tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133153932012-01-08T20:43:31.625ZMusings on music, art, education and the online experience.Rick Heinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12518236091567548093noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13315393.post-62283436441417373222012-01-08T20:34:00.004Z2012-01-08T20:43:31.634Z

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.John CageFor every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.Umberto EcoWelcome to the end of “AMIS Updates” for this time. Chances are your started reading at the front cover, leafed through the articles selecting something to read in a little while, something to read much later, and

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“Every day, think as you wake up, ‘Today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others. I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit

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You don't get taken with the colors of paints that you've got. You've got to narrow it down. It's great to have all the possibilities, but it all starts with an idea.To sit there and hope something will happen is like dumping 400 gallons of paint on the floor and hoping a picture is going to emerge. It doesn't work that way.Michael NesmithWired NewsWho is this visionary popular artist, some of

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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?Joseph CampbellWelcome, dear reader. From this leaping off point, for jump is far too prosaic a word, we are going to journey together into the rapidly expanding world of technology. “Haven’t we done this before?” I hear you say. Yes, gentle

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Whence could it have come to me, this all-powerful joy? I was conscious that it was connected with the taste of tea and cake, but that it infinitely transcended those savours, could not, indeed, be of the same nature as theirs. Whence did it come? What did it signify? How could I seize upon and define it?Marcel ProustSwann’s Way, “Overture”No, you have not stumbled into a Theory of Knowledge

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Because e-books were not explicitly mentioned in most author contracts until about 15 years ago, disputes have arisen about who has the right to publish digital versions of older books. But along with other publishers, Random House, which releases Styron’s works in print, has said that clauses like “in book form” give it exclusive rights to publish electronic editions. In a letter to literary

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"It encourages kids not to learn, that's the trouble. It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument". Bill Wyman, former bass player for the Rolling Stones"It irritates me having watched my kids do it. If they spend as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons, they'd be damn good by now". Nick Mason, Pink Floyd both quoted in The

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Torrential rains and winter gloom seem to be the order of business for the UK as I write. Sunset is now around 4:00 pm and sunrise is around 7:30 am. Cold winds blow down the dark streets. Thirty one more days, each one with less light than the next. In order to stave off some of the darkness, I turned to an old friend, Stan Getz, and his classic work with Astrud Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his

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"Where's the wacky quote, you know – the one that doesn't make sense until the end?"A picture is worth a thousand words, friend."Well, guess that's better than reading three pages."Ah, gentle reader. That is a good starting point. Recently, whilst looking sideways at our topsy-turvy world of curricula, standards and rubrics, I found myself wandering in a HMV shop in sunny Staines. It could have

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"We used to fool ourselves. We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong. How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them

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I've looked at clouds from both sides now.From up and down, and still somehow.It's cloud illusions I recall;I really don't know clouds at all.Joni Mitchell, Both Sides NowThe circle is almost complete. Everything old is new again. In our 21st century western society, the network has become almost ubiquitous. Computing power and accessibility has moved so far along the curve propelled by Moore’s

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SomewhereInside something there is a rush ofGreatnessWho knows what stands in front ofOur livesI fashion my future on films in spaceSilenceTells me secretlyEverythingEverythingJames Rado & Gerome Ragni“The Flesh Failures” from Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock MusicalWe start this year as we do every new year at the same place that every piece of music ever written or improvised begins: with an

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In a very short time technology has changed an entire generation’s behavior radically, and it behooves all of us who are not from that generation but whose daily life involves interaction with them, such as parents and teachers, to learn as much as we can about the new behaviors.(If you are someone who doesn’t think behavior can change that fast around technology, try to think back to how quickly

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Why is Alice called Alice?This is one of my favorite questions. It always lets me know the question asker is thinking in the correct direction. After all, the ability to name something is a tremendous power, and in this case, there's a terrific reason.Alice pays homage to Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Carroll was a mathematician, novelist

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Look to this day for it is life,the very life of life...For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a dream of hope.Sanskrit Proverb It seems as though the academic year just started. New faces; old faces; the hubbub and clamour of the academic wheel starting its relentless revolution. Now it is

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The social network of the future will be populated by the RSS feeds of the activities of your friends and your friends will be determined by e-mail. The big players won't put a major push into building a new social network. Your e-mail account isn't valuable because it's got the e-mail addresses of other people who could be solicited commercially -- it's valuable because it articulates who in the

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Country music is just three chords and the truth.Harlan HowardSometimes it is the simplest stories that make the greatest impact. The finest writing is often the simplest and most direct. Many of us see beauty in zen koans. Haiku has fascinated readers for centuries. The starter for this piece appeared in an Emmylou Harris special called "The Ten Commandments of Country". One of the statements

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."Arthur C. ClarkeWelcome and welcome back! By popular request (well, one person) I am re–presenting some of the material presented at last year's International Honor Band and Choir Festival and in a previous column. It once again is recording time for auditions for Honor Band, Choir, Orchestra and Middle School Honor Band. Jon

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Once in every showThere comes a song like thisIt starts off soft and lowAnd ends up with a kissOh where is the songThat goes like this?Where is it? Where? Where?A sentimental songThat casts a magic spellThey all will hum alongWe'll overact like hellFor this is the song that goes like thisYes it is! Yes it is!The Song That Goes Like ThisSpamalotLyrics Eric Idle, Music John du PrezNot all of our

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But the very success of YouTube strongly suggests that there won't be another YouTube, simply because one site downloading 58 percent of all Internet videos and that site, in turn, being acquired by the second-biggest video downloading site that also has more money than God, well the YouTube guys would have to commit mass suicide to blow their lead at this point and I don't see that.Robert X.

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We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks. It feels great to resolve this in a positive manner, and in a way that should remove the potential of further disagreements in the future.Steve JobsApple Inc.It is great to put this dispute behind us and move on. The years ahead are going to be very exciting times for us. We wish Apple Inc every success

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"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing were a miracle. The other is as if everything were a miracle." Albert Einstein"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. ClarkeAs we approach the midway point in our academic year, the topic in this column generally turns to "what are the new gadgets for Christmas'. The festive season is one way

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto EcoItalian novelist & semioticianAs we look back on our route to our current positions, we can find the logic in our steps: these courses, this university, the right job, the right performances – the list goes on.

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To everything, turn, turn, turn;There is a season, turn, turn turn;And a time for ev’ry purpose, under heaven.Turn, Turn, TurnThe Byrds, after EcclesiastesWelcome back to a new year! For many of us it is back to the same job, for others it is off to a new school. For some others it is a wonder when the new school will open or when you will be able to get to the new school. For AMIS it is the

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