http://planresonate.com Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:31:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No blogging recently. My main project this year has involved regular writing about management, behind a corporate firewall. I've had no interest in practicing more writing here. That project has been fun. For the past year I've been acting as a part time, remote, interim CEO for a client, while leading ... http://planresonate.com/2009/11/06/update-fall-2009/ You're an independent artist, or a business, and you're planning to produce a physical media product. First you should figure out which format is best. Don't necessarily assume that a CD is the right format! For the sake of discussion, let's assume you've decided on CD. Let's also assume that you're ... http://planresonate.com/2009/05/27/managing-cd-production/ The Jomox "Resonator Neuronium". Obnoxious name and I enjoy obnoxious names. The Youtube comments are as funny as you'd expect - ranging from "This is bar-none the coolest thing on youtube..." to "very bored piece of hardware[...]" There are other ways to generate atmospheric loops and I've never seen any that ... http://planresonate.com/2009/05/15/resonator/ In 1990, environmental economist Herman E. Daly published a work in the journal of the Society for International Development titled "Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem". The premise of this short article is straight forward; in a world of finite resources, indefinite economic growth is not a viable option. In Daly's words: Impossibility statements ... http://planresonate.com/2009/05/13/sustainable-growth-is-impossible/ Mentioned this enjoyable movie in an earlier post. The poetic true-life story treats time as a central character. Much of the footage is from the 70's (it's affecting to see the twin towers in their infancy). The scenes of New York are moving. The perpetrators of the event were preparing a ... http://planresonate.com/2009/05/13/man-on-wire/ "Siberiade" is a spectacular film by Andrei Konchalovsky. The four part epic story reveals many ancient and modern themes, in an ambitious effort to understand humanness in times of cultural instability. The title of this post is in reference to Siberiade character Afanasy Ustyuzhanin, who abandons the social and economic responsibilities ... http://planresonate.com/2009/05/08/a-road-through-the-woods/ There's a moment during one of the black power scenes in Jean-Luc Godard's "Sympathy for the Devil" where the narrator speaks from the perspective of the economic elite about using drive in movies as a means to control the masses. Godard's intent was to explore mass culture as an artsy ... http://planresonate.com/2009/05/04/bike-in-movie/ Many have expressed confusion about the Banksters' success in hustling ever greater piles of public cash. The first Yakuza Papers film was released in 1973 by the Toei Company. "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" was so brilliantly written (Iiboshi & Kasahara), and directed (Fukasaku) that it inspired a five part series, ... http://planresonate.com/2009/04/05/without-honor-and-humanity/ How do otherwise well intentioned, hard working and responsible professionals become caught up in bad deals? In the 1872 novel "Demons" (aka "The Possessed", & "The Devils"), Dostoevsky's character Stavrogin confronts character Pyotr Stepanovich with dangerous insight: Here you're counting off on your fingers what forces make up a circle? All this ... http://planresonate.com/2009/04/03/together-in-a-single-knot/ Good time to consult our old friend Ira U. Cobleigh. Mr. Cobleigh wrote the cleverly titled book "How to Gain Security & Financial Independence" (Hawthorn Books, New York, 1956). Ira's first chapter has the romantic heading "Thrift and Gracious Living". Here are his five major goals of thrift: (1.) an emergency ... http://planresonate.com/2009/04/03/thrift-and-gracious-living/