You know, I guess I'm blessed (?) or just lucky that the wiring in my brain has enabled me to truly enjoy (for nearly 20 years now) independant music and at the same time that wiring has enabled me to loath and detest "commericial mainstream" music. So, when I want to downnload MP3's of music I enjoy... its never done "illegally" as 90% of the bands/artists I like generally thrive on the free exchange of their music.
Also, and here's the kicker, these bands generally make money off of me because after I download and burn 2 or 3 MP3's, I then buy the CD (and also get past CD's if applicable).
So, the whole point of "legal" vs. "illegal" burning/copying MP3's is quite irrelevant if one just opens up to independant/diy music.
I generally use places like diysearch, victory records (who always has a nice selection of their artists mp3's available).
The stuff is out there, in all genres, you just gotta find it, and be open to it.
I'm sorry, this is completely irrelevant. Has pepsi or any of the other (thousands) of endorsements somehow bastardized the star wars universe? No, I don't think so.
Because GL makes a HUGE amount of money off of his work... this some how corrupts the process and thus rendering GL not an independant (meaning he compromises his story and methods in an attempt to further gain endorsement deals)? Absurd.
Oh wait, that's right only those residing in the depths of IFC or Sundance are the only ones who can truly call themselves independants. Ugh. You can't possibly be an independant AND make a profit. I forgot the rules.
First... full disclosure: I am a supporter of George Lucas, and have enjoyed (completely) EP I and II and am eagerly awaiting EP III... and am old enough to remember the first time I saw EP IV (on opening weekend).
Now, to my post. There's something folks need to understand about Mr. Lucas. He makes films to satisfy his own desire to tell the stories he wants to tell and do it the way he wants to do it.. and if that just so happens to be something you like, then great... if not... well... George isn't going to loose any sleep over it.
He's truly an independant, and does things his way. I'm not saying that critics are not entitled to do what they do... but I believe that there's a fundamental misunderstanding folks have, and that GL isn't going to change or modify this story or how he tells the story to satisfy the critics or even the audience. Look at EP III... it won't have a happy ending, it will be dark and it will be full of simple dialog and amazing (stunning IMHO) effects and probably the best LS duels yet shot.... and still there will be critics (haters) that will blame GL for "raping" their childhood and going on and on how *they* were let down and how "violated" they will feel.
I've been saying exactly what this essay elequently expresses for a long time now.
I started out as a graphic artist, and by chance ended up doing it professionaly. I still love art and design, and still engage in it, but not professionally (I got fed up with the attitude that everyone thinks they have good taste and sense of esthetic, when that is the FURTHEST thing from the truth).
So, as something on the side many years ago, I taught myself Perl and Java and along the way picked up PHP and other languages and what I found is, the way I worked, and the thought process was EXACTLY the same when I was creating an indentity.
The developers I work with find this very difficult to fathom. I always tell them the what they do is really no different than what a designer or artist does, its just he medium is different.
Artists, designers, architects, hackers... all make things (as the article states) and solve problems CREATIVELY. How that creativity is expressed is the only difference.
Oh well, that's just my way of looking at it, which is 100% compatatible with this essay... go figure.
Most people (me included) are too obsessed with GEAR. But... unlike most people... I would say being aware that no matter how much gear you've got crammed into the control room... if you have a poorly tuned room... its the classic "garbage in, garbage out."
This is the primary reason why I use Clavia's ddrum4 system for percussion (that and I live in a townhouse, and i don't think it would go over too well if i had a real kit).
I think drums and vocals suffer the most in bad rooms. Guitars... well, there's a lot of flexibility there because if you think about it, unless you are room-micing a cabinet... most folks prefer a 57 right up on the cone.... so you could stick an amp in a bathroom, and you'd be fine.
there is nothing worse than a drum kit recorded in a bad room, and you are right... there's only so much PT can do to compensate (which in reality IMHO, just adds nasty coloration).
I'm an avid home studio type. I've got a 24-track studio (based around a Mackie MDR24 - disk-based recorder) and I have the Mackie 32-channel 8-bus console and a nice modest collection of outboard stuff and mic-pre's... which is to say that I generally prefer to record using a separate machine and relying more on performance rather than editing capabilities of the engineer in order to record good music (which means I rarely record anything "good" -- but its fun trying).
I do, however, believe there is a place for ProTools (and Ardour -- the open source PT). I'm slowly warming up to the whole "PC" based recording, but more for the editing flexibility you are provided with. In the past, "editing" was just simply cutting out blatant mistakes, but now with the tools and capabilities with PC-based recording programs... editing, for me, now is part of the creative process (and not just clean-up).
