That's a fair question.
The arts are seen as a luxury and a frippery. They are also seen as elitist.
If you want to defund public services and remain popular, the playbook is to remove the arts first. That way you are demonstrating the order of needs.
It's 1994. The Bosnian-Serbian conflict is still raging. Some cool dude from the UN peace keepers thinks it would be good to have a concert.
He contacts Bruce Dickinson and says, "wanna play a much needed gig in a warzone?"
Bruce says, "yes".
Here's the documentary.
You can't defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.
You know where this is going.
The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.
And opposing those actions is not antisemitic.
We take those two things together as truth and we are getting somewhere.
I blame cooking blogs for introducing this bloat.
"First let me tell you a little about my relationshio with cinnamon... It all started 40 years ago whilst I was..."
Yes totally, but counter to that there are still an awful lot of places where internet is borderline dialup and access to information is still primarily text based. Furthermore, translating text under these conditions is considerably easy than translating audio.
Investing in education on a global level, as opposed to a US level is a question of access and infrastructure.
This was the video that caused me to post:
I'm gen-x and I am at the point where I don't know if I say anything unironically any more.
(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)
That hair though.
C'mon man, it's time to get a coverage appropriate cut or just shave it altogether.
He looks like a boiled sweet that's been dropped on the carpet.
When I use the internet to learn, I don't want to have to spend 2 minutes watching an advert, then try to decipher an accent I can barely understand whilst a 15 year old speed runs the task whilst seemingly skipping crucial steps in a video.
I want the steps written down. Maybe with diagrams.
I'm old. Learning is hard enough.
This is a really lovely, well composed,image. The noise/grain works really well in providing texture and the colour palette is subtle but effective.
Yeah, nice work.
Is this taken down by the river? I'd be interested to know.
I once made a music video for Sony Universal.
They paid me £4k.
They liked it a lot and asked if I would do another. I asked if the fee was the same and they said I'd be doing it for exposure.
I told them I'm capable of exposing myself.
I stuck it to them.
I'm still poor, but at least I'm not working for it.
All my heart still belongs to the canon HV20 forum. It taught me how to film, it taught me how to chat to people in an online community.
It was never about a camcorder. It was about connection.
Plus, you could search for stuff on google and the forum results would pop up. Good look with discord doing that.
Yup, needs are approx 115% of my budget, but thanks for insinuating it is me that's being shit with maths.
(And in before the "live within your means" crowd... I was doing until my landlord doubled my rent and they started having to put anti-theft devices on packs of butter).
Hi, I'm Issac Newton, you might remember me from... The motions.
Hello, long time listener, first time caller...
I just wanted to say hi. I'm very much interested in the grain, the unplanned and the documentary when it comes to analogue photography.
This one was shot on fomapan 400 and an Optima 335 that I've had in my jacket pocket for a while.
track by Competition Speedcube
Hello!
I though you might like the more nerdier details about this track.
The equipment is a Pro-1, an Uno Synth and a Volca Keys (set to octave). All running through a Behringer xenyx and recorded on a tascam dp 006.
I used an Sq-64 for the sequencing, which was a steep learning curve but I think it came out ok.
In terms of the music I was particularly interested in timbrality changes and phasing as well as emergent patterns. I'd planned for the piece to be around an hour long, but it came to a natural conclusion at the 21 minute mark and I went with that.
There's also a version on YouTube here, where I used the recorded midi output to create an animation. It was a bit of an afterthought, but I think it might make some great and complex visuals down the line as a technique.
Ok, thank you for your time.
Long time listener, first time caller.
My first post to Lemmy is a piece of modernist music I've made for three synthesizers.
In this case, I used a Behringer Pro-1, an Uno Synth, and a Volca Keys.
I'm very much interested in repetition and emergent rhythms. Feel free to share some of your own work if you think I'd be into it.
