http://crunchypop.com Hi! I made this page to keep track of interesting Internet Links And Articles And Images And Videos Of Monkeys Scratching Their Butts I find =) Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:19:04 CDT en http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=a-good-grooveshark-playlist-- The A Team
Ed Sheeraned sheeran
Teardrop
Massive AttackMezzanine
Kids Dubstep
MGMT.
Paradise Circus
Massive AttackSingles & Duplicates
Silence
Mt EdenMt Eden
Too Late
M83Saturdays = Youth
I'll Be Missing You (feat Fait
Puff DaddyPuff Daddy
Only Time
EnyaA Day Without Rain
Creep
RadioheadThe Best Of
My Eyes
TravisThe Boy With No Name
Over the Rainbow
Israel KamakawiwoʻoleAlone in IZ World
Nothing Else Matters (feat Ana Criado)
Max GrahamBiggest Vocal Trance Tracks Of 2010
This Night (Original Mix)
Filo & PeriThis Night
Restlessness (Wendel Kos Edit) (feat. Layla)
Bastien LavalRestlessness
To Build a Home
Cinematic OrchestraMa Fleur
Listen To Your Heart (Slow Version)
DHT__________
Your Song
Ellie GouldingYour Song
If I Ever Feel Better
PhoenixWolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Broken Bridge
Daughter DarlingSweet Shadows
Colorblind
Counting CrowsCruel Intentions
Age Of Loneliness
EnigmaEnigma - Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits
Recurring
BonoboDays to Come
A-Punk
Vampire WeekendVampire Weekend
Catgroove
Parov StelarShine
Under Cover of Darkness
The StrokesAngles
Caribbean Blue
EnyaShepherd Moons
Hurt
Parov StelarCoco
Hide & Seek
Imogen HeapSpeak For Yourself
Spirit of Life
Blackmilldub
This Boy's In Love (Life Like Remix)
The PresetsThis Boy's in Love
My Love
Blackmillsingle
Lucid Truth
Blackmillyoutube
Regenerate
Booka ShadeSingles
Charlotte
Booka ShadeThe Sun And The Neon Light
Coastal Brake
TychoCoastal Brake
Moan - Radio Slave's Remix For K
TrentemollerMoan
Let You Go
Chase & StatusLet You Go
Time
Chase & StatusNo More Idols
Seasick
Silversun PickupsSeasick
Evil Beauty
Blackmillwww.Dub-Level.com
Miracle
BlackmillDubstep
I Need Air (Feat. Angela Hunte)
Magnetic ManMagnetic MAn
Crystallize
Lindsey stirling^^
Too Insistent [Trentemøller remix]
The DøToo Insistent
Sky & Sand
Paul KalkbrennerClub St Tropez 2011
Fortune Soul (Full Version)
BlackmillMiracle
Let it Be
Blackmilldunno
Sky And Sand (Radio Edit)
Paul & Fritz KalkbrennerSky And Sand
Train
Paul Kalkbrenner'Berlin Calling' Soundtrack [CD-Version]
I Believe
KoruCafe Del Mar Vol 14
Iron (Gucci Vump Remix)
WoodkidRemixes
Sail
AWOLNATIONSail
Sarajevo (Blackmill Remix)
Loz ContrerasSarajevo EP
Trouble (Blackmill remix)
ColdplayNA
Sex (I'm A)
LovageMusic to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Stroker Ace
LovageMusic to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Book of the Month
LovageMusic to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Distractions
Zero 7Simple Things
Night Falls
Booka ShadeMovements
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Liztomania
Phoenix

Bad Girls
M.I.A.

The A Team
Ed Sheeran

]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:19:04 CDT crunchy Music & Sounds 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=a-good-grooveshark-playlist-- http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=your-fathers-murderer-a-letter-to-zachary-documentary Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:04:01 CDT crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=your-fathers-murderer-a-letter-to-zachary-documentary http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=stream-a-ton-of-videogame-music-flash Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:10:58 CST crunchy Music & Sounds 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=stream-a-ton-of-videogame-music-flash http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=this-american-life-testosterone-radio Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:50:40 CST crunchy Music & Sounds 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=this-american-life-testosterone-radio http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=double-fine-adventure-ron-gilberts-words-of-wisdom-to-tim-schafer-full-35-minutes
If you enjoyed this video, we recommend visiting the game's Kickstarter page (http://www.tinyurl.com/doublekick) before March 13th and signing up for the $15 reward tier. This will earn you a copy of the finished game and exclusive, backer-only access to a documentary series we'll be producing about the game's development from start to finish.

