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Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I choose Silicon Valley for my web development needs?
Choosing Silicon Valley guarantees top-tier web development services. We offer frontend and backend development, including custom e-commerce solutions. Our global expertise ensures diverse skill sets and cultural understanding, while our use of cutting-edge technologies ensures innovation. We maintain cost-effectiveness through efficient project management.
What specific services does Silicon Valley offer in frontend and backend development?
Specific services in frontend and backend development: In frontend development, we create visually appealing, user-friendly interfaces. In backend development, we handle data storage, security, and server-side processes, ensuring smooth functionality.
Can Silicon Valley create custom e-commerce solutions?
We specialize in custom e-commerce solutions, delivering exceptional online shopping experiences, from secure payments to user-friendly interfaces.
Tell me more about the global expertise of Silicon Valley
Our team comprises experts worldwide, bringing diverse perspectives and experiences to each project. This global outlook helps us create solutions that resonate with international audiences.
What technologies does Silicon Valley utilize in their web development projects?
We utilize various technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and open-source frameworks, ensuring our projects are built with the latest tools and methodologies.
How does Silicon Valley ensure cost-effective service pricing?
Silicon Valley maintains cost-effectiveness through efficient resource allocation, competitive pricing, and transparent project management. There are no hidden fees, maximizing your ROI.
Can you provide examples of successful web development projects completed by Silicon Valley?
Some of our successful projects in the Peru include developing user-friendly interfaces for global corporations, creating secure and efficient e-commerce platforms, and crafting innovative web applications that enhance user experiences. Our portfolio showcases our diverse capabilities and expertise in web development for the Peru market.
How does outsourcing to a web development company work?
Outsourcing to a web development company involves delegating your web development tasks or projects to a specialized external team. Here's a step-by-step overview of how the process typically works:
Throughout the process, clear communication, collaboration, and well-defined project scope are crucial for a successful outsourcing partnership. Choosing the right web development company that aligns with your needs and goals is critical to achieving a successful project outcome.


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Ask chart-topping, multiplatinum producer Calvin Harris for the secret behind all of his recent success and he'll answer you with remarkable honesty. "Luck! Pure and simple," he says with a grin. "I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
"Had those three people not sent the track at the same time, I'd probably still be Nobby No-Mates, pissing around in my bedroom. That was my one bit of luck and it allowed me to get my foot in the door."
The 27-year-old has certainly made the most of his limited luck. Currently one of the UK's biggest pop names, he conquered both the album and singles charts, and even managed to reintroduce cheesy '80s synth sounds and euphoric trance hooks into the mainstream with tunes like Acceptable In The '80s and I'm Not Alone.
He's also a regular reader of Future Music, as they found out a few months ago when they received a Tweet from him, following their Calvin Harris Get That Synth Sound feature.
So, were Future Music Magazine close to cracking the secret of your sound?
[Laughing] "Not really. I had a go at setting it up… following the instructions in the mag. Yeah, I suppose it sort of sounded like it, but the approach was far more scientific than I could ever attempt. I'll readily admit that I'm not a full-blown tech-head. I love my gear and I love being in the studio, but I tend to work in a far more ad hoc kind of way.
"From what I remember, they started with a sine wave, but I usually start with a preset. I know some people get really snooty if you talk about preset sounds, but, personally, I can't see anything wrong with using them as a starting point."
Seeing as we're on the subject, can we go into a bit more synth sound detail?
"Not a problem at all. As you'll see, they are quite difficult to replicate, so if someone really does want to have a go, good luck to 'em!
"OK, let's take the I'm Not Alone main hook. It was actually made up of two different synth sounds and… well, first of all, I should tell you that I don't always play a sound from its original source. I'll often sample a synth sound through the mixer and turn it into a new instrument in Logic's EXS24, because that gives me a lot more control over it.
"I started off with the new Roland Juno-G and found a lovely preset called something like 'Trance Keys'. I started playing around with it and thought,
'This is a bit of all right'. As usual, I decided to sample a few notes around middle C into the EXS. Immediately, that will change the feel of a sound, because you're not sampling right across the whole keyboard. As soon as you move away from middle C, the new sound starts to take on an interesting character. Like I said, there seems to be loads of control over it in the EXS and I'm very used to working in that environment. When it's all coming from that particular sampler, I seem to understand the sound a lot more.
"At first the new sound was a bit pad-y… a bit too washy. So, I adjusted the attack time to give it some more punch. But it was still lacking something. It sounded too much like a background noise instead of a lead line. It needed a bit more bollocks. That came from… oh God, what was it? It was a distorted electric piano from one of the other keyboards. No, it might have been from the Juno-G, as well.
