random stuff about random stuff
If the world's biggest pop star only made $12 million a year from his recordings, why would anyone make serious music? Where did the rest of the money go? Why, straight into record labels' pockets. Did they make better music with it? Nope — they made Britney and Lady GaGa. And that's how they killed themselves: by underinvesting in quality, to rake in the take.
This is a good question. If the king of pop music only made 12 million dollars a year, how much can an average artist make in the same period of time? My guess is: not much.
Interesting interview.
The concept behind Sliced Bread Notebook is great. In the package, 12 individual notebooks (slices) lay like real sliced bread and offer enough pages to fill with whatever you want. And they make a great gift! So, If you happen to not knowing what to offer for my birthday, in October, you can send me a package.
Bent nails and simple scenarios. These are the only two "ingredients" used by Czech photographer Vlad Artazov to explore the wide range of human emotions in a series of amazing photographs.
Here, you have only four examples of this experience. In Design Swan you can see the full series. Prepare yourself to be amazed.
The Fiat Cinque Tank, a dream bulldozer custom-built by ironsmith Kogoro Kurata, consists of an old Fiat 500 body mounted on the caterpillar tracks of a cheap secondhand tractor.
So damn cool.
Just another unknown guy trying to, you know, do something related or not to some other stuff, and a free software evangelist who loves to write. Besides that, I'm just crazy about music.
That's all, folks! ;P
