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Rosano
A pianist from Toronto, Canada
If you’re going to play, play like it’s the last time.
on economy
Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain
“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship”
Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.
And the same principle, as I should suppose, applies to all composite things—furniture, houses, garments: when good and well made, they are least altered by time and circumstances.
It’s a good thing he [Anatoly Lyadov, counterpoint/composition instructor at Petersburg Conservatory] did say A and I answered him B: that meant progress in music.
Think about this: with these changes, we’d have much smaller living expenses, because housing would be affordable, we wouldn’t be paying for cars, food would be cheaper, school would be free, other things would be cheap because we’d be using libraries for everything. We’d not be consumers, but builders and creators and growers.
Dieter Rams and the products he designed for Braun and Vitsœ
I am absolutely fascinated with Dieter Rams!
Reuse | Sustainability: Vitsœ’s ethos
“we see recycling as a defeat”
Incredible.
Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design
Steve Reich at the Red Bull Music Academy talking about his work, technical processes, compositional style, and workflow. He offers a wide variety of general advice from his experience.
On Writing and Drawing
According to vehicle designer Paul Ozzimo, who worked with TyRuben Ellingson (whom we already interviewed a while back), the designers suggested putting jets onto the Samson and Dragon flying vehicles, instead of propellers. But Cameron nixed the idea. “He said no, propellers are still very efficient. It was really a shock to me that these vehicles didn’t have jet engines on them,” recalls Ozzimo. But Cameron insisited that in the future, there will be super-efficient propellers. “I really do think it makes for a much more believable vehicle, the propeller idea, because with a jet you don’t really get to see a moving part. You just see a tube, and a flame coming out or whatever. It’s kind of boring.” Also, Ozzimo says he feels like the propellers add a much-needed vulnerability to these craft, which need to be powerful and imposing, but also get “taken down” by the Na’Vi at the end. “That was a typical Jim stroke of genius, to put propellers on these things.
