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Time to slow the buzz cycle
Remember that awesome band from last year? They were a three-piece from Brooklyn; lots of jangly guitars. They had a great look; lots of washed out denim. Their on-stage presence was a mix between moody, disinterested and smug. I think Pitchfork gave them a good write up.
Beach Fossils? Real Estate? The Drums? Cloud Nothings? Wild Nothing? It’s all of them.
The buzz cycle is now moving at such an impossible pace that bands are hastily blending into one another, the way road lines tend to become one when driving at high speed.
As a buzz-addled fiend, I’ve struggled to defend myself against the seemingly never-ending barrage of new music . My repeated, inconsiderate and hyperbolic proclamations of everything being the ‘BEST. ALBUM. EVER’ are testament to this.
So, what to do?
Jesse Israel recently tweeted about Calmbox.me - a strategy to check email only twice per day in an attempt to lessen and eventually quash addiction to email.
It got me thinking, how would this look for music? CalmBuzz.fm could look something like this:
1. Only seek out new music once per day - 1 hour max.
2. Listen to full tracks only - no skipping.
3. Download/allow offline listening of a max of 3 new albums per week.
4. Purchase the albums you really love on vinyl - then delete them from your digital life.
Considering you’ll now be stuck listening to full tracks during discovery, you’re going to need exceptional quality recommendations during your hour each day. So remember: computers don’t recommend music, people do.
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laurenjayneanderson reblogged tumbletogether:
Amazing :) Huffington Post and Tiny Sartorialist aside, Scott and Karla = the way I hope to raise my kids. Best parents ever!Some of you may know that my better half Karla maintains a baby fashion blog featuring our wonderful son Marshall. It’s called The Tiny Sartorialist and she’s been running it for nearly a year now.
The thing I love most about it is that she takes such incredible photos that really capture Marshall’s happy-go-lucky personality. The Tiny Sartorialist is a fantastic record of how joyous and delightful our family life is, and for that I’m really grateful.
And today The Huffington Post recognised just how awesome Karla and Marshall are by featuring a gallery of photos of Marshall from The Tiny Sartorialist. You can check out the full gallery over on the Huffington Post Parents section.
Really proud of Karla and really happy to be able to share the fun with more people.
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mothernaturenetwork reblogged sciencecenter:
Scorpion exoskeleton may be one giant glowing eye
Scorpion bodies are studded with eyes, sometimes as many as twelve — and scientists may have found one more.
A scorpion’s entire exoskeleton may act as one giant light receptor, a full-body proto-eye that detects shadows cast by moonlight and starlight.
That’s still just a hypothesis, but it would help explain why they glow so brilliantly under ultraviolet light.
“It might be a sort of alarm that’s always going off until the scorpion finds shelter,” said biologist Douglas Gaffin of the University of Oklahoma. “Shade might turn down the alarm on that part of their body, so they preferentially move in that direction.”
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Why would other sectors nurse grudges against computers? Well, because the world we live in today is /made/ of computers. We don’t have cars anymore, we have computers we ride in; we don’t have airplanes anymore, we have flying Solaris boxes with a big bucketful of SCADA controllers [laughter]; a 3D printer is not a device, it’s a peripheral, and it only works connected to a computer; a radio is no longer a crystal, it’s a general-purpose computer with a fast ADC and a fast DAC and some software.
The grievances that arose from unauthorized copying are trivial, when compared to the calls for action that our new computer-embroidered reality will create. Think of radio for a minute. The entire basis for radio regulation up until today was based on the idea that the properties of a radio are fixed at the time of manufacture, and can’t be easily altered. You can’t just flip a switch on your baby monitor, and turn it into something that interferes with air traffic control signals. But powerful software-defined radios can change from baby monitor to emergency services dispatcher to air traffic controller just by loading and executing different software, which is why the first time the American telecoms regulator (the FCC) considered what would happen when we put SDRs in the field, they asked for comment on whether it should mandate that all software-defined radios should be embedded in trusted computing machines. Ultimately, whether every PC should be locked, so that the programs they run are strictly regulated by central authorities.
And even this is a shadow of what is to come. After all, this was the year in which we saw the debut of open sourced shape files for converting AR-15s to full automatic. This was the year of crowd-funded open-sourced hardware for gene sequencing. And while 3D printing will give rise to plenty of trivial complaints, there will be judges in the American South and Mullahs in Iran who will lose their *minds* over people in their jurisdiction printing out sex toys. [guffaw from audience] The trajectory of 3D printing will most certainly raise real grievances, from solid state meth labs, to ceramic knives.
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Last day of the year feels kinda like this. My head is still spinning from everything that was 2011…(moving house x 3, beginning to like cats (!!!), no summer, new friends, working so hard, breakups, business ventures, snail mail, new job, growing up / not growing up, taking pictures, worst hangovers of my life, innumerable pom poms, plotting adventures, self-reliance, reconciliations, cake, the future…)
Gonna spend the rest of the day at home, making cookies, cocktails and rebooting for 2012. See you on the other side!
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taking a break from the sea of commission work i’m doing to make an adventure time gif.
a few days ago adam muto posted a tweet with this killer pizza eyes gif in it (which was based on this drawing by pen ward) and i felt completely obligated to redo it myself. -
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? The immeasurably wonderful Zooey Deschanel strikes again, with partner-in-crime Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Pit Stop (Taken with Instagram at Drum And Bell Towers)
