See also a post about the Dead and electronic music. Whenever I play guitar, it comes out sounding a lot like Jerry Garcia. I can’t help it. From the ages of fifteen to twenty, my guitar-learning years, there was no musician I cared more about in the world than Jerry. It’s not about drugs; I’ve [...]
Filed in Autobio, Emotion, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Music Business
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Also tagged audience participation, depression, drugs, electronica, fashion, grateful dead, guitar, hippies, janis joplin, jerry garcia, midi, sixties, steal your face, tape trading, viral marketing
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Internet, Music, Music Teaching, Software
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Also tagged daft punk, delicious, drum machines, electronica, fun, interface, Internet, inudge, minimalism, multitracking, reason, remixes, sequencing, Social Media, tenori-on, toys, visualization, web browser
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Japan doesn’t have a substantial psychedelic drug culture that I’m aware of, but you’d never guess it from Katamari Damacy.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I’m a visual thinker with an art background, and through playing with Flickr, I stumbled on the idea of a visual outline to complement the written one.
Filed in Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged database, flickr, images, interface, Internet, juxtaposition, memes, miyamoto, outlining, social networks, Video Games, visualization, Writing
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
I find myself in the new and delightful position of writing for money. So I needed to step up my game in terms of workflow and file management. The last time I tried to write something long, I was in college, using Windows 3.1 and good old Wordperfect 6. Then the Microsoft hegemony set in [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Software, Writing
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Also tagged attention, cruft, feature creep, flow, indexcards, interface, minimalism, omnioutliner, plain text, psychology, rtf, scrivener, Writing
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