The performance this Saturday is approaching and I finally got my max patch to stop crashing my computer. Unfortunately, I will only be able to use photographs. Apparently, it was the video files that were causing the big problem. It is kind of a disappointment, but I am so glad it is working.

Basic run down of operation: The mysql object goes into a database, selects information from a specific table and then sends a url to the parsing object. The parsing object retrieves the image information and sends it into a get jpegs object which divides the different images up into seprate files and allows me to control their speed. Then the images are sent through a processor that makes them blur and move across the screen. There is still much to be down in the processing side of things, but the major difficulties have been resolved.

The images will get into the database from audience participants who will send them from their cell phones before and durring the performance to a specific email address (eye@free4md.com). A perl script running on the free4md server will retrieve the images from the email and dump them into a specific table.

Major problem still: Tonic's interent connection (will I will be investigating this week).