January 10th - Blog: License Argument

You know at this point, I don't really have anything from creative commons license, but I do have something I don't particularly agree with. The RIAA and artists who are so damn rich yet have to moan and groan about not getting the money they deserve or need? Honestly, what part of millionaires do these people not understand? Omg, you don't get a couple thousand because some kids are d/ling your music online. Big freaking deal, do they ever think of the extra publicity it might create? Anyways, I'm going to stop before I get off on a tyrant and go insane! It's late! AhHHH!!

Yes! Keep going...

January 10th - Blog: Thinking of linking....and then doing it!

Brian's Good Vibrations...need I say more?

The title alone deserves a link...

Mad Skills....

yes, yes...go further, tell us more about why you linked GoodVibrations with Meagan's emerging space.

-ShareRiff

Well it wasn't so much the connection between what Brian and Megan had to say...so much as what their space said about how I felt at the moment. Brian's insanely sweet video of a guy boarding on this huge wave brought me back to the feeling of snowboarding and just wanting to escape this god for saken place. While Megan's space emitted the the type of mood I was in when I was writing some of my thoughts lastnight on here "Mindless Drivel". Mood is everything with me and when I find things I like, it influences them as such.

Kris, I'm glad you enjoyed the sufing video. I sent you an email to let you know it's all good. -Brian

January 10th Blog: Transcription

Does I'm confused count anything for this category? I mean...the transcription process wasn't that difficult...it's the whole wiki thing I'm trying to adjust to at this moment.

January 10th - Blog: Searching for rhythm....

Interviewee: Madison (girlfriend) who often becomes my subject in many of my college projects....

As far as recording, I don't have any method in doing so and as such will use AIM to replicate a conversation. AIM names have been changed for privacy purposes.

Kristopher: So once again babe here I am trying to understand a school project and I think you will be able to help me out with it.

Kristopher: The question is what is rhythm by your defintion?

Madison: Is there a right or wrong answer?

Kristopher: No, however you describe it is correct in my opinion.

Madison: Well my opinion is there are many different quantities of rhythm.

Kristopher: What do you mean?

Madison: There are simple rhythms, for example a metronome. When I practiced music, it helped me keep time by emitting a single beat. Even though you can change the frequency, or speed, of the metronome, it stays a one-beat rhythm.

Kristopher: Okay so a device that helps count rhythm...I'm still not understanding fully what your definition of rhythm is....

Madison: Well then there are the more complex rhythms, like the drum selection of any song. The drums are just a bunch of single beats played rapidly and at the same time. Rhythm is the thing you hear when you listen to music and it makes you sway or tap your feat. It's a repetitive motion that something in your body relates to, like when you can hear or feel your own heart beat. Rhythm simply keeps everything in sync.

Kristopher: Ok, now I kinda understand more....is that why you're always tapping your feet or shaking your leg randomly? Are there beats and rhythms resonating through your brain constantly?

Madison: Not so much as they are resonating through my mind constantly, just when a song suddenly enters my mind I tap or shake to keep the beat. I even nod my head, and you probably think I'm nuts. For example, when you are at the gym listening to your "crazy pump-up" music, doesn't your blood start pumping and your adrenaline start rushing? And do you ever do reps to the beat of the music and use it to keep those reps controlled?

Kristopher: Yes, yes you are nuts but that is besides the point. When I'm working out I don't necessairly use the music and imitate that through my reps. Instead I use the rhythm and the tone of the music to increase my anger and find things that ultimately make me very upset. I use rhythm and music to set the mood...

Madison: Well therefore you prove my point. If you were listening to some sort of opera or classical with a nice, slow, artistic rhythm and sound would you get pumped up enough to be angry at the gym? Or does it take the angry music with all the banging and screaming, the confusion of it? Granted the angry music has words to make you mad too, but I highly doubt if you took the words from your angry songs and overlapped them to a rhythm of classical it would have the same effect on you.

Kristopher: Obviously...

***The topic continued on with more rambling, but I think we got the point across as to what both of us think rhythm is defined as.***