May 2008
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U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Palestinians in... →
Unconscionable.
johnaugust.com » Does a working writer keep... →
“My advice for you is to dedicate one day a week to disassembling good movies. Take existing films (and one-hour dramas) and break them down to cards. Think of yourself as an ordinary mechanic given the task of reverse-engineering a spaceship. Figure out what the pieces do, and why they were put together in that way.”
DF: “I think this true for any craft.”
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Letter from Ronnie Oller
My sixth graders love these songs. They can relate to this type of music and remember the information presented in the song … Thanks for doing such a great job and helping us teach our future.
Ronnie Oller
UPDATE: I accidentally posted this to my personal blog rather than the RRR one, but the immediate and positive response on Facebook (due to auto-import) was an unexpected surprise.
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Trifonic / Emergence →
Great IDM/ambient album. I predict at least two tracks off this album will end up as part of movie soundtracks. (iTunes link)
P.S. Note the nice RRR cameo in the imeem screenshot…
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Seth Godin speaks the truth to Columbia Records →
Excellent video lecture on what’s wrong with the music industry and what needs to be done.
sdc[blog]
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Media Futurist →
“Gerd Leonhard wrote The Future of Music, which basically said that the record business was terminally ill. I read it and thought he was right, so I hired him as a consultant. He’s shaped our thinking. None of us know what the future looks like, so we can invent it, be part of it. Fifty five per cent of the new people we’ve brought in haven’t worked in traditional record...