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04/02/2009
  • woozie i. am.

    woozie i. am.
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    bblurred. what’s that all about? while i miss the smell of the darkroom (it’s been years) and covet the right dslr, my main, only camera these days is an iphone. the photo quality is not high, you have to be a little inventive.

    awhile ago i snapped the button (no tactile sensation!) while my index finger was just under the lens. the image was chopped off, blurry, and, voila, an idea was born: see if we can intentionally mess up the image and end up with something approaching art.

    so, we have the bblurred series on flickr. only eleven images so far including this one, but i’ll keep adding as i go.

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03/31/2009
  • a little night music:

    i’ve fallen in love with some new music (yet again!), and you should hear it too. so saunter over to wbgo and download or listen to two songs by the edward simon quartet with mark turner, recorded live in early march at the village vanguard. i really like “pere” (and struggling to figure out the rhythms), but “colega” is excellent too.

    btw, there’s also an hour-long village vanguard set by david sanchez available here.

    enjoy!!

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03/25/2009
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02/11/2009
  • Nate Silver nails the “Bailout” Commentariat:

    I can’t remember a time when the quality of our discourse so poorly matches the situation we face.

    FiveThirtyEight.com: Give Geithner a Break: “I’m sorry, but somewhere between 99.9% and 99.999999% of us are severely underqualified to be making policy recommendations on this particular issue. And I’m certainly in the majority on this one. My anecdotal experience for the past several months has been that the more someone knows about the economy, the more they know (or at least are willing to admit to) what they don’t know. Anyone who is professing with certainty that this or that will work — nationalizing the banks, for instance — is an idiot.”

    It’s hard to watch or listen to politicians and pundits use populist rhetoric to demagogue banking executives and administration officials about symbolic but trivial issues (like bonuses and corporate jets) that didn’t cause and won’t fix the problem, all because they don’t know enough or because we couldn’t understand it if they talked sense.

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02/02/2009

Baylands Sunset

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Baylands Sunset
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Nice day today in Palo Alto. 72º on Groundhogs Day! I went for a walk and came across this image. Nice!

  • Bye Bye Blackbird:

    I was searching emusic.com for songs featuring Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and came across this gem with Christian McBride:

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01/21/2009
  • President Obama, Jazz Musician:

    echovar’s The MicroCaster in Chief, puts President Obama in the context of jazz musicians:

    “Watching President Barack Obama work his way through the long, long inaugural day, I see a virtuoso. In each venue, at each moment, he’s broadcasting live across multiple streams of media. It’s live, well thought out, and in the moment. While the messages are carried by the major media networks, the voice speaks to the micro-community.

    “...

    “When a great player improvises he’s not making things up out of thin air. He knows the scales, the changes, the modes, the melody, the rhythm and the audience. And from those raw materials he makes something both familiar and new.”

    It’s a good comparison as Obama always seems to be operating on several levels at once. The post is interspersed with YouTube jazz snippets. I especially liked this one of Anthony Braxton performing “Impressions”:

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01/20/2009