Bookmarks for November 25, 2014
- Pomplamoose 2014 Tour Profits — Medium
I'm always fascinated when indie artists in any medium release a breakdown of their financials.
Tag: music
Bookmarks for April 30, 2014
- Programming Sucks
If you ever wonder what it is I do all day (and I don't blame you, a lot of the time I wonder the same thing), then I suggest you read this. It is pretty much the most perfect encapsulation of my daily working life I have ever encountered, and, I should point out, has been true everywhere I have worked. Warning: after read this, you may never wish to use the internet again.
- Another Way To Breathe – WicDiv Playlist: Alice
Kieron on The Sisters of Mercy, their place in his life (a very similar one to mine, and a lot of other people, I suspect), and their place in his upcoming work. Well worth a read.
Bookmarks for April 9, 2014
- Science Story Magic
100% made of hedges, 0% made of chemicals. Paypal representatives are in your area now.
Look, just go and listen, you'll either get it or you won't.
Bookmarks for January 27, 2014
- JURASSIC PARK Velociraptor Cage Crate 1993 Original Screen Used Movie Prop | eBay
Someone fetch me 70 Grand. I need this, for Import Reasons. Yes. Reasons.
- 38 Breathtaking Pictures From The Early Days Of The London Underground
Filed for later inspiration.
- What Is a Million “Likes” Worth? — Artists on the Internet — Medium
Straight talking write up of making money and an indie artist on the internet.
Bookmarks for May 30, 2012
- UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott
The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, there's this absolutely vast pile of free music out there again. If you can't find something in here that you like, I'll eat my socks.
- Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks – Bloomberg
Light as an architecture of control. Creepy as fuck – "we're just going to let poor people sit in the dark, in the hope that making their neighbourhoods less safe will make them move" is, well, not the subtext here, but the outright *text*.
Bookmarks for April 27, 2012
- musicForProgramming();
Ambient music mixes compose to provide background noise to work to – enhacing productivity without distracting from the work. I shall to give a few of these a whirl.
- EssayTyper
Plagarism a-go-go!
Bookmarks for March 16, 2012
- Sun Drums
I wish to acquire this for to listen to on the electrical ipod. I must remember to download it when I get home. For free and everything.
- PayPal Here
Paypal have launched a competitor to Square. Neither are available in the UK, so I don't care that much, but they're an indicator of the future, and it's good to see competition in this space. Although frankly, I think you'd have to be mad to try and run a serious business with Paypal, given their oft-demonstrated willingness to simply seize their users assets for spurious reasons like "we thought you were making too much money".
- Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod | Video on TED.com
It's not going to come as a galloping shock to anyone here to discover that the numbers quoted by the pro-copyright-enforcement lobby in terms of lost revenue and jobs are total crap, btu this TED talk makes it clear just how much total bullshit they are. And is funny. Go watch.
Bookmarks for March 12, 2012
- Portenzo iPad case
Another iPad book-case manufacturer. Choices, choices…
- Flickr Sometimes Deletes Your Content Even Though They Don't Have To | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
I keep meaning to have a look around for a decent flickr competitor. It'll make me very sad to leave, but there we go.
- www.emusic.com/listen/#/music-news/list-hub/emusics-best-albums-of-2011-3/:
As my housemate put it "new music a-go-go!" Time to start going through this lot and seeing what sounds good.
Bookmarks for October 12, 2011
- notes.variogr.am – Why music ID resolution matters to every music fan on Facebook
A bit techy, but a good read, and an insight into the problems that Spotify and last.fm have to work hard to solve. I'm not posting this because it's hard on Facebook – they've stepped into a difficult arena, and have some catching up to do, but that's not a crime – but because it's an insight in how complex technical problems have very simple, very direct real-world impacts.
Bookmarks for July 14, 2011
- Sleevelessness: Papercraft horse posters
More bloody lovely work from Mr Clandillon and FOAM.
- The World Warrior | insert credit
Despite not being the kind of good at them this article talks about, I have a fondness for beat-em-up games. And despite being basically lazy, and certainly not up for having people try to hurt me on a regular basis, this article also makes we want to take up a martial art. If you like either computer games or martial arts, or even if you like neither, you should read this damn fine bit of writing.