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Lindsay Zoladz: Ordinary Machines: Innocent Civilians (Pitchfork)
Lindsay Zoladz: Ordinary Machines: Innocent Civilians (Pitchfork)
On P2P sites, most things that seemed too good to be true actually were: SEO-baiting, fantasy-football remixes ("Big Pimpin' Remix [ft. Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Nas, Biggie and Tupac"), "covers" that were actually just the original song ("You Really Got Me" by the Who turned out to just be the Kinks’ version), or painfully obvious amateurs uploading their demos and calling it, say, "Beastie Boys-- Intergalactic ALBUM VERSION."
·pitchfork.com·
Lindsay Zoladz: Ordinary Machines: Innocent Civilians (Pitchfork)
Conrad Amenta: Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (Cokemachineglow)
Conrad Amenta: Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (Cokemachineglow)
Canada has a new subterranean truth, and that truth is that the majority of Canadians are conservative thinkers. I can think of no better time for one of Canada’s most respected protest bands, living in one of Canada’s most progressive cities, to talk about health care, taxation, First Nations and Aboriginal rights, women’s rights, fucking anything but how “The gatekeepers gazed upon their kingdom and declared that it was good.” Which: yeah. And?
·cokemachineglow.com·
Conrad Amenta: Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (Cokemachineglow)
Timmy Cai: Create a HTML Email Signature for Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
Timmy Cai: Create a HTML Email Signature for Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
If you want to create a custom HTML email signature for Mail on Mountain Lion, the HTML coding part remains the same but the installation have changed. Follow this tutorial to create a HTML email signature file and to get it installed into the new version of Mail on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.
·mydesignpad.com·
Timmy Cai: Create a HTML Email Signature for Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life (The Onion)
Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life (The Onion)
It could be anything—music, writing, drawing, acting, teaching—it really doesn’t matter. All that matters is that once you know what you want to do, you dive in a full 10 percent and spend the other 90 torturing yourself because you know damn well that it’s far too late to make a drastic career change, and that you’re stuck on this mind-numbing path for the rest of your life.
·theonion.com·
Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life (The Onion)
Matthew Perpetua: Justin Timberlake Is a Luxury Brand (Buzzfeed)
Matthew Perpetua: Justin Timberlake Is a Luxury Brand (Buzzfeed)
The catch is, this might be a terrible time to sell refined elegance and expensive menswear to a pop audience. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop," the biggest pop hit of the past few months, is the polar opposite of "Suit & Tie" on a lyrical level, with the scrappy indie rapper essentially flipping off Timberlake's high-end style and celebrating the joy of creating a distinct look from dirt cheap items at the Salvation Army.
·buzzfeed.com·
Matthew Perpetua: Justin Timberlake Is a Luxury Brand (Buzzfeed)
Philip Cosores: Us vs. Them (Consequence of Sound)
Philip Cosores: Us vs. Them (Consequence of Sound)
Without some sort of personal framework for approaching music, and expectations for what you think music should and shouldn’t be doing, there wouldn’t be much point in engaging it. And as pop and indie and hip-hop and R&B and metal all currently share a pretty close-knit territory, defining what you stand for might be the best preparation for the looming fallout from those who too often let us know what they are against.
·consequenceofsound.net·
Philip Cosores: Us vs. Them (Consequence of Sound)
Eric Harvey: Matthew McVickar — Favorite Sounds of 2012 (marathonpacks)
Eric Harvey: Matthew McVickar — Favorite Sounds of 2012 (marathonpacks)
Matthew isolates individual moments from songs released this past year, and then very briefly explains why he likes these moments while allowing you to hear them. On one hand, he’s an electronic music composer himself, so he knows what he’s talking about in technical terms. On the other hand, it’s a very personal peek into the nooks and crannies of a music fan’s brain—what those things are that made him go “eh?” other than a cool chorus or a lyric segment. On the third hand (I have three hands, it helps with chores), a lot of these are just cool sounds. Listen and follow along.
