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Reminisced over some old school hip hop tonight:
Rough Around The Edges: The 665 Polaroid Work of Jonathan Mannion
Binary Prints by Alex Trochut featuring James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem.
Remember to use the On-Off switch: http://www.binary-prints.com/
iTunes is growing at the rate of about 500,000 new accounts per day. - Horace Deidu
iTunes may be the fulcrum of the Apple ecosystem. It’s that important.
It’s still the way many people get introduced to Apple’s products. Once you’re in, you’re in.
TUNE: ”Sirens” by CAMP STAG
continues themes of travel this time with a slightly more confused and unclear perspective as to relate to the bands lyrics and the songs ideas.
It turns out we get excited even in anticipation of a song’s climax:
The idea that reward is partly related to anticipation (or the prediction of a desired outcome) has a long history in neuroscience. Making good predictions about the outcome of one’s actions would seem to be essential in the context of survival, after all. And dopamine neurons, both in humans and other animals, play a role in recording which of our predictions turn out to be correct.
Grandmaster Flash on Flickr.
The Listening on Flickr.
Further, we reason that such a moderate distraction, which induces processing difficulty, enhances creativity by prompting abstract thinking. We predict, in sum, that a moderate level of noise will enhance creativity relative to both high and low levels of noise.
The propensity to record and share. No more free hands, no more visceral experience.
“Before Pearl Jam was called Pearl Jam, the band was called Mookie Blaylock.”
The essayist samples more than a D.J.: a loop of the epic here, a little lyric replay there, a polyvocal break and citations from greatnesses past, all with a signature scratch on top.
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.”
