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

Non-Places

My last post got me thinking about non-places. By non-places I mean either places that once were and now cease to exist or places that only exist in the imagination but are somehow very real.
Of the real places that ceased to exist, I think of the last scene in the amazing film Underground. There is [...]

Dot Soviet Union

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

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 [...]

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)

You can’t please everyone…

…so please people with good taste.
(Mike Elgan writing about Apple)

Titles

The First Mortgage
I’m Quite All Right, Thank You
Scientists Removing Flowers from Horse
Dry All My Tears
Unicyclist Turf War
Stringing You Along
Man Trips and Falls In His Own Country
Man Ponders Kicking Friend in Head
Oversized Man Entertains The City
An Elusive Dream
Bear Experiencing Jealousy
A Painful Reminder
Women and Cats Do as They Please

These titles belong to these paintings by Mike Stilkey. I [...]

Moby Gratis

In yet another wonderful turn on the intellectual rights front, here’s a note from Moby:
hi,
i’ll keep this brief.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
to use the site you log in(or on?) and are [...]