Nic Collins and McLuhan

I really enjoyed reading this chapter on video music/translating signals into sound, hacking etc. It was all pretty fascinating although, it took me a couple of times to read over each paragraph . The coolest projects I think he mentioned were creating video-free video with a raw loudspeaker and filling it with sand and connecting it to an amplifier. I also like the idea of taking a bar code "wand" and passing it over a variety of dark/light bar code like images. Also playing with magnets and old TVs looks so cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI6Ya73ykI

From the first paragraph of the McLuhan reading I am more interested as to what makes this person so nerdy than what he's actually saying. So I looked him up....and he went to Cambridge. Enough said.