Critical Mass
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Restoring the focus as "things fall apart [and] the centre cannot hold" (W.H. Auden)
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I’m speaking at TEDx MidAtlantic on Saturday in DC. The cast of The Wire is also speaking, which means I get to have dinner with Omar Friday...
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According to The Gurdian, Murakami is among the top ten favorites of winning the Nobel Prize in...
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“My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.”— Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
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MODERN MEDICINE
Jonathan Harris nails ‘modern’ in his new piece ‘modern medicine’. I typically like the analogies drawn from social media, consumerism, marketing and medicine into human behavior. Modern Medicine is a must read.
The Farmer & Farmer Review is a not-for-profit project initiated by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. We publish vivid and provocative essays from leading practitioners in technology and the arts, exploring the relationship between humans and technology. All material is released under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-Attribution-ShareAlike license. Food for thought!
Jack White - Love Is Blindness (U2 Cover)
The Great Gatsby trailer re-ignited U2 love, and made me discover Jack White’s unique cover layered with extended distortions+synthed vocals!
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Beach House - Myth
Beach House’s decision to call this record Bloom is almost too perfect. Over the course of four albums that’s exactly what this band has done. Two people from Baltimore started by making incense-smelling, curtains-drawn bedroom pop. Now, eight years later, they make luminous, sky-sized songs that conjure some alternate universe where Cocteau Twins have headlined every stadium on Atlantis. “Bloom” is also what these 10 songs do, each one starting with the sizzle of a lit fuse and at some fine moment exploding like a firework in slow motion. The word captures the music’s slow sonority: the round, gleaming edges of Alex Scally’s arpeggios and how, in Victoria Legrand’s unhurried mouth, all words seem to have a few extra vowels – Pf.
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Johnny Astro - The Skywalkers (ft Coldplay)
Seldom do I indulge in hip-hop tunes, but johnny astro’s wordplay fused with a Coldplay sample in ‘the skywalkers’ is sublime – creativity and passion at its best.
Also worth checking ‘the intro(the kingdom burns).
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“Because of the precarious conditions in which our Pleistocene ancestors lived, the human lifespan has evolved to be a paltry seven or eight decades. This is, from many perspectives, a rather short period of time. Even tortoises do better than that.”
Transhumanist Ethics - Nick Bostrom
Dynamite marketing by TNT, efforts such as this make them advertisements contagious.
Dualist has got some really grooooovy bootlegs. Highly recommend the ‘life in technicolor’ one as well.
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Damien Jurado - Museum of Flight
“Jurado’s songwriting is comfortable without being lazy; tunes consist of deep lyrics with a few strums and a catchy melody, sometimes with an unexpected chord change forcing the song into a peculiar/pretty zone. And his tenor voice remains a world unto itself, distant and glowing.” – Seattle Times
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Noir’s béats - Haze’s vocals - ingeniously remixed by Solomun = perfect Drum&Bass amalgam
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