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Top 30 Albums of 2011

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1. SBTRKT – SBTRKT 2. Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse 3. Other Lives – Tamer Animals 4. Real Estate – Real Estate 5. The Head And The Heart – The Head and The Heart 6. James Blake – James Blake 7. DJ… Read More »Top 30 Albums of 2011

VI. Fin

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All movement on a plain surface that isn’t driven by physical necessity is a spatial affirmation of oneself. — Film Socialisme, Godard ☾ collective movement is our… Read More »VI. Fin

Distractions

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Old technology goes digital and digital wants to be old. Steely and cold, virtual buttons and twistable knobs want to be warm and prone to… Read More »Distractions

Emika – Emika

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This post is syndicated from Indie Shuffle.

What’s so good?

Poignant yet fierce, striking and soft, the UK-born and Berlin-based Emika is a much needed beacon in electronic music, a space seemingly laden with emo-ridden dudes sporting thoughtful beards with a five o’clock silhouette for any given niche.

Emika shakes things up by bringing some serious skin to the game. She’s a force to be reckoned with — the anti-Ellie Goulding — leaving behind anything sugar-coated and sweet that offers a gently affected tonality for remixers to deepen. Emika singularly achieves depth by speaking through her superb technical and artistic prowess. Her style is unique with a tonality that’s consistent. And this is just her first album.

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IV. Symmetry and Sundials

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Special principle of relativity: If a system of coordinates K is chosen so that, in relation to it, physical laws hold good in their simplest form, the same laws hold good in relation to any other system of coordinates K’ moving in uniform translation relatively to K. — Albert Einstein: The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity, Part A, §1

Suspended in time we stand still on a relative moving plane with little regard for rule. In the blank spaces of what hasn’t been said, we each silently regard the potential for the stuff legends are made of.

Two-dimensional reality runs parallel to virtual flesh and blood. We’re composed of blinking synapses that fire on small, colorful cupcakes and the idea of (someday) playing chess in the park.

Oh, the games we play.

Your opportune moves have small meaning on which to be assigned.

I’m a dreamer trapped in fighter’s form, shaped by invisible steel filled on the inside with melting glitter and gumdrops.

Somehow the game intensified along the way, making me feel lost. In our alternate reality the tricks and motives became unclear. Did the broken rules betray us?

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III. Science vs. Magic

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Listen to the Science vs. Magic playlist in Spotify

 Have you ever craved something and wished it would appear?

I wonder if you’ll walk in the door. I glance up without realizing the motion has been frequent.

If you appeared it wouldn’t be unexpected. Although I don’t believe in magic enough to think this would actually occur.

I make it sound like I’m sitting here waiting, which I’m not – I mean, it’s not why I came here.

I just like to write about this.

I set my IM status to “manifest” for just short of a year. (Since then I’ve learned that)
It’s hard to manifest things through technology.

Now I meditate on things like purpose, identity, and finding fire.

My home is my base, my enabler. There’s no fire there – just a warmly lit simmer, comfortable and close in the way only time can build.

Are you thinking about me too?

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II. Enemies, Lovers, and Friends.

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Newton’s Laws of Motion:

  • First law: The velocity of a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force.[3][4][5]
  • Second law: The acceleration a of a body is parallel and directly proportional to the net force F and inversely proportional to the mass m, i.e., F = ma.
  • Third law: The mutual forces of action and reaction between two bodies are equal, opposite and collinear.

We spin in circles moving outwardly, within groups and in single drifting dreidel tops spinning alone out to sea.

We wake in a pile of political games after sleeping long throughout the day. We drown in deep shadows, afraid of what could be when the present is at hand. We fight for acknowledgement and burn through passion like a cheap book of matches struck over and over again with no gratification in sight. Why do we do it?

Why are we so quick to burn through people?

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I. The One-Off Life.

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This is what I know right now.

 

I’ve distanced myself from the things that were real at one point strictly in my mind, giving way to clarity within the 3-dimensional life I actually live. The difference between the truths of the world I wanted and the one I used to exist in reveals not unfortunate disconnect but restlessness in possibility.

The need to feed ourselves first and foremost on three core levels (physical, mental, emotional) supersedes the unfortunate trigger of release through self-destruction, despite who or whatever seems to (however subconsciously) enjoy getting in the way.

