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Liked on YouTube: Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments – BBC Arts
More information: http://bbc.in/1SC6Atc New Order’s Blue Monday was released on 7 March 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop music forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? In a special film, using only instruments available in the 1930s – from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano – the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you’ve never heard it before.
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Liked on YouTube: Wintergatan – Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)
Marble Machine built and composed by Martin Molin
Video filmed and edited by Hannes Knutsson
Video filmed and edited by Hannes Knutsson
Costume designed by Angelique Nagtegaal
Swedish band Wintergatan will play live concerts starting from summer 2016. For booking inquiries email: jesper.kumberg@gmail.com
There is alot of people requesting audio, i will try to fix a download link tonight! Best/ Martin
www.wintergatan.net
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Nose to Tail
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Intuition
That’s what people call successful decision making that happens without a narrative. Intuition isn’t guessing. It’s sophisticated pattern matching, honed over time. Don’t dismiss intuition merely because it’s difficult to understand. You can get better at it by practicing.
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si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses:
si tacuisses, philosophies mansisses
If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher
This quote is often attributed to the Latin philosopher Boethius of the late fifth and early sixth centuries. It translates literally as, “If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher.” The phrase illustrates a common use of the subjunctive verb mood. Among other functions it expresses actions contrary to fact. Sir Humphrey Appleby translated it to the PM as: “If you’d kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever.”
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"Selling our company to Big Beer is not in our future. No matter the size of the check. Period." @sdut @StoneGreg https://t.co/Pll98NSjWE
— Stone Brewing (@StoneBrewing) February 20, 2016
Financial Times’ response to ad-cutting threat from HP is great
The Financial Times ran a column critical of Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman. The company’s marketing chief, Henry Gomez, threatened to cut the advertising it ran in the newspaper. Lucy Kellaway’s response is perfect.
My piece was not biased and I fear you misunderstand our business model. It is my editors’ steadfast refusal to consider the impact of stories on advertisers that makes us the decent newspaper we are. It is why I want to go on working here. It is why the FT goes on paying me.
Kellaway seems almost happy to have gotten such a direct threat in the first place, in an age of smarmy PR outreach and cold silence. But it’s no surprise that HP is the one to break ranks. When did it get its reputation for this sort of "nice ads you have there" nastiness?
via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/02/16/financial-times-response-to.html