BradFuller

Poet laureate of Santa Clara County, Nils Peterson, created the first official Santa Clara County poem that he says “…captures the heights and the depths of life in Silicon Valley.” entitled “A Family Album, Santa Clara County, 2009″. the poem was created from phrases from country residents.  Excerpt from MercuryNews.com:

“About 500 county residents submitted phrases that Peterson sculpted into an epic word collage that mashes up 100 lines from 100 authors, ages 11 to 80. In the manner of a Tweet, each line had to be short and sweet (from nine to 13 syllables long). Accessibility is the key to this collective opus.”

Check it out!

A Family Album, Santa Clara County, 2009

Our friend Tracy Swedlow, has made Andy’s passing on the front page of ITVT. Here’s a direct link to the post.
Tracy also sent this out to her RSS feed, Google News, Facebook and Twitter.

As his son Ned said:

“Andy Was a Lion of a Man”

I love that guy! He will be missed….

More about Andy: http://andy-dymoke.memory-of.com/

I have to hand it to Peter, he has again pulled out a couple of fun videos on auto-tuning. Please visit his website to hear more and read the discussion. I embed one of the videos here, but be sure and visit his site: Create Digital Music

Wouldn’t it be fun if all news was like this. Less war?

Peter Kirn asks on his blog is Beyonce tone deaf? Take the link for the discussion, but I embedded the video below for your convenience. Don’t listen too far, it’s unsettling! In a nutshell, the answer is of course not – her voice was doctored. But it brings up an interesting question.

A friend asks:
“I never understood the attraction. It’s the “dumbing down of America” perspective.”

A friend answers with this video. A great look at today’s popular music industry. (length: 1hr:17min)