SUNday
This weekend’s NFL draft brought a lot of couch sitting. Along with the couch sitting came a whole lot of web reading: Catching up with weeks of RSS feeds and articles I’d missed. Anyhow, since there are more links than you could possibly catch in the sidenotes, I figured I’d point out some of my favorites. (One quick thing: Montana people, I haven’t forgotten about posting all those links from my session, just didn’t have the right notebook at home this weekend. Look for it next week.)
- While in San Francisco I heard a great quote (attributed to Andy Warhol) that went something like “talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” Well, turns out there’s some controversy over who actually said it.
- Another San Francisco thing: Benjamin from the Barbarian Group suggested I check out the Milwaukee’s Best Beer Cannon, I suggest you do the same.
- I quite like Kottke’s list of ways in which working on kottke.org is like gardening.
- Kick Map is the New York City subway map redesign and re-imagined. 37signals explains why, although less accurate, it’s a whole lot more helpful.
- Nothing terribly insightful here, but there are some good numbers in this article about how a movie’s theatre success is not necessarily an indication of long term money.
- From PSFK: “ParkAtMyHouse is a new service that provides affordable and penalty-free parking around public venues by enabling property-owners to rent out their empty driveways, garages, car parks and other spare pieces of land to drivers needing somewhere to park.”
- The Trouble with Twitter: Annalee Newitz on the dangers of the continual speeding up of culture and communication.
- I really love this idea for the world’s slowest instant messenger (especially in response to the last link). People forget that as everything speeds up, purposefully slowing down says something profound.
- Karl Long on Nikon’s blog outreach program, which I originally heard about at his Adtech panel.
- Another link for Karl, this one to a great Ira Glass piece on storytelling.
Well, I think that’s it for now. Anyone else have any links they’d like to share? Now is your big chance.
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You watched the entire thing? Dear god, man. It took five hours to get to our first pick, we were checking on it in between acts at jazzfest this weekend.
The whole damn thing :)
Funny – I was told that the quote was from Charles Mingus and that it pertained to writing (not talking) about music (if memory serves, it was a backlash against music critics). This makes more sense, if you think about it, in that the quote points out the subjective nature of using one art form as a vehicle of describing another. Having logged time as both a professional musician (years) and a music journalist (months), I can attest to the fact that much music writing is pure nonsense.
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Ok, I thought it was Frank Zappa that said the quote :)
I am avoiding writing so i looked at each link, so here are my thoughts on a couple……
* like the kick map – I always appreciated the london map when living there and also the tokyo subway map during my many years of living there too….. I could remember the shape of the map so much easier that way…
* With the park at my house was in chicago or new york city :) not enough people in albuquerque to really make a difference. People here don’t know what its like to drive around for hours looking for a space then having to wake up early to move it the next morning.
* I like twitter, but sometimes find myself wondering why I like it and why I care a friend in tokyo just ate lunch or that a friend in SF is walking down the street….I feel like time is so compartmentalized into experiences that through twitter we need to share whether interesting or not.
* love the World’s slowest instant messenger article. I do have instant communication gratification syndrome, but miss the days of waiting for a response to an email or even an actual letter in the post. I grew up with friends from all over the world and a lot of times we had to write letters and a communicatin would take months to answer a simple question. it was fun and I looked forward to it….
* wish nikon would have sent me a camera
Those are all my thoughts on these links…As for a link I would like to share, I have 2 :)
http://www.pandora.com – very cool-creates a radio station based on your musical likes and through its program and how you respond to the songs they send you, they will play new things you might not have thought of. Very cool…try it out….
The Lifehouse Method
this is the site for Pete Townsend’s project Lifehouse, which people sit for musical portraits. Once you fill out the form and receive the invitation you sit for a portrait which consists of recording your voice, a sound and a rhythm and the it creates a portrait. I did 3 and they are very cool. They may be used in the lifehouse concert in the future. Lifehouse was supposed to be a follow up to Tommy and is about a subversive rock musician and apathetic england. Its a great story, very Pete and you can read more about it here… An Introduction to Lifehouse