How can we create a better UI for our own memories? #openquestion
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thrping - an apparently made up word
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Yet, a few weeks later, safe at home on the Jack Paar show. Winters was his old self:prancing out in a satyr wig, he turned on the audience subliminally with an insanely fruity tribute to “thrping”; 1
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Origin of Lindy’s Law or the Lindy effect. A discussion of the life expectancy of a comic.
What they miss here is that it’s easier to produce if you’re also consuming a lot of material, particularly in a group. The output is proportion to the input, and at the time there was only so much input that one could take in in a much sparser media market in comparison to 2021.
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Lindy’s Law by Albert Goldman in The New Republic on 1964-06-13 | syndication link read on May 10, 2021 at 0633PM
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While it’s fun to break the rules, it sometimes helps to know the history and the rules to see which ones are worth bending, which are worth breaking, and which ones may be worth discarding altogether.
Building on other’s work can sometimes be more fruitful than trying to transform it completely.
I’m reminded of screenwriters doing so much work on a script just so that they can get screen credit. Is it really worth it?
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This is the other kind of novelty-seeking web developer, one who seeks to build on the history and nature of the web instead of trying to transform it. 1
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Returning to this along with some other thoughts from earlier this morning:
I’m reminded of the article I read yesterday about slow art day. This article is an example of someone who spent some serious time doing slow music by repeatedly listening to and thinking about a single piece over time.
A related idea, but slow in a different time sense is Dolly Parton’s Jolene being listened to physically slowed down in time (as opposed to being slowly absorbed over a longer length of time).
What other media might be consumed this way? Could one watch Fletch, for example, at half speed?
What might that reveal? What would one see? I’ve obviously watched several dozen movies dozens or even hundreds of times over the span of my life. Shawshank Redemption is one that has aged relatively well and always reveals something new on subsequent watches. What if we watched that at half speed? Think about re-consumption of media over time as well as the speed of consumption for reading, listening, watching, and maybe even tasting.
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[[Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ is a beautiful ballad. This 33-minute cover version takes it to a whole new place]] | syndication link
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The driving motif here also sounds a bit like the droning of a banjo or a bagpipe here too.
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After about five minutes — the length of Chapman’s original — O’Rourke starts to tinker with variables of sound, and you might begin to question audible reality. 1
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[[Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ is a beautiful ballad. This 33-minute cover version takes it to a whole new place]] | syndication link↩︎