pseudotoad.gear (petri.laboratory__tools)
1. Input. Your output largely depends on the input you have managed to get. I have found that jumping into strange situations, lurking on mailing-lists, watching documentaries, arranging festivals, reading books and enjoying my contemporaries' works is helpful in many ways. Mostly I get my input by capitalizing my senses, but also other methods may apply.
2. Processing. To process the input, I'll discuss with it as much as I can, with as weird people I can find, preferably face-to-face, to cultivate ideas and gather more input in the process. Brains are an important resource for this, and it's worth remembering that subconscious areas are doing most of the work.
3. Output. It's essential to put my thoughts in order and for that I use simple ascii writing of mails with Pine, some thorough analysis with MindManager, outlines of MS Word, slides of MS Powerpoint, cells of MS Excel, and mostly nice papers and pens. Also conversion to voice is usually used, as face-to-face communications tend to be most effective that way. The platform for digital activities is mostly my dear old IBM Thinkpad 380Z, 300MHz and decreasing. My Vic20, few Amigas (2*A500 and A1200) and TI-82 calculator are used only seldom.
4. Collaboration. There are quite evident limits as to what man can accomplish alone, at least within certain time limits, and thus it's more effective and fun to work as a team. To catalyze the process, I use tools like Groove Workspace, TWiki, Mailman etc, and tend to a. motivate inspirationally, b. stimulate intellectually, c. treat individually and d. build reliance among the members.
5. Execution. For presentations, I might use only my voice, but for larger collaborative performances my tools include Amiga video monitors, Panasonic video mixers, LCD displays, Hong Kong B/W TV-sets, Grandmother's large TV-sets, MiniDV cams, Wireless 2.4 GHz Transmitters, Scanconvertors, Spycams, BNC cables, Millions of Adapters And The Like, Shiny Magical Boxes, Video Projectors, Strange Surfaces, Dummy VCR:s, Walkie-Talkies, A Nokia 6210 Phone and a steady alarm-clock.
5. Publishing. Part of the fun is to let the results affect other people's input. This is achieved via recording, calling, announcing, reporting, telling, narrating, mentioning, mailing, webbing, describing, informing, boosting, multiplying, reciting, pushing, recounting, advising, relating, rumouring, stating and using other joyful means.