Founder of the Social Media Escape Club
It’s all in waves. Happiness, joy, dread, anxiety. I swear I lived 13 days in the past 24 hours.
“Can’t believe I am the first woman ever,” @phoebe_bridgers
“A reminder: We can want to do good and want to make money to take care of ourselves and our people. These things are not mutually exclusive,” @nandoodles
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My first foray into using my new Novation Bass Station II on a track. I have no idea what I’m doing, and don’t really know how to play keys, but here we are. Making noise, making loops, 41 days in a row.
“You can’t get enough of a thing you don’t need,” @noampomsky
“Cleanshot is an exceptionally well executed product. Quickly tuned into my screenshot tool of choice. Bravo,” @jasonfried
“I’ve had my photos featured on multiple accounts with thousands of followers. You know what it’s done for my career? Precisely zero. Pay artists their rates or go tf away,” @lyndseymarieee_
I saw today that Metallica had the top five vinyl album sales, “the first time that an artist has claimed the entire top 5 of the #VinylAlbums chart, dating to its launch in 2011.” Neato.
“Slack is critical infrastructure now, but I just spent an hour in there and have no idea what I just did,” @ftrain
“Somebody said these weekends starting to feel like 30 min lunch breaks and I felt that in my soul,” @LifeAsHales
We had a nice morning of snow on Sunday (2/7/2021). I got outside with my tripod and shot some footage, much to the delight of the neighbors, I’m sure. Then I put together this loop as I was warming up. I guess from start to finish the whole process took about an hour or so. A fun exercise in capturing my own video, creating some music from scratch, and the editing together for the next day (Monday).
“Fun fact, my record shop sold 5 @phoebe_bridgers records after the SNL performance last night,” @gileadmedia
“Superbowl commercials: where beer tries to save America in 2 minutes or less,” @PostmodernPoser
“No one has talkers block,” says Seth Godin (in 2011). I’ve been on a tear lately with writing, producing, making. Objects in motion, really.
When I think of putting more of me on Twitter, my social network of choice, I just think of all the people not there. And the wide open web, accessible by the other 99% of the world with a smart device connected to the internet.
Lots of thoughts. Lots of ideas.
“There’s no reason for an artist to feel like they can’t share “old” work for all of time, while we sit here and actively let art from the dead be our teachers. art is timeless, including yours,” @afroxvx
“Anyone else feel like they’re spending more time on twitter to just banter and have rando conversations like we used to in the before times when you’d run into folks at Phoenix and Pour?” @danmoulthrop
Another day, another loop. About the only thing that changes are the bass lines.
“So, Clubhouse is a place where people who love having meetings are having even more meetings?” @ChloeCondon
Video by Kai Pilger from Pexels
Got stuck in the snow close to my house. Had to shovel out my car, with no gloves. At one point I was laying flat on my back, staring up at the stars, and realizing the absurdity of everything.
I ate some cookies and shook my fist at the universe, but life is short, so I got working on this loop.
For this one I stacked three audio clips from my Instagram feed, and then sampled it. Enjoy.
“I just don’t understand how kindness and gratitude is such a big ask of managers,” @brianne2k
target from Norah Lorway on Vimeo.
Video above by Alex Green from Pexels
This track started like three years ago. I’ve learned a bit about Abelton Live through the years, but what really stuck out is that bass line. Somehow, even back then, I was big on bass. It makes sense, having played bass for 30ish years, but something about a synth bass just gets my blood flowing. It’s in my DNA, maybe.
“Social media managers don’t have to build their own personal brand to be good social media managers. SMMs do not need to be creating their own content every day to be good at their jobs. We are online EVERY DAY for our work. It is okay to take time away. Be kinder to yourself,” @nicoletabak
“Said fuck it and raised my photoshoot prices to $1k minimum,” @moodydarkroom
These loops are a daily exploration of where sounds and samples and bass lines can transport my mind. Sitting down to make this I was in a sour mood, but bit by bit, literally – bits and bytes of computer processing and circuits – this came to life, and my heart is happy.
“At what point do we say that we cant do this anymore? i feel like im basically reaching that point,” @_pem_pem
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Ever have one of those nights where you’re just like, shit, there is so much music I haven’t listened to yet?
So how’d I get to watching an interview with DJ Muggs? Well, as I’ve been getting back into actually making some music again, I’ve been going back to some of the music in the mid 90s that formed my musical taste today. That includes Cypress Hill’s ‘Black Sunday,’ of course, so I had to dig a bit!
And if you watch the video above, he talks about Led Zeppelin, and Kraftwerk, like… fuck, I’m a “rock guy” and I still haven’t submersed myself into any of their records. Which is why I stay up too late on Monday nights, wondering if I could just make a pot of coffee and listen to music until the sun comes up. I mean, I won’t, but at least my frenzied brain will take 45 minutes to slow the fuck down to fall asleep.
“Strictly only ever want to be having a good time from here on out,” and “don’t be in a toxic relationship with urself,” @chipzel
“I don’t want a future where only people good at the internet get to make music,” @kazzmlaidlaw
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