"I remember that the distortion made it quite messy. You couldn't play chords with it, but the single notes were OK. When I sampled it into the EXS, I also took the distortion effect off. It seemed to define the sound a bit too much and didn't leave me with much room for manoeuvre.
"When I combined those two sounds, it really started to work! I think I had to tweak the release time, because it was a bit too nher-nher-nher. A bit too on-and-off. I added some release, just to bring in some floaty-ness. That was it really: "Instant Trance euphoria!"
You're not afraid of using the 'T' word, then?
"Trance? Well, that's something that other people came up with. I can honestly say that I didn't set out to make a trance tune. At the time, trance was really out in the cold. Yeah, you'd got your hardcore trance guys who'd been there since day one, but, in terms of the mainstream, trance was old hat. No one was interested.
"I was actually quite worried that people weren't going to get it. It was dance, but it was pop, as well.It had this big trance riff, but then it had guitars. It was quite upbeat, but there was a bit of darkness in there, too. People didn't really know what to make of it. When it first went to the radio stations, they all said, 'What the hell is he playing at? He's made a trance record!'"
Must have put a big smile on your face when it went to number one.
[Laughs] "Yeah, it did make me very happy. The main reason it made me happy was because I'd taken a risk with that tune. If I'd have actually sat down and thought about it logically, I probably would have said, 'Hang on, this is trance. No one will take it seriously'. But I just heard it as a song… a good song. I knew it worked, so I went with it. Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but, as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things."
What were you working on in the early days?
"Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers and, when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga. With the right interface, you could sample things off CD, so I used to nick loads of loops from Fatboy Slim albums and make my own tunes.
"In a sense, I suppose you could say that I immediately went on-board. I was working inside the computer. That computer just happened to be an 8-bit Amiga! I know we get all nostalgic about 8-bit samples, but, rest assured, the Amiga didn't sound lo-fi and gritty. It just sounded… a bit rubbish. It probably didn't help that the only monitors were the TV speakers from the secondhand TV in my bedroom."
How long did that set-up last?
"Not long. I moved up to an Amiga 1200 and, at Christmas, persuaded my parents to get me my first keyboard… a Korg M5. That was the great thing about being a kid. You could ask for bits of kit forb Christmas and birthdays. I also managed to get a Zoom 1201 - an amazing little effects box for 99 quid! - and an Electrix Filter Queen.
"Without a doubt, that was the best present anyone has ever bought me! Sadly, it broke after about two weeks, but they were the greatest two weeks of my life. A real filter! A filter! I stuck everything through it. Twiddling and tweaking. To my young ears, it made everything sound fucking brilliant! I have to mention the M5, too. I've still got it and I still consider it one of the best all-round keyboards you can get. I sometimes dig it out, just for old time's sake. The piano sounds on it areN amazing. Bizarrely, my early studio setup also included a lot of stuff from school. I had a very understanding music teacher who let me take home things like mics, mic stands, a mixer and an eight-trackN Minidisc recorder. That eight-track was a revelation. That's how I learned to mix."
Did the school get a credit on the first album?
"No, but I really ought to have thanked them! That gear kept me going for years. As soon as I left school, I had to give it all back and my studio suddenly looked very empty. I suppose that's when I decided that I wasn't going to university. If I went to uni, I'd have no money and that meant I couldn't buy more gear.
So, I got a job. Just to earn money to buy more equipment. The music thing had really got me… I suppose it's fair to say that I was obsessed. I didn't go out. I didn't really have many mates. I didn't watch telly or go to clubs. I just listened to music and made my own tunes. It was probably all a bit unhealthy, but locking myself away like that meant I could really concentrate on the music.
"I remember going totally over the top with the Akai S950 - I managed to get it off this bloke in Carlisle for 200 quid. I knew every button and every switch. Knew how to get the best out of it. I was mad about trying to get the drums to sound punchy. Chopping and tightening as much as I could. Eventually, I realised I needed some sort of compression too, so I put in loads of overtime at work and bought eight Alesis 3630 compressors!
Not one… eight of the buggers! And I stuck one on every output of the S950. "I listen back to some of the tunes I made at the time and they just sound weird. Compressed all over the place, pumping and ducking and sounding terrible. What the fuck was I thinking?"
Had you started to send stuff out at this point? Or was it bedroom only?
"As soon as I finished my first demo, I started sending stuff to record companies. From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back. Not even a letter telling me to sod off!
