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Buzz Aldrin Doesn’t Know Any Better

Buzz Aldrin Doesn't Know Any Better is a conversation with an old intralocutor, Pretty Jesus, about the contents of a pawn shop street-side display window in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.

It was written to be read through touch interaction with a street-side gallery display window, creating a contextual resonance between the original event and the installed work. The poem formed the central panel of the large-scale print + touchscreen triptych Things You've Said Before But We Never Heard.

Prints: The poem forms the central panel of the large-scale print + touchscreen triptych Things You've Said Before But We Never Heard. The left-hand panel of the triptych is a 5’ x 13’ digital text-image called An Abrupt Hardening of Awareness, and the right-hand panel is a 60" x 168" digital text-image called Show Me A Map of the Sun, both made with Mr. Softie.

The mobile version is called Know.
You can download it for free from the App Store here.

Know is currently at version 2.

Source Code

iOS: Buzz Aldrin Doesn't Know Any Better - iOS
java: Buzz Aldrin Doesn't Know Any Better - java

Year: 2011

Material

Text: Custom text
Font: Antique Olive Compact Regular.
Exhibition: Custom Java for Windows
App: Custom Objective-C for iOS
An Abrupt Hardening of Awareness: 126” x 52” digital print made with Mr. Softie.
Show Me a Map of the Sun: 126” x 52” digital print made with Mr. Softie.