The time I thought I could do anything has been eclipsed by an era of consciousness and strategic ambition.

Although I never really understood the time and space of anything that needed to be, I’ve come to understand the true value of living. Some moments exist purely as a fleeting instant – a sparkly wink that either makes no mark or the greatest of all.  Your smile can give way to a fully-expressed circular completion of the moment that delivers an eternal yet simple verification of what is great.

My style of strife; my outwardly optimistic color wheel of a mood. Perception of time is a wound clock, curling and unfurling in it’s desire to drive forward with no real progress being made other than the intent to repeat itself of the same old foils and follies.

When you asked me nothing it made me sad. When you voiced no reason about why or what we’re doing here it made me increasingly locked out of something perhaps man-made but nonetheless a grand idea I’d like to (at some point) explore.

#1 Know the rules.  #2 Break the rules.

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Virtual Relationships and Reality

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Habbo Hotel courtesy of blog.media-freaks.com

In today’s connected world it’s easy to initiate relationships with anyone from anywhere.

In our interpersonal exchanges we observe and learn, become challenged and entertained, provoke and be provoked, inspire and conversely dismiss. Then like any other online activity we (however conscious or purposely choose to) make, it’s on to something else.

Online, this exchange becomes easy through convenience. Comments can be short with responses seldom visited again. Time is be suspended or accelerated with little or no expectations on return.

Technology indicates how awesome our universal connectivity is on a very macro level. We read about it in case studies and are familiar with social media contributing to action on the ground.

Many of us are even likely to know someone who found their mate online, broadly taking into consideration the many meanings within the phonetics of the word “soul.”

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Snoop, Cut Copy, and Poolside – It’s the Pacific Festival OC

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Friday is in full-effect here at the office, and I’m gettin’ stoked for tomorrow as we’re heading down to the OC for the 2nd annual Pacific Festival.  It’s a one day music fest with a great lineup –  artists have been curated from across the dance, electronic, indie rock, and hip-hop spectrum with 5 full stages of talent.  It’s all happening at Oak Canyon Ranch at Lake Irvine (where Lighting in a Bottle is held). See below for the full line-up and check out the Soundcloud links for some free tunes!

Pacific Festival: OC 2011 Official Sampler by FILTER Magazine

 

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Pop! A Metric System for the Linked Economy

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This summer, Mozilla along with the Knight Foundation created a contest for encouraging hackers and hacks (me) to assemble online and consider ways to innovate news through technology. I made the cut to the program’s second phase – an online learning lab where some 60-odd creatives and coders were selected to take part in a four week session. Each week included three brilliantly intense, mind-opening lectures along with a weekly homework assignment. Over the course of the learning lab we heard from many experts at the top of their game. Speakers included Evan Hansen, Editor In Chief of Wired.com;  Mohamed Nanabhay, Head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network; and  Jeff Jarvis, author, professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. See the full list of speakers here. Our final assignment  is a software proposal defining how we can make news better by incorporating the tools and technology available to us today. Here’s my idea.

What is it?

The Pop! Index is a real-time analysis of of data from across the web – because the world needs a comprehensive way to see what’s happening right now. Pop! is a visualization tool that collects, interprets and visualizes significant patterns of user activity. It searches for and analyzes user sentiment along with discussion levels around any topic. It also measures media consumption to provide detailed information on what pieces of content people are currently watching, reading, and engaging with.

Simply put, it’s a metric system for the linked economy.
The back-end may be composed of raw data, but the project simultaneously serves as a form of art. The tactile nature and compelling design allows for users to manipulate, interact with and share the visualized information. The platform is universally accessible, beginning within the browser with a plan to roll out across smartphones and tablets.

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How can we make news cool again? Hint…it already is! [Part 2]

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Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, from pulse2.com

Ok, I’m officially changing course.  I had an idea. The concept was this: a one-stop aggregation site that makes news fun to participate in. Some sort of all-in-one, self-curated and personalized algorithm that pulls news-related content based on topics you like, allowing the user to respond to content via medium of choice.

Then, through doing some research I realized that news already is fun – and much more so than it’s ever been.

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