Here’s a quote from Alan Fletcher’s book “The Art of Looking Sideways”:
Ivan Chermayeff does much of his thinking in taxies, Lon Dorfsman on planes, Steve Guarnaccia on the subway. Designers also talk of getting ideas when they are on the sleep borderland...”
Challenge: Can you successfully not pick up your smart phone in a taxi, on a plane, on the subway, or in that sweet transition from sleep to wakefulness? Can you do this in the service of idea generation?
Jenson: Wikipedia
MySpace, one of the first online social networks, has apologised after a server migration caused a huge loss of data.
A message on its website says that "any photos, videos and audio files" uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available.
There had been complaints going back several months that links to music were no longer working.
Another reason why we shouldn’t be so eager to build houses on an unsteady foundations.
The trend is no longer a trend: Vinyl is back and it’s not going anywhere. And, the entire record store business breathes a collective sigh of relief!
Apart from the obvious benefits, ie better sound and larger artwork to name two, there is one perspective that I’d like to add: Engagement. Owning a record player forces us to be one with our music collection, handling records, caring for them, and flipping them when we’re done with a side.
When we engage with anything, we care for it more. I enjoy the music of the records I have, therefore I happily give them my involvement. I expect I’ll get a little closer to the soul of each record with each listen because of that.
Ideas can be subversive, especially when I’m trying to fall asleep.
Madlib - Pill Jar
In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield describes the ways in which we doggedly resist being creative. He sees resistance as the biggest hurdle to overcome in living a creative life. It’s my understanding that I must intentionally engage with a free act of creativity everyday, beyond judgement, blame, fear of negative consequences, without expectation of either reward or result.
In other words, I don’t care if I win or lose.
A page of score sounds twice as elaborate as it looks.
George Frederick McKay
Found dedication inside a used book entitled How To Be An Explorer of the World by Keri Smith
Love this: “Art, whose divine expression flows impartially from the fingertips of a cowboy or dilettante emperor, had chosen for a medium the Boy Artist of the San Saba.”
Source: Clockwork Music, Arthur WJD Ord-Hume, 1973
I love this little plant.
Two very good friends of mine, David and Sissy Hobizal of Firstmates.tv, asked me if I wanted to compose the music to an animation they were developing for Gradifi. Gradifi makes paying back your student loans much more affordable (something this country desperately needs), so it was with pleasure to create the music that worked to support David and Sissy’s incredible animation work:
Not too long ago, I joined a band in Santa Fe, NM. We eventually got into the studio to record a bunch of songs. And now, Miguel (drummer) tells me that the EP has been released!
Also, Miguel told me that this is the #1 album in Santa Fe, NM. Sweet!
You read that correctly... This album is not sugar-coated candy pop. It’s a full expression of the complete sonic spectrum of your listening station. I designed the music to sound excellent at 85db. Enjoy!
For audio enthusiasts and sound adventurers only, this four song album is dedicated to exploring the full sonic spectrum of your carefully built audio listening station.
