4th
February
2008
“For writers, few steps in the publishing process are as strange as the state of suspended animation between submitting a manuscript and seeing the book appear in stores. The sudden change in cabin pressure from writing to waiting can be jarring — and can last a very long time. ‘It comes as a huge shock when it happens the first time,’ said the Irish writer Colm Toibin, whose first novel, ‘The South,’ appeared in 1990, a year and a half after he turned it in. ‘It was all slow and strange.’”
posted in Books | Permalink |
4th
February
2008
“A lot of people ask me how I do the MetaFilter Podcast (warning: the podcast makes no sense to anyone outside of MetaFilter uberfans). I know they don’t mean ‘how do you do it man, you’re making magic over there every week!’ but rather “what software and hardware does it take to make a decent sounding podcast?” After almost a year of regular podcasts and trying out different software and equipment, I’ve gotten the workflow down cold and I wanted to share the my way of making a good sounding podcast on the cheap. This works perfectly well for me being in Oregon and talking to my friend Jessamyn in Vermont over Skype, recording at both ends, then tossing it all into Garageband to complete the podcast.”
posted in Sound design | Permalink |
4th
February
2008
“We have unearthed, in a most unlikely place, an ancient print ad we believe to be the greatest in history. We think you will agree. Or, alternatively, that you will not.”
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