David is at home in New York.


My latest mix on 8tracks (from a couple of weeks ago).  Enjoy!
1 week ago on June 24th, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
pretty
pretty
1 month ago on May 24th, 2009 at 4:23 pm |
J. Crew Mens Shop opens next to Top Shop.  A lot of retail coming to our little stretch of B’way.  Not sure if this is good or not, but I have to admit I liked a couple of things in J. Crew.
J. Crew Mens Shop opens next to Top Shop.  A lot of retail coming to our little stretch of B’way.  Not sure if this is good or not, but I have to admit I liked a couple of things in J. Crew.
1 month ago on May 12th, 2009 at 11:07 pm |
gordonc:
Happy weekend from center of orgiastic consumer ecstasy!
Aka, the office ; )

gordonc:

Happy weekend from center of orgiastic consumer ecstasy!

Aka, the office ; )

2 months ago on April 26th, 2009 at 10:24 pm | | Reblog from
My latest mix.
2 months ago on April 15th, 2009 at 3:16 am |
A fellow minimalist.
2thewalls:

“Fashion designer Thierry Mugler explained the minimalism of his Paris apartment this way: ‘There must be room for the human body to move.’
‘I don’t want real possesion. What I need and what I wanted in this apartment was its space - and to keep it as empty as possible.’
By playing with contrasts and not with objects and by placing everything very low - such as the symbolic frescoes by paointer Keso Dekker situated at eye level - he has managed tokeep a maximum of space free to be filled with light. ‘That is my second reason for living here,’ he said, ‘the incredible luminosity of these three rooms.’ His study is striped down to the bare essentials, a threshold table and a high-tech stool facing a wall full of pinned mementos, invitations, bill, and photographs.
A key to this private world is his bedroom. There, nothing interrupts the flow of light, nothing attracts the attention of eyes in need of interior inspiration. As a matter of fact, the room’s only furniture is a king-size mattress on a very low plywood stretcher. ‘This is all one needs in a bedroom,’ the designer said.”



THIERRY MUGLER’S APARTMENT AS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR “LIVING WELL: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF HOME DESIGN AND DECORATION”, ED. CARRIE DONOVAN, 1981; TEXT BY JEAN-PASCAL BILLAUD

A fellow minimalist.

2thewalls:

“Fashion designer Thierry Mugler explained the minimalism of his Paris apartment this way: ‘There must be room for the human body to move.’

‘I don’t want real possesion. What I need and what I wanted in this apartment was its space - and to keep it as empty as possible.’

By playing with contrasts and not with objects and by placing everything very low - such as the symbolic frescoes by paointer Keso Dekker situated at eye level - he has managed tokeep a maximum of space free to be filled with light. ‘That is my second reason for living here,’ he said, ‘the incredible luminosity of these three rooms.’ His study is striped down to the bare essentials, a threshold table and a high-tech stool facing a wall full of pinned mementos, invitations, bill, and photographs.

A key to this private world is his bedroom. There, nothing interrupts the flow of light, nothing attracts the attention of eyes in need of interior inspiration. As a matter of fact, the room’s only furniture is a king-size mattress on a very low plywood stretcher. ‘This is all one needs in a bedroom,’ the designer said.”

THIERRY MUGLER’S APARTMENT AS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR “LIVING WELL: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF HOME DESIGN AND DECORATION”, ED. CARRIE DONOVAN, 1981; TEXT BY JEAN-PASCAL BILLAUD

2 months ago on April 14th, 2009 at 1:47 am | | Reblog from
Didn’t even realize they had a new album coming out.
Didn’t even realize they had a new album coming out.
2 months ago on April 13th, 2009 at 3:02 am |
Great mix with some fresh tracks I’ve not heard.
3 months ago on March 30th, 2009 at 5:41 pm |

Arrington is spot on, although this isn’t new news.  Not sure why this point wasn’t more widely reported back when these deals were happening.

The startup he mentions is no doubt playlist.com, which is the largest music service out there now apart from iTunes and Myspace.

On-demand streaming won’t work (legally) until the “star system” of the majors is done, because “free” on-demand streaming + ubiquitous broadband = near-perfect substitute for selling music (CDs or downloads).  And paid on-demand streaming (Rhapsody being the leader) has, after 8 years now, only garnered 775k subscribers - hardly a mainstream application.

In the near-term the only real potential for streaming is internet radio, which costs about 1/2 the price of on-demand streaming ($0.0018 per stream in 2009 vs $0.0040 per stream in best possible scenario).  These “cheaper” rates still make internet radio a tough model, but I’m cautiously optimistic that a reduced internet radio royalty rate may still be a possibility.

3 months ago on March 27th, 2009 at 6:52 pm |
Crosby Street - still I think my fav street downtown
Crosby Street - still I think my fav street downtown
3 months ago on March 27th, 2009 at 6:09 pm |