New Media : How to -> plug a guitar into a Laptop

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New Media : How to -> plug a guitar into a Laptop

How to Plug a Guitar Into a Laptop

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Two Methods:Setting UpRecording

If you don't have the budget (yet) for a pre-amp, microphone, and other necessary sound-recording equipment, then a simpler, more straightforward solution is needed. Plugging your guitar straight into your laptop may not produce the best recorded sound, but it's definitely clearer and less mangled than holding your guitar up to the laptop microphone and playing it that way.

Method 1 of 2: Setting Up

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   Decide whether you want a pedal with a digital out or software emulated equipment. Digital pedals sound better than software emulated equipment, but they can get very pricey. There is free software out on the internet to emulate the sounds of guitar amps and pedals.
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   Buy a quarter-inch jack to 3.5mm jack (or USB) cable. This will allow you to plug your guitar straight into your computer. If you have a pedal with a digital out, plug your guitar into the pedal, then plug the pedal's digital out into the computer.
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   Buy a monitor. You will need either a speaker or headphones to be able to hear yourself playing.
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   Download recording software. If you are on a Mac, you can use Garageband. Otherwise, unless you have purchased other software, you can use a plethora of freeware programs such as Audacity.

Method 2 of 2: Recording

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   Plug your headphones / speakers in the output jack of your computer and set your recording software up to monitor the instrument sound back out to the headphones / speakers. From here, you will need to consult your software's documentation to set this up.
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   Adjust the volume recording level of your sound input. Make sure your guitar isn't clipping. Most programs will indicate if you are clipping by turning the volume bars red once they have reached clipping point. This must be adjusted at the operating system level.
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   Find a good guitar sound. Unless you are very familiar with the pedal / software you are using, it will take time to find a good tone that you are comfortable playing and recording with.
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   Press record and play! For best results, count yourself in before playing.
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   Consider the next step. Now that you've taken your first steps into recording, you may want to start planning the next pieces of equipment that you wish to invest in.

New Media : Artist Book -> old media of writing (ie Diary : Anne Truitt) & New Media of the electronic portfolio + data display (statistic prof: Hans Rosling)

New Media : Artist Book -> old media of writing (ie Diary : Anne Truitt) & New Media of the electronic portfolio + data display (statistic prof: Hans Rosling)

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/08/27/anne-truitt-daybook-artist/

Anne Truitt on Resisting the Label “Artist” and the Difference Between Doing Art and Being an Artist

by Maria Popova

“Artists have no choice but to express their lives.”

At the age of fifty-three, the influential artistAnne Truitt (March 16, 1921–December 23, 2004) confronted the existential discomfort any creative person feels in facing a major retrospective of his or her work — the Corcoran Gallery of Art had just staged one of Truitt’s. A retrospective, she felt, forces upon the artist a finite definition — this is what your work is, this who you are. It attempts to make visible and static those invisible, ever-fluid forces that compel an artist to make art.

To tease out her unease, Truitt set out to explore the dimensions of her personality and her creative impulse in a diary, in which she wrote diligently for a period of seven years. It was eventually published asDaybook: The Journal of an Artist (public library) — an extraordinary, soul-stretching collection of meditations on the trials, triumphs, and self-transcendence of the creative life.

Truitt once described her art as concerned “with the limen of consciousness, with the threshold at which experience becomes just perceptible,” but it is in the privacy of the diary that she ventures past that threshold and into the furthest frontiers of the psyche — her psyche, the artist’s psyche, the universal human psyche. Trained as a psychologist and with only one year of formal education in art, Truitt made a decision to “ride out the jeopardy of art with as much courage and faith” as possible. From this unusual standpoint, she reaches depths of insight and self-awareness inaccessible to most artists — to most human beings — and pulls out of them luminous wisdom on the love, labor, and life of art.

In one particularly poignant series of journal entries from the summer of 1974, Truitt exorcises the chronic resistance many artists have to the label of “artist” and the perils of letting others define you. On July 2 that year, she writes:

I do not understand why I seem able to make what people call art. For many long years I struggled to learn how to do it, and I don’t even know why I struggled. Then, in 1961, at the age of forty, it became clear to me that I was doing work I respected within my own strictest standards. Furthermore, I found this work respected by those whose understanding of art I valued. My first, instinctive reaction to this new situation was, if I’m an artist, being an artist isn’t so fancy because it’s just me. But now, thirteen years later, there seems to be more to it than that. It isn’t “just me.” A simplistic attitude toward the course of my life no longer serves.

