Scribbles: Audio portrait. In Unguarded Moments everything plastic vanishes.

When my phone's message bank was full I had to erase old messages and I found messages from my dad who died in April, 2009.
The messages date back a year or so.
A year compressed into three short messages I've kept. 
Stopped me in my tracks to hear his voice again. 
But knocked the wind out of me to hear him well in one and close to death in the next.
His humour, his pain. 
Unguarded moments left on a phone. Nothing plastic.
An audio portrait.

 

 

And to lift the tone of this post a little: 
Here's The Church: In Unguarded Moments:

Scribbles: Insomnia sometimes throws up some interesting ideas on graveyard radio repeats.

This lecture by Macquarie Uni Vice Chancellor Steven Schwartz is REALLY good!
Should universities have ethical goals and strive to build character not just knowledge?
He says universities have lost their moral compasses.
How society has changed .... really, really interesting.
 
Here's the Big Ideas page: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigideas/
Steven Schwartz's webpage: http://www.vc.mq.edu.au/

We will look back on the 20th century as the Dark Age. That means we've entered a Medieval Period.

They burned fossil fuel in the 20th century and blew a hole in the ozone layer - that's what they're gonna say about us in 3000.

Humans are so cocky - do you think that's gonna change by 3000? I'm being cocky writing this. Do you think we'll still be here in 3000?

I've been watching a few episodes of V - Jeez!
I'm insulted watching that trash - imagine how the aliens must feel watching that stuff!
No wonder ET's not interested in making contact. Why would aliens come to us as people? Why not as butterflies? We'd make them locusts. They might choose to join the dolphins. Why not?

Do you really think that a stupid iPhone or whatever the latest gadget is - iPad da-da-da - makes us so up with the times, so modern.
Gutenberg probably thought that. I don't think he even got the profits of his movable type.

So at least Apple has one up on Gutenberg - it's making a profit.

If you put yourself in the shoes of someone living in 3000, or even in 2050, or even 2030, then looking backwards at 2010 all of this is laughable - isn't it?
Keep buying stuff. Like that's going to make it all better.
DOOMED! We're all doomed. That's the thought that goes through my head when I take the plastic wrap off the plastic covered Easter egg.
Yeah it did taste good but did I need it? I ate it yes. Would have been wasteful to throw it out! ;)

Is social media good? Will newspapers survive? Doo..doo..doo.... Do you buy a first generation iPad or wait for better Wi-Fi? Do you convert existing content or purpose-build iPad content from scratch? Good questions.
But they won't define us as a race in the end. What will is culture: philosophy, literature, arts, architecture ... what will remain of this Medieval Period?
What's your perspective?

The iPad will be in a museum. Will Apple or Microsoft or Facebook or Google or Twitter still be around in 3000?
Exciting isn't it? I think so. I want a macro-telescope to zoom in for fine work close up and detail in the distance - on our timeline.
Anyone got any ideas on that one?

The flourishing of Athens happened after the human race got agriculture down pat and started to diversify into the arts: pottery, painting, thinking, writing ...

We ain't there yet kids. No where near there yet.

The new CULTURE is just a sparkle in the eyes of children - and the unborn.
The thing that we're involved in here is the formation of an economy - the digital economy.

Culture is not only unproduced it's not even imagined yet - we don't have the technology, we don't have the economy.

Which is why I like to spend a little bit of time passing on the things I learn (video editing, audio editing, music composition, writing) to my nephews and nieces.

I'm fueling the fire - it's all I can do.

Spent some time teaching Alex and Emma how to use the Soundtrack program - making music using loops.
You think kids today can't focus? Think again. HOURS of focus.

Here's the results: