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the future is yesterday

rlaskey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:14:06 +0000

“Yesterday” warrants overuse. We got through yesterday; those of us who are thinking of the word at that moment, that is. Yesterday defines a complete picture, fully completed, recent in our mind. The future as we generally think of it is some void, escaped land without a clear picture. Yesterday is drawn with the colors that were exhumed over the course of its hours. With time, those hues of that far-gone day take on slightly different tones, too. Yesterday gives us context, provides our thoughts that follow outside its bounds with baselines for measurement. Perhaps in forgetting about the question “what’s next?” we can instead take our pile of thoughts and place another step towards a more pleasant path of paces.

the trick of sound

rlaskey — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:47:27 +0000

I was thinking the other night about sound, and how much more intrinsically time-based it is compared with other media. I’ve probably written something out along these lines before, but the necessity of patience, attempted to be overwrought by the scrubber bar or FF/RW buttons; the patience always comes through, makes us see that in the end there are certain stretches of waveform which just take as long for the full effect as it’s hard coded into the message itself. That is to say, there aren’t shortcuts, ways around sitting and waiting for the experience to enter and then leave. Seeing as we’re beings always in time, the stringent awareness of this faculty of the particular art form can, in most cases, put some kind of smile on my face.