The “just me” reaction was, I think, an instinctive disavowal of the social role of the artist. A life-saving disavowal. I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses. If artists embrace this view of themselves, they necessarily have to attend to its perpetuation. They have to live it out. Their time and energy are consumed for social purposes. Artists then make decisions in terms of a role defined by others, falling into their power and serving to illustrate their theories. The Renaissance focused this social attention on the artist’s individuality, and the focus persists today in a curious form that on the one hand inflates artists’ egoistic concept of themselves and on the other places them at the mercy of the social forces on which they become dependent. Artists can suffer terribly in this dilemma. It is taxing to think out and then maintain a view of one’s self that is realistic.

This dilemma, Truitt cautions, is compounded by the contradictions ofcommercial art and the conflicting forces of authenticity and pragmatism that often force upon artists the choice between creative authenticity and commercial success:

The pressure to earn a living confronts a fickle public taste. Artists have to please whim to live on their art. They stand in fearful danger of looking to this taste to define their working decisions. Sometime during the course of their development, they have to forge a character subtle enough to nourish and protect and foster the growth of the part of themselves that makes art, and at the same time practical enough to deal with the world pragmatically. They have to maintain a position between care of themselves and care of their work in the world, just as they have to sustain the delicate tension between intuition and sensory information.

This leads to the uncomfortable conclusion that artists are, in this sense, special because they are intrinsically involved in a difficult balance not so blatantly precarious in other professions. The lawyer and the doctor practice their callings. The plumber and the carpenter know what they will be called upon to do. They do not have to spin their work out of themselves, discover its laws, and then present themselves turned inside out to the public gaze.

But Truitt soon sees another angle of this living-out of the artist — living out not one’s role of being an “artist,” a performance of sorts, but living out one’s immutable experience of doing art:

The terms of the experience and the terms of the work itself are totally different. But if the work is successful — I cannot ever know whether it is or not — the experience becomes the work and, through the work, is accessible to others with its original force.

For me, this process is mysterious. It’s like not knowing where you’re going but knowing how to get there.

A few days later, in an entry reflecting on the work of the celebrated sculptor David Smith and, by extension, on all great art, Truitt writes:

He seemed never to forget that he was an artist. He just plain chose not to.

[...]

Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.

A month after her original resistant contemplation of the label “artist,” Truitt revisits the subject, exercising the uncomfortable luxury of changing one’s mind with an acknowledgment that in order to unblock the “spiritual electricity” of creative flow, one must begin with a submission to the role of artist. On August 6, she writes:

In skirting the role of the artist, I now begin to think that I have made too wide a curve, that I have deprived myself of a certain strength. Indeed, I am not sure that I can grow as an artist until I can bring myself to accept that I am one.

Part of my intense discomfort this past year has been that I was pried out of my place there. I was attached to my secret burrow, which now begins to feel a little stale.

And also egotistic, confined, even imprisoning. I begin to see that by clinging to this position I was limiting what I had to handle in the world to what I could rationalize. As long as I stayed within my own definition of myself, I could control what I admitted into that definition. By insisting that I was “just me,” I held myself aloof. Let others claim to be artists, I said to myself, holding my life separate and unique, beyond all definition but my own.

[...]

The open being: I am an artist. Even to write it makes me feel deeply uneasy. I am, I feel, not good enough to be an artist. And this leads me to wonder whether my distaste for the inflated social definition of the artist is not an inverse reflection of secret pride. Have I haughtily rejected the inflation on the outside while entertaining it on the inside? In my passion for learning how to make true for others what I felt to be true for myself (and I cannot remember, except very, very early on, ever not having had this passion), I think I may have fallen into idolatry of those who were able to communicate this way. Artists.

So to think myself an artist was self-idolatry. In a clear wind of the company of artists this summer, I am gently disarmed. We are artists because we are ourselves.

Daybook is a spectacular read in its entirety, with wisdom on everything from the role of daily routine and environment to the relationship between mental health and creativity. Complement it with Dani Shapiro on the pleasures and perils of the creative life and Anna Deavere Smith’s superb Letters to a Young Artist.

