| Subject: | Re: Some prescient words from Murray Schafer |
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| From: | "Aaron Ximm" aaron_gmail |
| Date: | Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:25 pm ((PDT)) |
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:57 PM, ffs <> wrote: > I do not take it to mean that 'idiots' cannot produce historically valuab= le documents - but that it may happen almost inadvertently. Paging Abraham Zapruder... :) One might argue that if self-appointed domain experts inspire laypeople to make decent recordings using reasonable procedures, even without domain knowledge... ...the value of any useful results is no longer "inadvertent." The Photosynth project is a marvelous example of what sorts of amazing results can be pieced together from arbitrary documentation, once it is made easily available: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html Short enough that I HIGHLY recommend watching the full thing -- it's quite amazing -- but skip ahead to Photosynth if you must. I [heart] TED! best, aaron -- quietamerican.org oneminutevacation.org 83% happy 9% disgusted 6% fearful 2% angry |
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