"I think the most I ever got was a pack of vinyl from some label and a note saying it wasn't bad for a school kid. That was it… nothing else. I was more or less on the verge of giving up. By the time I was 21 or 22, I was getting pretty jaded. No one seemed to be that interested in what I was doing.
"That was when I joined MySpace. Obviously, no one uses MySpace anymore, but back then it was a Godsend. It was a way of getting my tunes out there. Adding loads of DJs and record labels to my list of 'friends'. That was round about the time the incident happened with EMI.
"My music landed in the hands of the right people at the right time… purely by chance. I was THIS CLOSE to giving up!"
Is it a question you get asked a lot… how do I get my music signed?
"It's the question that was always going through my head and I'm sure it goes through the head of every person making music in their bedrooms up and down the country. There is no magic formula. It's just about getting the music heard, but also being objective. I was really hard on myself before I got signed… and I still am. I try to look at every track from the outside. It's too easy to get swept along when you're banging stuff out in the bedroom. You have to stand back and say, 'Is this good enough?'
"And I suppose Twitter has taken the place of MySpace to an extent. It's a good way of getting in touch with other people… DJs, people from record companies. Then there's the Laidback Luke Forum. Afrojack came up through there. He does actually listen to stuff."
What was the first album recorded on?
"All of that first album [2007's I Created Disco] was recorded on the Amiga setup. It was all done in my bedroom in Dumfries, before I got any interest from the music business. "All I had was the Amiga 1200, the Korg M5 provided loads of sounds for the first album, a huge, 32-channel Soundcraft mixer, my 950 - at some point, that was upgraded to an S3000 - the Alesis compressors, the Zoom, a Line 6 echo-thingy, a Focusrite VoiceMaster Pro and a couple of AKG C1000 mics. That was it!
"The Focusrite was brilliant, because I could really crunch the vocals up and distort them to hell. That was my mixing technique. Distort everything to hell, then you don't have to worry about things like EQ and balance. Distortion allowed me to work with my limited setup."
I Created Disco - a Top Ten album in 2007 - wasall made on the Amiga?
"Why not? The Amiga did a great job! Even after things started to take off, I did my best to carry on working with it. We were a team! Sadly, I realised it was probably time to give the studio a bit of a spruce-up. The Amiga - God bless it! - was put on the shelf, replaced by Logic with all the bells and whistles, and a Mac. I'm sure you've heard this loads of times, but that first jump to Logic is pretty spectacular. There I am, in my bedroom, with my trusty Amiga. All of a sudden, you've got a studio setup that's as big as your budget and your imagination will allow.
"Thinking back, I was quite wary of that jump to Logic-World. Wary of suddenly having money and endless toys to spend it on. I've heard stories of bands that spend all their advance on gear, then the album tanks and they're left with loads of gear and no cash. I was careful. I only bought the things that I really needed, but I didn't go crazy. I didn't need to. I was having enough trouble getting my head around Logic and trying to start work on the second album."
You've spent most of last year working on album three and the singles so far, like Bounce and Feel So Close have been huge. Is it all finished?
"Not yet. We're looking at a release date soon. It's been a pretty busy year - touring, producing for other people, remixing - so I've not been able to spend as much time in the studio as I'd have liked.
"I think the main thing I've tried to do with this album is not cover the same old ground. It's still sounding quite epic, but that whole I'm Not Alone thing has been done to death. Loads of people have jumped on that sound. I want to do something different. I want to challenge myself and feel in danger of messing up. Sometimes, you need to do that to get the best out of yourself.
"I'm lucky enough to have a really nice studio in London now. It's all been acoustically treated. Y'know… the works. Logic is still the main tool, of course, and most of the work gets done inside the Mac or on the laptop.
"But I have been pulling a few vintage bits of kit off of the shelves too. Things like an old [Roland] Juno-106 and a Korg MS20. All you need is one sound and you're off on your journey. Who knows where you'll end up."

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At a Glance
- Contrary to popular belief, transformations rarely fail outright, they underperform.
- This pattern of mediocre performance costs more than most leaders realize.
- Bain research shows that skillful management of internal risk accounts for 80% of success.
- Companies that reach their transformation goals engage the organization in the change process early on.
Going around the table, each member of the executive committee agreed that the firm's plan to transform its multibillion-dollar retail business was ready to roll. It was make or break, and the organization's people would determine the difference. The leadership team members thought they knew about the risks that could derail change. "We've got it covered," affirmed the chief transformation officer. But embedded in the work plans was a disaster waiting to happen: The bulk of the investments and resources were set up to manage things like costs, competitor moves and supplier relationships—the outside forces that can't be overlooked, but also can't compensate for winning the all-important inside game. Missing was a strong commitment to managing internal execution risks. That meant another transformation would fall short.
