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"Let's go around the room"
If you say that in a meeting, you’ve failed. You’ve abdicated responsibility and just multiplied the time wasted by the number of people in the room.
Move over classic rock, make room for classic rap
Time Spent
TIME SPENT PROMOTES BOTH EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED RAP ARTISTS BY RECORDING LIVE PERFORMANCES THROUGH THE SPECIFIC MEDIUM OF VHS. THE VHS FORMAT WILL NOT ONLY SET OUR VIDEOS APART FROM THE CURRENT DEMAND FOR HD BUT ALSO REFERENCE THE EARLY DAYS OF NO BUDGET AND DIY STREET RAP VIDEOS. BY CHALLENGING THE RAP AND VIDEO ARTIST WITH A STRICT SET OF RULES, TIME SPENT CREATES AN OBJECTIVE VIEW OF RAP PERFORMANCE AS AN ART FORM IN A UNIQUE AND RAW EXPERIENCE.
The Cost of Being “Social”: Tweeting isn’t free by @jamesvandyne
“Tuning ‘77” - a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage. Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide between audience expectation and performance anxiety.
In July, during the recent Israeli war in Gaza, Whisper was able to monitor Israeli Defense Force soldiers on the frontline. “We had 13 or 14 soldiers who we were tracking – every whisper they did,” one Whisper executive said during the Guardian’s visit. Separately, Whisper has been following a user claiming to be a sex-obsessed lobbyist in Washington DC. The company’s tracking tools allow staff to monitor which areas of the capital the lobbyist visits. “He’s a guy that we’ll track for the rest of his life and he’ll have no idea we’ll be watching him,” the same Whisper executive said.
Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users | Technology | The Guardian
This report is scathing.
Whisper are denying it. I have concerns about the ethics of reporting on a company you’re in behind-closed-doors partnership discussions with, but I have no doubts about the Guardian’s reporting. I don’t guess they’ll be issuing any retractions here.
(via gregcohn)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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