Workbooks

2012 Talks

What Happened to the Big Idea in Music Technology? (with Dave Allen, David Ewald, Rick Moody, Jesse von Doom, and Anthony Batt)
2pm, March 14th, Room 16AB
(Please note new room!)
Austin Convention Center
SXSW
Austin, TX

My Books

I was Assistant Editor on Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which is available from The MIT Press and fine bookstores all over.

My first book, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is an anthology of interviews with all kinds of minds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."

I have a little piece in Disinformation's first book, You Are Being Lied To, a compendium of dissent, which also includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Zinn, Richard Metzger, Alex Burns, and Mark Pesce, among many others.

Shutter to Think

June 05th, 2006 | 4 Comments | Category: Me, Meta

I am finding more and more of my thinking gets worked out in notebooks and journals. Recently having access to a scanner, I thought I’d share some pages. Fun stuff:

A page from my last stolen-then-recovered, waterlogged
research book, and another I printed and pasted in.

More pages from previous notebooks.

“Thesis Pieces” and lurking Yoda.

Maps and modalities. I dreamed part of this page.

Pages and pages about technological mediation.

Ooh, textbooky!

I’m in Luck: Merrill Davis loves nerds. ;)

Further Posting:

4 Comments »

The Maker’s Notebook from O’Reilly | Roy Christopher said:

[...] possible,” explains Gareth Branwyn, friend and contributing editor to Make. Well, being the journaling, notebook geek that I am, I got my hands on a copy as soon as I [...]

# June 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am

A Compassionate Eye with a Tendency Toward Celebration | Roy Christopher said:

[...] and gluesticks in hand before I complete something in Photoshop (you already know how I am about my notebooks). As was the case with the logo I did for the University of Texas’s American Studies [...]

# December 27th, 2010 at 11:38 am

Daylight Savings Tribe: SXSW 2011 | Roy Christopher said:

[...] — whom I’d met in the registration line — and James Macanufo. As you know from my previous posts about notebooks, I love attempting to represent ideas visually — with pens and paper. Well, the Gamestorming [...]

# March 20th, 2011 at 4:17 pm

A Writer Runs Through It: A Guide of Sorts | Roy Christopher said:

[...] thoughts about something. I keep a pen and paper in my pocket at all times, pen and pad by my bed, notebook(s) in my backpack and all over the house. I do find that I need large chunks of uninterrupted time to [...]

# April 05th, 2012 at 1:28 pm

Respond / React:

I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan.

I am currently an Assistant Instructor corrupting the youth at The University of Texas at Austin, where I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. My main interests are figurative language use and the social impacts of technology. My main goal as a writer is to entertain and as a scientist is to find novelty. I’m more of the former than the latter and more of a fan than a critic. This site is where all of these things play out. It’s where I think aloud about all of the above.

I’m an aging BMX/skateboard 'zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. The pages and staples have long since given way to links and scrollbars, but the rest is basically the same. I still ride bikes, and I still skateboard. I do still commit quite a bit to actual pages, too. Read on »