July 2009
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Guinness World Records Reaches New Levels Of Fail →
June 2009
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The Beatles Rockband
I’ll admit: I’m excited.
I wonder how much fine print went into this.
“The Beatles” title must appear and hold for 2 seconds before “Rockband” can appear.
May 2009
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“Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten...”
– Lee Sallows (Wikipedia)
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Tumbularity
lonelysandwich:
As a matter of principle, I fear and thus despise the new and the different. That said, notes on tumblr’s new feature, Tumblarity.
1. The design is really neat. Keep it up, tumblr designers!
2. The Tumbluality score in my Dashboard reminds me of my mortality. Stop that. Let me hide that rapidly decaying metric or I swear to Christ I’ll never visit my Dashboard again. Consider...
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“Idea: we stop using the oven as storage.”
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Autographing Collector's Edition
This is pretty funny.
March 2008, Nine Inch Nails released the instrumental album Ghosts I-IV. It was made available through their website as a digital download, CD, and there was a limited run of 2500 autographed collector’s editions. (These sold for $300 each, and were sold out within 24hrs.)
So while the video makes me laugh, I keep in mind that that 24hr sales burst earned them...
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My Mind is Officially Blown
Animal Collective: My Girls (video)
This is it. A call to arms. A challenge. A compass.
An inspiration.
This is captivating sound, image, and performance.
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Two life forces that create great art
Alanis Morissette on CBC’s The Hour:
The two great life forces that create great art are joy and anger.
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Miroir Noir
Arcade Fire have released their first official live concert DVD titled Miroir Noir.
I love the tiered cost/quality options. If my current bandwidth weren’t so scant, I’d pull the trigger right now.
(I’m still laughing about that Metric album that I purchased in FLAC and can’t afford the 500 MB to suck it down. Justified bt.)
Who isn’t lured in by a teaser...
“90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people...”
– Of Vice and Men
“We have nothing to fear but—OH, SHIT! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!”
– “A Typical Orc’s Last Thought” via Cracked: 6 Evil Henchmen Who Sucked at their Job
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“I see what power rebellion has to save us”
– Jessica Heckathorn
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Parameter Yanking & Imitating Role Models
One caveat, though - flocking algorithms are in no manner any sort of guarantee of “more life like” synth sounds. Mapping is *everything* - the art lies not in the source of your parameter yanking, but in the way they’re applied.
My own experience in the world of mimetic self-education among our youth is that they emerge from the standard Autechre-cloning phase of development...
Buying Eye Glasses
The optometry system expects you to pick out frames, despite your blurry vision.
Cruel and ironic.
April 2009
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“The work has to be done alone and ahead of time.”
– John Mayer regarding Conscious Composition.
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life...”
– John F. Kennedy
“Don’t worry about your brand; worry about ruining your content and pissing...”
– Merlin Mann at the Integrated Media Association Conference, via The Sound of Young America. (@ approx 53 mins)
The first piece from Proximity Affect: Forever and...
March 2009
4 posts
“I am a man my teenage self would want to kill.”
Sonnet 18
by W. Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;...
“The Quick are the Dead”
– the sign at the cliff’s edge
“And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.”
– Alexander Pope