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Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:33:39 -0400

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"But later on, as producers from outside those regions adopted its influence, those gaps left room..."

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:37:15 -0400

“But later on, as producers from outside those regions adopted its influence, those gaps left room for other synthesised sounds to creep in. And unlike, say, jungle, which was already tightly packed with overlapping layers of sound, adding extra elements - toxic synths, found sound, swung percussion - posed less risk of overcomplicating dubstep into an indistinct, undanceable mess. It posed a perfect opportunity for a huge range of electronic musicians to imprint entirely unique stamps on its basic form; the seemingly endless array of permutations doing the rounds today offers pretty strong evidence to support this notion.”

- 25 Tracks: A Dubstep Chronology

thefrogman:(ohsnapsara / maddierose)

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:27:10 -0400

thefrogman:(ohsnapsara / maddierose)

obscurityvstheinternet:FFFFOUND! |...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:27:00 -0400

obscurityvstheinternet:FFFFOUND! | tumblr_l0e910pGzs1qzs56do1_500.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x500 pixels)

obscurityvstheinternet:HUGZ on Catatar

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:26:53 -0400

obscurityvstheinternet:HUGZ on Catatar

"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly..."

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:28:34 -0400

“Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

- Rumi

lollercoaster: Low Motion Disco - “Love Love Love (Aeroplane...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:55:50 -0400

lollercoaster:

Low Motion Disco - “Love Love Love (Aeroplane Remix)”

grOoOoOoOovy

lollercoaster: Squarepusher - “Cryptic Motion (Mr. Oizo...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:49:14 -0400

lollercoaster:

Squarepusher - “Cryptic Motion (Mr. Oizo Remix)”

rillawafers:bestrooftalkever: This is relevant to today.

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:48:15 -0400

rillawafers:bestrooftalkever:

This is relevant to today.

House of Blues in LA - 8/7/10

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:56:26 -0400

House of Blues in LA - 8/7/10

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:55:23 -0400

House of Blues in LA - 8/7/10

jocelynbernard:Tetris (by Mark Weaver)

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:12:03 -0400

jocelynbernard:Tetris (by Mark Weaver)

via Ars Technica

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:35:10 -0400

via Ars Technica

explodingdog

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:04:52 -0400

explodingdog

"We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this..."

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:47:35 -0400

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”

- Steve Jobs

destroythesilence: “Solace” Music Video No computers used,...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:44:52 -0400

destroythesilence:

“Solace” Music Video

No computers used, shot the day the iPhone 4 came out. I waited for 9 hours to get the iPhone 4 and then went right to shooting the video! Grueling!

I used two apps to make this: AKAI’s Synthstation and SoundTrend’s Looptastic. Took me one week to compose and record it.

We custom built the iPad mask and the iPhone camera rig.

Produced by Rana Sobhany
Directed by David Kalani Larkins and Andrew Bowser

soupsoup: James Franco still hasn’t gotten over being killed...

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:06:46 -0400

soupsoup:

James Franco still hasn’t gotten over being killed off in Spider Man. Here he takes out his anger at Sam Raimi, his friend and director of Spider Man, along with Bill Hader as Willem Defoe.

thefrogman: Meanwhile in Canada…

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:14:16 -0400

thefrogman:

Meanwhile in Canada…

Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:14:05 -0400

Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders:

heyamberrae:

GREAT read.

in short:

their ability to recognize young people with extraordinary ability

everyone be tasked with exactly one priority (YESSS)

enforced an anti-meeting culture where any meeting that included more than 3-4 people was deemed suspect and subject to immediate adjournment if he gauged it inefficient (YESSSS)

expected to pursue our #1 priority with extreme dispatch (NOW) and vigor. To borrow an apt phrase, employees were expected to “come to work every day willing to be fired, to circumvent any order aimed at stopping your dream.”

strong bias toward hiring (and promoting / encouraging, as Keith mentions) smart, driven problem solvers, rather than subject matter experts

individuals and small teams were given fairly complex objectives and expected to figure out how to achieve them on their own

extreme bias towards action

willingness to try - get someone to give it a *try* and then let performance data tell us whether to maintain the decision or rollback

So you never started a sentence like this “I feel like it’s a problem that our users can’t do X”, instead you’d do your homework first and then come to the table with “35% of our [insert some key metric here] are caused by the lack of X functionality…”

almost every all-hands meeting consisted of distributing a printed Excel spreadsheet to the assembled masses and Peter conducting a line by line review of our performance (this is only a modest exaggeration)

Vigorous debate, often via email: Being able to articulate and defend a strategy or product in a succinct, compelling manner with empirical analysis and withstand a withering critique was a key attribute of almost every key contributor

fuckyeahhappy:(via mcqueens)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:13:33 -0400

fuckyeahhappy:(via mcqueens)