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August 7th, 2008 autotune, coltrane, hiphop, keytar, lilwayne, milesdavis, pitchcorrection, pop, production, synthesizer, technology | 3 Comments »
In the months since I likened the prolific best rapper alive to Miles Davis, I have enjoyed seeing others try out their own genre-bending comparisons as we all try to find an archetype to fit Mr. Carter into our personal pop histories.
Malcolm & Coltrane on A Love Supreme
Last week, Mark Anthony Neal dealt a wonderfully […]
Tags: autotune, coltrane, hiphop, keytar, lilwayne, milesdavis, pitchcorrection, pop, production, synthesizer, technology
I’ve been watching this video of DJ Ramsey scratching tapes daily since someone blogged it a couple weeks back. (Can anyone link the original post? I can’t find it.) He works the pause button and volume knobs with his fingers while manipulating the spindles with his thumbs.
Working with cassette tapes appeals to my affection for […]
Tags: battling, cassette, dj, hacking, media, scratching, tapes, technology
January 11th, 2008 design, education, email, highschool, kids, literacy, media, mobile, teaching, technology, teenagers, todomundo | No Comments »
Observing a 9th grade history class yesterday, I witnessed two interactions that blew my mind.
1. During lunch, several students used discarded lunch trays, staples, pens, and tape to craft foam Sidekicks and ENVs with sliding, flipping, and popping ’screens’. They then wrote notes on paper, folded them up, placed them inside of the closed phones, […]