Issue#1: Planetary Entropy - Dark Matter Amongst The Planets. Amongst the Stars. In the very space between Ya'll...

[Hovelander]

So gather back for the heat at least, yah?

How many weeks until Cooper Hewitt reopens and the best you guys will have is a table computer display with an OpenFrameworks exhibition from a cattle call on the OF forums?

Tom, Robert, Whoever You are at CooperHewitt? Anyone here?

I've been travelling your planets here for awhile, in code and thoughts, and get the strong smell of Cadaverine & Putrescine in your lands every time I visit here.

Been dragging Planetary back from that stinky brink for awhile here in silence, and dancing with the carcass as it spins its designs into my own.

I know that the Smithsonian is a multi-headed beast of fractious directors, managers, programs and structures, but would ya'll be interested in what Github and OS are all about? Collaboration? Bit of collective Shamanism?

Let's dance this damn thing out of the ashes and past being a somewhat intriguing music visualizer/player.

Planetary is quite obviously a piece of the way to visualize any piece of knowledge, atomically, and I propose grabbing hold of one of the Smithsonian's greatest prizes to fuse what Planetary is at the moment, a music player, and the grander designs that both Tom and the CooperHewitt can see in this idea.

If you can swing it with the CFCH, http://www.folklife.si.edu/center/legacy/lomax.aspx, lets bring Alan Lomax's inspiring work of music archaeology into a resuscitated version that CooperHewitt can point new patrons in Dec to download and explore after they have left. The efforts to search a historical collection by color is almost interesting, and eminently commendable, but can only take an interest very few levels deep. Give your new, shiny eyed visitors in Dec '14 more than possibilities. Give them what Planetary was intent on giving in its birth. Music. The light, history, and associative nature of music.

Those people won't be able to take your table display home, after all...

And you can't sort the Alan Lomax collection by color!

Anyone else up for taking Planetary beyond a music visualizer and making it a knowledge visualizer?

CooperHewitt? I'm down here at the crossroads, with an iOS7.1 stable version in front of an iOS8.1 SIGABRT demon, looking at Apples, Androids, and Windows that have all slunk back into the 2nd dimension with tucked tails, singin' "Grizzly Bear", ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAAuQksDrVU&list=RDCAAuQksDrVU#t=7 ), at the top of my goddamned lungs in desperate hope to keep the wolves of Entropy at bay.

I'm callin' on ya. I will literally sell my soul if need be...

Anyway, working here like Liam Neeson at the end of "The Gray" on what has become CooperHewitt/Planetary's #1 issue:

Planetary is dead, cold, and dark.

Long live Planetary! A year of silence is a year too long gone...

[RandomEtc]

This deserves more than the two months of crickets it was greeted with. I, sadly, have disappeared under a million other commitments. All hopes I had of reviving Planetary in an interesting form before the museum reopened were set aside.

I still think the easiest way to get going would be to create a fake iTunes library with an artist/album/track structure for other databases. Like the Cooper Hewitt collection, for example. For your definition of "album" and "track" of course. If only we'd done more than random layout + alphabetical filtering.

@straup @sebchan any thoughts?

[Hovelander]

Well, shit, Tom.

17 additional days with the soothing sound of crickets? I think it may be time for you and I to talk, if you'll have me that is...

Finally over my H3N2 drift/pneumonia hangover here and getting down to it again. Unfortunately, I didn't meet my own goals for pre-reopening here either, but am ultimately heartened that my provocative post brought your response out, at least.

Did you have designs on Planetary that coincide with the Cooper-Hewitt mission, or something more similar to your original design goals? I've been working on this outside of the public/Github face because I didn't know if any of the Bloom crew would even be interested in resuscitation, but will fold my endeavors back into the public sphere if you desire some further collaboration here.

I always thought you were the programmatic heart of Planetary and am rather glad you responded, eventually, to my drunken shout into this empty room to elicit a response. If you need a compatriot and true believer to help get this dead frog to twitch its legs, I am the monkey you are looking for.

Bloom folded before I could join and I plan to make that mistake right, no matter the time it may take.

You ready for a new attempt to subvert failure and entropy? Get in touch if so. If not, I am just going to have to collect yer ginger, pasty ass at a later time. Capisci?

Good to hear from you by the way, however tangentially...

Dan

[sebchan]

[massive apologies for the crickets. its been a never ending flood, or perhaps even a 'plague' of crickets]

We've also been swamped by commitments and now both I and @straup have effectively departed Cooper Hewitt however I know that @micahwalter and @sambrenner would be very interested in doing something . . . . and the dataset is relatively easily restructured in the way that Tom mentions.

[Hovelander]

Crickets are completely understandable, just looking to resurrect past the plague of them here.

Been poking around the dev builds of OSX and iOS 9 to fix the bits that broke around iOS 7, but keep running into my limitations as a noob. (Which is why I haven't posted my embarrassing code just yet.) An iOS 9 relaunch would be fun, I think.

Good luck to both yourself and Tom with the commitments and the move from Cooper Hewitt! I'll get in touch with the others to lobby for a bit of headwind here soon, grazie.

[suggymoto]

Please talented people make this app work again! It still plays music and animates beautifully on my iPad Pro but the artist/album/track data is all messed up.

[Hovelander]

Apologies for the silence regarding Planetary development. I've been working on it in the shadows and not in a public accessible light. Time that I need change that, eh? Thanks for your comment. It has motivated me to kick things in the butt.

Keep checking back here, in this thread, for updates from me. (I can't speak for the others or Cooper Hewitt, but I will working on the fix alone for now.)

Don't give up hope just yet! I love this program and the idea behind it deep in the core of my soul...

[suggymoto]

Amazing! Go on lad!