Author Archives: ash

More Radiohead Than Radiohead

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
Click the “Big Ideas” link there to get the story.
Bonus three-degrees-from-ATL feature: the apparent winner (under suspicion) of the radiohead remixed contest, young mix artist SPOR is remixer/pals/label-mates on UKs Lifted with aggro drum-n-bass trio Evol Intent… from A-town!

International Journal of Design

Not to be confused with the International Design Journal or the Journal of International Design, the International Journal of Design has put out some interesting papers in its three issues. While there’s a fine line between ‘academically rigorous’ and ‘pedantic’ (not to mention sesquipedalian–thankyouverymuch, word-of-the-day screensaver =) ), there’s some stuff in here worth reading

Cult of the Amateur debate on Fora.tv

Fora.tv is my new favorite website. Here is Andrew Keen in a debate about the premise of his newish book “The Cult of the Amateur—How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”.

View The Cult of the Amateur on FORA.tv

A YouTube video. Dang.

As much as the voice inside my head is screaming at me to stop perpetuating stupid YouTube video spam and endorsing the cult of the amateur ascribed thereunto, this is weird and cool.
So I guess I’ll be the one to break the seal on YouTube linkage. I’m sorry.

Codewalker

Steve Martin said, “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” In today’s world of fluid context shifts and modal ambiguities, it hardly seems like an absurd or derisive comment anymore (maybe more like a rhetorical hypothesis to be tested).
Case in point is this brilliant experiment that illustrates a certain kind of lateral thinking that [...]