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New Media :  Shared Media browser in sl,

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Pancakes from Akiba

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• If videos are not playing or you have a black or blank search page, please do the following:
  • Go to Avatar → Preferences → Sound & Media
  • Make sure the “Enabled” checkbox to the right of the “Media” slider is checked
    (For audio, check “Streaming Music”)
  • Check “Allow resident scripts to play media”
  • Make sure you have updated both Flash Player and Quicktime. In order to play Flash format videos (eg YouTube videos), you must have the generic Adobe Flash plugin installed. If you use IE as your web browser and already have Flash, you will need to get the generic Flash plugin; see here.
  • Make sure the issue is not with the specific television you are using, by attempting to view videos on a television that plays video normally for other Firestorm users.
  • Make sure that “Enable plugins” is ticked in Preferences → Network & Cache, else Flash Player or Quicktime can not be executed, and you may see a message saying: Adobe Flash Player or an HTML5 supported browser is required for video playback.

NOTE: There are reports that recent Quicktime updates actually cause problems, giving plugin errors. If this is the case for you, then remove Quicktime entirely from your system, then reinstall it.

• NOTE: If you experience graphics driver crashes on nVidia cards when viewing Flash media (for example Youtube) both in-world and on a website and/or severe drops in your GPU clock mhz on any card then you will need to disable hardware acceleration on Flash Player. To do this, go to Youtube and Pick any video. Right click the video play area to bring up the options and follow the instructionshere.

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DIY - Design, Art,Food-Art, Human-Human interaction, Experiential Learning, Business, International business, crowd funding

DIY   - Design, Art,Food-Art, Human-Human interaction, Experiential Learning,  Business, International business, crowd funding

http://canadabusiness.ca/eng/page/contact/sgc-35/

DIY - worlds smallest coffee shop on a bike - eco+idea+money+ a way of running a micro shop

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Wheely's Bicycle Cafe!

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Be your own boss. Earn money selling ecological coffee from the world's smallest café!

Malmö, Sweden Small Business

"Let young, hungry ECO-entrepreneurs challenge old environmentally harmful dinosaurs. Wheely's is a revolution."





"Competing with Starbucks can feel like an impossible dream for independent coffee shops, but Wheely's Cafe could make an inpact on this particlar scene."

"The Bike-powered coffee cart that could take on Starbucks"

"Once the company's Indiegogo campaign has ended, expect to see a number of Wheely's eco-cafes coming to NYC and other major international cities."


Thank you for writing!!:

and many more!


A Wheely's is a full service café enclosed in a bicycle. The bike serves most things any traditional café would serve; coffee, tea, cold drinks, juices, pastries, fruits and even salads and sandwiches. The advantages of doing this from a bike are numerous; very low running costs, ECO-friendly, healthy, fun and very profitable.
Our tests shows a daily profit of between $ 150 - $ 300 from our Wheely’s testing in Sweden, great revenue that goes hand in hand with great fun, not to MENTION the health benefits.
Wheely's will be a global brand with franchises all over the world providing you - the bike owners - with all the advantages that has made franchise owners of super brands like McDonald's so successful: A recognisable brand, design, marketing, social media presence and cheaper prices due to big volumes - but at a fraction of the cost.
You will be part of a global network of Wheely’s owners, getting a great bike, keeping fit and being ecological. In short: Making the world better, one pedal at the time!
Be your own BOSS. Wake up, take your bike, go to your favourite spot. Wheely's is more than selling coffee, it’s a lifestyle. Join our revolution!







One bike is great. When we tried them in the Swedish university town of Lund not only did we get popular and earned good money, we got really fit! But the really cool part was being part of a network. Yes, one bike is great, but many bikes is greater! From the start there will be Wheely's bikes in all five continents. Young people like you learning and helping each other out, sharing tips and tricks and experiences!

Numerous research has shown the advantages of belonging to a franchise. You know how it is: People prefer the known before the unknown. Therefore, a known brand is bound to attract more customers than an unknown. This also means that Starbucks can charge more than the no-brand in the street. Wheely's will bridge that gap, giving you and your bike all the muscle of a global super brand but without the expensive overhead!

Actually: The only thing you have to pay is if you want to order new cups, napkins or other material. We will deliver all those things in no-time if you want them, but that's totally up to you! 
Buying a Wheely's bike includes the free LIFETIME right to use the brandname "Wheely's" on your bike and be part of the global network. This is a right that might well be worth money as more people order bikes. 











Wheely's are now fully funded, we are EXTREMELY happy and look forward to reach even further! Thank you SO MUCH for your support!!

The bike has been developed by NSID. It is 100% ECO-friendly, but it is also a well tested, super functional micro café. The Wheely's bike is powered only by the sun and your own body only, making it's not only CO2 neutral, but carbon footprint negative, making the world greener with every cup of coffee.
The bike includes; among other things:

   •   A small gas burner used to keep coffee and tea water hot.
   •   Coffee Termoses
   •   Branded bottles for all fittings you will need (sugar, cream, milk etc)
   •   All items necessary to use the bike
   •   An ingenious locking solution for the bike
   •   A lot of small ingenious details, like a small loudspeaker to play the happy morning music.
   •   A small sink.





