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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:15:00 -0400

Almost every video game you’ve played in the last year or two has a UI created in Flash. My mind is blown.

On Thursday, I’ll be returning to Jetsetter in a R&D...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:33:06 -0400

On Thursday, I’ll be returning to Jetsetter in a R&D capacity. I’m mostly excited to spearhead new projects, but part of me is sad to leave my workspace behind. The past six months have been swell, home office.

New track called “Mushrooms and Pollo”.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:12:56 -0400

New track called “Mushrooms and Pollo”.

fascinated: nathanieljames: I really wish I could drive this...

Thu, 13 May 2010 18:27:35 -0400

fascinated:

nathanieljames:

I really wish I could drive this point home to my friends…but that repetitive rotation of songs on KROQ is almost like hypnotic ear-training, or their musical tastes haven’t evolved since they were 5 years old.

Radio’s predictability is addictive and comforting. It’s hard to combat.

I’d take it a step further and say that music blogs are the near-perfect marriage between your radio and a magazine stand. Even less desirable traits like predictability and bias still make their way through sometimes.

Video

Thu, 13 May 2010 18:22:00 -0400

Pantha Du Prince - The Splendour A smile crosses my face...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:11:05 -0500

Pantha Du Prince - The Splendour

A smile crosses my face whenever I realize “dancey” and genius are not mutually exclusive.

Recently, I’ve realized that really great music can be...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:56:55 -0500

Recently, I’ve realized that really great music can be four-on-the-floor.

mareen: What? 1-10 seconds length of visit… This might mean 50%...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:48:49 -0500

mareen:

What? 1-10 seconds length of visit…

This might mean 50% of visitors do not understand how my website works… omg. Maybe not the target audience.

As others have said, it’s not that people don’t understand how it works, but rather that it’s difficult to use. You should consider implementing navigation arrows, keyboard hotkeys, or some other secondary mechanism to use besides just dragging.

Whoa! This decade ends in less than two months.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:57:32 -0500

Whoa! This decade ends in less than two months.

caro: I can’t confess to being a Gilt groupie but I foresee...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:52:38 -0500

caro:

I can’t confess to being a Gilt groupie but I foresee potential personal bankruptcy at the hands of Jetsetter, its new sister site which taps right into my worst habits of weird travel and impulse purchases. Oh, by the way, you have never heard about this site because I definitely didn’t just tell you about it because it doesn’t exist and never will.

Anyway, now that you know never to jump on the bandwagon and make my sporadic travel deals more difficult to nab, I shall continue. When I’m in NYC later this month I’m primarily just be crashing with family or friends, but I couldn’t help myself when I saw that one of Jetsetter’s deals today was for the new Ace Hotel. Snagged one for Thursday night. Can’t wait.

But if my room doesn’t have a chalkboard above the bed I may be extremely disappointed.

Two foods that taste better with plastic eating utensils

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:10:00 -0400

Pasta salad
Strawberry yogurt

Rainbow Arabia - Haunted Hall Rainbow Arabia have made a lot of...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:00 -0400

Rainbow Arabia - Haunted Hall

Rainbow Arabia have made a lot of progress in less than a year. Digging the dub influence in this new track.

Photo

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:46:16 -0400

Eero Johannes - We Could Be Skweeeroes This has pretty much been...

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:56:00 -0400

Eero Johannes - We Could Be Skweeeroes

This has pretty much been on repeat at home since I discovered it. Eero Johannes mixes 90’s R&B (think TLC) with obscure patch choices to create some pretty compelling electronic tunes.

Sony Agrees to Deal Putting Older Songs on eMusic

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:11:00 -0400

Sony Agrees to Deal Putting Older Songs on eMusic:

artistspaid:

annielin:

Very interesting. It’s only been a few years since I was working in the eMusic licensing department reviewing their agreements, and at the time, I would never have imagined that a deal like this could happen.

To be completely realistic, this is very bad for independent music. The introduction of Sony’s catalogue to eMusic has caused subscription prices to skyrocket. A look at their forums or blog shows hundreds of users crying out about the effects this deal is having on their accounts. Users that previously paid a monthly fee for 90 downloads will now be charged that same fee — or one that’s very close — for 50 downloads. That nearly doubles the price per track. My own plan, which ran $75 a month for 300 downloads is being downgraded to a plan that costs $43 a month for 100.

So what does that actually mean? It means I will be downloading less independent music. When my total number of downloads is decreased and my price per track is increased, I am less likely to risk trying out an album I haven’t heard of. I am not talking about Pitchfork’s “Best New Music”. I am talking about real independent music — the type of music that depends on early adopters like me or other eMusic users to ever make it to a site like Pitchfork.

So once again a major label fucks over artists that aren’t even in the same ecosystem. Is that really worth it for a few older albums most people could find for cheaper in a bargain bin, digital or otherwise?

"This song is so good I’m holding my pee."

Sat, 16 May 2009 19:32:58 -0400

“This song is so good I’m holding my pee.”

- Bronques

Working on some new music. It starts to get really good around...

Fri, 15 May 2009 18:23:00 -0400

Working on some new music. It starts to get really good around this part.

The Beta Band - Out-Side Today is a Beta Band kind of day. If I...

Fri, 08 May 2009 14:23:56 -0400

The Beta Band - Out-Side

Today is a Beta Band kind of day. If I could post their whole catalog, I probably would.

jakelodwick: I revisited Sumas and Nubas today. Mostly I...

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:57:00 -0400

jakelodwick:

I revisited Sumas and Nubas today. Mostly I researched single-celled organisms, though I made some changes to the code as well:

New color scheme: blue background (“water”), green nubas (“chloroplasts”), tan sumas.

Elements are drawn more realistically: no black borders, and sumas are ellipses instead of squares.

When a suma dies, it fades away instead of instantly vanishing.

Nubas are 1/4 the size, instead of roughly the same size as the sumas, who eat them.

Future goals:

Add collision detection, so two sumas cannot occupy the same space.

Refine suma locomotion, so they have to swim toward their food instead of starting and stopping on a dime / instantly changing direction.

Sumas should asexually reproduce when they’ve eaten enough food, instead of “playing” (spinning in a circle).

Allow sumas to ‘team up’ into multicellular organisms.

Nice work. These sorts of projects are always fun to play around with.

One thing you can do is have the sumas apply additive “bursts” of velocity (think Asteroid-style controls) that drive them closer to the current location of their desired food. When they’re within a given radius of the food, they can then “lock on” and eat.

Pretty simple, assuming you update the location of the suma’s food for every tick. If you then take this a step further and tie the mechanism that updates their food location to a probability seed that is decided at creation time (say 1 out of 5 ticks for some, and 4 out of 5 for others) you’ve come up with a simple way to have some sumas appear more intelligent than others. The less intelligent sumas would get less food, causing them to theoretically die off and now you’ve got the basis for evolution.

As it turns out, this concept is also useful for rudimentary swarm behavior when applied across multiple axes.

Today, I purchased a Tenori-on. It should arrive by Monday.

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:14:00 -0400

Today, I purchased a Tenori-on. It should arrive by Monday.