Every year, companies spend billions of dollars on business transformations, and yet few do it well. Only 12% of companies achieve their full transformation targets—the same number as five years ago, according to a recent Bain survey of senior executives who have led large-scale change programs. By their own admission, the vast majority say their results are mediocre: 68% settle for value dilution, achieving more than half of their stated goals, but falling well short of their ambition. The good news is, the share of total failures—companies that missed their ambition by a wide margin—dropped sharply to 20% from 38% in 2013 (see Figure 1).
Conventional wisdom says that most transformations fail. The truth is, companies are learning how to avoid complete failure, but most haven't figured out how to succeed. Winning the outer game of cost, competitive position and strategy is vital. But no matter how brilliant a company's business choices, the inner game determines whether a transformation will succeed. When leadership teams plunge forward without investing sufficient time and resources to manage all the related risks, transformations stall out. The 426 leaders we surveyed reported that steering change effectively inside the company had a tremendous impact on reaching their goals. In fact, leaders who achieved or exceeded their transformation targets said inner-game factors made up 80% of the reasons for their success.
A well-executed transformation can produce extraordinary results, lifting the energy and confidence of an entire organization. CEOs who have led successful change efforts know the biggest challenge is endurance. Like rally car drivers setting off on a trek across Africa, they make sure the organization has enough gas on board when it sets off, and they keep an eye on the gauge along the way, boosting the organization's energy reserves by mobilizing people and sustaining their commitment.
The high cost of mediocrity
Business transformations usually start out with a burst of energy. At some point, however, fatigue sets in and the transformation enters the "valley of death" (see the Bain article "Reenergize Change Programs to Escape the 'Valley of Death'"). People who were excited about making the transformation happen grow tired of the extra work and impatient with the lack of visible results. Those who were reluctant at the outset feel vindicated and escalate their resistance. Commitment gives way to cynicism. Most often, change programs that enter the valley of death never fully emerge from it. They either fail outright or produce mediocre results.
In our experience, the cost of a mediocre outcome is higher than most leadership teams realize. Even a relatively minor miss on things like margin targets compounds over time, and can cause the business to fall far short of its goals and disappoint investors. For the weakest companies, the gap can be formidable. Five years after launching a transformation, average shareholder returns for companies that managed internal risks well were more than two times higher than for those in the bottom 10%, Bain research shows (see Figure 2).
Even more damaging, derailed transformations puncture the credibility of the management team and sow confusion across the organization. Often, companies seek to camouflage disappointing results by scaling back their ambitions and recasting initial targets as stretch goals. Revising the story line, however, just widens the credibility gulf. The next time the company embarks on a change effort, the rhetoric sounds empty.
The loss of credibility triggered by a lackluster transformation is a blind spot for many leadership teams. It's also one reason why trust in CEOs is at a record low. Take the case of one global industrial company, which set out to transform its business through new products, an automated production line and a move to shared services. Initial results exceeded targets, but after 18 months—the dangerous moment when big transformations typically falter—its CEO shifted all his attention to resolving short-term pressure on earnings. Without top management focus, the change effort floundered, denting the CEO's reputation and leaving the organization in upheaval. By the third year, instead of an expected improvement in the fi rm's employee Net Promoter Score®, a widely used indicator of employee loyalty and enthusiasm, the rating had plunged 60 percentage points to negative 17.
Mastering the inside game
Leaders who have mastered the inner game acknowledge a simple truth: People struggle with change. Successful leaders build deep commitment at all levels of the organization from the outset, acquire the capability to encourage behavior change, ensure fast governance and inspire the organization with a clear vision of the company's future state. They also prepare for the valley of death—the difficult phase of sustaining change after the initial enthusiasm disappears. Bain research shows leadership teams that address these inside risks are nearly two times more likely to achieve their ambitions and three times more likely to sustain change.
Amgen Chief Executive Robert A. Bradway led his company through a successful multiyear transformation by anticipating the hazards that could derail the effort. Long before the transformation got under way, Bradway spent months discussing key risks with his leadership team and in a sign of commitment, appointed a trusted senior executive, Brian McNamee, as chief transformation officer in 2013. McNamee set up an extensive feedback loop to measure progress, allowing the company to adjust the plan every four to six months and each initiative monthly. He also deployed a "change-agent network," a group of trusted leaders in the field, to understand how the transformation was affecting the organization. The leadership team listened to frontline managers' concerns and advice, building credibility in the process.
