May 2009
29 posts
“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...
May 14th
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May 13th
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.
May 13th
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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...
May 6th
“90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people...”
– Of Vice and Men
May 4th
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“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
May 4th
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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...
May 3rd
Buying Eye Glasses
The optometry system expects you to pick out frames, despite your blurry vision. Cruel and ironic.
May 1st