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1% inspiration, 99% persipration.
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." - Nikola Tesla
The "Angry Video Game Nerd" guy did a similar thing with two VHS tapes, copying a video back and forth over and over: http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/
so: prior art?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfssj80oNuM
The original recording is linked from the Mashable article.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/86yiq/hear_what_... A reddit post on that exact experiment. Sadly, the file is down. As a side note, I had a post here that I deleted about this, worded something like "Yes, they used that song". I went back to read the topic, and found I'd made nearly the exact same comment on the story over a year ago. I guess I'm a tad predictable. Edit: Aha! A megaupload link was posted…
That file only increased my questions on what happened to the audio on this vid. The song is quite recognizable. So why did the youtube one turn into garble? And the jpg one is just incorrect. He kept increasing the compression ratio, which proves nothing at all. For a more accurate view see http://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How-I-M... which shows that after a certain point the jpeg stops changing.…
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1% inspiration, 99% persipration.
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." - Nikola Tesla
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I've got plenty of criticism for the academic world, but you seem to vastly undervalue the accomplishment of advancing the state of human knowledge, even by just a little bit. It's those little iterative advances that are the foundation of all major discoveries and all substantive technologies.
And art has no societal or historical importance? In case you didn't notice (which you apparently didn't), my post was satire. Of course incremental progress has value, and even failure has value. (particularly if the failure occurs publicly.) I'd never look down on an academic because he'd documented 100 ways not to do something, nor because he operated in an obscure corner of an obscure field with no obvious and im…
We're on the same team! High-five.
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Good point, but it's possible that he enjoyed the process somewhat. Recording 'I am sitting in a room' probably became a little tedious for Lucier as well, in all the time he spent from conceptualization until completion. And even if he did not enjoy it at all, patio11 makes another good point about it being a better background story for the piece.
Yes, you are probably right. My comment was aimed at the snobbery over the unwashed masses.
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Yes, you are probably right. My comment was aimed at the snobbery over the unwashed masses.
If you can't see the humor in feigning elitism over shell scripting (shell scripting!) I really can't help you.
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And art has no societal or historical importance? In case you didn't notice (which you apparently didn't), my post was satire. Of course incremental progress has value, and even failure has value. (particularly if the failure occurs publicly.) I'd never look down on an academic because he'd documented 100 ways not to do something, nor because he operated in an obscure corner of an obscure field with no obvious and im…
I didn't notice. In case you didn't notice, I'm the one arguing on behalf of art here. We're on the same team! High-five.
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And art has no societal or historical importance? In case you didn't notice (which you apparently didn't), my post was satire. Of course incremental progress has value, and even failure has value. (particularly if the failure occurs publicly.) I'd never look down on an academic because he'd documented 100 ways not to do something, nor because he operated in an obscure corner of an obscure field with no obvious and im…
I didn't notice. In case you didn't notice, I'm the one arguing on behalf of art here. We're on the same team! High-five.