Amgen's upfront efforts to help people understand the transformation supported the momentum for change even when people's energy inevitably flagged at the midway point. After two years, the company's margins had risen by 15 points and the stock price had doubled. Support for the company and the CEO predictably dipped one year into the effort, but at two years, it had rebounded to a level higher than at the beginning of the transformation. Bradway's Glassdoor CEO approval rating rose 12 percentage points in the same period (data provided by Glassdoor). His current rating is 76%.
Get an early start
Despite the thousands of books published on managing change, leading a successful transformation remains an elusive goal for most leadership teams. How can companies start to improve their inner game? Bain research shows the most critical factor is getting an early start building commitment throughout the organization. That finding makes sense, given the widespread shift to a more collaborative management culture—the No. 1 trend in Bain's 2018 Management Tools and Trends survey. Nearly 80% of executives say today's business leaders must "trust and empower people, not command and control them."
But communication alone does not create engagement. In our experience, many leadership teams are disconnected from their own people's thinking. They assume that explaining the rationale for a business transformation will convince people it's needed. Many fail to realize that their perspective is based on data, insights and management discussions that haven't been shared with employees.
Leadership teams that launch a transformation without engaging their own people in dialogue and giving them time to embrace the logic themselves are less likely to succeed. Winning the inner game starts with making sure people participate in the change and provide regular input, so it's not done to them, but with them. Co-involvement in the transformation process infuses managers and the front line with energy to implement change and sustain it. Leaders say that approach doubles their chances of success.
Soon after Chief Executive Kevin Lobo took the helm at Stryker Corp. in 2012, he set out on a multiyear transformation to improve the Kalamazoo, Michigan, company's global reach and performance. His first step, shifting from a decentralized US operating model to a more coordinated transatlantic model, meant changing deeply rooted ways of working. Knowing that the fate of the change effort depended on Stryker's people, Lobo and his executive team dedicated the first three months to "listen-and-learn tours" across regions and business units, to hear firsthand thoughts, concerns and ideas from the field.
Open dialogue created trust and commitment. The next step was a series of highly interactive workshops, deliberately mixing people from different functions and geographies who needed to work closely together. The workshops, called "a seat at the table," helped build a strong sense of ownership in the new operating model and strengthen personal relationships. Two and a half years after the program kickoff, the company exceeded its target for accelerated growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa: Stryker's compound annual growth rate for net sales in the region jumped fourfold to 10%. The broader, multiyear transformation contributed to a tripling of the company's enterprise value, creating roughly $40 billion in market capitalization since 2012.
Learning to succeed
Although only 12% of companies make good on their transformation goals, there's a proven path for others to replicate their success. Leaders invest the time and resources to understand how change is likely to disrupt the organization and who will be hit hardest. In particular, they discuss the critical internal factors that can derail change, and take steps to mitigate the risks. To ensure the organization is committed to a transformation, they listen closely to the individuals who will bear the brunt of change. When pain grips the organization at the halfway point, CEOs play a critical role sustaining the effort. They redouble their commitment and work to restore people's faith in the promises they made. Mastering the inside game helps these leaders beat the odds and deliver successful transformations.
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Field Theory: Wellingtonista and Want-mas
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And if I may advertise a little more:
I just noticed that the Felt.co.nz banner that is occasionally at the top of these threads features the crocheted Russian dolls my Amy makes. -
I just this minute saw what I NEED: an angry mob playset.
Either that, or anything from the sportreview.net.nz Zobmbie Gift Guide from a year or so back.
I have to buy my own presents.
Top of my list is a new car and Guitar Hero: World Tour.
I think I'll treat myself this year and buy the latter today or tomorrow.
I'm considering celebrating Dies Natalis Solis Invicti this year - the pagan "birthday of the unconquered sun" which was celebrated on Dec 25th (the taekover of this date by Christians for Christmas is still contentious)...
It just sounds like something I really should celebrate. The lack of conquering of the sun is a real highlight...
Zapp Brannigan Ray Gun!
Ooooh, that is nice and much cheaper than this beauty that I want-mas from Weta Workshop (USD5,000!)
A friend of mine owns the FMOM Wave Disrupter. It's very nice, but bloody heavy
For Xmas this year I want the things that I nominated for TAWAs to win, and I want everyone to come along and have a good time on the night, and for us to become rich and famous.
Also, I really really want a giant moosehead from Wanda Harland that's made of little bits of plywood like those dinosaur skeletons I'm sure you all used to have that you put together yourself.
I want anything from Swonderful. And I want a good book, not the good book, but Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis. I'm told it's a great read. And this is my first xmas (pretty much) away from my mum, so by midday xmas day I'll be wanting my mommy and her home-made pav!
