Weird Fishes: Arpeggi

Check this out, all done in Java:


Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.

Then check the creators blog out at: flight404

Kind Regards
Reminiscence

The Windy City Mix

I have finished my Red Bull Music Academy application with the demo-mix. I decided to upload it, so for those interested here's the link to it.

The Windy City Mix

The songs are:

1. Nota Bene
2. Breaking the Spell
3. Lost
4. Rumble in the Urban Jungle
5. Chemical Stranger
6. Dream Machine
7. End of Time

It's a wide variety of genres, but I'd like to call it Electronica. And it was all made on Reason.

Enjoy!

“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.” - James M. Barrie

Kind Regards
Reminiscence

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

A new documentary from the director of Super Size Me, it should be an eye opener for all. Here's the trailer:

Consumer choices actually matter...

In our society one of the most profound issues that we face today is consumption. We use and abuse the natural world for our lifestyles. Look at where you are sitting now, and try and guess where the materials come from of certain items. The chair you're sitting on, the roof over your head, the liquid in your glass, the clothes you wear, the food you eat, the car you drive in, the books you read, the toothpaste you use etc. All these products are produced for you. The consumer. Supply and demand.

Let's use an example, most furniture in your house, used to be trees. Now most people on this planet has furniture, so a vast amount of trees has to be cut down just for that purpose alone. See where this is heading?

Our needs don't just end at furniture. The list of things that we buy stretches a long way indeed. If you look at your household you might think that your demands on this planet is close to nothing, but if you have to multiply your needs by a couple of billion, then we've got a huge amount of goods on our hands that needs to be produced. And where does it all come from? And more importantly, at what cost?

My first point is simple. Whatever you buy and consume, matters to everyone! And when I say everyone I don't mean just humans, I'm referring to all species on this planet. Sentient and non-sentient. Also, even though you don't take notice of this fact, its impact is felt somewhere else (probably far far away) for sure. So that's why we need to take extra special care in what we consume and should limit ourselves to how much we consume as well.

But I've realized something lately, people don't want to be told what they should and should not consume. They just want to do whatever the hell they want. If they want palm oil at the cost of the Indonesian rainforests and all it's inhabitants, so be it!

We are self proclaimed owners of this planet. If we choose to destroy an entire ecosystem for shampoos and other products that contains palm oil then we'll succeed. Great, who cares? (shouts the care-free consumer)

And unfortunately, there will be no justice served for our wrong doing onto others at the end of the line when it's all too late. Justice can only be served by ourselves. And we are also the only ones able to stop this madness before it's too late. Ultimately through our consumer choices.

But I'm not here to ask for your help, I'm just here, to point out the ignorance of humanity, you can deal with it anyway you wish. Each and everyone of us literally votes with our money when we buy products (it seems to be the only real worth it has). If we buy something, we support WHATEVER the company that manufactures it does out there somewhere in the world. If we don't, well then we don't. It's that simple.

And once again. Your single consumer choices might not seem to matter, but if you multiply your choice with the choices of millions, or even billions of people, it's obvious that it actually does matter.

So educate yourself on what goes into the creation of the products that you buy, and see if you agree with the principles of it or not. And if you don't, well then hopefully you change your ways for the better immediately.

Note: the Indonesian Rainforest is just an example I chose out of numerous other examples.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” - Douglas Adams

Kind Regards
Reminiscence

Red Bull Music Academy

To those that don't know what it is:

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is an event that travels the world. A yearly celebration of all the journeys and breakthroughs, all the dreams and intricacies that go into the music we love. For two weeks, you'll be checking gear, chatting on tunes, and spinning in clubs, while getting a rare glimpse into local musical hybrids in a different country. In between times, you can talk to people from around the world who started revolutions in sound. They're the people we look up to, and they're looking to you for a fresh perspective in turn.

To those that are still reading:

The Academy is intended for anyone with a strong yen for music and a desire to be involved in its evolution: DJ's, producers, MC's, singers, sound engineers, broadcasters, laptop lapdancers, soulful songwriters - they'll all be considered. You'll need to be 18 or over (born before September 21st, 1990) when this year's Spanish edition of the Academy workshops starts... but there's no other age limit.

No particular set of skills is necessary. For each Academy, two groups of 30 participants are chosen to represent a wide range of cultures, musical backgrounds and set of skills. There are no set quotas for any country or genre of music. Therefore everyone has an equal chance of coming along - as long as they have a creative vision, an honest attitude and an open approach.

No one will forbid you and your entire crew to enter individually. But please do understand that fairness, logistics and our desire to create open socio-dynamics alone do not allow us to invite entire crews. With only 60 spaces to give away... you do the maths.

I'm applying this year for the RBMA, it's not the first time (last time was in 2005). Currently I'm working hard at getting my demo done. Hopefully it's good enough.

Kind Regards
Reminiscence

Will be back, soon...

This blog has not been abandoned.



Kind Regards
Reminiscence

Is it just me?

Everyone has probably heard already of the 'massive recall of beef' in the US yesterday.

What worries me about this specific article, is the notion of how animals have been mistreated at this meat-packing house and the USDA calling it 'animal cruelty'. So let me get this straight, spraying water up a cows face is animal cruelty, but killing it is not?

I consider killing the ultimate form of cruelty. Spraying water in the face of a cow is wrong, but killing it, meaning destroying its life force, is a terrible deed and cannot be morally justified. Spraying water seems like nothing compared to what goes on in those abattoirs on a daily basis. Meat = murder.

Why can't the USDA and the public see it this way? What is the obsession with treating non-human animals better (which doesn't mean anything, it's just 'torture' in another word) before they're being executed? Would it have changed the way we feel about the Nazi's committing mass-genocide against the Jews in WWII if they treated them 'better' before being gassed? Of course not!

So why this different attitude towards non-human animals? Because they don't have the right to be free of being used as property as we have. They're not considered as beings with lives worth living. Some humans have put it upon themselves not to give rights to non-human animals, only because they're supposedly “superior”, *cough* they're just like the Nazis *cough*, than them.

The main reason for this is money. They want to exploit them, to make more and more money. Feed the public with products that is damaging to their health just so that they can make lots of money! The public has been conned into eating this diet, and the public believes the governments and the health authorities have their best interests at heart. This is so not true.

So what is the solution to this issue?

It's a very simple process. Start seeing non-human animals as other sentient beings, that has the same basic interests as you do. An interest in living a life free from pain and suffering. They just look different than you, just like we humans look different from each other. We're all earthlings and if we can't live on this world together in peace and harmony, then we'll never know peace and harmony. It'll be a figment of our imagination, an ideal which we'll NEVER attain, exactly because some of us delight in killing.

They are destroying the planet, our health and the lives of innocent animals, can't they just look past culture and economic gain for a change and see there's something truly important in living a peaceful life on this planet?

Go vegan!

“Humanity will never prove itself superior by destroying the lives of those thought to be inferior” - Unknown

Kind Regards
Reminiscence