02010-11-14 | Uncategorized
Actually it’s Sunday, because it’s almost one in the Morning. Playing two shows a night is quite the work-out, especially when playing solo, and yesterday and today the Blue Note held the second show for half an hour, which meant I played from 23:00 until 00:15. I don’t know why and didn’t bother to ask.
Tonight’s first show was probably the best I have done here at the Blue Note this week. I am going to bed, but here are a few links I found entertaining.
Blow in her face and she’ll follow you anywhere! (photo)
E-Tomb, Social Networking From The Grave
Why did you buy me that?
Which works ought to be read in their original language?
Sidhartha by Hesse, for sure.
Damn you, auto correct!
A world of tweets
Babel Tales (photos)
At last! A Five Terapixel camera
Interview w cinematographer Wally Pfister -Batman, Inception (YouTube)
Interesting bit, for me, is that the Imax camera, while analog and huge and heavy, does still have four times the resolution of the Red video cameras.
Flash Player:
Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash Player and Security Updates
Yesterday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.5. The security-related release notes for this update list 134 CVE IDs for fixed vulnerabilities. 55 of those vulnerabilities are for Flash Player alone.
02010-11-11 | Uncategorized
Received email with proposed poster for Germany in March. Presumably designed by the promoter’s office.
He hates the trumpets! (YouTube)
I laughed so hard when I came across this yesterday… very funny.
Knife forging by Japanese master blacksmith (YouTube)
Call of Duty’s Twisted Advertising Campaign
The next step may be video games tailored to specific groups: Going Postal – for unhappy postal workers, Going Columbine – for unhappy teenager… and so on. What could possibly go wrong?
Images from CERN’s Mini Big Bang
For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion
Web 8.0: Avatar is Real and the Human is King
Morning coffee at Stumptown again. Nice Italian dinner at Aurora, on Broome Street, yesterday evening. Walked about 150 blocks on Wednesday.
Just remembered… last week I was listening to Jon’s new electric bass guitar track for “Reaching Out 2 U”. Then I added the original upright acoustic bass. Then I moved the old track to the left, and the new track to the right. The result is not something I would do for the album release – the idea is to use the upright until Davo’s cajon break and the bass guitar from then on – but I enjoyed it and will mix it for your listening enjoyment. Sounds very interesting on headphones.
02010-11-10 | Photos
Walking back to our hotel yesterday evening I remembered that I had heard that Portland’s Stumptown has a new location in Manhattan. Then I discovered that it is only a couple of blocks from our hotel. Morning coffee:
Looking up from my coffee I saw this van. “Covering the Earth”.. sure looks like red sludge is killing the planet. File under bad advertising.
Interview w Errolson Hugh from Acronym (vimeo)
Saw this bike on Green Street, near Blue In Green, which is a fantastic denim store where a very well informed Japanese sales person outfitted me with a nice pair of Japanese denim jeans:
02010-11-09 | Uncategorized
Generation Why? – Zadie Smith’s review of The Social Network
Literary Writers and Social Media – a response to Zadie Smith by Alexis Madrigal
I think one of the two articles is right on and the other is the work of a hack.
I found those articles by creating a Google Alert for “Jaron Lanier”. It’s how I get much of the news I find most interesting. I have subscribed to a few dozen search terms, which can be names of people, or certain phrases.
A Google search for “ottmar liebert torrent“, which returned about 11,000 hits last year, returned nearly 47,000 last week. There are so many brave revolutionaries out there, making music free, working hard to show their love of music by giving it away. Not their own work, natch, but that is besides the point in their opinion…
Flew out of Santa Fe airport for the first time. Nice. Laid back and easy. Arrived at our Manhattan hotel at 22:00. Very hungry, after only a small breakfast! Walked ten blocks and found a restaurant where dinner was enjoyed.
Light flood (photo)
Diagram of Trump’s comb-over (photo)
02010-11-08 | Uncategorized
Just found out. No vid projector at the Blue Note, but one will be available at Anthology and the Razz Room.
Funky Forest (YouTube)
Neither Funky nor Forest, but a movie (TV show?) that could only exist in Japan.
Orishiki suitcase
I like the idea, but wonder what it will look like when scratched up. Will it age well?
