Posted by ungraspiness
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:32:00 GMT
Reading
Robert Cialdini’s “Influence” –
Plenty of social psychology observations that should be common sense if you’re paying attention to the world around you. Read it on recommendation thanks to Scott Adams.
Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” –
Yea yea, it’s nothing new but got through it last year and realize why his books morph fairly quickly into Hollywood scripts. Not much else to say about it.
“The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer –
Although written half a century ago it’s incredibly contemporary in many ways. More social psychology but from a mass movement perspective. Well written in practical style and very distilled ideas. Some paragraphs are worth more than a few hours of thought.
Frank Herbet’s “Dune” –
In Science Fiction what else come’s close ?
Listening
Trentmoller –
‘The Last Resort’ and ‘The Trentmoller Chronicles’ are simply great albums. Wonderfully lacking in exploratory fear of the electronic genre.
Miss Kittin – Batbox
New directions here on her second album. Diving a little deeper and darker. So worthwhile.
Dust Galaxy – Dust Galaxy
Thievery Corp Garza’s rock side project. Still electronic but psychedelic and even grungy and dub.
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Posted by ungraspiness
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:06:00 GMT
Posted in Music | Tags bitpop, bitrock, c64 | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:59:00 GMT
Flektor is really cool. It’s amazing(and really fun) what you can do with 40 minutes and some images:
‘Video game development approach to web app development
Flektor was acquired by Fox Interactive primarily for the great product that they built for personal media sharing. Unlike the more en vogue approach to Web 2.0 development of releasing early (and often times buggy), Flektor took an approach that is more common in the video game development business. Flektor invested time and focus up-front on building a platform (or toolkit) that would enable rapid iteration of the service in the future. ‘
These are the guys that founded Naughty Dog software afterall. They produced such titles as Crash Bandicoot as well as Jak and Daxter using their own platform called GOAL (Game Oriented Assembly Lisp). There’s no real surprise that they could get 20M+ for Flektor in just under a year.
Awesome guys !
Naughty Dog Software and Lisp
Flektor Case Study
Posted in Lisp, Music, Programming, Video | Tags Internet, web | no comments
Posted by ungraspiness
Sat, 12 May 2007 17:34:00 GMT
According to Rob Paravonian, much of pop music chord progression is based on classical pieces.
Just take a listen. Not to mention that this guy’s Four Chords song is even more detailed.
There’s more over at wikipedia under…
...Popular songs based on classical music.
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