Ryan Oakley

Author's details

Name: Ryan Oakley
Date registered: January 2, 2010
URL: http://thegrumpyowl.com/

Biography

Aurora Award and Sunburst Award finalist. Author of Technicolor Ultra Mall. Keeper of The Grumpy Owl. Husband, worker, malcontent. A simple man in complicated shoes. Dandyish.

Latest posts

  1. Slow Loss — April 30, 2013
  2. Been a Week — April 20, 2013
  3. Digital Dinners in the Cooked World — April 12, 2013
  4. Swarming Robots Over Gold Bones — April 8, 2013
  5. Eyes & Ears: Silver Strain – A Blue Rose [Twin Peaks] — April 7, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. A Non-Vicarious, Straight-Up STFU — 43 comments
  2. Launched — 17 comments
  3. White Man Carries His New Burden in #Kony Tote Bag — 15 comments
  4. I’ve Sold My First Novel — 11 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr 04

Owl Pellets: Ballard Documentaries, Nuclear Nevada Noise, Fukushima View, North Korea’s Environmental Collapse, Nuke Worries, Mars

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Six Ballard Documentaries: I haven’t seen any of these (maybe The Atrocity Exhibiton? – can’t remember) but I’ve been sitting on it for months so, here ya go. Enjoy. If you’re into that sort of thing. Ever heard the sound of a nuclear bomb going off? Historian unveils one of the few surviving audio recordings …

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Apr 03

Eyes & Ears: data painting (garden)

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It’s one way to look at a garden. data painting (garden) from jessica fenlon on Vimeo. short video created by altering the data set that was the source video file. quartz composer, Logic 9, FCPX

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Apr 03

Eyes & Ears: Body Memory

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BODY MEMORY from Ülo Pikkov on Vimeo. Stop-motion film by Ülo Pikkov. Estonia / 9 min What can an old apple tree tell us? What mysteries are hidden in his roots, gnarled over time? Does he remember the serpent and the lost Paradise? Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers …

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Apr 03

Owl Pellets: Patakk, Molina on Molina, JPA Gifs, New Gmail, Love Machine, Nanotech PED,

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kitty

Patakk: Just a lovely little gif site. Arty, ya know? Jose Molina on Jose Molina: Umpires are part of baseball. So fooling them is also part of baseball. Jose Molina (one of the famed Molina brothers) is one of the best in the game at stealing strikes. He explains how. J.P. Arencibia’s night in 9 …

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Apr 01

Eyes & Ears: tape loading error tape

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tape loading error from s-ara on Vimeo. Animation exploring the visual culture of video games and the spread of popular gif files. The imagery of Magritte’s surrealist paintings gives a working platform for modular elements and texture, thus sharing, the action with layers that emulate lo-fi quality and bug / glitch images of early computer …

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Mar 31

Eyes & Ears: Gotye “What Do You Want”

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First addition to this new catergory, cause fuck, who doesn’t sometimes feel this? Gotye “What Do You Want” from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo. Directed and Designed by Lucinda Schreiber Animation: Lucinda Schreiber Ed Jackson Art Dept: Kevina-Jo Smith Georgina Smith Sarah Blakesmith Ed Jackson

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Mar 31

Owl Pellets: Stoned Cairo Cop, GPS Breaking Sex Offenders, Jailed Bookworms, Glowing Prison Millipedes, Gimme Pizza

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pretty pixles

A Stoned Cop Explains Why He Doesn’t Stop Crime In Dystopian Cairo: Gangs supported by political groups, hard drugs and corrput cops. I have no idea if any of this is true (the source is a stoned cop after all) but it makes for an interesting read. Thousands of paroled CA sex offenders, felons easily …

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Mar 31

Ryan Oakley Talks: Nothing

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Ryan Oakley Talks …about nothing from VIDEOFILMIK on Vimeo. Shortly before a confluence of circumstance and opportunity forced me to leave Toronto, The Chairman (aka Videofilmik) took me to High Park, asked me a number of questions  and taped my ramblings. One of the 22 will be posted every Sunday morning. You can see them all here.

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Mar 26

Pink Suit, Green Stucco

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I’ve updated the bulk of my profile pictures because, well, people should do that every once in a while. You don’t want to end up being fifty years old with a picture of yourself at twenty. This batch better reflects how I’m looking these days. My hair is longer because I can’t find a barber. …

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Mar 25

Owl Pellets: Zizek on Architecture, Sterling on a Stage, Traumas of Code

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 SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK. “ARCHITECTURAL PARALLAX; SPANDRELS AND OTHER PHENOMENA OF CLASS PUGGLE: ŽIŽEK writes about architecture and plucks his usual strings. The highlight for me was this: On the southern side of the demilitarized zone that divides North from South Korea, the South Koreans built a unique visitor’s site: a theater building with a large screen-like …

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