As for the "over-compression" discussion earlier, yes most modern MAINSTREAM music suffers from over use of compression. My philosophy is that music should breathe. When I hear stuff today, I just notice myself repeating over and over "just let it breathe!!" Compression is a useful tool for taiming a wild snare hit or shaping a guitar track, but it should ALWAYS be considered completely TRANSPARENT.
Okay, how many years have camcorders been around? I can remember when the first models were introduced... these gigantic monstrocities you hoisted on your shoulder... then in the intervening years the things have gotten smaller and better and now, here we are... back again to huge monstrocities (just in a different way).
So, I suppose firewire (or usb) is just too much of a challenge now days.
Strange, maybe I'm just reading too much into this and I should just shut up... but in looking at the WineX Sourceforge page and well, they haven't released any files, and well... the project's status is "Alpha."
So... was this a case of them just not updating their sourceforge page (like that NEVER happens) or is this a premature announcement?
I think the multidimensional theories (those written by Michio Kaku) coupled with M-Theory (formely superstring theory) just may answer the question "where does it all come from"
Using Kaku's theory of a 10 dimensional "universe" the original universe existed in these 10 dimensions, but because of this being a "false vacuum" was unstable, and collapsed on itself (like a form-fitted bead sheet). This collapsing caused our big bang.
Now... with this theory in mind, take what Paul Davies wrote in his book "How To Build a Time Machine" where he illustrates a theory that our "universe" is actually constantly being recreated like the ebb and flow of the tide.
So perhaps, and just perhaps, a bit of physical law may be born from these theories to explain "where it all came from" Of course... we probably won't be able to come anywhere near being able to test M-theory for a few more hundred years or so... but still. just maybe:)
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Ardour is nice... on paper. Compiling it is a whole other story.
I'm affraid its just a bit too immature right now to be considered a serious contender to ProTools because only the geek-elite can really get this thing compiled (which I sometimes consider myself at different times of the day) but I have yet to get this thing compiled.
If they would just release a stable build or just a stable distribution that could be built (ala configure/make/make install) then it it would be a serious contender.
I see from Ardour's mailing list that folks do have it up and working... ugh... guess I'll try again tonight to get it built:)
I can't believe it! Hudson Hawk! This is probably one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Its so nice knowing I'm not alone! Everyone I know says "you like *that* movie????" to which I responde "wull, yeah, its really funny and obscure."
I use google, but I find using niche search engines to be much more useful. Google is great for getting a bajillion returns, and the first 2 or 3 pages worth are mostly relevant, but for specifics I use some of the niche search engines. A good one is diysearch and sites like Outersound for finding indy music and other resources.
Yeah, it takes a bit more work to find these niche search engines/resources, but they are out there, and the noise is much much lower.
My primary email addy is yahoo, and while I do appreciate some of their efforts in blocking spam (and adding that XFiltered-bulk header) what pisses me off... is that they filter out my Homing Beacon newsletter from Starwars.com!!!
Eeegads! Thats probably the most valuable piece of email I get!
and electric cars, hybrids and even fuel-cell cars may be the future (in one form or another) but I'm just politically incorrect enough to feel that there is NOTHING (right now or in the forseeable future) that would make me give up my Porsche:)
My "computer room" is actually a "bump-out" in my (finished) basement (10'x12') area that serves as my recording studio (I have tons o' recording gear) and computer room.
Basically, I spent like $200 on a decent desk from Ikea, put down a area rug (asian-knock-off type) and use small halogen lamps placed here and there. I also built a floor-standing 3-pannel screen to separate the studio area with the living/home theater area.
I think the trick is to make the space light and airy and NOT cluttered (yes, this is tough for most geeks... but with just a little disciplin you can do it!). One of the best inventions I have found for keeping an uncluttered space is a waste-paper basket... and of course the WILL to throw stuff out.
I once read something that if you touch a piece of paper only once or twice... throw it away!
I have a storage room closed off to the rest of the basement where I store all the books (I like bookcases... but computer books -- which I have hundreds -- tend to create clutter). I don't mind having to get up, find my book, take it back to my desk... then get back up and put it back in its place. Its good to get up and move around:)
"Linux is a variant of Unix and isn't copyrighted."
Having graduated with a degree in Public Relations (meaning, I had to take a lot of journalism courses) one of the first things they taught us was that we shouldn't EVER get the facts WRONG in a story.
