On Mount Seymour in North Vancouver, 2004. My old Sony Cybershot photos have a certain lo-fi charm, to me anyway.
Cathedral Grove, Vancouver Island, 2006; you almost expect to see a therapod from the Jurassic browsing in the ferns.
Grown-up Angus is a handsome fellow.
I’ve written about the history and future of commissioning – i.e., getting someone or something else (a chatbot for instance) to do your academic work for you.
Freddie: “We don’t have a communal sense of entitlement to healthcare in this country; we do have groups of people adamantly believe that they’re entitled to say that Spongebob Squarepants is pansexual and that no one can disagree. Like so much else that springs from the collision between liberalism and social networking, what we end up with is demand for unachievable levels of emotional safety and satisfaction and a lack of proper demand for material goods that any developed democracy should provide. Americans, particularly young people, feel entitled to the wrong things.”
a parable
In 1969, when the Beatles were recording the album that became Abbey Road, Paul McCartney would come in every day to record a vocal track. (He lived near the studio, so it was easy for him to drop by.) The vocal he was trying to get right was “Oh! Darling” — a song that, some years later, John Lennon would say was better suited to his voice than Paul’s — and each day Paul would perform one take and one take only. There’s some serious shouting on that song, and Paul was taking care to protect his voice; several takes might do damage that would take time to heal.
Six years earlier, when the lads were recording their first album, they did the whole thing — fourteen songs — in one day, and they saved “Twist and Shout” for the end because John knew that once he had done that one, he wouldn’t have any voice left to do anything else.
I love Austin Kleon’s edge indexes.
I end my new essay on “the mythical method” with a section on the great Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, and if you’d like to know more about him, I wrote a post for you.