2011-05-26
2011-02-13
2010-12-22
Thursday
In the evening, dinner al fresco with friends. The weather has been spectacular and it’s been really nice to be home.
Check out these beautiful living root bridges!
Great rant about the sharing of music and the user experience:
the music of sound » On the sharing of music… #music #piracy #user_experience #FAIL
But thats like putting an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff, I think the main philosophical change has to be that the erosion of value must be reversed. In the history of music formats the LP is still the ultimate in my opinion, because of the ritualistic way which you engage with it. You have to consciously put an LP on to listen to it and in so doing you engage with the artwork. Every format since then (cassette -> CD -> MP3) has been a reduction in experience and this is where I think music delivery as an artform has been a failed experiment (other than in specific cases) where the user loses. Is it a coincidence that music has become a faceless, artless data file and at the same time kids don’t really care about it, place value on it or are prepared to spend money on it?
I suggest reading the whole piece.
Tuesday in Santa Fe
Had to stay at an airport hotel in Newark on Sunday, because our flight was canceled. Weather was the reason given. Arrived home on Monday evening. Glad to have some time in Santa Fe now.
Flamenco guitars sound better at this altitude, about 7,500 feet, and low humidity, 20-40%. I have written that before, but it always becomes apparent when I return here.
