Max Horkheimer, always an optimist:
“As their telescopes and microscopes, their tapes and radios become more sensitive, individuals become blinder, more hard of hearing, less responsive, and society more opaque, hopeless, its misdeeds (those just committed and those that threaten) larger, more superhuman than ever before.”
From Dawn and Decline
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floating-point by mr/e http://flic.kr/p/emuRrS
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Beach House / Twin Shadow / Chromatics / Rudi Zygadlo / Matthew Dear / Frank Ocean / Flying Lotus / Bobby Womack / UMA / The xx
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Some uplifting prose
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The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
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my new #experimental mixtape
Colin Stetson / Daniel Higgs / Ben Vida / Julia Holter / Bruce Gilbert / Chris Watson / Fabio Orsi / Oval / Bill Orcutt / Mark Fell / Emeralds / Jacaszek / Daniel Johnston / So Percussion
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Do you, we ask, need visuals?
“At some point it’s a reinforcing element, but it’ll block the mind if it’s the wrong program. For instance, you hear a record, you get into a virtual reality, and a week later you see a video. But if it’s not compatible with your virtual reality, you lose something.”
Kraftwerk, 1991 -
overnight
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“field is an abstract audiovisual work that generates itself through real-time camera input. Brightness saturation and color are interpreted, and translated into a constructed grid. The image plays the sound. Available on iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (camera required).”
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“We’re living in a time where we’re a bit obsessed with nostalgia, not too many new aesthetics are emerging these days, but we are finding ways to always remix and recombine already established ideas to create something new out of them,” (via Move Over Instagram: pxl Instantly Turns Your Pics Into Pixel Art)
(submitted by locs)
