Tag Archives: commerce
links for 2010-01-18: Eno and the end of records
Eno alludes in passing, to the end of recorded music as a way to make a living "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky." … more…
links for 2007-12-08: Strummer’s memorabilia
Clash man’s widow plans book | UK | Reuters Joe Strummer’s personal memorabilia stash unearthed, now to be turned into a book in collaboration with… Damien Hirst. Yeah, that’s what I thought. (tags: Joe-Strummer, Lucinda-Mellor, Damien-Hirst, Clash, punk, music, commerce, … more…
links for 2007-09-04: Rick Rubin, anti-nazi clowns
Rick Rubin – New York Times “Either all the record companies will get together or the industry will fall apart… the future technology companies will either wait for the record companies to smarten up, or they’ll let them sink until … more…
world of anarchie
Susan Archie is the design genius behind nearly all the best box sets that have been released in the last ten years or so. Seriously: all the various Revenant boxes, the Albert Ayler box, the Charley Patton box, the Beefheart … more…
handsoap
handsoap Ew! (via blort)
links for 2007-08-11: booksellers, Gilles Deleuze
Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers – and small publisher sticks it to the man. (tags: australia books commerce publishing) L’Abecedaire de Gilles Deleuze, with Claire Parnet (tags: philosophy theory deleuze)
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom – washingtonpost.com 19-year old student makes twenty-second clip of Transformers movie, is busted: Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip of the sci-fi adventure’s climax … more…
Intel Inside: musical meanings in an ad and a jingle
Here’s an example of one of the ways that YouTube should be genuinely valuable: in decoding and deconstructing propaganda. This particular instance, a thirty second ad for the Pentium processor from 1995, examines the jingle especially closely. (via Madame Lévy)
Aberystwyth
I’ve rooted this postcard out of the dusty place, and made a fresh scan. I didn’t find out, on my recent trip to those parts, whether it it still for sale in the tourist shops. I do hope so. Certainly … more…
Modern Alchemy: Tincture of Winchester
I am partial to smoky flavours — smoked cheese, smoked fish, smoked tea, all that good stuff — so the Tincture of Winchester candle, apparently named after the rifle and giving forth, according to this here online brochure, an aroma … more…