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Monday, 15 December 2003
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Best advice on how to do art [Cool Tools]Excerpt:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot -albeit a perfect one - to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay. I subscribe to that theory as well. Doing is the focus, not waiting for the masterpiece to materialize. I think that by doing, and learning from that experience, one grows faster than if one is paralyzed by the need to create something spectacular.
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Santa Fe sky - minutes before the blackout 
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"Apple has always depended on the cleverness of its users to add new software, new features which they have done with relish," said computer scientist George Otto.
[BBC | TECH] Nice article on BBC regarding Panther. I have upgraded my studio tower and laptop to 10.3.1 and it works flawlessly. I was a little nervous, wondering whether the Magma box with the PCI cards would work with DigiDesign, but after downloading ProTools 6.2.2 all is well, very well. I think the computer starts up a little quicker than before. I always liked how fast my laptop wakes from sleep in OS X.
It's funny, after twenty years of keeping a calculator in the studio to figure out delay times I guess I could retire it because ProTools now automatically calculates the delay times for 1/4 notes, 1/2 notes, triplets etc. I used to divide 60 (amount of seconds in a minute) by the BPM (beats per minute) and multiply the result by 1,000 to get the length of a single beat in milliseconds....multiply by 2 and divided by 3 and you have triplets.....etc.....
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Blackout in Santa Fe We just had a half hour power outage. I was listening to music when the big sound of my stereo changed to the small sound of the puny laptop speakers, which kept running on battery. In the office I was in the middle of installing the new Apple Panther OS when the blackout came, but thankfully it was another laptop which kept on installing on battery....Jon Gagan didn't do as well. He was setting up a mix in his studio went the power went and lost at least 15 minutes of work. That's what he gets for going to work this early in the day!
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The Canadian Copyright Board approved a new tax to be added to MP3 devices imported and manufactured in Canada. The new fees are based on a sliding scale with $1.50/unit for devices up to 1 GB, $11.25 for 1-10GB, and $19 for devices more than 10GB. The new fees are intended to offset copyright infringement losses presumably by users of such devices. However, concerns are raised in the article about the industry "double-dipping" by gaining these fees as well as earnings from legitimate download services (such as Apple's iTunes Music Store) which support the same devices.
Also in progress in Canada is Supreme Court case in which arguments are being heard over whether or not Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should start paying tariffs for (illegally) downloaded music. [MacRumors] That is truly pathetic. Double taxation. Pay tax on the mp3 player and then legitimatly purchase music downloads and pay tax on that as well? And do you think we musicians get even half of that money? I'll see none of it, I'm sure. Most of it will probably go to administration cost and retirement funds for the bureaucrats who administer the funds....What a truly fucked up music industry....well, maybe they had to try and what is truly pathetic is the Canadian decision to do this? Reminds me of the "tax" on media such as blank cassettes and DAT - that was pathetic as well!
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Masks. A catalog of Himalayan Masks. Frightening. [The Cartoonist]
Yeah, cool!
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2003
Ottmar Liebert.
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31.12.03; 8:54:38.
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