The Jomox “Resonator Neuronium”. Obnoxious name and I enjoy obnoxious names.
The Youtube comments are as funny as you’d expect - ranging from “This is bar-none the coolest thing on youtube…” to “very bored piece of hardware[...]”
There are other ways to generate atmospheric loops and I’ve never seen any that can be as dynamically and organically modulated; it has the potential for highly expressive if inherently unpredictable performances in the hands of a skilled tweaker. The video gives a quick impression of how the Resonator interacts with sequenced midi data and heavy delay. I believe it has 1/4 inch stereo inputs too.
In 1941, Simon and Schuster of New York published a non-fiction work titled “Men of Wealth” by author John T. Flynn. The book was an ambitious project in that it attempted to summarize Flynn’s complex perspective on twelve of the world’s great economic success stories.
Flynn’s narrative style comes across as sincere, reverent, and frustrated. I’d argue that he deserves a flattering interpretation; his tone invokes a heavily labored revisionist tract, and the end result is human and endearing.
Here’s Flynn describing the role of wealthy businessmen in the wake of the first great US market crash:
“The process was completed when in October, 1929, we heard Gabriel over Wall Street and the President, as that fateful premonitory shiver ran through our economic structure, summoned around him the College of Captains. At that moment, every phase of our life was in the hands of businessmen. The test for their power was at hand and, led by a great engineer and great industrial ministers of state, these bankers and manufacturers and utility magnates were to seize the depression in its infancy and crush it. In that hour the Great God Business might be said to have become supreme, even though the very earth shook under the images of the idol.”
Flynn seemed on the verge of saying something important about theories of prosperity and governance. Perhaps his message was obscured by his great determination to express himself dramatically. Or was the message obscure by design?
8 1/2 weeks equals 59.5 days. If you pretend that I posted this about 10 days ago then you can also pretend that the image is vaguely poetically tied to something mysterious.
Alternate scenario - I’ve been watching more of those weird Criterion collection movies.
Scenario 3 - I was out walking one day and I took a picture, edited it, posted it, and waited for a suitably inane moment to post.
I’ve noticed that there’s no new content here recently and I’ve put all my other plans on hold because it’s important to me that you feel complete satisfaction with your blog visiting experience. It’s true, there has been no new content recently. That’s my fault.
I’ve also noticed that at least one of the important navigational links on the site is broken. I guess that’s what happens to software when you stop using it regularly.
Any of you who’ve read more than a couple posts here may have noticed that I’m trying hard to hit the technorati 2,000,000 mark. You’ve seen the tags. You know it’s a serious deal - a big deal - the Blogosphere 2.000.000™. We’ve been fighting since day one and I’ve gotta confess… it hasn’t been easy.
In honor of our joint efforts, you and me together, today we should take a second (together) to reflect and declare premature victory. We win.
We’re at 1,910,875. We’re already within 95.54375% of our goal!
A couple of my friends linked to us. That kinda screwed it for awhile but no problem because otherwise we’ve been kicking butt. It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. It’s time to celebrate.
We may not be at or near the 2,000,000 mark forever so let’s do ourselves a favor and enjoy it while it lasts.
[tags]Blogosphere 2.000.000™, digg this, add me to your favorites, spread the word[/tags]
Comparing activities to golf is feeling like a lazy angle. If I ever write about something being the new golf, please submit Plan Resonate refund form #5 for complete satisfaction. That’s an honest-to-god-money-back-guarantee friends.
Employees at Seattle law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro recently got a big incentive to take up the sport. Management promised bicycles worth $3,500 to any employee who pledges to bike to work three months out of the year.
Firm managing partner and cyclist Steve Berman said he wanted to find a way to reduce the firm’s carbon footprint and encourage fitness.
Berman said he gets the bikes at cost from Ridley Bicycles for about $1,800.
So far, 35 of the firm’s 100 employees have signed up. Berman expects to hand out the bikes by May, and it will cost the firm $63,000.
Cool idea and good storytelling by Berman.
FWIW, riding a bike isn’t the same as cycling, and neither are the exclusive domain of type A fashionable at 4AM workaholics. Spandex, faux sponsorships, and $3,500 geometrically insane racing bikes are entirely optional.
Yesterday I wrote that there’s never been a better time to be a consumer. Said so in the context of a story about friendly Berkeley researchers who use neuroscience to turn us all into more productive shoppers. It was a sarcastic comment.
According to our colleagues at the AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer, there have been better times to be a confident consumer:
“Over the past year, consumer confidence has deteriorated greatly, underscoring the toll of the housing collapse and a credit crunch that has made it harder for people to secure financing for big-ticket purchases such as homes, cars and appliances.”
Haven’t the neuroscience folks concluded that insecurity, fear and jealousy are the top consumer motivators? If so, we should celebrate low consumer confidence as a positive indicator!
I’ll admit that preying on peoples’ low self-esteem is somehow contrary to human nature… yet in the absence of brain scan data, such moralism is scientifically meaningless. Carry on scholars.
You: dark hair, navy blue Mercedes station wagon, rushing to make a reckless left hand turn onto Valencia, at rush hour, you swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid running me down.
Me: red hair, on foot, waiting for the cross signal, walking cautiously through the busy intersection, wide awake, I screamed to get your attention at the last second.
Maybe you remember? Maybe we can do it differently next time?
Made an offhand comment in a recent post regarding SNOCAP and caps lock branding. My question was: are they shouting or is it an acronym?
Failed to consider a third option, that is, the marketers at SNOCAP are insecure in their masculinity and they use caps lock to compensate. This is a strange conclusion. Yet consider something I saw while shopping recently:
“Yes, the correct spelling is GLOCK. GLOCK insists so. As they are men and wish to loudly announce themselves, this should always be respected.”
I’m not convinced that this logic applies to SNOCAP (or GLOCK). Regardless, it’s funny proof that brands and brand meaning are increasingly part of the public domain.
