8-bit Jazz
Miles Davis’ ‘Kind Of Blue’ recently celebrated its 50th birthday. One of the best tributes I’ve come across is an 8-bit version of the legendary album. You can listen to it here:
Kind of Bloop – An 8-bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.
Ted 2009
Early this year another TED conference was held… so that means there’s a lot of new and interesting talks being uploaded to the TED website. Here’s a few personal highlights to start with…
Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
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Why job interviews are a joke
This article (”A scruffy dillema”) is something I wholeheartedly agree with.
While she was away, I scanned the form which she’d been completing during the interview. Viewed from upside down it made little sense.
But there was one scrawled comment across the top of the form which was clearly legible. I shifted slightly to the left to bring it into focus. And there it was, the verdict on all my smooth talking, on all my shows of interest, on all my engaging smiles and enthusiastic nods.
It read: “Scruffy. Suggest Stock Room.”
I always wonder if it used to be different. If people could just knock on someone’s door, say I’m looking for a job and get it, based on the fact that they’re capable, looking for a job and thus willing to work… without sitting in a room confronted by people who can’t look past a pose, clothes, beard, hairstyle or glasses. Not even a spotless academic record will save you from them.
These kind of job interviews get old fast, they stifle progress, and are based on the idea that people who look different are inherently different, thus making superficial discrimination okay. It’s human cattle herding. It’s freaking ludicrous.
Someone should’ve stuck Einstein in a storage room.
Stare into space
Why thinking about distant things can make us more creative, or …
The question, of course, is what those situations are: what makes us more creative at times and less creative at others? One answer is psychological distance.
I think this is about blocking your immediate reality to make room for abstract, creative thought. Something a lot of us are already very adept at…
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity @ Scientific American.
Totally chilled
Another mighty fine mix by Blick (also check out a previous mix by him). This time it’s chilled out golden age drum ‘n bass.
Tracklist
Aqueous – Flux – Future Music CD 1996
LTJ Bukem – Rainfall – Looking Good Records
Lisa Moorish – Love For Life (PFM Mix) – Go! Discs Ltd
Seba & Lotek – So Long – Looking Good Records
Big Bud – Memories – Creative Source
Wax Doctor – Maracatudo – Far Out Recordings
New Balance – Secret Portraits – Looking Good Records
The Architex – Altitude – Architecture
The Sentinal – Pulse Of Life – Basement Records
Blu Mar Ten – The Fountain – Way Out Records
Future Bound – Sorrow – Skanna
Voyager – See Forever – R & S Records
Art Of Noise – Something Always Happens (Doc Scott Remix) – China Records
Wax Doctor – Heat – R & S Records
Nitin Sawhney – Breathing Light – V2 Records Inc
Enjoy!
B4md
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