Arts

Just caught the headline that the Bob Dylan musical “The Times They Are A-Changin’” is headed to Broadway. For some reason it made me think of the Home Movies episode where Brendon is working on Louie, Louie, a film about the fictional meeting of two great Louies, Louis Pasteur and Louis Braille (“We are two great men both named Louie!” (sic)).

The point is I’m not at all interested in the musical as-is, but I would be if it was about the fictional meeting of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley. Now that would be worth watching.

The Brooklyn Museum just added me as a Flickr contact. Hmmm. How'd that happen? I can only imagine they're adding everyone who listed themselves as living in Brooklyn. Still, I don't mind joining their 319 other contacts (as of now). It's time to check out their new Graffiti exhibit anyway...

Oh man — the Channel Frederator podcast is amazing. What it does is remind me immediately of the content (and the similar experience) that we had going with sputnik7, but in a deliciously portable form. The more I see where things are today, the more I appreciate just how ahead of our time we were. Of course, the big lesson being you can’t be too far ahead or otherwise no one’s there waiting for you.

What the guys at RES now need to do is find leverage some of the content they have on the magazine’s DVDs into the podcast format — that is, if they have the rights, of course.

That also goes to all the other sites out there that have high-production content that isn’t aired on television. Otherwise, the format is going to get stuck in public-access-online mode, which alone is awesome for those creating personal content (hey, I’ve had a few PA favorites myself over the years), but it could be…er…awesomer.

Cited from An Audioblogging Manifesto:

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end…We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate”
—Henry David Thoreau

I’ve dreamed the ‘European Dream.’ I dreamt that every country in Europe spoke a different language and they hated each other. Oh, that’s true, isn’t it? Yes.

I can’t even begin to describe Crying While Eating—I’ve been told it is somehow associated with Contagious Media/Eyebeam (you know, the “Black People Love Us” folk) so you’ve been warned!