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The Evolution of Music Online | Off Book

by Dan on January 12, 2012

Related to the previous, the latest PBS Arts Off Book documentary short is about the massive changes that have occurred in the music industry in the last twenty years as a result of new technology and the Internet:

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PressPausePlay

by Dan on January 12, 2012

The full-length documentary PressPausePlay is now available to watch on Vimeo. The film, which somehow manages to be simultaneously both inspiring and melancholic, looks at the effects of digital technology and the Internet on the creative economy. Worth watching if you have a spare hour (although depending on your attitude to these things it might make you smile in joyful validation or retreat to your bed for about a week to weep quietly to yourself:

PressPausePlay was made by creative agency House of Radon.

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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

December 8, 2011

This is doing the rounds today, but it’s simply too good not to post… Ice Cube, who apparently studied architectural drafting before joining NWA, on the architecture of Los Angeles and the design of Charles and Ray Eames: The New York Times has an interview with Ice Cube  about the video:  I had learned about them [...]

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Something for the Weekend

November 11, 2011

Read This – Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise and Listen To This, on books about music at FiveBooks: There’s a long list of bad examples of vague and gushy writing about music in literature, but there’s also a string of distinguished examples. I wrote a piece for The New Yorker a couple of years [...]

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Something for the Weekend

November 4, 2011

Project Thirty-Three, one of my favourite mid-century modern design blogs, is now using Blogger’s “Dynamic Views” template. It looks great using the new ‘Flipcard’ feature. The Crash — Alan Hollinghurst talks about writing and his new novel The Stranger’s Child with the New York Times: Mr. Hollinghurst said he modeled his work habits on another friend and [...]

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