·marathonpacks.tumblr.com·
Eric Harvey: Matthew McVickar — Favorite Sounds of 2012 (marathonpacks)
Cord Jefferson: When People Write for Free, Who Pays? (Gawker)
Cord Jefferson: When People Write for Free, Who Pays? (Gawker)
All in all, the creative landscape is starting to look more toxic than it's been in our lifetimes: Artists with million-dollar checks in their pockets are telling other artists that they shouldn't expect to get paid; publications are telling writers that they shouldn't expect to get paid, either; and meanwhile everyone wonders why we can't get more diversity in the creative ranks. One obvious way to reverse media's glut of wealthy white people would be to stop making it so few others but wealthy white people can afford to get into media. But in the age of dramatic newsroom layoffs and folding publications, nobody wants to hear that. So we trudge on, forgetting what a luxury it is to do what you want to do for a living rather than what you have to do to survive.
·gawker.com·
Cord Jefferson: When People Write for Free, Who Pays? (Gawker)
Chris Coyier: Using SVG (CSS-Tricks)
Chris Coyier: Using SVG (CSS-Tricks)
SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know.
·css-tricks.com·
Chris Coyier: Using SVG (CSS-Tricks)
Jon Leidecker: Variations (UbuWeb Sound)
Jon Leidecker: Variations (UbuWeb Sound)
A seven part series history of appropriative collage in music, compositions made using recordings of older ones. It's a practice that in the '80s became known sampling — after the digital sampler — a breakthrough instrument which was designed to mimic traditional musical instruments by allowing the player to trigger recordings of them back on a keyboard. But it didn't take long for musicians to realize that the true strength of the sampler was the way in which it made it easy easy to collage and manipulate the best sounds from their favorite records into new pieces of music. This practice entered the popular mainstream by the 80s, long after observers had already identified collage as the defining new art form of the 20th century — and the roots of this music go back just as far. Over the course of this series, Leidecker looks at these roots, as appropriative collage developed across experimental and mainstream paths.
·ubu.com·
Jon Leidecker: Variations (UbuWeb Sound)
Michael Moss: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (NYTimes.com)
Michael Moss: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (NYTimes.com)
…a series of small case studies of a handful of characters whose work then, and perspective now, sheds light on how the foods are created and sold to people who, while not powerless, are extremely vulnerable to the intensity of these companies’ industrial formulations and selling campaigns.
·nytimes.com·
Michael Moss: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (NYTimes.com)
Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
YouTube crushing everything does seem like a concern. I love novelty songs, I ride hard for novelty songs—but if, suddenly, all our big hits are goofy YouTube-incubated one-offs, the novelty song will cease to be novel.
·slate.com·
Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
Dayna Evans: The Creator and the Critic (COLLAPSE BOARD)
Dayna Evans: The Creator and the Critic (COLLAPSE BOARD)
When there is an influx of content, criticism, information, details, write-ups, reviews, and analyses to be read, it can greatly impede the progress and expansion of art. Suddenly, without even realizing it, it is seven hours later, all you’ve done is read reviews, then you’ve read reviews of reviews, and your mind is so gone that the only thing you know you can do is to pick up that guitar and let out the emotion through your fingers and onto the fretboard, whaling on it until you’re revived enough to return to the digital world.
·collapseboard.com·
Dayna Evans: The Creator and the Critic (COLLAPSE BOARD)
Eric Harvey: Rap Genius and Technologies of Translation
Eric Harvey: Rap Genius and Technologies of Translation
81 years later, Lomax’s quandary is a different issue. Rap Genius aims for a comprehensive archive of rap meanings, while redefining the idea of “genius” altogether. The intelligence of a single person is replaced by a self-correcting form of knowledge derived from the crowd, which often leads to populist rhetoric that papers over very real power differentials and well-established hierarchies. The site’s investors invest their venture with bold religious significance, but practically speaking, perhaps the real genius is in transsubstantiation, via a technological capacity to turn pleasurable activities into value-producing labor. It’s the same logic that fuels Wikipedia and Google search results: a free market of anonymous contributors is a vastly better information aggregator and processor than an individual human brain, and a killer app is all that’s needed to derive stable meaning from the messiness of culture.
·marathonpacks.tumblr.com·
Eric Harvey: Rap Genius and Technologies of Translation