Run for the shadows in these golden years
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, May 8-14, 2024
Some of these days, and it won't be long
Gonna drive back down where you once belonged
In the back of a dream car twenty foot long
Don't cry, my sweet, don't break my heart
Doing all right, but you gotta get smart
Wish upon, wish upon, day upon day, I believe, oh Lord
I believe all the way
Come get up, my baby
Run for the shadows, run for the shadows
Run for the shadows in these golden years
Editor’s Note:
I schedule stories in advance to be published, and so sometimes I miss stuff. I should have published a Happy Mother’s Day! note Sunday, both because Mothers Are A Great Good Thing, and nobody reads newsletters on holidays. Instead I republished my New Golden Age of Black and White Photography piece from Pentax Forums. Mea culpa. So Happy Belated Mother’s Day to all you moms. And for everyone, please take a moment and give the New Golden Age of Black and White Photography story a glance when you have time. I think it’s important look at how and why all digital color work is actually computational photography.
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My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.
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Thursday May 16th - The PE Vlog-FIGHT! Udio AI music generator vs. Suno AI music generator
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Sunday May 19th — Payola, gatekeepers and Top40 were way worse than social media - When I see article after article after article about how algorithms and AI are ruining art and music and news, I only have one question: Are you insane? Do you not remember Top 40 heavy rotations? Were things better when hit songs were selected by payola? (Also: How much ya wanna bet payola is STILL going on? It’s just called targeting now.) Were people more informed when gatekeepers decided what you could know about events in the nation’s capital, and decided the entire population of the United States was not mature enough to see photos of President Franklin Delano Rosevelt in a wheelchair? Or any reporting at all about the open secret of President John F Kennedy’s naked pool parties?