Allen @allenriley.com · 15/06/2026I once again consult my Triangle of Despair® life improvement model first established in 2012: Instructions: Each of the three corners (Confused, Discouraged, Unhealthy) leads to the others. Remove one corner to break the triangle. 050
Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026I apparently made this MS Paint illustration of the Dream House by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela which I emailed to myself on February 12, 2010 (dh.bmp) 330
Allen @allenriley.com · 08/05/2026I appreciate the framing of Stamping in the Studio as analog horror 100
Allen @allenriley.com · 14/04/2026"I AM THE BEST ARTIST René" by René Moncada on West Broadway between Spring and Broome Street circa 1986 appears in the 1988 Superman arcade game by Taito 050
Allen @allenriley.com · 29/03/2026I discussed the “Oddly Satisfying” video/performance program I curated for @anindexof.bsky.social at the 2026 Society for Cinema and Media Studies featuring Erma Fiend, Blake Andrews and Nina Sobell 031
Allen @allenriley.com · 13/03/2026Andy Wallace and I showed and discussed Hypnogenesis at a video game concept art exhibition curated by Steph Ng and Meha Murthy at Little Raven Gallery in San Francisco on March 12, 2026. The show also featured microtalks by game designers including Richard Lemarchand and Bridget Winn. 0134
Allen @allenriley.com · 12/03/2026@andymakes.itch.io and I presented Hypnogenesis at The Intersection of Art and Technology on March 10, 2026. The game is on display until March 14. 061
Allen @allenriley.com · 09/03/2026Hypnogenesis, the video feedback arcade game I made with @andymakes.itch.io is going on a San Francisco tour from March 10-14, 2026 with events at the Intersection of Art & Technology, Little Raven, Experimental Games Showcase at GDC, and boshi's place x Syzygy! 051
Allen @allenriley.com · 22/02/2026Allen Learns Video Synthesis, 2010/2026 (cutting some multichannel edits of work that has never been displayed) 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 12/02/2026I made a series of cell phone landscape videos processed with the Sandin Image Processor in 2010 062
Allen @allenriley.com · 12/12/2025I presented "Video Feedback as a Model for Emergent Narrative" at ICIDS 2025 – 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Thinking about how to approach AI as a live signal medium like electronic music or video synthesis (and not as a source of content). 040
Allen @allenriley.com · 10/11/2025The day after his screening at @anindexof.bsky.social, Larry Gottheim met with filmmakers in Santa Cruz on Nov 9, 2025 to view and discuss works in progress. We looked at my work, as well as projects by Nena Hedrick, Matte Hewitt, and Alanna Nickles. 021
Allen @allenriley.com · 05/11/2025I know he is making a point about the cost of living, but as a person living in California who listens to the Brian Lehrer Show every day, I appreciate Mamdani's coinage of "a New Yorker who lives elsewhere" 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 16/09/2025I performed scenes from my as-yet-unproduced science fiction film Earth’s Basement with my collaborator Shannon Kerrigan as a video synthesis performance that also utilized a live musical scoring system I made that uses an LLM and MaxMSP to categorize dialogue and select musical cues 110
Allen @allenriley.com · 31/07/2025Don't let him know that The Logic of Sensation by Deleuze was on David Lynch's bookshelf! 020
Allen @allenriley.com · 30/07/2025I screened The Matrix for my media art class today and remembering how I first saw this in the theater in 1999 without having seen a trailer or knowing anything about it at all, so I was completely shocked when Neo’s mouth seals shut 470
Allen @allenriley.com · 25/06/2025I looked up this provocative graffiti featured in the Kurt Cobain movie “Montage of Heck” and it seems to be a reference to this great 1984 record by the East Bay punk band Part Time Christians youtube.com/playlist?lis... 110
Allen @allenriley.com · 14/06/2025Olympia, WA audience member review of DOOMED: “like Jandek and Flipper dragged through the mud” 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 30/05/2025That's fun, David Lynch owned a copy of Another Science Fiction by Megan Prelinger 081
Allen @allenriley.com · 30/05/2025Looking through David Lynch's books and digging this food chain of fear eats soul, soul eats chicken soup. I don't know if this works out timeline-wise, but it's a funny idea to think that "garmonbozia" from Fire Walk With Me might have been a joke about Chicken Soup for the Soul. 130
Allen @allenriley.com · 19/04/2025We premiered a new visual album by Taku Hannoda at @anindexof.bsky.social last night 221
Allen @allenriley.com · 22/03/2025Dying to know what the vibe was like at the BriTANicK show at the Kennedy Center tonight 110
Allen @allenriley.com · 22/03/2025I sang Sycamore Trees at Cynthia’s movie soundtrack karaoke night at Hyperreal Film Club 120
Allen @allenriley.com · 28/02/2025“The Hipster is dead! Long live the Crapster!” by Patrick May, Boston Weekly Dig, October 8, 2008 030
Allen @allenriley.com · 28/02/2025My headcanon is that David Lynch’s Twin Peaks character Gordon Cole was based on John Cage 020
Allen @allenriley.com · 26/02/2025I shared this concept at the UCSC Teaching Symposium, February 25, 2025 140
Allen @allenriley.com · 17/02/2025I have advanced to candidacy and my dissertation is titled “The Imagination Synthesizer” 030
Allen @allenriley.com · 03/02/2025Q&A with Twin Peaks pilot and Fire Walk With Me sound designer Douglas Murray at @anindexof.bsky.social in Santa Cruz, CA on Friday, January 31 031
Allen @allenriley.com · 31/01/2025Most stories about David Lynch’s sound design focus on Lynch and Alan Splet, but Lynch worked with a bunch of people over the years including Douglas Murray, who worked with Lynch and others at the Saul Zaentz Film Center / Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA to co-create the sonic palette of Twin Peaks 120
Allen @allenriley.com · 17/01/2025Nobody told me that publishing an academic paper would open me up to new vectors of spam 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 13/01/2025Making some new video pieces at Signal Culture. This is video feedback 230
Allen @allenriley.com · 12/01/2025I am very amused by the similar but contrasting aesthetics of this pair of adjacent coffee shops in Loveland, CO and how their logos both look like they’re from the lyric booklet from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 120
