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“So Mr. Brandenberg gets a copy of the song, and puts it through the newly created MP3. But instead of the “warm human voice” there are monstrous distortions, as though the Exorcist has somehow gotten into the system, shadowing every phrase. They spend months refining it, running “Tom’s Diner through the system over and over again with modifications, until it comes through clearly. “He wound up listening to the song thousands of times,” the article, written by Hilmar Schmundt, continued, “and the result was a code that was heard around the world. When an MP3 player compresses music by anyone from Courtney Love to Kenny G, it is replicating the way that Brandenburg heard Suzanne Vega.””

- Toms Essay - Measure for Measure - Opinion - New York Times Blog

“In the end, Muxtape’s legality was moot. I didn’t have any money to defend against a lawsuit, just or not, so the major labels had an ax over my head either way. I always told myself I’d remove any artist or label that contacted me and objected, no questions asked. Not a single one ever did. On the contrary, every artist I heard from was a fan of the site and excited about its possibilities. I got calls from the marketing departments of big labels whose corporate parents were supposed to be outraged, wanting to know how they get could their latest acts on the home page. Smaller labels wanted to feature their content in other creative ways. It seemed obvious Muxtape had value for listeners and artists alike.”

- The Muxtape Story

New DVDs: The Godfather, restored:

Before:
 

After:
 

“Yes, Robert A. Harris’s painstaking digital restoration of the first two “Godfather” films is stunningly beautiful. But the real shock is learning how badly Paramount has mistreated the camera negatives of two of the studio’s crown jewels — according to this American Cinematographer article, Harris found the negative for “The Godfather” “filthy and riddled with scratches, rips and tears, some of which broke into the image area; in some sections, parts of the image had actually been torn away.”

Flickr: Explore Analog: Flickr now has a film only explore page.  Who said film was dead?

Trade Me as a discipline tool: Argumentative 14 year old boy is losing his gear item by item until he does as he is told and keeps his fists to himself. via Spareroom

Olympus develops Micro Four Thirds camera:

Olympus has announced the development of its first Micro Four Thirds digital camera that will be compatible with the Four Thirds standard, and which will ‘bring dramatic reductions in size and weight to the E-system’.

Mirror Dash: Kim Gordon’s new fashion line. Via Pitchfork

Blue is the new black: A collection of songs that may or may not be blue by nature.  Thanks to Opentape I can still make hosted digital mixtapes.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21):

1. Okkervil River 
2. Rodriguez 
3. Paul Simon 
4. Metaform 
5. You Look Nice Today 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

garden working bee, number one:

mandamonium:

This weekend’s amazing weather destroyed any possibility of us not making it into the garden. There was just no way!

We headed over to our local Kings Plant Barn to get premade raised beds…

matthewb:

Facebuster, a new slab serif typeface designed by Silas Dilworth, is on sale at TypeTrust for US$24. Reminds me of Stefan Kjartansson’s Black Slabbath released at the start of the year.

A lovely photo of Ziggy taken by Evan

Me taken by Evan.  Post production done by me. 

Fern by my brother Evan

darren131 posted a photo:

Evan took this with my 50mm lens. I did some post production.

darren131 posted a photo:

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Optionally, add it to the group pool.

Via twitter.com/rands/statuses/927910970

Yellow Drum Machine - It’s purpose in life is find stuff and then drum on it.  Maybe you want to make one yourself.

pretty good job ad (via darren131)

darren131 posted a photo:

this was emailed to me - awesome!

“I was on my way to Coney Island this weekend and next to me on the ride down is the actor that plays PC in the Apple commercials. I really didn’t pay much attention or didn’t want to bother him since he was probably just enjoying his weekend with his daughter but half way thru the ride i noticed that he pulled out his phone, and there it was an Apple iPhone being held by the PC guy haha. I couldn’t pass up the chance take a quick photo so i can share it with you guys on the ISO50 blog.” Mac vs PC: PC using iPhone?