Boards of Canada – Stry Craty Bya

Boards of Canada – Stry Craty Bya [audio:http://www.plasmoandtheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/04-Stry-Craty-Bya.mp3%5D From their 1989 Acid Memories EP. If there is one argument for the freefall distribution of music over the interwebs, it would be that we would never get the chance to hear BoC’s earlier works. Apparently it was only ever distributed to friends and relatives on aContinue reading “Boards of Canada – Stry Craty Bya”

Art and Copy

So me and my lovely friend went to see a movie as part of the Sydney Film Festival today, and watched a film about the advertising industry. The movie was part history lesson, on how the industry got to where it is today, part social analysis of the profound effect of advertising on modern culture,Continue reading “Art and Copy”

Online Content & the Media

Taken from a SMH article on the media’s ‘clumsy embrace’ of the internet. She goes on to dispense some critical-sounding advice, implying that the mainstream media does not understand online and that newspapers are partly to blame for their own predicament. “The approach, ‘Let’s just take whatever appeared in the print paper and put itContinue reading “Online Content & the Media”