Next time you’re in an Apple retail store, take a look at the floor. If you’re in a newer store, you’ll notice that the dark gray stone is incredibly smooth, durable, and flecked with random bits of shiny material. The 30"x30" square tiles are made of stone called Italian Tuscan or Pietra Serena sandstone, and it’s a good material to keep in mind for your next flooring project.
As for me, my next flooring project of this caliber is about 10-15 years from now. As the song says, Don’t stop, believin’…
Until now, [correcting pitch] was only possible with
single notes — an exaggerated example can be heard
in Cher’s 1998 hit, “Believe,” which used the competing
Auto-Tune system. For more than a decade, that software
has been the recording industry’s dirty little secret, fixing
any out-of-tune notes crooned by an individual singer
or played on any single-note instrument. But this
breakthrough takes that magic manipulation many steps
further, allowing engineers to create entirely new music
from existing recordings.
With this astonishing software, engineers can dig deep into
< a mix. For example, they could change each individual note
of a guitar chord, or fix one wrong note played by a musician
in a symphony orchestra. It’s like Photoshop for music.
The demo video is the coolest thing I’ve seen all month — and the song they use to demonstrate the software is pretty cool, too. Make sure to watch the part where they start completely shuffling around guitar notes plucked out of individual cords.
Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser make up the band MGMT. I’m addicted to the grinding bass and counter melodies in their catchy song “Kids”. Give a listen to the full song at Last.fm.
Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi is a cult film I think I might enjoy:
The film consists primarily of slow motion and
time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes
across the United States. The visual tone poem
contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its
tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In
the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means ‘crazy
life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating,
a state of life that calls for another way of living’, and the
film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.