Lots of lovely book vouchers. Or Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. But I may buy it for someone else instead!
Turkey for dinner (Croziers turkey naturally - my Ash-Vegan connections to the fore!)
And I second the suggestion to visit the Felt website - they have some lovely stuff there. I met someone at the English Park market on Saturday, and saw some of the lovely stuff in person.
I know it's technically too late to order things from overseas for Christmas but I would quite like some Actual Size stickers.
And I second the suggestion to visit the Felt website - they have some lovely stuff there. I met someone at the English Park market on Saturday, and saw some of the lovely stuff in person.
It's always nice meeting the crafters, they are lovely folk.
I would quite like things such as a science tshirt.
When I read this I assumed you were talking about one of the xkcd science shirts, which in turn made me think, right, I want the regex cheat skirt. But then I thought wait a minute, it's not like I don't own a credit card. So I bought it.
In summary, if you are Dr M searching the web in want-mas related desperation: neener neener neener.
When I read this I assumed you were talking about one of the xkcd science shirts
I love xkcd but I want more of the maths jokes on shirts.
In summary, if you are Dr M searching the web in want-mas related desperation: neener neener neener.
The other good thing about a want-mas list is anything not on it is fair game!
I actually bought some NZ wine that came with it's own USB key in the supermarket the other day - it was for a geek birthday party so it was vaguely appropriate - the key contained some promo for the vinyard
Hadyn, there are plenty of places with Maths t-shirts for example Maths T-shirts Assume you have checked out Think Geek.
Though one person's funny is another's 'seriously WTF'
As of this morning I may need a new espresso machine. Any recommendations for units under $1500 much appreciated...
Yeah but they are a little too geeky (if that's possible), and the physics jokes are funnier. I like the Factorial! one though.
I always wanted the shirt that said:
"snakes ε {R^2}"(Snakes on a plane)
felt is like a craft market online, plus you know everything is handmade, which makes it all beyond awesome
Any recommendations for units under $1500 much appreciated...
A cheaper addiction?
Peter - I have this (about $950 from Altura). My research at the time suggested it was the best under the heat exchange/domobar beasts:
Great for a couple of cups at a time - I can better most cafe's on it for that. Multiple milky coffees, it's a bit too finicky.But you can possibly get into the E61 grouphead/double boiler stuff for under $1,500 now? Not sure...
"snakes ε {R^2}"
(Snakes on a plane)
Triggers my Inner Crocodile Dundee, that does.
"That's not a snayk. Thees ees a snayk."
Any recommendations for units under $1500 much appreciated...
I hate to go really cheap, but Consumer recommended this $369 unit as top of the bunch for espresso machines
Don't have a working naff detector.
How about this one at Print Perfection ?
Stupid Craft Zine and it's stupid awesome jewelry
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Performed by Oran Barak, Harel Grazutis, and Nunzia Picciallo
Fourth Performance: Monday, April 1 at 8 pm
The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv is pleased to announce a new performative work, entitled Bottoms Know It, featured as part of "Gaining in a State of Debt" – the new solo exhibition of Alex Mirutziu (1981, Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania). The performance was conceived for CCA Tel Aviv and features three performers and three props.
Alex Mirutziu's practice extends over a wide range of media and activities, including sculpture, drawing, poetry and performance as well as critical and curatorial projects. In his work he expands on the notions of approximation and proximity in connection to time, dislocating modes of arrival at meaning. In his practice he seeks to facilitate a body as 'turbulent performative occasion' drawing on the poetic of homelessness, invisibility and beyond, to suspend the set-ups of doing, un-doing, thinking and un-thinking.
Mirutziu's performances oftentimes grapple with the difficulty of dying, mocking the notions of free will and sensemaking. He is interested in the ethics of depiction debunking idealization of reality by giving a disturbed language to bodies who accept their human limitations and shortcomings. In "Bottoms Know it," the performers are torn between their will to see the whole, and witnessing of their own neurosis.
The artist describes Bottoms Know It as follows:
The challenge of this project is to give access to a distinct type of knowledge, that of the complicated relationship we have with the other side of textuality. Centered on poetics of readings from behind, hence of openings, entrances, closings, exits, centers, and holes it deploys means of seeing and understanding the world and the Other, taking disappearance and debasing of the self as the subject and gateway to a more profound grasp of our humanity. Operations of tight-thinking absorbed by loose activities, squeezed down or stretched out, and disturbed actions by a kind of thinking-as-doing are few of the strategies the performers are using to destabilize the viewer's judgements and trust in the project itself. It takes inspiration from Iris Murdoch's notion of the "good," hence of seeing the whole thing, and expands on Leo Bersani's cultural construction of masculinity and the image of power. Dissatisfaction with the present moment could bring further possibilities instead of conflict, as "living" the image of oneself makes disappearance of the self a hard case. Performers oftentimes set in motion half articulations of the self, letting go at times of their own truth, postponing a united image of their individuality to a later stage, haunted by great probability of failure as outcome. The drive toward being good, of stating the bases of everything, destabilizes the present, finding the task of naming of who they are in an insufficient present, a difficult one, prone to fail with every breath.
