bldgblog
Uno as art
Oct|30|2006
As jy ‘n bietjie van ‘n fan van argitektuur is, check die ene:
BLDGblog
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Bright lights, big nights
Oct|30|2006
reblog via We Make money not Art
Social consciousness is nogals hoog op in my thought processes, en ek het nou al die afgelope tydjie dit bietjie afgeskeep. Om een of ander rede dink ek dat ek eventueel een of ander moerse socially conscious projek gaan launch baie later in my lewe wat die wereld uit armoede uit gaan haal. Ek weet ek gaan nie, maar daar is daardie thought process, en dit is dalk hoekom ek nie nou deelneem aan huise bou in Kayamandi nie.
So nou check hierdie projek in Stockholm:
The windows on the ten floors along the tower body constantly change
colour. Anyone can call a number, +46 (70) 57 57 807, and control the
colours in the windows of the tower by mixing red, green and blue light
with their phone. You can do it on site or by looking at a camera stream on the webpage. It can be seen from quite some distance in every direction.
So iets met die Garden Centre sou nogals cool wees. Dis ‘n ongelooflike prominente gebou. Ek sou wou sien dat die liggies dan gekoppel is aan een of ander vlak van iets, wat mens socially conscious maak en wat in realtime konstant verander. Iets soos die hoeveelheid crimes wat report word, of rapes of selfs elke keer as daar ‘n McDonalds burger gekoop word. Enigiets wat mense bewus sal maak dat daar iets is wat konstant besig is om te gebeur met iets buite hulle, maar wat hopelik hulle sal aanspoor om meer bewus te wees.
As iemand ‘n pic het van die Kaapstad Garden Centre sal ek dit waardeer!
En as iemand saam met my hierdie projek wil aanpak, laat weet dan doen ons dit volgende jaar. Ek’s moerse keen.
The Student Editor’s Forum
Uno as Die Online Matie, Online, Stellenbosch Universiteit, Web2.0
Oct|30|2006
Die site is gelaunch! Yinne daai is SOOO ‘n friggin web2.0 logo!
Van Gregoogle:
Today we (Jo’s Toolkit) have launched the student Editor’s Forum.
This forum acts as a platform for all student editors to converse and discuss issues surrounding student media.
It will also aid the development and strategic planning for next year’s student media Captivate conference.
The forum has the potential to create some really interesting discussions, which will further generate documentations and articles which will be presented on Jo’s Toolkit at a later stage.
If editor, or non editor, anybody who has an interest or has knowledge within the field of student media if welcome to log in and add value to the discussions.
Dis net ‘n jammerte dit het nie ‘n violator nie 
Elkgeval, ek dink hierdie is ‘n ongelooflike platform vir studentemedia om te groei en van mekaar te leer. Ek reken ons gaan in die volgende jaar ‘n massiewe sprong sien in die kwaliteit van koerante
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Record Sales
Uno as Uncategorized
Oct|26|2006
I am on a mission to find out how much money an artist receives from record sales. If anyone knows, please drop me a line. I’m trying to find out how much a record company takes, then how much the artist receives and if this is any different from the music sold online. Say, through iTunes.
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Taxi Graf
Uno as Ideas, Online, Uncategorized
Oct|26|2006
Just stumbled across a cool site, Taxi Graf:
this blog documents south african taxi graphics. all images are supplied by the public.
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Music Piracy
Uno as Ideas
Oct|24|2006
Drumnbass.co.za het alweer ‘n helse debat oor pirate MP3’s. Ek is natuurlik ‘n helse pirate, so toe post ek hierdie:
yeah! The MP3 debate!
When I heard about it I came straight back running!
Imagine two DJing crews:
Pirates Crew (PC) plays all the
latest banging shit. It’s all new, all fresh, their partys are awesome.
They don’t pay for their music, or, it doesn’t matter to them. If they
can get it earlier by paying for it, then they will, otherwise they’ll
download it from Soulseek (which, in this debate, has become synonymous with any P2P software). So it doesn’t matter, as long as they get new songs.
Legal Guys plays whatever they
can get hold of, but which isn’t necessarily the newest. Their partys
are also awesome, but they have an attitude that they only pay for
their music, which means that the music they play, the Legal Guys, are
always about a week or two older, than the Pirates Crew.
Now, imagine, hypothetically (since that’s what it is you do when
you imagine), that there is another crew. These guys are called the Purists.
The purists only play music that they have received from the producers
personally. So in that way, other DJ’s can’t even get their hands on
the records, it’s simply not for sale (“How can you put a price on art?”
they say). The reason is that they don’t want other people to play
their tracks, so they keep it in a locked in circle. At the end of they
day, there are only about 10 DJ’s, and trying to break into the scene
is next to impossible.
