Santa’s done me a solid. It’s 4:47 AM and I drink the 8 flavor.

New images result from some time spent in the studio on my day off. Finished the pics no problem and then I got into a bigger project. It took some time. Lucky for me that brother Jamie came through and helped wrap things up.

New track is online. Go see it when you get a minute.

Plane to Detroit shortly. Starting to pack. Pay some bills too and cut off all loose ends because I’m taking a proper trip. Rap is not proper. This trip tho… it will be.

Tone Recognition with Jake Mandell:

http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

Tone Memory with Ze Frank:

http://www.zefrank.com/memory/tones/

Sheep Beats with the Harvard Sheep:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nesson/sequencer.html

I saw a great blog today and I’d have linked to it but for the fact that the authors put large obnoxious tags on all their images. On a photo blog! Too bad.

I guess that’s what happens when we hear too many stories about how hard it is for the recording industry to survive in the face of online piracy…

It’s easy to forget about abundance. It’s a little sad when people assume scarcity and allow that assumption to govern how they distribute their work.

Of course this is a complex issue and I don’t suggest that everyone should just give their work away. I do suggest that we all carefully consider the things that we assume to be scarce.

I propose that small format (less then 800 px by 600 px) web resolution (72 dpi) images are not scarce.

Words and ideas aren’t scarce either.

Ignore the link in the sidebar. It’s there only as a reminder.

It’s not a technical challenge either. Just time. It’ll happen in 2007. Until then you’re left to your own devices.