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» My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-5)

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“ Don’t use a zoom lens! you have legs and you should always go closer then you dare to. A wide angle lens is much more direct then a (‘much safer’) telephoto lens. Fuck the rules concerning light and horizon, throw away the rules, do your own thing. Take your time, being interested is the best introduction. Choose the pictures with your mind, not after taking them when you are watching on the screen of your camera. Don’t make to many pictures! keep your overview.

— Photography tips by Eddy van Wessel on Red Bull 5 Pics contest Via Nalden.

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» My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

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Just installed the Disqus commenting system on my Tumblog. Took me 5 minutes. Great. Nice thing about Disqus is that it lets you login with your Twitter account for example and aggregates discussion elsewhere on the Web about something I posted. And why a commenting system at all? Like they say themselves:

“Why do people write more comments on sites using Disqus? It’s because we believe that there’s no difference between a great comment and a great blog post.”

Fire away!

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» Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Artists

Thanks Joel Lazarus - cool app!

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“ As a musician, I don’t want to expend any energy whatsoever preventing people from hearing our music. I think that’s antithetical to the idea of making it. Yes, we streamed it. Basically we set it up so people who felt guilty about stealing our music could donate some money to our favorite charity.

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Questions for Jeff Tweedy - Rock of Ages - Interview - NYTimes.com

In May, Wilco’s new album was leaked online a month before the record was released. So the band decided to stream it for free and ask fans to donate to their favorite charity. Brilliant.

(via bijan)

Cool. These guys get it. Listening to their latest album Wilco and it is really great. The guitar player rocks.

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» Kevin Kelly on the future of the Web

Had the time to watch some peer recommended videos on TED on the plane to Madrid today. This one stood out. A 20” talk by Kelly from 2007 displaying a vision on the future of the Web which is still contemporary. Highly recommended, also for my non techy friends to see where we are heading. From a Web of computers to a Web of pages, to a Web of data - where we are now - to a Web of things. And check the part at about 15” in where he talks about identity. Basically, it’s our vision behind RealMee. A personalized Web at the cost of transparancy but centrally controlled by You.

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“ In elk van de 5.000 chocoladerepen zat de drug LSD. Agenten vonden de zaak verdacht, omdat op de verpakking geen merknaam stond, alleen ’ pure chocolade’. Ook meldden de chauffeurs dat ze last hadden gehad van hallucinaties, nadat ze van de lading hadden gesnoept.

— LOL (Dutch). Wat een speurneuzen: http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/2035471/nederlandse-drugsbaas-opgepakt-op-ibiza.html

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Last Thursday I went to the Steely Dan concert in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam. The concert was part of their Left Bank Holiday tour. I went with my brother who shot some Qik videos - like the one above of Aja. Dutch sax player Toon Roos and his quartet were their support act - I liked him a lot. Very nice sound. And the show of the Dan themselves? I’ve seen them in 2000 and 2007 in Ahoy in Rotterdam but this was their best show. Sound was great, the horn section and drummer Keith Carlock stood out. My “song of the night” pick: Aja. Check out some enthousiastic Dutch reviews of the concert at AD and OOR and one more critical at Parool.

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