Two mistakes for the price of one. Nice going... pretty typical of "technology" journalists (who, in reality, are just regular journalists who know how to turn a computer on).
actually I would say that the fanatics only make up a tiny percentage of those who consider themselves religious... its just the fanatics are the loudest and they capture the attention, while the normal, peaceful "live and let live" religious people are quiet and don't need to raise a fuss to proclaim their faith.
But... most people are too lazy or just don't want to accept this fact and say things like 95% of the world are "self-righteous" and "religious fanatics."
Hmmm... would you include business/enterprise/web-serving/email-serving/isp in this "computer world" you speak of?
If so... then Linux is hardly an "oddity of the computer world." Actually... Linux is taking over this space.
As for mega stores selling Linux versions of software, I would debate that this issue is a minor one in that many people prefer to download software (with the exception of the M$ office nonsense)... but if one chooses to switch to Linux (via a modern distro) then there is little need to actually buy additional software (for the casual user). Email, WP, browser, PIM, etc... are provided out of the box.
So, while your point of Linux being an oddity in the computer world is completely invalid... you do raise an interesting question in that the Linux community does need to recognize that the end-user is largely ignored... up until now... as I believe that certain pockets of the community have finally become aware of this fact and are working on changing things. This is obvious with the steady growth of media coverage regarding Linux for the end-user... and the fact that I can waltz into my local Best Buy and pickup Redhat, SuSe, Debian... shows that well... maybe Linux is indeed truly mainstream.
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You know, I guess I'm blessed (?) or just lucky that the wiring in my brain has enabled me to truly enjoy (for nearly 20 years now) independant music and at the same time that wiring has enabled me to loath and detest "commericial mainstream" music. So, when I want to downnload MP3's of music I enjoy... its never done "illegally" as 90% of the bands/artists I like generally thrive on the free exchange of their music.
Also, and here's the kicker, these bands generally make money off of me because after I download and burn 2 or 3 MP3's, I then buy the CD (and also get past CD's if applicable).
So, the whole point of "legal" vs. "illegal" burning/copying MP3's is quite irrelevant if one just opens up to independant/diy music.
I generally use places like diysearch, victory records (who always has a nice selection of their artists mp3's available).
The stuff is out there, in all genres, you just gotta find it, and be open to it.
I'm sorry, this is completely irrelevant. Has pepsi or any of the other (thousands) of endorsements somehow bastardized the star wars universe? No, I don't think so.
Because GL makes a HUGE amount of money off of his work... this some how corrupts the process and thus rendering GL not an independant (meaning he compromises his story and methods in an attempt to further gain endorsement deals)? Absurd.
Oh wait, that's right only those residing in the depths of IFC or Sundance are the only ones who can truly call themselves independants. Ugh. You can't possibly be an independant AND make a profit. I forgot the rules.
First... full disclosure: I am a supporter of George Lucas, and have enjoyed (completely) EP I and II and am eagerly awaiting EP III... and am old enough to remember the first time I saw EP IV (on opening weekend).
Now, to my post.
There's something folks need to understand about Mr. Lucas. He makes films to satisfy his own desire to tell the stories he wants to tell and do it the way he wants to do it.. and if that just so happens to be something you like, then great... if not... well... George isn't going to loose any sleep over it.
He's truly an independant, and does things his way. I'm not saying that critics are not entitled to do what they do... but I believe that there's a fundamental misunderstanding folks have, and that GL isn't going to change or modify this story or how he tells the story to satisfy the critics or even the audience. Look at EP III... it won't have a happy ending, it will be dark and it will be full of simple dialog and amazing (stunning IMHO) effects and probably the best LS duels yet shot.... and still there will be critics (haters) that will blame GL for "raping" their childhood and going on and on how *they* were let down and how "violated" they will feel.
Its all pretty laughable.
Maybe "a" is the name of the probe???
have launched a towards Saturn
So, its not fill-in-the-blank after all... its just that its probe "a" ???
I've been saying exactly what this essay elequently expresses for a long time now.
I started out as a graphic artist, and by chance ended up doing it professionaly. I still love art and design, and still engage in it, but not professionally (I got fed up with the attitude that everyone thinks they have good taste and sense of esthetic, when that is the FURTHEST thing from the truth).
So, as something on the side many years ago, I taught myself Perl and Java and along the way picked up PHP and other languages and what I found is, the way I worked, and the thought process was EXACTLY the same when I was creating an indentity.
The developers I work with find this very difficult to fathom. I always tell them the what they do is really no different than what a designer or artist does, its just he medium is different.
Artists, designers, architects, hackers... all make things (as the article states) and solve problems CREATIVELY. How that creativity is expressed is the only difference.
