Chris Howard's Blog, page 14
April 2, 2012
April 1, 2012
completely rad at 5 AM on a sunday...
completely rad at 5 AM on a sunday morning…..
A ferroelectric liquid crystal nucleating from bent-core liquid crystal material. Ferroelectricity is the property certain materials possess that cause them to exhibit spontaneous electrical polarization.
Image by Dr. Michi Nakata, University of Colorado at Boulder.
March 30, 2012
got up at 2:30 this morning to snag a couple STONE ROSES...
got up at 2:30 this morning to snag a couple STONE ROSES tix…. so i can finally see this guy play…. greatest drummer i've ever heard. best band i've ever known…. BARCELONA. june 9th. cannot wait!
Reni. Hunched producer of polyrhythms.
March 25, 2012
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your..."
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right on.
Ernest Hemingway (via sirmitchell)
March 22, 2012
this isn't happiness.: Jack Kerouac's List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
March 16, 2012
timelightbox:
Jan. 26, 2012. A Congolese man climbs a palm tree...
Jan. 26, 2012. A Congolese man climbs a palm tree to use parts of the tree for housing.
TIME reports from the Central African village where the U.S. Military has set up camp to help track down the LRA's Joseph Kony. See more here.
Bruce Springsteen's SXSW Keynote: "Listen up youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished."
The Boss's SXSW keynote is well worth listening to. It's really a kind of musical history: he takes you step-by-step through his family tree of influences — Elvis, Roy Orbison, Phil Spector, The Beatles, The Animals, Punk Rock, Soul, Motown, Stax, Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, James Brown, Dylan, Hank Williams, and finally, Woody Guthrie.
Rather than focus on technology or changes in the music business, he pointed to what doesn't change: creativity, or "how you're putting together what you're doing."
The purity of human expression and experience is not confined to guitars, to tubes, to turntables, to microchips. There is no right way, no pure way, of doing. There is just doing.
He was also totally upfront about his knack for creative thievery. After playing The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," he said:
That's every song I've ever written. That's all of them. I'm not kidding, either. That's "Born To Run," "Born in the USA," everything I've done for the past 40 years.
He then went on to show how he borrowed from "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" for "Badlands":
Listen up youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished… It's the same fucking riff!
And finally, as if he knew how obsessed I've been with authenticity lately:
We live in a post-authentic world. Today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, your personal history, and at the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.
Awesome talk. Go listen or read these 20 highlights.
Filed under: Bruce Springsteen.
