its all a slight blur

been all a slight blur this tour, meeting a lot of people and enjoying the trip around. thanks Chris for organizing all the shows in Holland. meet some interesting people at hopsacks tonight.

fly oslo to amsterdam

chris from the music reps

first leg of tour, fly tomorrow to Amsterdam. both my video camera is broken and digital camera have broken. the second hand camera i bought on ebay did not arrive. so i spose i’ll be using the mobile phone to take pics on this tour.

i must mediate more. been a while since i sat.

icommons

articles on icommons site

myspace & collection society

what is art to icommons

article Dominick Chen wrote about me at the summit. thanks

thoughts on future of artists

 music business interview with a freelance forensic musicologist.

tuesday off on tour

self publishing ??

the more i look at the net, the more i see how everything points to a central space. its kind of like a site is a town and people visit that town cause they want something. most towns are plastered with bill boards. with port holes to other towns. the thing is this. if you don’t put yourself on a bill board you end up without anyone knowing about your paradise. if you let people know about your paradise via way of bill boards your joining a process that aint so great. so the best sites on the web are sites that don’t have billboards. yet these sites tend to not be so visited. so everything has to be paid for, even peoples free time is a commodity it seems. people when they write their blogs can have an advert, so you write a blog as someone absorbs your thought and you get paid, the more that person gets paid the more bill boards they can buy. so if you have something really cool to say your going to get rich by saying that. so the more important your opinion the more wealth you have. is this such a good system ? so the most popular ideas are the best.

thoughts on the free world

so how is it possible to create something unless there is an economic incentive. linux is maybe an example of this. kind of like a system that is available to everyone at no cost. yet the people that build the system are most likely helped partly through some type of grant . so some basic incentives were maybe needed, yet i’m not sure about the evolution of this process. linux is getting used by some of the big organizations and a lot of regular software now runs on linux, so maybe the streets of the future net are not going to be plastered by bill boards. you can read up more on linux at this link. most linux users are men and not vegetarian.

in some countries they regulate the use of bill boards and adverts. looking out my window in Oslo i can’t see one bill board in site. i don’t even think the bus’s and taxi’s have mini bill boards on them. looking back at Prague, the last place i lived in. the eastern block. everywhere a billboard is it is. some peoples flat windows are covered by bill boards. the person living in the flat has no choice, cause they are renting. they can move somewhere else, that is market conditions in Prague. the version of the free world that we support. kind of like myspace and facebook, you can move to some network that is without bill-boards. yet hey where is the economic incentive for people to come to that space without bill-boards. so the cyber space for now is a festival of bill boards, we get so used to it that most most likely don’t think twice about what they are saying. yet every now and then something comes up. google have all your information and you use their great apps at no cost, up comes your next flight destination at a good price and you go with it. you just paid for another 300 bill boards. what to do ?

car thoughts

in the future we want buy new cars, we are most likely going to buy a software update that would re-configure the hardware. kind of like a box of mud that can change into a pot we can cook on then turn into a face mask to get all the smog out of our face. although we probably want go outside cause the pollution is going to be so bad or we’ll be busy trying to be fish (the world under water due to global warming). ok, so in the future we’ll just buy updates to make imperfections perfect. re-create the perfect world within our world, so we don’t have to deal with the real world. we want have a car, just think we are in a car and avoid real traffic. yet some are going to have to push the pedals to drive the machine for the/our pleasure. even if they are robots, eventually something is going to have to feel the effect. just like the cow someone eats has to be slaughtered, those building your updates may be living in the smog you don’t breath. to create/maintain your dream. maybe our software updates are going to be built by pigs with hands when they can no-longer build software updates we can eat them. at least the pigs would be doing something useful while they are growing up. quick lets build that farm. at least then the pigs can really take over the world.

sunday morning thoughts.

get ready for tour

HAFHP on the move

Previously it seemed the best idea was for hungry artists to adapt to other organizations. I see the process now differently. Working with company’s that deal in distribution of art is not easy. HAFHP looks to be a non-profit.

The Plan.

HAFHP defines its mission.
HAFHP sets up as a non-profit organization.
HAFHP looks for sponsors to back the project.
HAFHP builds a website.

If you want to be involved or help with this process in any way send an email info @ hafhp.org

cyber huts/ trade balance with open source tec

was thinking about containers, you know the ones that everything arrives in from the developing places to the developed places. i was thinking that the best thing to do is for the developed world to make these into little revolution ships and send them back to the developing places. you know deck them out with wifi solar panels. technology to take water from the atmosphere. these tec labs worlds would be like hubs of relieve to these places that are developing and victims of global warming and market forces. i even thought how they would be built in the ground and then open up like platforms. if someone was attacking they would sink beneath the ground and protect the people. my science fiction mind slipping into the future again. it is sad that the developed countries just take resources from the developing countries (mostly labour). the fair thing would be to send something back. open source cyber huts, maned with those wanting to leave the developed and develop something better in the developing places. i spose i have to maybe goto all these places so my science fiction mind can be more realistic. maybe i just want one magic house for me to live in some far off desert not yet invented.

thoughts of day on word pressed

thoughts on gallery’s

talked about galleries with May today. was interesting to hear that hanging work in a gallery is much the same a song writer night. song writer nights work this way sometimes. a songwriter starts a night up. the biggest feature of the night is that song writer. the song writer then uses his fan bass to attract other writer’s to the night. if your a good song writer, unless you crawl hard. you end up the last singer on the night. this writer develops a click with artists and audience and then exploits it best she or he can. often these events are not so great. yet they can be good. i wanted to organize one where i did not perform, yet i could not find the time.

thoughts on last.fm

i have just started to explore this system from the point of view of the self publisher www.last.fm .the system seems to work best for works already published. the network potential is really cool. facebook integrates into last fm quite nice. the worst thing i found with the system was this: when i searched for tags with creative commons nothing came up. when i searched for tags with jamendo it would play 3 to 4 artists, then it would goto major label artists. they say they want to allow artists to upload using creative commons licenses in the future. i hope they allow artists to upload using a creative commons commercial use license, yet if the tag system is easily bought. what does this mean for self publishing artists that contribute to their system. it makes the whole thing feel a little cheap. the site is great for catching up on all that music i shut out of my system cause it was owned by publishers. it seemed hard to create a free culture playlist. yet maybe i have to explore the system more. the system is slightly strange in the way that its set up. its not set up for artists to publish and explore the system. the system is set up with 2 sides, one for the labels/publishers/artists. the other side for the user. so if your an artist and you decide to use the system. the system is kind of strange. yet the system is good for the user. you can read this thread on last fm forum

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thoughts on poverty.

i also went to this truck today in Oslo www.legerutengrenser.no doctors without border. i told them about this project www.hafhp.org , they were interested in the ideas. met with Ronny.

thoughts on walk

i walked our dog kami from university to home and it was sunny.

first entry

i used to have a long blog that i just wrote things down on, i figure this is better as it links up to other things on the net. maybe i’ll get more day to day with updates on life.