Brad Barrish

Brian Whitman @ variogr.am: How music recommendation works -- and doesn't work

Brian Whitman @ variogr.am: How music recommendation works – and doesn’t work

grackle:

When you see an automated music recommendation do you assume that some stupid computer program was trying to trick you into something? It’s often what it feels like – with what little context you get with a suggestion on top of the postmodern insanity of a computer understanding how should you feel about music – and of course sometimes you actually are being tricked.

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newspeedwayboogie:

Beautiful pictures.

xzyoe:

These photos were made in the Camden (N. J. ) Music Fair. Joan Baez was the only performer on the billing; but she invited Bob Dylan up to perform with her, and their joint set occupied about 1/3 of the entire concert. These pictures are scanned from Ektachrome slides (hence some blurriness and dust); the personal computer had not yet been invented.
I shot these witha Contax IIa or IIIa; the lens was either a Zeiss or a Nikon lens with a Contax mount.

-John Rudoff

Gorgeous.