“SolarEn社は宇宙太陽光発電用衛星からの電磁ビーム照射で熱帯低気圧の渦の温度を上げることで勢力を弱める技術の特許申請を行っている。”
—宇宙太陽光発電 - Wikipedia (via raurublock)
April 2011
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Cool Tech Site of the Day →
tumblr.com
Is it a new blog by an industry insider, or a former Engadget writer? Nope, it’s Tumblr’s #tech radar page. Lots of interesting stuff that I haven’t heard about. The only downside is that there’s no RSS for it.
The #design page is also pretty good, though a lot of it goes over my head. Both are worth following!
Merry-go-round
I’m learning the harsh truth that Committees are just places that ideas go to die.
Especially within a Not For Profit organisation.
So much for saving the world.
“Twitter is growing like crazy—I’ve heard that half a million new users sign up every month—so the staff has grown like crazy, too. My lunch date, Del Harvey, who is the head of Trust and Security, joined when there were only twenty-five employees; now, just four years later, there are four hundred. That’s big enough that a Twitter employee might be following another Twitter employee on Twitter without realizing they both worked for the company. I’m not exactly sure what all those four hundred people do. I’m always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.”
—Susan Orlean (via hellofriend)
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“Forgotten Star” by Harmony Trowbridge. Beautiful little weary autumn love song.
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Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
“Billie Jean” – Michael Jackson
(Words/music: Michael Jackson, available on Thriller, Epic 1982 / “Billie Jean” Single, Epic 1983)
The “Billie Jean” single came out about a month before I was born (and Thriller about a month before that). A few months later at the Motown 25th Anniversary Special, Jackson effortlessly unleashed his signature Moonwalk during a performance of the song. As I entered this world, Michael Jackson seized control of popular culture. He remains the biggest pop star of my lifetime, for both the positive and negative reasons. I say “pop star” because I only thought of him as a musician later on. For most of my youth, I knew Jackson through his videos – ones that seemed more like mini-musicals or really short movies to a young kid. These powerful visuals (and let’s be honest, Jackson’s shifting visage) only made Jackson seem more supernatural – more like an otherworldly character in these films rather than a real person.
Maybe it was the larger-than-life presence behind the songs, but many of Jackson’s singles had this otherworldly feeling to them. “Billie Jean” in particular still sounds eerie – not in the same prosthetic-creepiness of the “Thriller” video, but from all of the odd sounds in the recording. The synthesizer hums at an eerie pitch (in the unconventional key of F# minor) while multi-tracked vocals echo in alternating speakers. These oddities come out under this close scrutiny, yet from far away “Billie Jean” rides a flawless groove and near-perfect melody. It’s this combination of perfect pop and tortured psyche that Jackson bounced between during my lifetime – often treading too deep in either glossiness or the grotesque – that made him compelling. Let’s face it – at his highest moments as well as his lowest, it always felt like he was from some completely different realm.(Also, I don’t usually do this, but if you’re interested in some of the more interesting trivia regarding “Billie Jean,” such as Jackson recording his backing vocals through a cardboard tube or Quincy Jones’ aversion to including it on Thriller, the Wikipedia entry on the song is a great read)
More on Michael Jackson: Allmusic | Amazon MP3 | Emusic | Last.fm
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My friends are talking about their sex life.
And I’m just sitting here, dusting off my v-card.
Unsung
Helmet
Helmet - Unsung
The last time I attempted to see Helmet was in 1995, roughly half my life ago. They were touring with Sausage and the Rollins Band, and an epic rain storm caused the concert to be cancelled (and a massive mud fight to erupt) before Helmet or Rollins could go on.
They are playing Meantime in its entirety here tomorrow night, but while I love the album, I’m pretty sure modern-age Daryn wouldn’t be quite as happy at “the metalliance tour” as I once might have been.
<p>I like seeing other photographers that I admire who’ve also shot with some of the same girls that I have. Keep up the good stuff.</p>
Thank you! I enjoyed looking through your archive.
