Hard News: Music's emerging digital market
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The weird thing is that the top layer url is blocked but the posts are all available url by url.
I feel like a punk again (cue: first Clash album)
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I like artists who don't take themselves too seriously
seems pretty calculated to me
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The site is unblocked now. Oddness.
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you're now state-approved
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ninjacloak is a reasonably reliable web based proxy. for stickier workarounds, download freegate. Freegate is quite interesting in that their prime purpose is to help out those blocked by politically motivated firewalls. It won't allow you to access porn, but you will be able to access some of the evilest free speech on the planet.
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You know, me too. But that doesn't make Job's control freakerie any more attractive. His "think of the children" line is exactly the one being used by China, Australia and the "entertainment" industry to close down the freedom of the internet as we know it.
Because the App Store doesn't sell porny apps? Really? You might be making a bit much of one phrase ("freedom from porn") in a personal email to a punter. It's not that unreasonable to cite that as a selling point on a device kids will use.
And at any rate, iPad users have access to all the porn they might need, via Safari. YouPorn has even launched an HTML 5 video service. In no sense has Apple banned porn from its devices. It just isn't selling it. I'm not sure that's the same thing as China.
And the knee jerk defence of *anything* Apple does by Apple users is a little weird, don't you think?
I was down with Jon Stewart when he basically asked Jobs not to be a dick about various things, including the raid on the Gizmodo editor who bought the lost iPhone 4G (and who also seems like a dick). And the political cartoon app that got knocked back (before being allowed) certainly showed the weaknesses of the App Store approval process.
But I'm not going to be hating on Steve for making an appliance that just works, and defending that just-works status. It's not like Apple was't making these calls when it had far less market power than it used to -- like ditching serial for USB and floppy drives for, well, nothing.
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ninjacloak is a reasonably reliable web based proxy. for stickier workarounds,
Mostly in Thailand things flow through without much hassle but you get the odd kneejerk by some over-enthusiastic bureaucrat who blocks a list, which slowly gets unblocked when worked through by smarter heads bit by bit.
The only real exception seems to be sites that make negative comment about the monarchy which is such a massive no-no and generally respected. There was an insult to the king on CNN last week (and it really was, both racist and hugely ignorant) but I'm in breach of Lèse majesté laws if I even link to it.
So I won't.
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What happened to your gravatar?
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I just bought Buffalo on FLAC and of course it won't run on my stupid iTunes... d'oh!
There is a mildly complex way to play FLACs in iTunes here
hereIf that doesn't work, send someone at TPF an email
band@thephoenixfoundation.co.nz
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Does it make me a pretentious twat that I find both Lady Ga Ga and Banksy a bit low brow? Low brow in the wrong way of course, which is to say extremely successful.
Actually, that's ridiculous. I just don't really like Lady Ga Ga, and while Banksy is amusing, I don't see him (her? them?) as a deeply significant visual artist.
Notions of high brow/low brow are a horribly hangover from an (unfinished) art history major. Yuck.
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Samuel: I guess Lady Gaga and Banksy both work within "low art" genres, however much they do or don't subvert the form. But isn't it good to have an excuse to feel superior to the madly rich and unbelievably famous people. :-)
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The idea of a reigning king of guerilla art is rather odd, I have to say.
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Notions of high brow/low brow are a horribly hangover from an (unfinished) art history major.
Boy did we have a thread for you recently.
reigning king of guerilla art
I'm personally impressed by the ballsiness of Banksy's efforts like "Early Man Goes to Market" (inadvertently, then proudly) displayed at the British Museum.
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The idea of a reigning king of guerilla art is rather odd, I have to say.
In a culture that marketed a white boy as the King of Rock n Roll?
"high brow/low brow are a horribly hangover from an (unfinished) art history major"
I think when you get to the end of that road, the brow may furrow into a more benign bemusement. Bansky wasn't cooking big dishes when I studied 20th C Art History , but we were studying guerilla artists. and I'm sure he'd be mentioned today.
I think he cuts the mustard in that his work isn't exclusively tagging, he wasn't originally working as an authorized muralist, he didn't come through the galleries, his work contains
politically driven pop art iconography with stylistic integrity and aspects of performance required in terms of maintaining anonymity while rendering work illegally. (at least the original MO)he sold out. (allegedly the money is going to him/ her/ they)
But in the scope of western art history, artists are generally appraised in terms of their greatest contributions, not the myriad of followup cash in works they retire on. Very few of the (widely considered)master painters of the west, showed sustained innovation throughout their careers, and in terms of bringing guerilla Street Art to the mainstream, Banksy is one of the key figures and for that he'll retain a place in the canon.
subsequent performances such as walking into the Louvre to hang a work, not so into, but...