The bike has been tested in multiple cities, and in every case both people, media and city councils love it. 







Every day with a Wheely's café is filled with opportunities. How much you will earn is actually up to you. Here are some ideas:

• Team up with newspapers and become their distributor
  
• Do gigs at Corporate events. These are well payed (often over $ 1000) and fun!
  
• Make people happy, it's verified by science that by giving something away (a lollipop for instance) people are more willing to give you something back in return. 
  
• Work extra in the mornings before school! 50% of a days earnings comes in the rush hour. 
  
• Help brands launch new products on the market. Give away samples. 
  
• Make tests, do the math in order to find out the perfect place and time to place your Wheely's. 
  
• Find exhibitions / sport games / concerts / parties and be where the people are. Make friends. 
  
• Sell umbrellas on rainy days
  
• Buy many Wheely's, employ your friends and become a Wheely's kingpin
  
• Get patrons - befriend your buyers. If they like you, they will tell their friends. Always remember to award those trusty clients of yours. 
  
• It there a ferry terminal nearby? This is a perfect place to sell coffee to cardriver waiting.
  
• Outside a school or a university has proven to be a great spot!
  
• Bus terminals are usually crowded by people but no cafes, use this opportunity!
  
• Rent out our bike to corporate events or sport events, everyone want’s coffee and snacks.

Thank you Fast Company for writing!



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100 % FAIRTRADE
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Will I need a permit for my Wheely's?

That depends. Most cities in the world allow for non-stationary selling. That means as long as you keep moving you won't be needing a permit. But check with your local council. In most cases they really like the idea of a bike-cafe, as they are considered being good for the city brand. :)

How much can I expect to earn in a day?

(Oh yes, that IS the question.) In our experiments it varies a lot depending on time of day, where you stand, day of month, weather and so on. A rough estimation is that in Scandinavia you will earn between $100 - $300 in one six hour day. Of course, most of the selling will be done in the rush hours. You can expand that money quite a lot by selling lunch / salads / sandwiches.
(Of course, )If you have a spot in central London / New York / Tokyo you can probably put a zero after our estimates.

What do you mean by saying you have learned from the giants?

We use what we have learnt from working with giants such as McDonald's and Starbuck's. How they do their branding, pricing, advertising, product development and so on. You could say we use their own weapons against them, only Wheely’s are is nimbler, smaller and faster moving. It's going to be FUN!

Can I order a Wheely's and re-brand the bike?

Yes. Ordering the bike makes it yours. We are an open source company. Most people will benefit from operating under the Wheely's brand, but if you want to call your self Mr Pineapple and sell Pineappledrinks in Aruba- go ahead. The bike is actually perfect for any kind of street operation.

What can be sold from a Wheely's?

We have decided to have a minimum selection of coffee, soft drinks, fruits and some pastry (ecological) Apart from that, every bike owner is free to add their own touch to it - yoghurt, croissants and an assortment of small candies etc. There might also be selling of magazines and newspapers as well as cooperations with new brands and launches. Bagels and sandwiches in the evening, or give it that French touch by making crepes!

How will you advertise Wheely’s?

In the team behind Wheely’s you'll find some of the most awarded advertisers in the world. We'll use all the latest social media strategies and techniques employed by the giants such as McDonald's, but we use them for good!

When will the bikes be delivered?

First we need to finish the Indiegogo project. After that the bikes will be ordered from various sources and hand assembled here in Sweden. THEN we will begin to ship. You have to count with at least six weeks after the funding is finished until you have your bike. Yes we KNOW that it is hard. But remember: first order first serve. If you order today, at least you will get your Wheely’s before everyone ordering after you!

Do I need to pay for the shipping?

Yes. The shipping vary between 75-200 usd depending on where in the world you are located. Though, we are doing our best to keep the shipping costs down, and the more bikes we sell, the cheaper we will be able to get the shipping cost.






Wheely's has been developed by Nordic Society For Invention and Discovery. We are a product development crew that together have worked with most of Scandinavias super brands, such as IKEA, H&M and several others. With this experience we have started a lab to develop the products of the future, most of the time focusing on sustainability. Our previous projects have been featured in most of the biggest world media.
Our goal is that Wheely's shall be present in over 100 cities in one year!