Here’s an interesting little nugget from Syd Mead, conceptual designer for Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, and more:
The fashionable ideology that “artificial” lacks the inherent goodness of “natural” is an appealing, but hopelessly simplistic notion of the intellectually chic. Artifice is the result of a deliberate intent to make. Nature also “makes” things, using a set [...]
Categories: Quotations, Science and Technology
Tagged: sci fi, Science and Technology, syd mead
After a semester of hemming and hawing, I finally wrote a column for the Virginia Law Weekly:
1Ls: By now, you’ve no doubt received all your fall-semester grades. Well on the way to making Law Review? Congratulations! The pills designed to make your bowel movements smell like bakery-fresh cinnamon rolls are in the mail.
It descends [...]
Categories: Humor, Law School, Writing
Tagged: evan mix, law school, virginia law weekly, Writing
I just came across some revealing statistics at Digital Music News (thanks, DP).
In relevant part:
Categories: Business and Economics, Music
Tagged: Business and Economics, Music, recording industry, riaa