For more information about this project, please visit:
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We can be followed on Twitter @2PProductions ]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:53:37 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=double-fine-adventure-ron-gilberts-words-of-wisdom-to-tim-schafer-full-35-minutes http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=48-pictures-that-perfectly-capture-the-90s Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:10:48 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=48-pictures-that-perfectly-capture-the-90s http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=why-the-usa-left-the-gold-standard Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:52:26 CST crunchy Music & Sounds 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=why-the-usa-left-the-gold-standard http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=the-secret-society-something-about-women-and-social-engineering-and-stuff Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:27:06 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=the-secret-society-something-about-women-and-social-engineering-and-stuff http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=documentary-charles-bronson-britains-hardest-man Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:09:25 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=documentary-charles-bronson-britains-hardest-man http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=linus-torvalds-talks-about-git--1 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:49:29 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=linus-torvalds-talks-about-git--1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=git-magic-tutorial-chapter%C2%A01-%C2%A0introduction I’ve played computer games almost all my life. In contrast, I only started using version control systems as an adult. I suspect I’m not alone, and comparing the two may make these concepts easier to explain and understand.

Think of editing your code, or document, as playing a game. Once you’ve made a lot of progress, you’d like to save. To do so, you click on the Save button in your trusty editor.

But this will overwrite the old version. It’s like those old school games which only had one save slot: sure you could save, but you could never go back to an older state. Which was a shame, because your previous save might have been right at an exceptionally fun part of the game that you’d like to revisit one day. Or worse still, your current save is in an unwinnable state, and you have to start again.

Version Control
When editing, you can Save As… a different file, or copy the file somewhere first before saving if you want to savour old versions. You can compress them too to save space. This is a primitive and labour-intensive form of version control. Computer games improved on this long ago, many of them providing multiple automatically timestamped save slots.

Let’s make the problem slightly tougher. Say you have a bunch of files that go together, such as source code for a project, or files for a website. Now if you want to keep an old version you have to archive a whole directory. Keeping many versions around by hand is inconvenient, and quickly becomes expensive.

With some computer games, a saved game really does consist of a directory full of files. These games hide this detail from the player and present a convenient interface to manage different versions of this directory.

Version control systems are no different. They all have nice interfaces to manage a directory of stuff. You can save the state of the directory every so often, and you can load any one of the saved states later on. Unlike most computer games, they’re usually smart about conserving space. Typically, only a few files change from version to version, and not by much. Storing the differences instead of entire new copies saves room.

Distributed Control
Now imagine a very difficult computer game. So difficult to finish that many experienced gamers all over the world decide to team up and share their saved games to try to beat it. Speedruns are real-life examples: players specializing in different levels of the same game collaborate to produce amazing results.

How would you set up a system so they can get at each other’s saves easily? And upload new ones?

In the old days, every project used centralized version control. A server somewhere held all the saved games. Nobody else did. Every player kept at most a few saved games on their machine. When a player wanted to make progress, they’d download the latest save from the main server, play a while, save and upload back to the server for everyone else to use.

What if a player wanted to get an older saved game for some reason? Maybe the current saved game is in an unwinnable state because somebody forgot to pick up an object back in level three, and they want to find the latest saved game where the game can still be completed. Or maybe they want to compare two older saved games to see how much work a particular player did.

There could be many reasons to want to see an older revision, but the outcome is the same. They have to ask the central server for that old saved game. The more saved games they want, the more they need to communicate.

The new generation of version control systems, of which Git is a member, are known as distributed systems, and can be thought of as a generalization of centralized systems. When players download from the main server they get every saved game, not just the latest one. It’s as if they’re mirroring the central server.

This initial cloning operation can be expensive, especially if there’s a long history, but it pays off in the long run. One immediate benefit is that when an old save is desired for any reason, communication with the central server is unnecessary.

A Silly Superstition
A popular misconception is that distributed systems are ill-suited for projects requiring an official central repository. Nothing could be further from the truth. Photographing someone does not cause their soul to be stolen. Similarly, cloning the master repository does not diminish its importance.

A good first approximation is that anything a centralized version control system can do, a well-designed distributed system can do better. Network resources are simply costlier than local resources. While we shall later see there are drawbacks to a distributed approach, one is less likely to make erroneous comparisons with this rule of thumb.