On that ledger I'd be more inclined to pin a charge of low brow on groups such as the 80s Parisian graffitti crew; the CTK (Crime Time Kings), who if i'm not mistaken were notorious for stealing all their materials (itself an exciting if somewhat derivative conceptual statement), but when members were offered the opportunity to exhibit works in galleries in the early nineties, they produced canvases that were a massive stylistic departure from their street art. Basically they conformed. and they sold, but that seems low brow to me. I, pretentious?
As for Lady Gaga...flash in the pan.
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In a culture that marketed Elvis as the King of Rock n Roll? Seems pretty same-old from this neck of the woods.
Well, yeah, same old. That is after all the criticism.
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How about The Duke? the Lieutenant Brigadier of guerilla art? The Bin Laden?
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Just trying saying "I see it differently" rather than applying "scrutiny" to someone else's personal opinion.
Yes, you're quite right, I've been regretting that all day, sorry about that Islander. I think perhaps I should start drinking again.
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I've just watched (unexpectedly) in real time the last five minutes in flight - including head-up display from the cabin - of the space shuttle Atlantis on its final landing in Florida.
After 25 years, 32 trips and over 10,000,000 miles of flight.
After this preparation (beautiful photo-essay of one of the most advanced machines ever built). Saw the first landing as a schoolboy too.
Sure felt like art.
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In a culture that marketed Elvis as the King of Rock n Roll?
He has some claim:
Elvis' five Sun singles pioneered the blend of R&B and C&W that would characterize rockabilly music. For quite a few scholars, they remain not only Elvis' best singles, but the best rock & roll ever recorded.
and:
On Monday evening, July 5, 1954, Elvis, Scotty and Bill went to Sun Records for their first recording session. They were nervous despite Sam Phillips' efforts to loosen things up. They worked in vain on the Bing Crosby hit, "Harbor Lights," and on the country ballad, "I Love You Because." Finally they took a break late in the evening. During the break Elvis picked up his guitar and started clowning around, playing the fool on ``That's Alright Mama," the Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup blues song. Elvis went up-tempo as first Bill, and then Scotty, joined in. In the control booth Sam Phillips heard the sound, the "new" music, he
had been looking for. He stuck his head out the door asking, "What are you doing?" The boys answered, "We don't know." Turning on the tape Sam said, "Well, back it up, try to find a place to start, and do it again." Rock n' roll was born.Those 24 Sun sides remain, 55 years later, some of the most revolutionary of the last century.
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Yes, you're quite right, I've been regretting that all day, sorry about that Islander. I think perhaps I should start drinking again.
Onya.
Islander, no more suggesting other people have been drinking -- unless you're absolutely bloody sure they have. ;-)
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But I'm not going to be hating on Steve for making an appliance that just works, and defending that just-works status.
For what values of "just works"? I have tried an iPad and found it doesn't work for just about everything I use a computer to do...other than browsing the Internet, and even then there is a massive youtube fail.
There is a danger that people are substituting shiny for convenience and convenience for choice.
So please, by all means buy these things , enjoy them and advertise them on your TV show but defending Apple's command and control view of the Internet and its clientèle is inappropriate.
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I have tried an iPad and found it doesn't work for just about everything I use a computer to do...other than browsing the Internet, and even then there is a massive youtube fail.
If you wanted something to do what a computer does, why didn't you try apple's extensive line of computers?
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If you wanted something to do what a computer does, why didn't you try ..... a computer?
instead of a fashion accessory.
There, fixed it for Ya.
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For what values of "just works"? I have tried an iPad and found it doesn't work for just about everything I use a computer to do...other than browsing the Internet, and even then there is a massive youtube fail.
You can do even less computing on an iPhone, which runs the same OS, and I still find mine quite handy.
I'll buy an iPad in July, and use to to read books, comics and magazines, watch video, play games, do email, web browsing, light word processing, etc. Were I suitably talented, I might want the Korg synthesiser app, or Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro. I'm quite keen on Wikipanion. I'm sure I'll find many other things I want to do with it.
So please, by all means buy these things , enjoy them and advertise them on your TV show but defending Apple's command and control view of the Internet and its clientèle is inappropriate.
The internet is fine. I don't see how the iPad changes that at all. Apart from anything else Safari is based on Webkit, an open-source project sustained by Apple, and it's probably the most standards-complaint browser available. The sky is not falling so far as I can see.
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Russell, no-one mentioned the sky falling, death by 1000 cuts is more of a problem.
On the other hand, if you follow the iHype you would think the problems world hunger, war and ugly clothes had been solved and would continue to be solved if we only let the nice Mr. Jobs get on with managing our lives.
Kyle, I have tried Apple's computers, honestly. But whilst the nice factor lasts five minutes the constraints last forever.
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