quieto :: notas curiosity killed the cat, but cats have 9 lives

Dot Soviet Union

Even though the Soviet Union is extinct, you can still use the .su domain.

Lo Naco… ¿es Chido?

Para quien no entiende el mexicano, el título de este post, en venezolano, sería algo así como “¿Lo guarro es fino?”. Hoy, por desgracia, me volví a tropezar en YouTube con un video que vi hace tiempo y me puse a pensar en una posible corriente estética, muy latinoamericana, que tiene que ver con el [...]

Enthusiasm as Strategy

I am fortunate to have many very talented friends. Some of these I consider my foils (read this post to know what I mean). Enrique Gonzalez Muller is certainly on of these friends. If I had to choose one single person responsible for getting me into music, it would have to be Enrique, with his [...]

Untitled Riff #1

Where is the Mouse?

I read this a few weeks ago at a couple of blogs, it it is too good to let go. The rest of the speech is very worthwhile.
Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.
-Clay Shirky, from this speech at the Web 2.0 Conference

Max Headroom

I never got into it when it came out in the 80’s. I think I was a bit out of the radar, being a little 9 years-old and in Venezuela. But I do remember a the image and the name of Max Headroom, mentioned, of course, by the older brother of one of my friends.
I [...]

Musicophilia

I’m starting a new category here on books I’ve read, mostly to keep track of what I’ve read and what I thought about it.
I’ll start with Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. I read about this in Wired and maybe somewhere else on the web also. I even posted about it before [...]

Newspaper Blackout Poems

Austin Kleon takes newspaper articles and blacks out whole sections. The words he doesn’t blackout reveal new surprising meanings. Great. I wonder how one can translate this way of working to other disciplines.
By the way, this particular poem reminds me of why I’m into photography.
(via kottke)