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Russia received a downward trend arrow due to the imposition of harsh penalties on protesters participating in unsanctioned rallies and new rules requiring civil society organizations with foreign funding to register as "foreign agents."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won the tightly controlled March 2012 presidential election and returned to the Kremlin after a four-year interlude, during which his chosen placeholder, Dmitry Medvedev, had continued Putin's policies and allowed him to avoid violating constitutional term limits. Putin immediately imposed greater restrictions on public assemblies, nongovernmental organizations, and the internet, seeking to squelch the nascent protest movement that had arisen in response to fraudulent December 2011 parliamentary elections. Vaguely defined amendments to the law on treason potentially criminalized a variety of activities, including ordinary interactions with foreigners. The authorities also launched anticorruption investigations during the year, exposing high levels of fraud in state spending, but as with past anticorruption drives, actual arrests were limited to lower-level officials rather than members of the elite.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation emerged as an independent state under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, Yeltsin used force to thwart an attempted coup by parliamentary opponents of radical reform, after which voters approved a new constitution establishing a powerful presidency and a bicameral national legislature, the Federal Assembly. The 1995 parliamentary elections featured strong support for the Communist Party and ultranationalist forces. Nevertheless, in the 1996 presidential poll, which suffered from electoral manipulation by all sides, Yeltsin defeated Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov with the financial backing of powerful business magnates, who used the media empires they controlled to ensure victory. In 1999, Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin, then the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), as prime minister.
Conflict with the separatist republic of Chechnya, which had secured de facto independence from Moscow after a brutal 1994-96 war, resumed in 1999. Government forces reinvaded the breakaway region after Chechen rebels led an incursion into the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan in August and a series of deadly apartment bombings – which the Kremlin blamed on Chechen militants and some of Putin's critics blamed on him – struck Russian cities in September. The prosecution of the second Chechen war dramatically increased Putin's popularity, and after the December 1999 elections for the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, progovernment parties were able to form a majority coalition.
An ailing and unpopular Yeltsin, who was constitutionally barred from a third presidential term, resigned several months early on December 31, 1999, transferring power to Putin – allegedly in exchange for immunity from prosecution for corruption. The new acting president subsequently secured a first-round victory over Zyuganov, 53 percent to 29 percent, in the March 2000 presidential election. After taking office, Putin moved quickly to reduce the influence of the legislature, tame the business community and the news media, and strengthen the FSB. He considerably altered the composition of the ruling elite through an influx of personnel from the security and military services. Overall, Putin garnered enormous personal popularity by overseeing a gradual increase in the standard of living for most of the population; the improvements were driven largely by an oil and gas boom and economic reforms that had followed a 1998 financial crisis.
In the December 2003 Duma elections, the Kremlin-controlled United Russia party captured 306 out of 450 seats. With the national broadcast media and most print outlets favoring the incumbent, no opponent was able to mount a significant challenge in the March 2004 presidential election. Putin, who refused to debate the other candidates, received 71.4 percent of the vote in a first-round victory, compared with 13.7 percent for his closest rival, the Communist-backed Nikolai Kharitonov.
Putin introduced legislative changes in 2004 that eliminated direct gubernatorial elections in favor of presidential appointments, citing a need to unify the country in the face of terrorist violence. The government also began a crackdown on democracy-promotion groups and other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), especially those receiving foreign funding. The authorities removed another possible threat in 2005, when a court sentenced billionaire energy magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a supporter of liberal opposition parties, to eight years in prison. The case was seen as a warning to other business leaders to stay out of politics.
A law enacted in 2006 handed bureaucrats wide discretion in monitoring and shutting down NGOs, which the authorities used to target organizations that were critical of official policy. In another sign that safe avenues for dissent were disappearing, an assassin murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October of that year. She had frequently criticized the Kremlin's ongoing military campaign in Chechnya and the excesses of Russian troops in the region.
The heavily manipulated December 2007 parliamentary elections gave United Russia 315 of the 450 Duma seats, while two other parties that generally supported the Kremlin, A Just Russia and the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), took 38 and 40 seats, respectively. The opposition Communists won 57 seats in the effectively toothless legislature.
