January 2010
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“Ever since Andy Warhol made “ideas without skill” fashionable back in the 60s,...”
– Stephen Worth Bobulate: All of the above
Why does learning a skill give someone such a sense of entitlement? Deal with the fact that ideas speak to people more than skill.
It hurts when skill it takes years to learn loses out to a flash of inspiration, but trying to bash ideas isn’t going to...
“It is very difficult to maintain culture if we do not pay those who create it.”
– Bullshit, but it is quite difficult to be a middle-man if nobody is getting paid…
Music chopped in Spanish salons as radio tax spells silencio
The art of resonance →
bobulate:
Scott McCloud in Understanding Comics (1994!) showed how an abstract sketch of a simple smiley face is a more effective representation than a detailed photograph when one intends to appeal to a broad audience. The lack of detail allows room for a greater resonance, engaging ideas that go beyond a single person’s vision. Audiences are free to interpret the drawing, projecting their own...
New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web... →
Tricky one this. On one hand, I can’t see myself paying for a lot of the articles while sites like the BBC and the ABC in Australia are around. On the other hand I think that advertising funded journalism generally sucks.
“There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling...”
– Brian Eno via Stretta
Some choice eno quotes on The Guardian
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Good advice, although it suggests I should spend the rest of my life drinking.
Jessica Hische / Humble Pied.
Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets « silent... →
This would not sound out of place in a performance space somewhere here in Berlin. Or at Lanfranchi’s back in Sydney.
via Kottke
WatchThe OP-1 is so many different kinds of awesome. It’s like a Casio sent back in time from the year 3000.
I’m struggling to think how I would be able to talk myself out of buying one if they release it.
MATRIXSYNTH: NAMM: Teenage Engineering - OP-1 @ NAMM 2010
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Where the music industry went wrong
Just a thought:
Ten years after the launch of Super Audio CD and DVD Audio I’m sitting in my office listening to compressed mp3s on my iPhone pumped through the on-board speakers on my Macbook. It doesn’t sound great, more like a digital transistor radio but I’m fine with it.
Makes me think of Kenya Hara, Muji and “best” becomes “enough”.
iSaidWhat?! →
This seems to be the best looking interface for editing audio on the iPhone yet. The best application they have for it is for mocking your friend.
It will be even sadder if they’re right.
“For someone to give up an hour or two of their life to listen to the record that...”
– From Moby (via Stretta). Haven’t always liked what he says, but he looks a fuckload smarter than Bono right now.
The Stretta Procedure: Public relations: compare and contrast
“Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge the fact that I...”
– Saml. L. Clemens (aka Mark Twain) responding to a request from Remington that he endorse their typewriters.
Lined & Unlined » Blog Archive » Serial Series, Part 6
“That’s the problem in making travel television, when we succeed we inspire...”
– Anthony Bourdain, in No Reservations: Laos (via stephenfalk)
Sadly true - but if we all stop talking about it how do we find anything?
(via ameliac)
