January 2011
“I may be talking about something that does not exist. Therefore I am free to say...”
– Philip Kindred Dick
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Oh, transience.
A creative situation is never optimal. But you get closer by acting. Go back a few decades, and painstaking constraints look like solitary confinement compared to today’s vast palette of nonlinear tools — on the other hand, now the time isn’t so much spent doing things manually, but diving into the seas of what you have and making choices. (For fellow synth geeks, I reckon my plugin...
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I repeat and expand: “No one wants to hear about what you had for lunch today!” in response to tweets and Facebook updates is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
It completely misses the point that said lunch-poster now has a record of what they ate, so if they really liked it, they can remember to have it later (and if it sucked, they’ll stay away in the future)....
“You never know who anybody is, except me. I am who I am.”
– Susan Ricci, The Spanish Prisoner (1997) - Memorable quotes
AND WHAT BIG EYES SHE HAS
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Things I have nightmares about:
“What’s this?”
“It’s an eating utensil.”
“It’s not a fork, spoon, knife, or any combination thereof.”
“FUCK YOU! EAT WITH IT! EAT EAT EAT!”
Scissor Sisters's Invisible Light sample of... →
No wonder I had an urge to listen to them back-to-back.
“While grocery shopping, I sometimes imagine that I have to stock up on food and...”
– -Dr. Piers Steel
That’s funny. Sometimes to make tasks more fun, I imagine that there’s a superior version of me from a parallel universe and he’s crossing over to kill me and take over my life if I’m not ready — meaning I have to develop my skills, should that day ever...
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For awhile, I’ve asked myself: “How can you tell which reporters know math?” Command of the English language and scaling figures aren’t necessarily mutually inclusive.
Turns out there’s a simple test in recent days: check out everyone who’s reporting on the iPad 2 and see if they refer to 2048x1536 as being “quadruple” or “double” the...
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Does that mean arp = AK-47?
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They were supposed to be the perfect pet.
When their existence became known to us, we couldn’t resist their cuteness.
It seemed a little strange that they were found amidst an abandoned civilization that these simple creatures couldn’t have possibly created.
We imported our newfound pets to the homeworld and business boomed, revitalizing our flagging economy.
Billions of us,...
“Bob Dylan was a college-educated Jewish man singing like a dustbowl...”
– A Chat with Das Racist, the Geniuses Behind “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” - Page 2 - Music - New York - Village Voice
“What feature do synth-playing pirates like most? The arrrpeggiator.”
– Torley
The part @ 0:13 sounds like a sitcom interlude →
Ah, Transformers music. To think the theme by Anne Bryant was founded on a basis of polyrhythmic jazz, which is one reason why it’s so damn catchy.
“Eliminate the kooks. Keep the hungry ones, the ones who take initiative.”
– It’s like Saw without so much torture.
I use small barriers to avoid kooks | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
A brief history of Ableton Live | MusicRadar.com →
Ableton is my darling partner! Such a fresh approach to antiquated paradigms.
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There are times when despite having a train of thought traveling on the tip of your tongue and not knowing how to fully describe said train, you need to capture it nonetheless. This allows you to look back and reexamine it at your leisure, which may be enough to expose detailed observations you originally missed.
I always appreciate when I’m enjoying a post somewhere and some savvy...
“As soon as we can bypass a limitation, we’re drawn to recreating it.”
– Torley
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“The best way to introduce a complex sound is through a simple melody.”
– Torley
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Eventually, I got old, and realized all of my friends had died. I marveled at how some of us were able to sustain a normal life (with its troubles mundane and great) at all, and remembered — for this moment — the clasp of aurelics I’d placed in a cupboard, only to be used at a time like this.
I read the inspiring tales of the beauteous pioneers, the conflicting philosophies of industry-city...
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Did you know Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs are... →
That Easter Bunny, he’s a real pusher!
List of video games concepts →
It’s sort of like a TVtropes for computer game mechanics.
HEY YOU ART THIEF STOP RIPPING OFF MY BROTHER →
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Any ETA on when RIL will have an "export list"... →
WOOT IT’S HERE. THANKS NATE.