we live on a farm in a forest. we create sound machines and open source ecosystems at https://monome.org. we help build community at https://llllllll.co.
that's the short version.
it's a new day. hello.
1993-09-10000
Today is the 10000th day of Eternal September. I wrote something about social media and stuff, inspired by this and the recent events. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/10000-en.html
*Thoughts on the 10000th of September | viznut*
viznut.fi https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-3760-02fa-4af2-581017604207
1945 steel bike factory
tiny linux joys
also in 2010 on macos this would've taken me 20 minutes of clicking:
for file in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i $file -ar 44100 -b:a 320k ${file%.*}.mp3; done
linux
ubuntu, camera via usb puts icon on desktop, but where the heck is the file path so i can actually use smart cli tools?
oh, it's here, i guess.
ln -s /run/user/1000/gvfs/gphoto2\:host\=04cb_USB_PTP_Camera_593535383032200713BDD020211F78/DCIM/100_FUJI ~/x100
i thought a design goal of linux was _not_ to obfuscate this sort of thing.
This article on monochromatic dithering techniques is amazing. https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/
just started, over six hours of mostly live music from the lines community: https://www.twitch.tv/lines_community
"If the reserve army of artists would stop applying for grants to do projects in centers for contemporary art and start building worlds, perhaps cultural sensibility and ecological sustainability can combine in an economy organized around freedom and care rather than production and consumption."
https://roarmag.org/essays/freeing-space-building-worlds-outside-of-state-and-capital/
a decade's dust. witness the rise and fall, a civilization's worth of creative tools and machinery. the sediment of a lost heaven, universal shipwreck.
i finished a collection of music.
map of food cooperatives in the US
"When the unique is created, it also creates the creator.
The more finished goods become commodities, the fewer opportunities an individual has to generate new creation. The ability to mass-produce removes the opportunity for the great many to learn to produce at all. From such a thought, a future full of consumption-only hobbies might come as no surprise."
this article is gold. (maybe we can collectively quote the whole thing here on merv, lol)
https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/that-which-is-unique-breaks