Founder of the Social Media Escape Club
Noah Kalina used another HUNTERTHEN track for his ambient videos. Stunning shots, ambient sound, and I just love hearing Noah in the woods with the sound of rain and thunder in the background.
Definitely go subscribe to his new ambient channel KALINA.
“We don’t need more noise. We need space to listen—even to fall asleep. That’s radical in a world obsessed with productivity.”
Kamal Sabran, from “When Modular Synths Met Sufi Mysticism: The Space Gambus Experiment.”
I’ve been on a lot of Zoom calls this week with my Escape Pod offering via Social Media Escape Club.
I remember being exhausted from scrolling through multiple social media channels everyday. Twitter. Instagram. LinkedIn. Back to Twitter. Over and over, throughout the day.
I would spend hours every day posting, replying, sharing, DMing, ping ping ping. All day long.
Now I spend hours every week with people who are engaged, filled with the energy of making good work.
“When artists stop waiting to be chosen, whole new economies open up. The most compelling models today come from artists who said: “I’ll start it myself.”
Noah Kalina investigated the Barryville Camel for Radio Catskill.
“The current Congress just slashed $170K from (the Radio Catskill) budget, so your support will help fill in the gap. These small-town stations are vital to the local community and culture.”
Read so much more (and watch Noah’s excellent video) here.
I see this so much on Substack Notes: “I wish the algorithm…”
STOP! Stop wishing a computer in the cloud is going to deliver your new favorite band, some cool new writer – the algorithim can only process 1s and 0s, and by doing so turns all “content” into 1s and 0s, so just stop with this belief that if only the algorithm were better you’d be able to know about better stuff.
It’s all bullshit. Don’t rely on computers to discern editorial quality, or help you discover.
Don’t let AI take these jobs of editors, curators, DJs, writers, and various other conveyors of taste and fine art.
Via Stephen Moore’s Trend Mill:
“A lot of people seem to actually enjoy AI-generated content, and are ready to eat up more. We should have seen that coming. There’s a simple explanation — too many people have become so lost in platforms, so dictated to by algorithms, ‘for you’ feeds and suggested content, that we’re collectively losing our taste.”
Everything has been reduced to bits. Cleaned up, covered with a vanilla scent, and optimized to keep you tied into whatever platform you think is somehow “good.”
Friends are filters. People are guides. Pick up something in print that still requires some editorial discernment, or find your local college radio station. Email the writers of the newsletters you like. Go find some blogs again.
Moore is right, we’re collectively losing our taste, and we’re become helpless babies being spoon fed whatever media someone else wants us to consume.
I’m not much of a punk rock guy, but I know this is pretty cool.
As part of the sale, all bands on Fat that are “in debt” to the label, will have their debt wiped out. That is, if a band had an advance that was not yet recouped, that balanced owed is zeroed, so that if the band sells a single royalty at Hopeless, they will begin earning royalties immediately. (Often when a band signs with an independent label, the expense of record production is granted as an “advance.” When the band’s music earns money, the money earned is first counted against the advance. So, a band usually does not earn any money until the advance is paid back through royalties earned on record sales).
Even more interesting is that Erin and Mike essentially paid off the debts themselves. That is, say the cost of Hopeless buying Fat was valued at $100. In this sale, Hopeless only paid $80 to Erin and Mike, due to the fact that Erin and Mike required that band debt be wiped out upon the sale. As far as record label sales, this is a rather monumental and magnanimous move on the part of Erin and Mike. In fact, the debt forgiveness cost Erin and Mike about $3.5 million.
via Punk News
“What does it mean to have a positive impact on a life? How intimate does that connection need to be? Understanding your scale — the scale that moves you — is critical to understanding with whom and how you should work, how you should live.”
Earlier in this piece, Craig Mod talks about working at Flipboard and hitting a million users, saying, “I didn’t feel my heart move.”
So then searching for the things that make your heart move, whether it’s one person a day or a 100 or a 1000. Helping add light to the world, add joy to the darkness, somehow, someway.
My HUNTERTHEN track ‘More Immersive’ used in one of Noah Kalina’s new ambient videos. Here the full album below. Enjoy.
From keningzhu’s new course Sharing Space Camp:
sharing your work is the bridge between “ideas in your head” — and money.
and by money, what I really mean is: the byproduct that comes when you make your creative energy a shared resource that others can access.
