June 2012
14 posts
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“I was embarrassed that I lost our work, so I rewrote it from memory, straight...”
– John Cleese, from a great talk on creativity.
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Reid Dossinger: There's nothing wrong with not... →
reiddossinger:
There’s been a lot of sharing of this article where David Lowery (of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven fame) responds to a NPR intern who wrote about barely have bought any music at all. The Lowery article has been eating away at me, because arguments like that drive me absolutely insane. Its a…
About halfway through this post by Reid I thought, “I’m going to...
"so is it “gif” with a hard g or “jif” like the...
marcelosunshine:
This is the answer.
Dear Internet,
So it’s official. Thanks, The Atlantic.
DISAGREE. DISAGREE TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE.
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
– Lawrence Kasdan (via iamachilles)
“Insanely long copyright terms are how the culture industries avoid competing...”
– Julian Sanchez with an alternate hypothesis for why we have such ridiculously long copyright terms. (via marathonpacks)
Counterpoint: If that were the case — consumption patterns changed because of increased legal access to existing canon — prices on new releases could actually rise....
“Your faux TED talk is not going well for you if you are making some point about ‘curation’ replacing ‘creation’ because, well, for starters, ‘curation’ is choosing among things that are created? This precious bit of dressing-up what people choose to share on the Internet is, sure, silly, but it’s also a way for bloggers to distance themselves from...