A small project may only need a fraction of the features offered by such a system, but using systems that scale poorly for tiny projects is like using Roman numerals for calculations involving small numbers.

Moreover, your project may grow beyond your original expectations. Using Git from the outset is like carrying a Swiss army knife even though you mostly use it to open bottles. On the day you desperately need a screwdriver you’ll be glad you have more than a plain bottle-opener.

Merge Conflicts
For this topic, our computer game analogy becomes too thinly stretched. Instead, let us again consider editing a document.

Suppose Alice inserts a line at the beginning of a file, and Bob appends one at the end of his copy. They both upload their changes. Most systems will automatically deduce a reasonable course of action: accept and merge their changes, so both Alice’s and Bob’s edits are applied.

Now suppose both Alice and Bob have made distinct edits to the same line. Then it is impossible to proceed without human intervention. The second person to upload is informed of a merge conflict, and must choose one edit over another, or revise the line entirely.

More complex situations can arise. Version control systems handle the simpler cases themselves, and leave the difficult cases for humans. Usually their behaviour is configurable... ]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:46:55 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=git-magic-tutorial-chapter%C2%A01-%C2%A0introduction http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=articles-on-rapid-game-prototyping-how-to-build-one-game-a-week
I thought I would gather here a little list of articles about rapid game prototyping. These are from very different contexts and there might be some segments in these articles not directly related to rapid development. Even though the information might seem irrelevant its usually pretty interesting and useful in some way. If you know other articles about rapid game prototyping please let me know about them and I’ll update this list. Easiest way of contacting me would be to write a comment or to send me a email at petri dot purho [ät] gmail.com. (Click link for articles) ]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:16:45 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=articles-on-rapid-game-prototyping-how-to-build-one-game-a-week http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=grizly-bear-cub-wolf-cub-playing-video-aww Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:06:28 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=grizly-bear-cub-wolf-cub-playing-video-aww http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=louis-ck-on-george-carlin Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:29:24 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=louis-ck-on-george-carlin http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=water-jet-packs-video Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:36:41 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=water-jet-packs-video http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=sculptures-in-motion-gallery Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:26:19 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=sculptures-in-motion-gallery http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=here-comes-the-sun-the-lost-guitar-solo-by-george-harrison-%7C-open-culture
In this video we see Sir George Martin, Giles Martin (his son), and Dhani Harrison listening to the mix of "Here Comes The Sun".

Suddenly Dhani opens the channel with the "lost solo guitar". And now, with the master track in the background, you can hear how it sounds in music.

That was George Harrison. A true genius. ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:16:20 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=here-comes-the-sun-the-lost-guitar-solo-by-george-harrison-%7C-open-culture http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=trey-anastasio-and-the-art-of-improvisation-interview
In what ways do you work with Phish on improvisation? Like, improvising as a full band, rather than as four individual soloists.

We had this series of exercises that we developed, called “Including Your Own Hey.” It sounds weird, but we did them a lot. They start off with a pulse. [Snaps in time] The first level is, I play a four-note phrase [sings "do-do-do-do"]; Page [McConnell] is on my right, and he imitates it on the piano; Fish [Jon Fishman] does his best to play it on the drums; then Mike [Gordon] does it on the bass. Now everyone goes around the room in a circle and everyone starts one.

It’s a copycat listening exercise.

Yeah, and then there were more levels. The next level is, I start a pattern and then Page harmonizes with it. We make a jigsaw-puzzle pattern. Then Mike finds his place in the pattern, and Fish finds his place in it. And we’re all listening to each other. Now, only when you hear that all the other musicians have stopped searching, once you hear they’ve locked in with what you’re playing, you say, “Hey!” So, since we’re still listening so intently to each other, we should all say “Hey” at the same time, but if we don’t — if someone says “Hey” when you’re still searching, they’ve basically just told you, “I’m not listening to you.” So we found, very quickly that it meant you had to always be listening to three people other than yourself. And the music, we found, improved immensely by not navel-gazing. So now the idea is, I’m not paying any attention to myself at all. I’m just responding to what they’re playing.

Then there were other levels, where you’d leave a hole in a musical phrase, and the other person could only play in that hole. That was called “Including Your Own Hey Hole.” [Laughs] So the bass lands, then the cymbal, then the guitar. [Sings, "Ba-bo-da-bing, ba-bo-da-bing."]

And this helped solidify you as a band?

