Blog #8

- Rhythmic Cinema

Any Shift in The traffic of information can create not only new thoughts, but new ways of thinking (86)

This relate to Web 2.0 and user based sites, where all the user share information. It kinda reminds me of music sharing, YouTube, Tagging, etc... All things Web 2.0 and the information highway (does anyone still calls it thaT???)

- Rhythmic Space

Panache - words and code modules, bits and bytes, temporal arbitrage. Follow the vector across a narrative arc and feel how the net's architecture resonates with the convergence on many cultures and styles. .. where people create and add modules of thought ware to the mix, making it all a little more interesting. (89)

This guy is high as hell

-Errata Erratum

In the remix, single notes are assigned not to playing cards, but rather to digitized “roto-reliefs,” on-line representations of the engraved cards that Duchamp made throughout his career and gave away randomly to people.” (96)

This is how people distribute information, in this case music, over the web. Also, in the late 90's, artist would burn CDs and give them away for free in order to get some exposure. This is the so called underground mixtapes.

- The Future is here

We're probably the first generation to grow up in a completely electronic environment (101).

True that Spooky! But guess what? my mom now had not one BUT TWO facebook pages to keep all her kids on check. What you going to say about that? The information we share and my friends share on my page gets to more people that what we can think of. This provides venues for artist, intellectuals and concerned mothers.

- The Prostitute

The music and art i create is an end result of a life lived in an environment where almost all aspects of urban life were circumscribed by the coded terrains of a planet put in parentheses by satellites in the sky beaming back everything long ago (108).

Life experiences and the history of ones culture shape the way we look at the world and it also shapes the way we produce writing/art, the way we express ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSNltEIqOpg&feature=player_embedded

A song by Rick Ross that sampled a song by the Mexican rock band Azul Violeta, who was covering a song by 70's mexican singer Jose Jose. How this beat from the 70's ended in Rick Ross's producers? The producer could have gotten this from a vinyl, napster, YouTube, someone else's iPod. The possibilities are endless. But what this proves is that the information that travels through the web is able to get to the hands of people that are going to put that information to good use.