> Sonic levitation? via
> Become an idea collector
> Two different collections of thoughts on the role the internet plays, one by Brian Eno,
the other by Jaron Lanier
> Seems to be lots of speculation about Apples new product release next week, but these two articles (here & here) seem to hint towards products & services beyond the tablet… Although of course there is an actual leaked release photo of Apples tablet
>Interested in the intersection of art & science? Heres an epic list of practitioners
(via Marc disquiet)
> What holds people back from doing what they want? Are you committed?
> Banksy at Sundance!?! (thanks Chris!)
> DIY bass traps – get rid of that murky low end!
> Like listening to numbers stations but find them a little abstract? How about a real time russian air traffic control feed – there’s even an iPhone app for it!
> Theres life above 20kHz? Damn right! “At least one member of each instrument family (strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion) produces energy to 40 kHz or above, and the spectra of some instruments reach this work’s measurement limit of 102.4 kHz”
great detritus tim – particularly the eno article and the ideas article: how do you collate your ideas tim? my method’s a bit of a hotchpotch of magazine articles and printouts ripped out and filed, notebooks and delicious bookmarks and screen snapshots filed in a folder. Bit of a mess! But i think it’s important to retain the spontaneity of it and not let a creative exercise be turned into yet another housekeeping task otherwise it becomes self-defeating.
Very true Michael – collecting ideas is about capturing inspiration for later reference, so the means must be instant… because ideas can be fleeting!
I rely on a combination of Moleskin notebooks (full of quotes, doodles, URLs, ideas)
and Voodoo Pad pro documents (stored in my Dropbox & instantly synced to home studio, laptop & work studio)
WIth Voodoo Pad i have a master document that opens with currently 27 seperate pages, one for each individual project, plus seperate pages for ideas (stored chronologically) for: text ideas, visual references, web development etc
My Voodoo Pad master document is packed with over a years info but is still only 77MB, so it updates pretty quickly to each computer… Its been crucial for letting me develop multiple projects & yet still keep tagging each relevant element of the incoming stream of data to its project…. I just couldn’t keep all this stuff focused in my head & it was a major problem until I discovered the combination of Voodoo Pad and Dropbox….
http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/
https://www.dropbox.com/
But nothing beats a Moleskin & a good pen, good music on the ipod & a trip on the Shinkansen!
Great idea – this seems like exacly what i need! I checked out sidenote a while back when you mentioned it which is cool, but the lack of sync to my home computer, laptop, etc. kind of rendered it unusable for me as a definitive notes journal. (Handy in a stickies kind of way for notes that are specific to that computer location though but neater than stickies i think)
I totally agree about the moleskins too. Still the best way to put down creative ideas i think, perhaps coz simplest, most tactile interface? Don’t know but somehow I always find flicking through a notebook of notes and drawings more inviting/inspiring than clicking my way through documents.