Oh, yeah. We should do it again, though. We haven’t done that stuff in years. Then, in the early ’90s, we started realizing we were having tempo battles onstage. Fish would decide he’d lay back, and I’d want to rush. Every band who’s ever improvised goes through this. Then someone gives the angry glare. What are you doing? Oh my god! The gig is falling apart because you’re rushing! So one day we went into the practice room and we decided, we’re never doing that again. We did “Tempo Heys” for a week. So we’d play one note. I’d slow down. Everyone follows me. I’d speed up. Everyone follows me. I can’t lose them. And there’s no fear. That’s the important thing. Slowing down is cool. Speeding up is cool. Then we say, “Hey.” Now it’s Page’s turn. Page is speeding up and slowing down. Within two days, it stopped being a problem. When we were onstage and someone sped up or slowed down, instead of glaring, we all looked over at each other and followed them.

This is all a pretty analytical approach to improvisation, where I think a lot of people consider Phish’s music to be just “made up on the spot.”

We’re the most analytical band, in some ways. We’d talk and talk for hours about this stuff. I see improvisation as a craft and as an art. The craft part is important. There’s a lot of preparation and discipline that goes into it just so that, when you’re in the moment, you’re not supposed to be thinking at all.


Did you ever learn anything about improvisation through a book?

A lot. A lot. I studied with a guy named Ted Dunbar at the UMass jazz summer workshop. He taught me the system of tonal convergence. When I give guitar lessons, I recommend his book. There are 28 scales that converge or bombard the tonal center. They are all tension scales, and they all come with a series of chords. If you listen to the great improvisers — Pat Martino, Sonny Rollins, someone on that level — these guys all studied this stuff. Yusef Lateef. All those ’60s jazz guys. They’re not playing the diatonic notes of the chord. They’re playing outside the chord, but it’s a very natural thing to do.

Natural how?

Let me see if I can explain this. There are only three chords in music, period. Minor, major and dominant. A dominant chord wants to go somewhere because it has a tritone in it. A G dominant chord wants to go to C. That principle is physics. That’s not something that was assigned to music by theorists. When two strings are vibrating together a tritone apart, there are so many overtones that all you feel is tense, and the notes want to squish together into the home chord.

Stewie sings about it on Family Guy. [Sings, "You've got your G chord right here / It's like your cozy house where you live / That's where you start your journey / Here I am in my house nice and cozy / and then you poke your head out the door with a C chord / And everything looks OK out here / Maybe I'll take a walk outside to the D chord / Walkin' around outside, look at all the stuff out here / And then we go to an A-minor, gettin' a little cloudy out here / lookin' like we might get some weather / Then we go to E-minor, oh definitely got some weather / Things are a little more complicated than they seemed at first / And then we go back to my house."] It’s great. The 12-bar blues are based on this, too. But the jazz guys from the ’60s took this concept to Mars. They came up with 28 scales, all of which were basically substitutions for that dominant chord. The music is still simple: Major is happy. Minor is sad. Dominant is tense. That’s all there is. It never goes further than that with chords.

And you’re working with these sorts of “tonal convergence” theories when you improv onstage?

If you’re going to be doing a long improvisation, it’s boring to sit on one scale and just go up and down. There’s a lot of jam music like this, and that’s why people don’t like it. It never goes beyond that. Sonny Rollins isn’t doing that, even though he’s playing over a G-major chord for 18 minutes. It’s not just a G-major when Sonny Rollins plays it.

Herbie Hancock has this thing about an informed vocabulary but a childlike approach. He plays simple, simple, catchy melodies, but all his chord voicings have 40 or 50 years of this theory in them. So when he gets onstage it can be all childlike. Not childish. But if you ever stopped a Hancock recording and looked at a few measures of what he’s playing, you’d be floored. The voice leadings are filled with all these ideas. It doesn’t sound complicated, but it’s a more mature, elegant palette of emotions. These guys can hit an emotional chord that a lesser player couldn’t. It’s the same way a great writer with a great vocabulary can bring out subtler emotions. ]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:16:00 CST crunchy News & Articles 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=trey-anastasio-and-the-art-of-improvisation-interview http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blancs-letterman-interview-youtube Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:26:07 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blancs-letterman-interview-youtube http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blanc-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-documentary Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:22:19 CST crunchy Images & Videos 1 http://crunchypop.com/story.php?title=mel-blanc-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-documentary