Oh well, that's just my way of looking at it, which is 100% compatatible with this essay... go figure.
I'll be able to compile the darn thing!
One thing I hope they do do is make it easier on us poor schlubs to satisfy all of the dependencies and get it up and running.
I've been "working" with this on and off for the better part of 3 months and have yet to actually compile it completely.
I may seem overly negative, but I firmly believe that Ardour has the potential to find its way into professional facilities, at least in B or C rooms.
Also, hopefully this means that VST pluggin support can finally be added (without violating steinberg's license)
All and all, this is good news!
Now, if gear manufacturers would just adopt the same open source model as Ardour, I'd be all set
"Uh yeah, I'll need that 56-channel Neve, and I'll take one of those Studer A827's... great thanks!"
Excellent point!
Most people (me included) are too obsessed with GEAR. But... unlike most people... I would say being aware that no matter how much gear you've got crammed into the control room... if you have a poorly tuned room... its the classic "garbage in, garbage out."
This is the primary reason why I use Clavia's ddrum4 system for percussion (that and I live in a townhouse, and i don't think it would go over too well if i had a real kit).
I think drums and vocals suffer the most in bad rooms. Guitars... well, there's a lot of flexibility there because if you think about it, unless you are room-micing a cabinet... most folks prefer a 57 right up on the cone.... so you could stick an amp in a bathroom, and you'd be fine.
there is nothing worse than a drum kit recorded in a bad room, and you are right... there's only so much PT can do to compensate (which in reality IMHO, just adds nasty coloration).
just my $.02
I'm an avid home studio type. I've got a 24-track studio (based around a Mackie MDR24 - disk-based recorder) and I have the Mackie 32-channel 8-bus console and a nice modest collection of outboard stuff and mic-pre's... which is to say that I generally prefer to record using a separate machine and relying more on performance rather than editing capabilities of the engineer in order to record good music (which means I rarely record anything "good" -- but its fun trying).
I do, however, believe there is a place for ProTools (and Ardour -- the open source PT). I'm slowly warming up to the whole "PC" based recording, but more for the editing flexibility you are provided with. In the past, "editing" was just simply cutting out blatant mistakes, but now with the tools and capabilities with PC-based recording programs... editing, for me, now is part of the creative process (and not just clean-up).
As for the "over-compression" discussion earlier, yes most modern MAINSTREAM music suffers from over use of compression. My philosophy is that music should breathe. When I hear stuff today, I just notice myself repeating over and over "just let it breathe!!" Compression is a useful tool for taiming a wild snare hit or shaping a guitar track, but it should ALWAYS be considered completely TRANSPARENT.
Oh well, what do I know.
Okay, how many years have camcorders been around? I can remember when the first models were introduced... these gigantic monstrocities you hoisted on your shoulder... then in the intervening years the things have gotten smaller and better and now, here we are... back again to huge monstrocities (just in a different way).
So, I suppose firewire (or usb) is just too much of a challenge now days.
Strange, maybe I'm just reading too much into this and I should just shut up... but in looking at the WineX Sourceforge page and well, they haven't released any files, and well... the project's status is "Alpha."
So... was this a case of them just not updating their sourceforge page (like that NEVER happens) or is this a premature announcement?
Perhaps that is the intention of this book? I mean, after all... HST did invent Gonzo Journalism (where the reporter becomes part of the story).
Or is it just because this book is set in Vegas???
"As you attorney, I advise you to drive at top speed."
I think the multidimensional theories (those written by Michio Kaku) coupled with M-Theory (formely superstring theory) just may answer the question "where does it all come from"
:)
Using Kaku's theory of a 10 dimensional "universe" the original universe existed in these 10 dimensions, but because of this being a "false vacuum" was unstable, and collapsed on itself (like a form-fitted bead sheet). This collapsing caused our big bang.
Now... with this theory in mind, take what Paul Davies wrote in his book "How To Build a Time Machine" where he illustrates a theory that our "universe" is actually constantly being recreated like the ebb and flow of the tide.
So perhaps, and just perhaps, a bit of physical law may be born from these theories to explain "where it all came from" Of course... we probably won't be able to come anywhere near being able to test M-theory for a few more hundred years or so... but still. just maybe
Ardour is nice... on paper. Compiling it is a whole other story.
:)
I'm affraid its just a bit too immature right now to be considered a serious contender to ProTools because only the geek-elite can really get this thing compiled (which I sometimes consider myself at different times of the day) but I have yet to get this thing compiled.
If they would just release a stable build or just a stable distribution that could be built (ala configure/make/make install) then it it would be a serious contender.
