Music. Photography. Thoughts.
I found this wonderful:
Found in the Fediverse (Peertube), see more about it here:
Annette Hanshaw – Wikipedia, Sita Sings the Blues – Wikipedia, Nina Paley’s blog, the film’s homepage, and IMBD (where its current rating is 7.6/10, and mine was 10/10). Like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, or Roger Ebert I found it really charming. But see and hear for yourselves, and have fun! 🙂 Loved the cats btw… 🙂
Have a look:
Found in the Fediverse, original by @emery@sunny.garden. Thanks to 1-bit machine goth for the boost 🙂
Just found this CC drawing by David Revoy in the Fediverse:
Brilliant, isn’t it? Merci beaucoup David 🙂
This:
… is the same as my blog header photo, but heavily blurred with The Gimp‘s “Lens Blur”, using a radius of 200.
I took inspiration from the wonderful wallpapers (especially the “Sage” one) of the Google Pixel 6a mobile phone, which let you really concentrate on your foreground instead of the underlying background. See here as an example:
See how much the browser window and also the Conky system monitor stand out if the background just isn’t that sharp and detailed? What a simple but effective idea from Google’s artist crew; bravi! See 9to5google, and especially this image which would also be big enough to cover my desktop…
Like always, thanks for reading.
Free and open source software, short: FOSS has come a long way. For artists, 2022 has been very good in particular. Read the article 2023 in preview on LibreArts on what’s next for the coming year.
Also, the artwork for that article is about the nicest version of “2023” I’ve seen so far:
Like always, thanks for your interest.
Andrew Cunningham writes about the Apple Mac Pro and compares it with the newer but not that expandable Mac Studio – but the most interesting part at least for me in that article was that professional film makers don’t actually use these that much. And the bigger the studios, the more people use Linux instead of a Mac for their artistic work (and smaller studios seem to prefer Windows). See the graphs here in case you don’t want to go and read the whole article:
I would have suspected to have Linux on about every render farm (and you need lots of rack servers to make a movie), and something like Windows and Macs on the artists’ desks, but this shows otherwise perhaps – interesting.
So as someone who makes music on a Linux system, am I ahead of my time? 😀
Like always, thanks for reading 🙂
Recently there was the “European Song Contest” again, according to the headlines – and I only read headlines about these, just as I don’t like America/Britain’s “got talent”, or Germany’s next top whatever.
There have been numerous articles, dissertations, and books about the topic, even those who *do* “judge” about such “contests” write that in the end, it’s all personal taste. See or search for instance the online photographer, and you’ll come up with articles/blog posts like the ones from Ctein, or from Michael Johnston. Still, and repeatedly, our (in this case German speaking) forae are full of this, like here, or here. Or in photography, this.
I agree in that there were numerous great, relevant, or even important pictures, and maybe the same can be said about music or any other art. But who could say which are the best? Or worst? Or most/least “important”? Art itself defies any such criteria in my opinion. In the end such contests are nothing but exploitation, like the second episode of the first season of “Black Mirror” with the title “Fifteen Million Merits” showed us.
Think about it. There can be winners in sports if you absolutely care for the fastest runner or such things (and even then, there might be one who runs the 100 meters in five seconds, but you’ll never know her/him). But winners in art? Come on… and forget about it, please. Or tell me why a Picasso would be better than a van Gogh. Or the Beatles vs. Mozart. See?
Thanks.
Needless to say that this is well deserved…
About the statement of the most recorded bass player, I think that title could still be Ron Carter’s. Or with the electric bass, maybe James Jamerson’s. But still, Chuck is worth studying if you care for the low end. His work on Steely Dan’s “Aja” alone is worth it…
So again, a round of applause and congrats to you, Sir!
See also at No Treble, and at Bass Magazine. Or at the site of Berklee College of Music.
By the way: in an interview with Cory Wong and Victor Wooten which I saw yesterday, Victor told us that Chuck is in fact older than the (first commercially available) electric bass. Incredible, and worth listening to if you care for the bass.
Watch this documentary. It’s about a photograph. And about so much more than that:
Enjoy…
Last time we were in Frankfurt, I discovered that little store where they sell limited photography prints of all kinds of things. Mitchie and Zuleikha loved it, once inside and browsing, and in the end they bought a smallish (and not so limited) print of the library of Trinity College in Dublin. You can see a bigger version left of them in the shop:
They packed it nicely, and it’s not even unpacked yet:
More about the artist on his website. As always, thanks for viewing.