The financial crisis is of epic size and labyrinthine dimensions, and has been presented to us as terrifying if we don’t do something to bail out Wall Street soon. I can’t say I am completely confident about my grasp of all the details, but there is one basic thing bothering me. A lot.
We know that [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Here’s another song, this one’s a little more recent. The recording and mixing is a little better on this cover, since I didn’t do it. Hope the dubstep style and vocals work together…
Fever
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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I found a pretty snazzy plugin from WordPress that lets you add a simple mp3 player to your site–a little behind the times, I know, but bear with me! So I thought I’d add a song I recorded a few years ago here to try it out. You can also check out some short audio [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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In light of recent events concerning David Duchovny, it seems this bit of graffiti is as timely as it is appropriate. The half open shirt deserves a thicket of sleaze, no?
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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“The Culture Industry” by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer must have been groundbreaking when it was first written, transformative in its breathtakingly cynical assessment of how culture has been reduced to a set of economic imperatives. In some ways, this feels like the flip side of McLuhan’s positive-by-comparison treatise on the power of mediums [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Welcome to the third world?
Posted on September 19th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Why does the fact that earmarks make up just one percent of the overall federal budget get omitted from nearly every article written about them? This, along with his inadequate tax cuts, which provide no relief to the three-fifths of taxpayers who earn less than $39,000 a year (source), is McCain’s entire fiscal platform. Neither [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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I can’t say I’ve ever found perfume ads particularly appealing. They’re usually so appallingly bad, like the Calvin Klain ads from the 90’s that were so delightfully parodied by SNL, not to mention the fact that perfume is such an outdated and superfluous product.
But this Jean Paul Gaultier ad has new wave style and androgenous [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Just finished reading excerpts by the granddaddy of media studies, Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan’s revolutionary idea was very simple–divorce content from medium and investigate the medium, and it becomes easy to see how much more of a lasting impact the introduction of a new medium has on people than the collection of content passed through that [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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