Kempton Mooney Less Profundity, More Secundity

This past week I read J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting For the Barbarians. This was the first Coetzee I have read and I enjoyed his style. The narrative ran at a slow pace with bit of action interspersed. Having had little introduction to the book, it took me a while to discern what the actual plot [...]

Dionysian imitatio is a fancy phrase meaning remix. Wikipedia defines it as “the influential literary method of imitation as formulated by Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first century BCE, which conceived it as the rhetoric practice of emulating, adaptating, reworking and enriching a source text by an earlier author.” The idea is essentially [...]

This weekend I have decided to try a little experiment. For a while I have been reading the articles about ebook self-publishing, particularly using the Kindle platform, from authors like J A Konrath, Seth Godin, Amanda Closing, John Locke, and others. As an experiment, I have decided to see what this publishing process is like [...]

I have been doing some more playing with generative music. Here’s a simple rhythmic piece created by an algorithm controlling a sine wave:

I was recently pointed to this quote from Ira glass:

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that [...]

Commitment: When you have it, people can tell