July 27, 2012 #
Deep Listening is less of a thing you do than a way to do all kinds of things— perform, meditate, communicate, compose, or just be in the world. It’s hard to summarize but easy to grasp: a set of broadly accessible philosophies and practices for heightening your awareness of total sound. It’s useful for anyone who wants to develop a musical practice or unlearn conventional sonic hierarchies.
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Pauline Oliveros: Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
July 27, 2012 #
Roli lets us know the WHYs and HOWs of living with sneakers.
elrolio:
Kicks are made for rockin™
There is a reason this image grabbed me by the heartstrings — a few reasons actually — and I’ve been asked to ramble about it a bit. So here we go, this first in what will hopefully be a long series of “How much do I love this? Let me count the ways”
- No boxes in sight
I firmly believe that you should rock your kicks, always. None of this if they get stepped on their ruined and never to be worn again. Clearly he gets em and wears em. For the most part, the cleanest kicks in these pics are the most recent releases
- Its not always about Jordans
Comme des Garcon Chuckies, both Yeezy 1’s, and the 2 best Galaxy releases (KD IV + Foams)
- All the classic headturners are represented
BRED 11’s, Lighting 1’s, Olympic 6’s, Grape 5’s, etc
- This sneakerhead is the obi-won to my luke skywalker
I am a very picky person. Unabashedly so. Though I would never wear the Jordan 2’s for instance, I have a specific set of Jordans I love best and within that set I would only want to own specific colorways. What this collection here shows is all of my preferences represented, even the ones I would own if I didn’t continually prioritize. The rest of this list will speak to those specifically.
- Bottom left corner: Jordan 1
I own all of those except the yellow and grey pairs. I wear the celtics pair at least once a week. I think these are the classic sneaker to wear with anything at anytime. They are the sneaker I believe inspired creative recreation.
- Bottom right corner: Blue White Jordan 13
This is my around the house and around the block shoe. I wear it exclusively within a 1/4 mile radius of my bedroom with shorts.
- Above the 1’s: Jordan 3
The black cements which I did my first release day store lineup for. Luckily the line was 3 deep. The white cements beside them which I’ve come to believe is the pinnacle of a white sneaker to go with any jeans. I don’t own these.
- Top left corner: 5’s and 4’s!
I patiently await the arrival of the Fire Reds, with the white upper and red/black outsole. I want to play basketball in them. I imagine myself with them occasionally. 2013 re-up. Not pictured here are the 5 & 4 I do own: the wolf greys and militarys respectively. hmmm.
So that’s that! A truly respectable collection, that are clearly rocked with pride and humility (notice the dirty outsoles but thats all). Funny story: my 4’s, I keep trying ot break them in by walking around the hood with them until they get worn in and slightly scuffed enough to become my go to white kicks. Cuz now they are just too bright.
You get me?
July 15, 2012 #
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet’s surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
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Buckminster Fuller, 1983. As quoted on the Buckminster Fuller Challenge node regarding Aclima air quality sensor networks.
June 7, 2012 #
UbuWeb presents the recordings of a U.K. record label which existed from 1975 to 1978. It was created and run by Brian Eno, who also produced the ten albums issued in the series. Much of the material can be regarded as 20th century classical music. The label provided a venue for experimental music, and its association with Eno gave increased public exposure to its composers and musicians.
June 7, 2012 #
James Bridle introduces his project for A Room In London: "an imaginary airship piloted by a lost, mad AI autopilot. The ship is drifting because the pilot is mad or the pilot is mad because the ship is drifting; it doesn’t really matter."
June 4, 2012 #
Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable. Natural selection, for example. It’s so simple. Why didn’t anyone think of it before? Well, that is all too obvious. Darwin himself was careful to tiptoe around the implications of his theory. He wanted to spend his time thinking about biology, not arguing with people who accused him of being an atheist.
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Paul Graham on the importance of looking under society’s rocks in order to discover our taboos.
What You Can’t Say
June 4, 2012 #
if anything you should cultivate dissatisfaction. In Leonardo’s drawings there are often five or six attempts to get a line right. The distinctive back of the Porsche 911 only appeared in the redesign of an awkward prototype. In Wright’s early plans for the Guggenheim, the right half was a ziggurat; he inverted it to get the present shape.
Mistakes are natural. Instead of treating them as disasters, make them easy to acknowledge and easy to fix. Leonardo more or less invented the sketch, as a way to make drawing bear a greater weight of exploration. Open-source software has fewer bugs because it admits the possibility of bugs.
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Paul Graham on the grace of failing early and often.
Taste for Makers
May 31, 2012 #
To a curious, anxious, white male child coming of age in an incurious and paranoid white monoculture, there was literally nothing like it—though a great deal of science fiction, possibly the majority of it, I was starting to notice, depicted futuristic monocultures that were dominated by white males. The rest, however, had as much to do with making me the person I am today as anything else did. Things might be different, science fiction told me, and different in literally any way you could imagine, however radical. Simply to know that people who thought that way existed was a game changer for me. Being able to directly access their minds, as a reader, was like discovering an abundant, perpetually replenished, and freely available source of mental oxygen.
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William Gibson on the potential gift of exposure to otherness inherent in literature.
Seeing the Future in Science Fiction : The New Yorker
May 29, 2012 #
Facebook is hardly the only corporation managing these sorts of dilemmas—Google is a target of investigations seeking greater information about how it manages customer information it collects, about which it has sometimes been opaque, and it too has broken trust with users. Facebook points out that it has been responsive to revolts and protests from within. Zuckerberg proudly told Kirkpatrick that he revelled in the ways Facebook’s users had forced him to become more democratic: “History tells us that systems are most fairly governed when there is an open and transparent dialogue between the people who make decisions and those who are affected by them. We believe history will one day show that this principle holds true for companies as well.
—On Facebook as corporate sovereign and public square, and why now might be a good time to leave.
Why I’m Leaving Facebook : The New Yorker
