15 Responses to “discussion:”

1. d.esk Says:
   October 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am

   http://greg.org/archive/2009/02/02/heads_up_roof_as_nth_facade.html

2. d.esk Says:
   October 5th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

   http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/09/30/calgary-hum-noise-ranchlands.html

3. d.esk Says:
   October 5th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

   http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/151779

4. d.esk Says:
   October 5th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

   Billboards
   http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=8227
   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/nyregion/14billboards.html?_r=1
   http://urbanprankster.com/?s=billboard

   http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html

5. d.esk Says:
   October 6th, 2009 at 10:05 am

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Writing

6. Natale Says:
   October 12th, 2009 at 10:50 am

   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113673324

7. Natale Says:
   October 12th, 2009 at 1:23 pm

   D.esk, I appreciate the articles on public advertisement. The thought that they can use the first amendment to justify the presence of public advertising is shocking. The first amendment, as far as I know, is an individual’s right. A corporation is not an individual, only a collection of legally binding documents. The fact that corporations have the permission for public display and individuals do not seems like a blatant corruption of the first amendment. I’d like to know the ACLU’s stance on this issue.

8. d.esk Says:
   October 12th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

   I agree. Unfortunately, a corporation is a legal person. They have the same rights and responsibilities as any legal individual. What I find interesting about the billboard art projects is the unregulated legal nature of what is happening. No companies or owners have a legal right to criminalize these artists as much as it seems the artists don’t seem to have the proper avenues to criminalize the corporations. This is a fight that can only happen in public, on the streets, by legal individuals.

   See:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation

   Also that music software you mentioned, like most other softwares of its kind, attempts to rationalize a cultural production by analyzing its empirical data. Unfortunately, it overlooks many other major forces in pop culture: mainly, that of culture (even if at a somewhat superficial level). Ignoring issues like what’s in, message, meaning, identity, and representation only allow the software to be useful for a small moment in time. Like the article says, it is unfortunate if this begins to determine what kind of music is created and played. I doubt it will have any greater lasting effect than the likes of auto tune or the spice girls.

9. Natale Says:
   October 12th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

   - I will collect my thoughts about this pop music software later. For the meantime…

   http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/last-town-on-earth-interview-with.html

10. d.esk Says:
    October 12th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/business/media/13disney.html?hp

11. Natale Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/10/14/14readwriteweb-linkedin-hits-50-million-users-still-a-roac-83360.html – Makes me wonder what an infographic showing net worth of users per capita / social networking sites would look like.

12. d.esk Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 10:21 am

    http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/

13. Natale Says:
    October 21st, 2009 at 8:40 am

    http://www.rsf.org/en-classement1003-2009.html
    Reporters without boarders

14. Natale Says:
    October 22nd, 2009 at 11:48 am

    http://aaaaarg.org/files/textz/4833-unleashing_the_archive.pdf

15. d.esk Says:
    October 22nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/10/hallucinations_in_se.html

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