Imagine another scenario: DJ’s are the gatekeepers of music. They
are paid to play tracks. So Goldie pays DJ Hype to drop Goldie – BGT
(Big Goue Tande). Why? The reasoning is that if the DJ plays it, then
the punters will buy it, and that is where the real market is. So DJ’s
get music free, play it on the club nights, and the next day 500 people
go out to buy the record.
But I digress…
Punters don’t really give a
damn actually. They want the newest music and couldn’t really care if
your music was legal or not. If it’s getting old, then rework it, or
get something new, as long as it keeps them dancing and it’s fresh.
So which one of these different scenarios would you say is better
for the music? In scene one, the artists aren’t being payed if a DJ
plays their music, i.e. they don’t receive any money off record sales,
but the scene is constantly evolving, a different set is played almost
every night as there is such an abundance of new music out there. In
scene two, the artists get some money through record sales, but artists
(and DJ’s as well) aren’t pushing out new stuff as much as in scene
one. They are still getting new stuff out, but the scene isn’t moving
along so quickly as in scenario one.
And the other two are hypothetical, but I’m sure you can imagine what would happen in them.
I’d like to argue in favour of the first scenario,
and for the Pirates Crew. I think the revenue model for music has
changed. Artists should not expect to make any money off record sales,
it needs to come from performances. And I’m not arguing this because
I’d like to get free music, I’m arguing this because that is the way in
which the market is operating. And it isn’t going to change, it’s a way
of thinking of goods and their exchange, and it also flattens the market hierarchy.
So in a way I’m arguing that if the music-economy works so that you pay
for music, then you are actually stifling the scene, which is a
completely different way of looking at things. I mean, you should be
doing it as an artform anyway, shouldn’t you? For the love of the game?
Ok, I did a course on deconstruction last year… that might be where this is coming from… 
Where I think it’s different: Corporates using jingles for
advertising. That’s a pure piece of profit happening over there. All
music should be released under Creative Commons licences, meaning if
you use it to make profit then you should pay for it.
Say, at a party, there are two rooms, one has a fat system, pumping
out eardeafening beats, the songs are all the latest on the charts, but
here and there there are a few shockers. The music is selected from a playlist, in otherwords, there is an iPod plugged
into a massive sound system. in the other room, there is a DJ, playing
exacly the same music but mixing it up, dropping some samples,
tweaking, scratching, doing the things that DJ’s do.
Which room will be fuller? The DJ’s room.
Why? Because the DJ adds something to the party, his labour,
or skill. That is what the DJ is being payed for. I can play the exact
same track selection that Andy C played at Fabric over the weekend, but
it won’t be the same. Different crowd,
different vibe, and most importantly, different skill level at mixing.
That’s why playing illegal music doesn’t matter. The value-added
service is the DJ. Otherwise you can put a playlist on, and that is why
the argument that “DJ’s who use illegal music shouldn’t be allowed to
play” doesn’t work. It’s completely denies the skill of the DJ,
reducing her to simply another tool with no claim to output.
Take this bottom example: Does Marcel Duchamp pay some Leonardo da Vinci society royalties for his version of the Mona Lisa?
It clearly relies on the other one. Is this different from using samples from movies? You reference Pulp Fiction and use the commercial success of the movie.
Sheez, that was getting really long, and I might still have more to
say. If you’re going to comment, please quote the section. There are a
few ideas in there that I might not have explained fully.
Oh yeah, I’m writing this while I’m browsing through Soulseek
looking for music to DJ on Thursday and Friday. I haven’t been able to
find the tracks in online-record stores…. It’s just too difficult!
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J&B’s Urban Art Expo In Barca
Oct|23|2006
Shit dit sal cool wees as daar so iets in Kaapstad is.
The International Outdoor Urban Art Exhibition is a show sponsored by J&B
that selects 10 artists to create art for large billboards on Barcelona
streets. Artists include: Aya Kato, Boris Hoppek, Bruno 9li, Catalina
Estrada, Dalek, Eltono & Nuria, Fupete, Neasden Control Centre,
Sixeart, Ovni & Kenor.
More details: .: ROJO®Urban art exhibition in Barcelona :.
Photo Project
Uno as Uncategorized
Oct|23|2006
Hehehe, hierdie is moerse cool.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dnGo_2tZA]
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Newspapers and Technology
Uno as Die Online Matie, Online
Oct|18|2006
hoe simpel is dit.
die website Newspapers and Technology het nie eers ‘n RSS feed nie. I mean…. wtf hey?
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Madonna
Oct|17|2006
Madonna’s adopted child arrives
Die taal wat hulle gebruik is scary. Dis so half asof sy oor die internet vir haar ‘n orphan kon bestel met haar krediet kaart en dan arriveer dit in ‘n netjiese boks.
hey… daar’s nogals ‘n cool idee vir ‘n parodie website… enigiemand keen? the REAL amazon.com
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