Even more than that, meaning wasn’t made in these words, it was made in your head.
Which just had its shape altered, if by reading this you are thinking something new.
BANKS
On the Road Again
Date: January 17th, 2012
At 00:00 we go dark to protest SOPA. Have a little Willie and a think [about the proposed felony we're committing by participating in this cultural transaction].
Tomorrow, I will abstain from the internet-at-large [and scratch my skin to bits like a junkie with the wirewant]. Music making, listening and book reading [kindle, hence the 'at-large'] will be the order of the day. It’s not that I have a lot of traffic [I don't] and it’s not that my site will have any impact in the wake of Wikipedia and whoever else is unplugging, it’s the principle of the matter.
What I do here is considered worse than murder [at least from the punitive standpoint] by the entertainment industries.
I remind these industries that they are made of people and are riding the crest of hundreds of thousands of years of human cultural evolution.
It is not theirs to dictate how our culture will evolve just because they figured out a way to suck blood from in this past century.
So join me, tomorrow, and create some culture. And share it on the 19th.
SOPA BLACKOUT
Date: January 16th, 2012
This coming Wednesday, January 18, 2012.
I have helpfully crafted a SOPA-blackout wordpress theme (based on the excellent blankSlate 3.0 theme by Shawn Cope.) to help you black out your wordpress website, should you care to join the movement. Or if you’re an admin, freak the fuck out of your clients.
Share this as much as you want (I would be grateful if you could download and re-upload so my server doesn’t get melted down).
Image used for the SOPA blackout theme gleefully stolen from this flickr.
How to Appreciate Avicii
Date: January 13th, 2012
Just add Skrillex. (Avicii was better before SiriusXM/BPM played him or his remixes every other track. Seriously, I’ve heard Levels [original] twice in the same hour on my way home.)
2everee1
Date: January 12th, 2012
I like the chainmail hijab.
The next one seems like it’s out of a William Gibson early or middle period fever dream.
Also, spaceships, with neverending slides. awesome. [update - fixed the videos so they're actually the ones I meant to post in the order I meant to post them. sorry 'bout dat]