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March 28, 2012
I probably would have made different selections. But you have to accept what people bring to you. I’ve worked with collage a lot. And there’s this chance thing that happens—you don’t always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you’ve got this thing, and you make it work. It’s the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
Christian Marclay
December 15, 2010
It was quite a long and drawn out process, writing Crooks & Lovers. We were a bit blocked for a while. And then we decided to go down to a wind tunnel near where I live that goes into the sea with James Blake and recorded about two hours of natural sound. James was singing. We were throwing things against the wall, making echoes. Having that material really helped, because it felt like we were doing something towards it. Not just sitting at a computer, trying to pretend to be an artist. That was the moment that spurred us to completing the album.
Dominic Maker, Mount Kimbie
September 25, 2010
The kinds of rewards games give you can be very insidious, and very addictive. But I’ve come to a point in my life where I’m much more able to walk away from a game I’m playing out of joyless compulsion. Times when I’ve been down in the dumps, or frustrated—games were very attractive to me, then. Which means that I was fleeing something else to play games, rather than being drawn into games by virtue of their addictiveness.
Tom Bissell
August 9, 2010
With movies, you shoot and you’ve got all your footage and you rearrange it. These, you look at it and you pull it out of the air.
George Kuchar
July 30, 2010

How can I do the things I want to do /

When 90 percent of me is you

Gwen McCrae
July 21, 2010
OBLIGATORY MID-2010 TOP-10 LIST

0. Wiley Zip Files

1. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti Before Today

2. Digital Mystikz Return II Space

3. Actress Splazsh

4. Scrufizzer It’s Over

5. Yeasayer Odd Blood

6. Terror Danjah Power Grid

7. Ikonika Contact, Love, Want, Have

8. Maxsta Maxtape

9. D-Bridge & Instra:mental Fabriclive 50

10. Oneman Rinse: 11

July 9, 2010
It is important to understand that skipping is in many cases a result of resonance, sort of a resonance catastrophe. The mechanical system made up of pickup, headshell and tone-arm has its own resonance frequency and the movement (in fact the music) coming from the grooves introduces oscillation into this tone-arm system. Depending on the individual setup of each turntable, this can lead to various kinds of interference, including resonance mode. If the oscillation of the tone-arm becomes too strong it will skip.
Mala
May 20, 2010
April 27, 2010
I very much enjoy the state of having written.
William Gibson
April 13, 2010

New formal techniques are inevitable.