"Squid Station" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
Used the Octatrack to midi-trigger and record the Sidstation synth (pulled out of mothballs) for some gritty and grumbly 80s computer game-type sounds. The only thing not Sid here is a piano line based on a slightly distorted Rhodes sample.
For the "get off my lawn" view on Yahoo's Tumblr acquisition, here's internet privacy and neutrality advocate Lauren Weinstein's take on the situation. Despite being a free speech devotee himself, he calls the sale "Yahoo's Big Tumble Into Big Porn, Big Sleaze, and Perhaps, Big Trouble."
Around here we're not as judgmental about content as Weinstein comes off sounding in his post, despite what certain YIBIs (young internet based idiots) think. But Weinstein's view of the multifaceted, polymorphously perverse Tumblr world as the domain of twisted "Uncle Ernies" gives us a foretaste of what will be the consensus establishment view, once people who've just heard about Tumblr start looking under the covers.
Facebook zealots of the hipster persuasion don't like to talk about that company's contractors in developing countries monitoring U.S. posts for bad words and subversive ideas. Possibly because, up until now, the zealots had Tumblr as a place where pre-Facebook-style transgressive net content thrived. David Karp just effectively said, f*ck your freedom, I'm getting paid today.
So, how many months will elapse before erotic Tumblrs start getting flagged by offshore hall proctors?
[edited for tone]
The original .png file of the above was posted on Computers Club Drawing Society.
Initially it was on a spare, light blue background but then I decided it needed something like the surface of Venus.
Seeing Rick Silva's "En Plein Air" show at Transfer Gallery and the large-format 3D landscapes on his blog inspired me to enlarge the above to 800 x 800. Am generally not a bicubic smoothing fan and am still weighing whether the scale boost adds anything.
Update: Decided to take down the 800 x 800 enlargement I originally linked to here. It's been replaced with another CCDS drawing that was made for that scale, rather than just blown up for effect.
Oh, Jebus, the Facebook argument again.
Last night at an art opening. Bear in mind there's only one person having this argument because there is only one person not on Facebook.
That person is The Atheist in an America where everyone believes in God or says they do because they might run for office someday.
Believer: By not being on Facebook you are missing out on the richness of The Social Graph [Divine Grace].
Atheist: Zuckerberg is not a benevolent God, he is a gnostic demon who has snared you in a false, simulated world of "rich social connection."
Believer: I respect that you have not Joined Us, I really do [look on face says "you are certifiably fucking insane not to be on Facebook in 2013"].
Atheist: My blog is driving traffic to my twitter and it would be no different if I were on Facebook.
Believer: You built your blog audience when that was still doable and now you're grandfathered in to traffic via RSS, past exposure and links, etc. No creative person could do that today. You HAVE to join a social media enclave or you're dead.
Atheist: Have you tried it - just posting on your own site and letting people find you through search engines, "word of mouth," etc?
Believer: No, but [look on face says "you are certifiably fucking insane not to be on Facebook in 2013"].
