Woozy, spaced out electronics from this Canadian artist. Surprisingly alluring music. Samples on Boomkat but currently out of stock. You should still be able to find a good retailer somewhere.
Apple investors urge action on smartphone addiction
January 08, 2018
Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) called on Apple to consider the impact excessive use of smartphones had on the mental health of young people. The two are worried that if Apple does not address growing concerns about smartphone use, its stock market value and general reputation could become damaged.
According to a Reuters report, half of US teenagers believe they are addicted to their mobile phones and feel the need to respond immediately to messages.
Writing
January 07, 2018
Spent today writing as I haven't kept up with that this past week. It's pretty sunny outside but the wind is strong.
Saturday 6 January, 2018
January 06, 2018
Today is Epiphany. It also makes me think about this excellent track from the 1991 David Sylvian & Russell Mills collaboration - Ember Glance: The Permanence Of Memory. I particularly have always loved the spoken word samples on this, especially that of Irish Poet, Seamus Heaney, whose words are lifted from A Northern Hoard.
I should to spend some time this weekend going back over the first seven sessions as I find it has become very complex quite quickly - at least for me.
formatter = "%r %r %r %r"
print formatter % (1, 2, 3, 4)
print formatter % ("one", "two", "three", "four")
print formatter % (True, False, False, True)
print formatter % (formatter, formatter, formatter, formatter)
print formatter % (
"I had this thing.",
"That you could type up right.",
"But it didn't sing.",
"So I said goodnight."
)
Maelstrom
January 05, 2018
Central Processing Unit announced another new album, Alph4 from Maelstrom. It's also available on a limited 12 inch. It comes out on 16th February.
- Followed exercise six, creating multiple strings and text in Python.
- Two hours of written Japanese
Today I learnt that you need to use single quotes when inserting text (that you have not declared as variables) into strings.
print "Mary had a little lamb.
print "Its fleece was white as %s." % 'snow' (not a variable - so I use single quotes)