The Lost year in Iraq...

I don't know what this man is saying but I liked the illustration. I watched "The Lost Year in Iraq" on PBS last night and found it utterly fascinating. Here's the link to watch the entire thing online for free: link to the webpage with the video

my Two Current Art Heroes...

Tim Hawkinson



David Bowen

Thinking about getting this one at the music store if they have it...

Today I started looking for sequencers for real.

Yet another reason the musical landscape is shrinking...

Now, for just $10 a song music service Music Xray can analyze the "hit-ability" of your music. For just a few bucks more a real A&R guy will give you his two cents too... this is stupid, but i guess it works. They even predicted that Crazy by Gnarls Barkley "would be the summer's biggest hit."

"I know a guy in Barcelona who has started a company to develop algorithms to determine whether a song is going to be a hit. It analyzes music to figure it out -- and they're selling it to the record companies, and it's quite effective. If you expand on that, there's no reason you couldn't have your own personal search engine that understands your taste and can instantly analyze music based on a whole bunch of different, very subjective criteria to determine whether you might like it." -- Moby, musician

One more TED Talk... On Suburbia...

In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about. Reengineering our cities will involve more radical change than we are prepared for, Kunstler believes, but our hand will be forced by earth crises stemming from our national lifestyle. "Life in the mid-21st century," Kunstler says, "is going to be about living locally."

Forget Surface, this is much more interesting to me... Jeff Hawkins' talk "On Intelligence"

I want to buy this book after I watched Jeff Hawkins' TED Talk video: