MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…BRILLIANT!
Genius.
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Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here (Smog cover)
Just about right for a rainy cover Friday morning in New York.
Oh What A Beautiful Morning, 14th St. L Platform
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Plants and Animals - Lightshow
Some days, like today, this is exactly right.
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“A nuanced analysis of the international shipping industry through interpretative dance,” you say? I have finally found the right dance project to complete my pie.
Shannon Gillen may already have created three Kickstarter projects, but she still manages to pull out all the stops with her latest: BOTLEK, a nuanced analysis of the international shipping industry through interpretative dance. She’s combining pre-recorded found sound and original texts with her highly original, modern moves to tell a complex maritime tale. So we made her our Project of the Day, which is our version of giving a standing ovation.
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Embracing the Mothers of Invention
So remember how I speculated that the high profile of the tech/gadget projects may be a mixed blessing for Kickstarter? Well, that came to mind in reading this (very enthusiastic) writeup in the NYT.
It makes perfect sense that David Pogue would focus on this cool tech stuff facet of Kickstarter, but the piece overall does serve to reenforce this view of Kickstarter as a mechanism for preorders — that it’s about the products you can get, rather than the projects you’re backing.
It’ll be interesting to see how Kickstarter’s own marketing develops. When I heard that they were hiring a filmmaker it gave me some ideas about the direction they’re going, and if I’m even close to right about what they’re planning, I love it.
If Kickstarter can keep the experience of backing a project as the sort-of-secret centerpiece — and someone who can help project creators document and frame their own experience of a project could be a real boon there — I think that some really fantastic things will happen.
Thursday: huh. (Taken with picplz.)
Wednesday Night At The Food Coop
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Most interesting to me, Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect of Google says:
“We thought this was going to be a huge deal: that people would behave very differently when they were and weren’t going by their real names. After watching the system for a while, we realized that this was not, in fact, the case. (And in particular, bastards are still bastards under their own names.) We’re focusing right now on identifying bad behaviors themselves, rather than on using names as a proxy for behavior.”
That’s gotta hurt.
The key takeaway: Google spent a huge amount of goodwill on an attractive, but untested idea, which Yonatan summarizes as “Bastards won’t be bastards under their real name.” (As an aside, there’s a lean startup lesson there, but Google has yet to pivot.) You shouldn’t make the same mistake.
Google Failed Because of Real Names « Emergent Chaos
OMG an untested idea turns out to be false? That never happens! Ever! <sarcasm off>
Moral of the story? Always assume your hypothesis are hypothesis and more often then not will be wrong in the face of real world testing.
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Nicky Thomas - Suzanne Beware of the Devil
If you don’t smile after the first ten seconds of this, there’s probably something wrong with you.
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