Jack Johnson: Music to Mother Earth's Ears

From EcoHearth:

At a time when going green is a new fashion trend among celebrities and those who aspire to be like them, there are few who serve as true catalysts for the cause.  Hawaiian native and recording artist, Jack Johnson, is one of them. He has become not only a symbol of laid-back acoustic music, but also an eco-conscious artist/businessman. By transforming the way his music is created and enjoyed by people all across the globe, he has taken his pro-environmental words and made them into reality.
 

Finding "IT": Creativity and the Flow State

From Serendip:

"All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets IT- everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows its not the tune that counts but IT." - from "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

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From KurzweilAI....

Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans?

Dance Your PhD!

From TED.....

The youtube version:

The original:

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal.html

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Beyond the Pale

"Beyond the Pale" (Joshua McLean)

Caveman Comics

As reported from Science News today.....

Welcome to Animation Domination, Stone Age style. By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give observers the impression that lions and other wild beasts were charging across cave walls, two French investigators find.

Ancient artists created graphic stories in caves and illusions of moving animals on rotating bone disks, say archaeologist Marc Azéma of the University of Toulouse–Le Mirail in France and Florent Rivère, an independent artist based in Foix, France.

“Stone Age artists intended to give life to their images,” Azéma says. “The majority of cave drawings show animals in action.”

Flickering torches passed over painted scenes would have heightened onlookers’ sense of seeing live-action stories, the researchers suggest in the June Antiquity.

read the whole story here:  http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341206/title/Stone_Age_art_gets_animated

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