I've been thinking about how our understanding of what's going on in the world is presented through and shaped by the internet. I read a chapter about "New Historical Analysis" for one of my classes, and the basic premise was that history is not objective reality, but actually a story told… Read full post »

It may not be the worst, but a bad job I had was as a desk clerk for the Elizabethport Public Library in Elizabeth, NJ. An off-shoot of the main branch, this was a tiny building that sat less than a mile from Newark airport, directly under the flight path. The… Read full post »

This is also known as the T-Pain effect, that little digital modification that makes a human voice sound robotic. It is designed to correct inaccuracies in pitch, but artists like T-Pain seem to use it as an aesthetic of its own. In the same way that drum machines mimick drums but… Read full post »