Douglas Dollars is Six Times AliveComing soon! (then watch this)
(This is the dumbest thing I’ve made in a while but only lasts nine seconds)
“Relatively Prime will be an 8 episode audio podcast featuring stories from the world of mathematics. Tackling questions like: is it true that you are only 7 seven handshakes from the President, what exactly is a micromort, and how did 39 people commenting on a blog manage to prove a deep theorem.”
Tonight I listened to and gave feedback on what I believe to be the first episode of Sam’s Relatively Prime series. As Producer of the show, I think it’ll be great. As a longtime listener of Sam’s work, I also think it’ll be great.
In general, if I know you and you have a dream, I’m going to find a way to make your project a reality.
Pushing code to the public at work has its own ceremony. Multiple times a day.
In this video we discuss changing keys in analog samples and I’m totally right about Spinderella not aging.
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There are no words to fully describe the scope of my jealousy for your awesome work environment.
Thanks, Anne! We’ve hit a good pocket of having talent in a high-demand but also typically highly portable field, so we’re able to dictate most of our (ahem) “process details” as long as we keep delivering good products. It’s a good time, most of the time. If our minds or hands fail, we’re screwed.
Ssion - “Who’s Your Favorite, Baby?” (3:09)
So much of this week has been spent listening to dance music. Unfortunately for good taste, Ssion has returned as a minor obsession at work. High volume and the ability to clap on the beat are recommended.
Next week’s project has me working on a new Content Management System. As ever in the development world, if it’s an acronym, someone will make a dumb name for it. To do so is basically a Development standard.
The culture and habits of workplaces and work groups has caught my attention lately. Development (and Ruby in particular) have a strong beer culture that verges almost on tradition at times. We go through a lot of it, it’s fairly public, and we know people are more creative in their problem-solving when their brain has been loosened up from its default grooves.
Are there any traditions in the kind of work you do?
The whole day. And I hope you make it a good one. Keep strong, folks!
In other news, Colin Marshall’s Notebook on Cities and Culture season one has been fully funded, fewer than six hours after launching. Thank you.
Notebook on Cities and Culture, the successor to the public radio interview program The Marketplace of Ideas where Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversation with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene in Los Angeles and beyond.
I like to put my money where my heart is. Colin Marshall creates great work of importance to me, and I’m incredibly pleased to make this post about his latest project, as well as help potentially fund it. In 2009 Colin spoke with Merlin Mann, who also spoke at the first MaxFunCon. The combination of the two talks strongly affected my views of work and self-purpose in ways that still benefit me every day.
O’Hara reads “Having a Coke with You” for a documentary series on American poetry. Clip filmed March 1966 in his loft.
“It seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience / which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it.”
“And what good does all the research of the impressionists do them / when they never got the right person to stand next to the tree when the sun sank?
Well, just as every other time I’ve forgotten and re-heard this poem, there goes my breath. I remember seeing a few of the pieces from USA: Poetry in my teens, this was a great reminder.
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This ballet with a car lamp evolved and developed over my tour this summer. So, I’ve been doing this dance in grungy bars & cafes & now it can be yours to see on the internet.
Video Conceived and Performed by myself (Doug Hoyer)
Photographed by Dylan Rhys HowardEnjoy!
I didn’t post this earlier purely out of the hope that Doug himself would do so.
Doug - “Electric” (0:16)
If you recognize it, it’s exactly what you think it is. If you don’t, I’m a synth genius and it’s 1979.
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I’m going to have to check again in a month or two, but I’m pretty sure the bark of trees changes color with the season. The variation in texture and tone on each tree just amazes me.
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I might not remember the date or purpose of a photograph, but I somehow always remember where it was captured.
Parenthetical Girls - “Young Throats” (4:03)
Oh who am I kidding, here’s one last video. It’s only about five days old.
Well Tumblr, goodnight. In the last day or two you’ve gotten a good dose of what’s been in my ears lately. Tomorrow we’ll shake the old camera out and find out if it and I have seen anything photogenic in the last week. As lazy as Saturday was, Sunday was a pretty interesting day.
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