I see from Ardour's mailing list that folks do have it up and working... ugh... guess I'll try again tonight to get it built
And for those Misfits fans... how can you forget the soundtrack for this movie... what with Glenn Danzig and the "Light and Fury Ochestra" :)
I admit it, I am a Tom Hanks fan. I loved this movie. Your word "sublime" is perfect.
The humor was so subtle and understated it made me feel like what they used to say about Mystery Science Theater 3000, "the right people get it."
I can't believe it! Hudson Hawk! This is probably one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Its so nice knowing I'm not alone! Everyone I know says "you like *that* movie????" to which I responde "wull, yeah, its really funny and obscure."
heh... sorta like a vicious circle isn't it?
:)
i suppose the "it takes a bit more work" part means using something other than google
I use google, but I find using niche search engines to be much more useful. Google is great for getting a bajillion returns, and the first 2 or 3 pages worth are mostly relevant, but for specifics I use some of the niche search engines. A good one is diysearch and sites like Outersound for finding indy music and other resources.
Yeah, it takes a bit more work to find these niche search engines/resources, but they are out there, and the noise is much much lower.
Just my $.02
My primary email addy is yahoo, and while I do appreciate some of their efforts in blocking spam (and adding that XFiltered-bulk header) what pisses me off... is that they filter out my Homing Beacon newsletter from Starwars.com!!!
Eeegads! Thats probably the most valuable piece of email I get!
and electric cars, hybrids and even fuel-cell cars may be the future (in one form or another) but I'm just politically incorrect enough to feel that there is NOTHING (right now or in the forseeable future) that would make me give up my Porsche :)
My "computer room" is actually a "bump-out" in my (finished) basement (10'x12') area that serves as my recording studio (I have tons o' recording gear) and computer room.
:)
Basically, I spent like $200 on a decent desk from Ikea, put down a area rug (asian-knock-off type) and use small halogen lamps placed here and there. I also built a floor-standing 3-pannel screen to separate the studio area with the living/home theater area.
I think the trick is to make the space light and airy and NOT cluttered (yes, this is tough for most geeks... but with just a little disciplin you can do it!). One of the best inventions I have found for keeping an uncluttered space is a waste-paper basket... and of course the WILL to throw stuff out.
I once read something that if you touch a piece of paper only once or twice... throw it away!
I have a storage room closed off to the rest of the basement where I store all the books (I like bookcases... but computer books -- which I have hundreds -- tend to create clutter). I don't mind having to get up, find my book, take it back to my desk... then get back up and put it back in its place. Its good to get up and move around
"Linux is a variant of Unix and isn't copyrighted."
Having graduated with a degree in Public Relations (meaning, I had to take a lot of journalism courses) one of the first things they taught us was that we shouldn't EVER get the facts WRONG in a story.
Two mistakes for the price of one. Nice going... pretty typical of "technology" journalists (who, in reality, are just regular journalists who know how to turn a computer on).
I was just thinking about this... what if there was a national "do no email" list? I'm just wondering if something like that would be effective.
All spammers would have to (by law) query the "national do-no-email" database before sending out their crap.
I'm just wondering if something like that would be an effective way to cut down on the noise out there?
actually I would say that the fanatics only make up a tiny percentage of those who consider themselves religious... its just the fanatics are the loudest and they capture the attention, while the normal, peaceful "live and let live" religious people are quiet and don't need to raise a fuss to proclaim their faith.
But... most people are too lazy or just don't want to accept this fact and say things like 95% of the world are "self-righteous" and "religious fanatics."
A shame really.
"as an oddity of the computer world" ????
Hmmm... would you include business/enterprise/web-serving/email-serving/isp in this "computer world" you speak of?
If so... then Linux is hardly an "oddity of the computer world." Actually... Linux is taking over this space.
As for mega stores selling Linux versions of software, I would debate that this issue is a minor one in that many people prefer to download software (with the exception of the M$ office nonsense)... but if one chooses to switch to Linux (via a modern distro) then there is little need to actually buy additional software (for the casual user). Email, WP, browser, PIM, etc... are provided out of the box.
So, while your point of Linux being an oddity in the computer world is completely invalid... you do raise an interesting question in that the Linux community does need to recognize that the end-user is largely ignored... up until now... as I believe that certain pockets of the community have finally become aware of this fact and are working on changing things. This is obvious with the steady growth of media coverage regarding Linux for the end-user... and the fact that I can waltz into my local Best Buy and pickup Redhat, SuSe, Debian... shows that well... maybe Linux is indeed truly mainstream.