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March 2010
3 posts
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Steven Strogatz’s (currently ongoing) series of articles revisiting math, aimed at the adult mind, full of pretty little insights: From Fish to Infinity, Rock Groups, The Enemy of My Enemy, Division and Its Discontents, The Joy of X, and Finding Your Roots. More to come.
Christopher Hitchens edits the Ten Commandments, not with a pen, but a chisel.
“All Creative...
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An interview with the Mac sound designer.
Logorama. Must-watch pastiche.
Obscura Day, “a day of expeditions, back-room tours and hidden treasures” is also taking place in Vancouver, March 20.
An extended interview with Brian Eno. (Bonus: Eno on the birth of Long Now.)
A conversation with Steve Reich, he of tape loops & Drumming.
Depeche Mode backstage, via...
February 2010
2 posts
“en mémoire de votre compagnon disparu..”
– Jacques Rogge, on the untimely death of Nodar Kumaritashvili.
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Post-Olympics, care of the BC Liberals, Vancouver’s arts funding will experience cuts to the tune of 92%. PopMatters celebrates with a mix of home-brewed music.
A list of likeable things about Vancouver.
An hour-long interview with Brian Eno.
SampleRadar’s 10,000 free audio samples.
Even more than this live looping jam, I’m digging his workspace.
c74, an...
October 2009
3 posts
Arpeggiate, Loop, Delay, and never stop.
September 2009
5 posts
An early working edition of this piece, which has...
Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, though, really, props to Charlie Kaufman for spotlighting it in the film that needs not be named:
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Normalcy is a state of mind. It is the constant below-consciousness decisions to adhere to the norms, not be the outlier, opt against becoming deviant, statistically. And yet that word, deviant, carries with it such negative connotations. The language itself forces us to adhere to the norms. Some who may recognize the trap in the system, understand that breaking outside of these boundaries can...
If the problem seems too daunting, widen the scope of possible methods for solving it, thinking outside of what is immediately, and easily accomplishable, and considering solutions that may involve a search for resources, a sustained effort, solving problems that may not directly resolve the big issue, but indirectly, taken all together, create a path to the necessary destination, which all in...
August 2009
24 posts
