Sobre o trabalho na Korg (onde criou os Volcas, Minilogue/Monologue, Monotrons e outros) e Red Bull Music Academy. No Sound on Sound.
Monthmarço 2020
You’re more than your output
“Our way of life has completely changed into something we’ve never experienced before. I’m not sure more podcasts and more side projects are currently the answer to what we’re all experiencing right now.
I do acknowledge that for some, creativity and productivity is a way to deal with stress and a way to feel connected and useful. But for others, this added insistence to always be “on it” can add pressure to an already very stressful situation. Work, along with our output and productivity, has become fetishised. We have become measured by what we produce over who we are. It’s gone so far that when we’re faced with a global pandemic and quarantine, all we can think of is what we should be creating and how we can be more productive with our time. “
texto completo.
it chooses you / miranda july
comecei a ler por acaso. ouvi o nome da miranda july algumas vezes, sabendo apenas que era uma multiartista elogiada, no meio do caminho entre o mainstream e o underground. a premissa me pareceu um pouco boba, porém curiosa: em crise criativa, miranda busca algo para fazer e passa a entrevistar pessoas que vendem coisas usadas em um jornal de anúncios. talvez o contato com essas pessoas a inspire, pensa.
quando percebi, uma das primeiras coisas que fazia todos os dias era pegar o ipad e ler um pouco do livro. são histórias simples e curtas, cheias de desconforto e curiosidade. o jornal de anúncios em questão, em geral, é usado por pessoas que sequer usam a internet. pessoas que estão, de certa forma, à margem do mundo de diferentes maneiras e têm uma estranha, artista bem-sucedida (mesmo que em crise), os observando dentro de suas casas temporariamente.
o que torna este livro interessante?
miranda conta sobre sua obra em processo, os pontos nos quais está estagnada. aos poucos, compara sua vida e seus personagens às pessoas entrevistadas – também personagens, mas sobre os quais não têm controle. tudo muito simples e humano, um recorte da diversidade e das possibilidades possíveis.
it seemed i had not only married him but also married my eventual death. before the vows, i might have lived alone, but forever; now i would definitely not be alone and i would definitely die. i had agreed to die
p. 92
“today is my birthday”, read one square. “i’m 45 years old, an old man”. i imagined that being forty-five seemed totally implausible to him, given that he had no wife, no babies, no job, none of the trappings of time as they are described to all of us.
p. 129
most of life is offline, and i think it always will be; eating, and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. but it’s not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren’t always easy, and they take so much time. in twenty years i’d be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.
p. 132
i felt like miley cirus was speaking directly to me through lynette, and she was being very clear – she wanted me to keep the faith.
p. 144
i thought about his sixty-two years of sweet, filthy cards and something unspooled in my chest. maybe i had miscalculated what was left of my life. maybe it wasn’t loose change. or, actually, the whole thing was loose change, from start to finish – many, many little moments, each holiday, each valentine, each year unbearably repetitive and yet somehow always new. you could never buy anything with it, you could never cash it in for something more valuable or more whole. it was just all these days; held together only by the fragile memory of one person – or, if you were lucky, two. and because of this, this lack of inherent meaning or value, it was stunning. like the most intricate, radical piece of art, the kind of art i was always trying to make. it dared to mean nothing and so demanded everything of you.
p.161
we had to winnow life down so we knew where to put our tenderness and attention; and that was a good, sweet thing. but together or alone, we were still embedded in a kaleidoscope, ruthlessly varied and continuous, until the end of the end. i knew i would forget this within the hour, and the remember, and forget, and remember. each time i remembered it would be a tiny miracle, and forgetting was just as important – i had to believe in my own story.
p. 176
13 dicas de sites
Firefox Send
Serviço de envio de arquivos do Firefox. Você pode proteger com senha, definir quantos downloads podem ser feitos e por quanto tempo o arquivo deverá ficar disponível (entre 5 minutos e 7 dias).
QuickForget
Para enviar mensagens que se auto-destroem depois de um determinado tempo ou após determinada quantidade de visualizações.
utrace
Pesquisar localização de um IP ou domínio.
How secure is my password?
Para testar quanto tempo um computador levaria para descobrir sua senha.
Have I been pwned?
Para descobrir se seu email está incluído em algum vazamento de dados.
Kap
Grava o que você estiver fazendo no computador. Open source. Outra opção é o Screencast-o-matic.
Knowem
Para checar automaticamente se seu nome de usuário está disponível em diversos sites.
QRF
Criador de QR codes e encurtador de url.
Display Purposes
Digite uma hashtag e descubra outras que são comumente relacionadas no Instagram.
It’s almost
Gerador de contagem regressiva.
Gifs
Converter vídeos do Youtube e Instagram (ou do computador) em gifs, com vários recursos.
News Map
Escolha um país no mapa e o site mostra os jornais de cada cidade.
Future Today Institute
Relatórios e pesquisas sobre o futuro.