Concert cancelled

Due to a situation beyond our control, the benefit concert at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque, on September 30th, has been cancelled. UNM/Popejoy will issue refunds.

Monday

Due to a situation beyond our control, the benefit concert at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque has been cancelled. UNM/Popejoy will issue refunds. Looks like the next gigs with the band will be Florida in January.

George Eliot wrote, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

Wonderful article by American composer John Adams: Glenn Gould and the Flash Flood of the Mind – file under neurodiversity, musical genius, etc.

On dating writers

5 Easy Steps to Breaking Your Cell Phone Addiction

How to disconnect from your online life (((there is an app for that)))

I don’t know anything about this photographer, but I love her website. Oh, cool!

Another minimal photographer’s site. And this is a guy (((wikipedia entry))) with his own line of nice camera bags

Stephen Duros got the minimal bug, too.

I wrote about it last Thursday – so much high quality information about low quality data. Artists are the windsocks of society, the canaries in the mine. There is no way an artist can update every social media site AND create music. FaceBook, MySpace, FourSquare, Twitter and now Ping… major label artsts have more time (((they don’t have day-jobs, like a young musician might have, and they have assistents and people at the record label to update these things!))). I also feel that it is smart for artists to head in a different direction. When the herd moves West, it might be time to head North. Maybe it is because we are contrarians, maybe it’s because we notice the scent of change in the air, maybe it’s instinct…

Rode the Mariachi Bullitt to REI on Saturday Morning for their big annual sale. There had been an accident on Guadalupe and, as I found out, some oil, or other slippery fluid, had been sprayed across the ashpalt. Four tourists crossed the street, without looking (((or maybe without seeing? One can look in a direction without seeing anything))) and the car in front of me breaked sharply. I rolled past the car on the right side and neared the fourth person, the straggler. Instead of continuing he seemed to be spooked by my bike. (((old messenger habit – judge speed of cross traffic and head in between the obstacles or right after the last one))) If he had continued on his way I would have rolled past him easily, but now I had to break as well, the front wheel locked up and slid on the oil-coated asphalt but I got my left foot down, gave a good push with it, grunted “Move!” (((he did))) and got past without a spill. I continue to be impressed with the handling of the Bullitt. Oh, and I took one good look at the enormous line in front of REI and decided to skip the sale.

More bamboo cycles.

Size Norms

Saturday

Santa Fe news on Thursday: “Goat dies in drive-by”

Link Drop:

How Do People Use Their Smartphones? – NYTimes.com

How a watch works – from 1949 (Video)

Secret Stash (Flickr Set)

I guess that means he’s not crazy.

Gorillas & Girls

I bet that spills over a lot…

Law of Fashion (((true for Pop music as well)))

Koichi Futatsumata’s vacuum tube amplifier (((I mentioned this before. Nice that it is being built. Just under $900)))

This Way, Any Way (((Yes!)))

Dinner in the Sky

Laptop or iPad

The west is no longer a beautiful model (((Momus on Japanese Culture)))

Thursday

Observation 1:

High quality data and low level of information flow turned into low quality of data, but high level of information flow.

Or:

I used to hear interesting music on the radio and would have to call the station, seeking to talk to the DJ to find out what s/he had played. Now most stations have a twitter feed that announces the mostly boring stuff they are playing.

I wonder how many areas in life this is true for. High data + low info turning into low data and high info. It could be a modern trend, so much information about so little.

Observation 2:

I was having dinner at a restaurant this afternoon, early, before the place filled up. The music that was playing softly was some kind of ambient electronica, or perhaps a soundtrack, and it blended perfectly with the hum of the four ceiling fans, and the sound of cars on the street that wafted in through the open windows. And, something was making a noise like cutlery, gently rocking back and forth on dishes, perhaps agitated by a refridgerator or a dishwasher running underneath. All of these sounds were playing at about the same level, and blending well. I was the only diner in the place, there were no other customers talking, no phones ringing. Three of the waitstaff were sitting at the bar, folding napkins for the dinner rush. I had to investigate and discovered, and somehow I wasn’t pleased by this discovery, that it wasn’t cutlery on dishes at all, but a swamp cooler with a noisy fan.

William Gibson On the Future of Publishing: Made to Order Books – WSJ

For a moment I was horrified when I read that headline. I thought he might mean it the sense that Kevin Kelly and others have talked about books and music made to order, that is, remixed and regurgitated to personal taste. But, thankfully, Gibson doesn’t mean that at all…

Doesn’t do much for me, but an interesting process: iPad light painting (Vimeo)

BP Spill Fix suggested by Douglas Trumbull, special effects designer for Blade Runner, among many others.

You can’t make this stuff up.

You live in the suburb, but you want that cool, modern Tadao Ando look. There is a wallpaper for that.