groovy people!
Inventor Launches Web Site With No Text
June 19, 2006
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Mad Inventor, Dan Zen, has launched a Web site called Zen Mix at http://www.zenmix.com in which all content, error messages, privacy policy, introduction and marketing is done through video. The site and tool is to aid in Vlogging or video logging.
“It helps when the purpose of the site is a tool for creating Vlogs!” explains Dan Zen. “Zen Mix lets you put Web video on top of a Web picture and apply cool blend effects online for free in just a couple minutes!”
The tool makes use of picture and video hosting sites such as Flickr and Vimeo. You post your files there and in Zen Mix enter the URLs to the jpg and flv. You then can resize and post ion the picture and video and apply blend effects just recently available in the new Flash 8.
“Regular vlogs of people talking can be okay from a content standpoint but are often less than spectacular from a visual side. Zen Mix lets you remedy this and it is easy to link to or even embed in sites like My Space and Blogger.” Please make sure that you do not use copyright material without consent and follow any guidelines from Flickr for instance as to linking back to the Flickr photo page when you post your mix on your site.
Zen Mix features mash technology which is a series of mixes. There is a format to allow you to play mixes randomly, to pick from a set of mixes, and more all by listing the mixes at the end of the Zen Mix URL. There are introduction, feature, error, inventor, and love mashes available at the top of the site. As far as we know, Zen Mix is the first site to provide video error messages.
Dan Zen is a Canadian New Media Award winner for Programmer of the Year 2002 and teaches in the one-year post-grad Interactive Multimedia program at Sheridan College in Oakville Canada. He is an inventor living in Dundas Canada surrounded by waterfalls and has created over 60 games and gadgets including Chat Nap, Zen Picture, Hip Cats, Predict-a-Poll, Moustache Mysteries and more at http://www.danzen.com and blogs here at https://zenvlog.wordpress.com and http://danzen.wordpress.com.
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