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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2010
I think I covered most of my…revelations on this topic during class, and they were mostly just reaffirmations of things I more or less understood already, but I’ll recount them here anyway. I was pretty late in jumping on the texting bandwagon, so I had gone through a pretty long period of time during which […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2010
I finished Part II of Lessig’s book earlier today, and I figured I should probably post about this section before I read/post on the final chunk, because he covers so much in here. So, right at the end of part one, after comparing the past/future of RW and RO cultures, he circles back around to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2010
All this blog blab…every time I write that I just think of Arrested Development. Maybe I should just rename this blog “Bob Loblaw’s Blog Blab Lab”. Or something. ANYWAY Hipster Runoff is a blog. It lives here: http://www.hipsterrunoff.com Prior to this week, I had wound my way through the internet and ended up on Hipster […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2010
I’ve gotten a bit behind in my posts for this blog, even though I’ve had a lot of ideas! There are two reasons for this. The first is the insanity of the last week before break, with midterms and suchlike. The second reason is more interesting: a lot of my internet time has been devoted […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2010
Last Sunday, a film written & directed by Rob Perez ’95 (screenwriter – 40 Days and 40 Nights) called nobody (no caps intentional) screened in Dana to a small audience consisting mostly of Screenwriting II students required to go for class. I attended in order to write up a review for the Campus, and here’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2010
Figured I’d post links to/embed a bunch of videos that I thought of during our discussion in class yesterday. It’s a pretty random bundle, but they’re all quite funny or interesting or weird. So check them out, w/ a little blurb about each, after the jump. For some reason I’m having troubles with embedding video, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2010
During my reading of Lessig’s Remix (a fantastic read), I thought it would be nice to take a moment about an interesting little musical duo called The Books. They’ve recorded several albums that typically combine electronically-manipulated guitar, cello/violin, and bass with obscure, quirky “found sound”. My guess is that no one’s getting on their case […]
Posted in Class Projects on Mar 8th, 2010
We discuss the possibilities for amateur music recording through the context of a song that Patti’s been working on. Enjoy! Disclaimer: When working through the vocal process with her friend Aubrey, technical difficulties prevented Patti from recording her vocals with the effect we most commonly think of as “Auto-Tune”; instead, a less conspicuous form of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2010
After publishing that last post, I realized that I’ve left this track, which I originally posted as a test during class, on my blog for a while. At first I meant to delete it, but then Hunter commented on it, so I thought, what the hey, it’s fine where it is. But the crazy (prophetic?) […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2010
I’m brimming with things to say after reading Jonathan Lethem’s engrossing article on the long history of “plagarism” in art; the problem is deciding how to concisely say what I want to say. (And brevity is not my strong suit, if you all haven’t noticed.) I think what Lethem has done successfully here is transport […]
