January 2012
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“Honestly, I get scared shitless every time I start a new, big job. I read, I...”
– It’s humbling that even with so much uber-accumulated experience, even Syd Mead feels this way.
Oh, and fuck those idiots who really don’t know what they want. Why do they even bother in the first place?
Ballistic Artists - Syd Mead
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You can always give me a pink and green hat →
Go Mad from the Revelation - Television Tropes &... →
Where I’m at in life.
Plagiarism: The Game →
They weren’t kidding.
WatchLight leaks are exciting.
I like to correlate “aberrant” visual and audio phenomena.
(via Paul Irmiter Preview Page | CrumplePop: Film and Broadcast Effects for Final Cut Pro)
“Nowadays, very few performers improvise their cadenzas”
– SHAME OH SHAME
Cadenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Do you ever wake up from a dream and realize... →
Yeah, it’s like my dreams are a TV with many — hey, remember when “500 channels” was a lot?
Resuming dreams would presumably be a Tivo-like functionality.
“This creates the sonic equivalent of depth of field in photography.”
– Wow! I love those audiovisual parallels.
worldizing - a sound design concept created by Walter Murch
Worldizing - Take Studio Recordings into the Field... →
Mmmm. A Walter Murch special.
George Williers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, got... →
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By the time their light hits here, their scene “over there” will be so different. Instead of relying on those distant cues, we need to be guided by our own research — inspired, perhaps, by traces of what came before, but not dependent.
Glimmers, sparkles from a universe with some similarities, more differences. Traces to shape our own civilization and smile at our cousins.
The upside...
Crimson console has a missing eye; roving around to see the world.
(Come back and report.)
Paint with light, see the sights.
Another reason why I admire Zooey Deschanel:... →
More celebs need to educate us to invest in index funds with low expense ratios.
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“Parents always ask, ‘Who would like to marry my kid? They’re so weird,’ ” she...”
– Navigating Love and Autism - NYTimes.com
These journalists have the most comprehensive,... →
December 2011
“Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and...”
– Whoa. This seems to be one of those ultra-rare novels that appeals to me on so many levels just by reading the synopsis. I found it via this.
The Glass Bead Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The strongest zeitgeber, for both plants and animals, is light.”
– Zeitgeber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Words With Friends With Benefits →
What’s it called when you link one phrase to another like this? Sort of like an extended portmanteau.
Like 3D printing, the Haken Continuum Fingerboard... →
We’re seeing some advances in iPad apps that simulate similar expressivity.
But progress is coming slowly — the Continuum was introduced in ~2002, so it’s been nearly a decade.
I’m hopeful more alternative controllers will make it to the masses, where by scale, they’ll be profitably sustainable. Sure is hard breaking people away from the traditional black-and-whites...
I'd go beyond piano. Synthesizers. →
But I can relate to the comment rage.
fuck yeah studio porn →
A lot of things I always like to see but never want to have.
Mine is better to use than to show. Although I like colored lighting, puts me in the musical mood.
By now I’ve decided that giant mixing boards aren’t for my workflow: I do it just fine with my mouse and a few sliders.
And too many keyboards feels redundant, that’s why I still have two to cover a range of purposes....
Sack o' Krampus links →
