Mozart performing in Vienna, Bob Dylan at Newport, the Beatles at the Cavern Club, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club . . . . If you could travel in time to attend any musical performance in history, what would it be?
Again from Jeff Wong—he's such a nice boy, I may take the day off and let him guest blog. This video clip shows the girl giant waking up, taking a shower from the sultan's elephant, and wandering off in St. James Park to play. It's from a site specific art work by Royal de Luxe (story <A HREF="http://www.thesultanselephant.com/">here</A>) and I think it's magical. The girl giant's face is wonderfully expressive.
Answer: You have to "attend" to an object for it to actually register. Jeff Wong sends along a couple of links on "change blindness." Click on the external link for the article and then click <A HREF="http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/flicker/download/index.html">here</A> for the examples.
I was saddened to hear of the untimely death of David Smith, vice-president of audio engineering and R&D at Sony Music Studios in New York. David, who was 55, died Saturday June 17, at the home of his mother on Long Island.
It's baaack!
<B>NaimNet:</B> On June 20, at the London CEDIA Expo, Naim announced its entry into the custom integration/home systems market with a series of products and technologies called NaimNet. NaimNet is described as "a combination of Naim's experience in audio and video together with the IP technology of StreamNet™ licensed from NetStreams® LLC."
As I mentioned yesterday, I had, for some time — long before acquiring a hi-fi, in fact — fought the idea of placing my couch against the rear wall of my living space. When I finally did, however, I found that things both looked and sounded different. And not only different, but: <i>better</i>. And I'm not confusing the two. So, what's up with this?
Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that employ Embedded and Communicating Agents to evolve and develop without human "intervention." Better start making 'em three laws safe.
<i>I tried, so many times, to write a little something about the <i>Stereophile</i> pepper and golf-coins, but could never get the ideas to grow, could never get them to drop in the hole. See here how Kristina handles it, while kindly declining our CD case (and CDs, in general).</i><br>
—SM
Ed Quillen asks a big question that Congress ought to be asking in the rush to protect property rights.