I’ve set up a separate website for shots I’m taking with the Yaschica Electro. http://www.johndan.com/one/.[Warning: Large and mediocre images.]

Right now, it’s just test images. At some point in a week or two, I’ll shift over to a version of Bill Johnston’s “one camera, one lens, one film, one year” (with the Yashica rather than the Leica he strongly suggests) with either Ilford HP5+ 400 or Kodak Tri-X 400.

• COMM345: Information Architecture
• COMM391: Audio Production
• COMM490: Communication Internship

If you need anything else, email me: johndan@clarkson.edu.

Rap Genius’s Rap Map situates rap lyrics on Google Maps. Cool.

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Eduardo Navas’ updated Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture provides a sprawling (in a good way) map of remix theory and practice.

The megamix has its roots in the sampling practice of disco and hip hop. While disco in large part experimented with the Extended Remix, hip hop experimented with the Selective and Reflexive Remixes. Grandmaster Flash may be credited with having experimented in 1981 with an early form of the megamix when he recorded “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,”[25] which is essentially an extended mix performed on a set of turntables with the help of music studio production. The recording included songs by The Sugarhill Gang, The Furious Five, Queen, Blondie and Chic.

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(I really need to fix the CSS so that the 590-pixel image class in my WordPress template doesn’t get knocked to the right unless insert several lines of padding text above them. Like so.)

I am putting forward eight diagrams—the very best, most accurately constructed diagrams of the future I am capable of devising—in order to help us know what it might be. Such knowledge may serve us well. Or it may not. Knowledge always cuts both ways.

To some of you, this might seem a variation on the Rorschach test, that is, an essentially psychological exercise. To others, it might seem like the mystical reading of tea leaves, or the entrails of a ritually sacrificed goat. Fair enough, but I should note that in both of those situations, the material is created accidentally, or—if you prefer—randomly. The eight diagrams are the products of conscious design.

Another reference comes to mind, though it, too, may be only distantly related to the eight diagrams: The Glass Bead Game devised by writer Hermann Hesse. In Hesse’s novel, “the exact nature of the game (quoting Wikipedia) remains elusive and (its) devotees occupy a special school…. The rules of the game are only alluded to, and are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. Essentially the game is an abstract synthesis of all arts and scholarship. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.”

Diagram 3:

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To be more accurate, you should substitute the title “THINGS PEOPLE WHO READ XKCD GO TO THE SITE LOOKING FOR” (given that most university websites are primarily about marketing or athletics).

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