Constitutionally barred from a third consecutive term, Putin handpicked his successor, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who won the March 2008 presidential election with 70.3 percent of the vote. Medvedev appointed Putin as his prime minister, and the former president continued to play the dominant role in government. At the end of 2008, the leadership amended the constitution for the first time since it was adopted in 1993, extending future presidential terms from four to six years. Even as Medvedev continued to implement Putin's policies, civil society became more active during his presidency on issues including corruption and environmental protection.
In September 2011, Medvedev announced that he would step aside so that Putin could return to the presidency in elections set for March 2012. The controversial move came as Putin's popularity was declining, largely as a result of Russia's unchecked corruption and a plateau in the improvement of living standards.
Although the authorities made extensive use of their incumbency in the December 2011 elections, United Russia captured just 238 seats, a significant drop from the 2007 elections. The Communist Party placed second with 92 seats, followed by A Just Russia with 64 and the LDPR with 56. Truly independent parties were not allowed to run. In the weeks following the elections, the largest antigovernment demonstrations since Putin came to power were held in Moscow, with smaller protests taking place in other cities in Russia. The demonstrators called for the annulment of the election results, an investigation into vote fraud, and freedom for political prisoners. Hundreds of people were arrested, and several protest leaders were jailed for short periods.
Despite the growing discontent in Russia at the beginning of 2012, Putin was able to secure victory in the March presidential election, officially winning 63.6 percent of the vote against a field of weak, hand-chosen opponents. Zyuganov, the Communist leader, was his closest challenger with 17.2 percent. With his return to the Kremlin assured, Putin quickly toughened the authorities' response to the protests. The police used violence to suppress a Moscow demonstration linked to his inauguration in May, arresting many of the participants. Putin also pushed through new laws limiting the actions of NGOs, placing new restrictions on the internet, recriminalizing slander, and expanding the definition of treason to include a wide variety of activities in an effort to frighten the population into passivity.
Political Rights and Civil Liberties
Russia is not an electoral democracy. The 2012 presidential election was skewed in favor of prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin, who benefited from preferential media treatment, numerous abuses of incumbency, and procedural irregularities during the vote count, among other advantages. The deeply flawed 2011 Duma elections were marked by a "convergence of the state and the governing party, limited political competition and a lack of fairness," according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, but many voters used them to express a protest against the status quo.
The 1993 constitution established a strong presidency with the power to dismiss and appoint, pending parliamentary confirmation, the prime minister. Putin's decision to place Dmitry Medvedev in the presidency for four years so that he could return to office for a third term, now extended from four to six years, violated the spirit of the constitution's two-term limit. The Federal Assembly consists of the 450-seat State Duma and an upper chamber, the 166-seat Federation Council. The 2008 constitutional amendment extended Duma terms from four to five years.
Since the 2007 elections, all Duma deputies have been elected on the basis of party-list proportional representation. Parties must gain at least 7 percent of the vote to enter the Duma. Furthermore, parties cannot form electoral coalitions. Medvedev signed legislation in April 2012 that liberalized party registration rules, allowing 42 parties to register by year's end. However, none posed a significant threat to the authorities, and many seemed designed to encourage division and confusion among the opposition.
Half the members of the upper chamber are appointed by governors and half by regional legislatures, usually with strong federal input. As of January 2011, only locally elected politicians are eligible to serve in the Federation Council; the change was expected to benefit United Russia, as most local officeholders are party members. A law signed by Medvedev in May 2012 restored gubernatorial elections, ending the system of presidential appointments dating to 2004. The first set of elections was held in five regions in October. However, the new rules allowed regional officials to screen the candidates for governor, eliminating strong opposition contenders and helping to ensure that pro-Kremlin incumbents won all five races. These included one in Ryazan, where the governor was extremely unpopular.
Corruption in the government and business world is pervasive, and a growing lack of accountability enables bureaucrats to act with impunity. The leadership frequently announces anticorruption campaigns, but they are typically superficial in nature. In November 2012, Putin fired Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov amid allegations of fraud in the Ministry of Defense. Other investigations during the year implicated the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, and First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. By year's end, it was not clear how far the campaign would go, or whether it reflected destabilizing conflict among the elite. The top leaders had yet to face prosecution, though some lower-level officials were formally charged.
Although the constitution provides for freedom of speech, the government controls, directly or through state-owned companies, all of the national television networks. Only a handful of radio stations and publications with limited audiences offer a wide range of viewpoints. At least 19 journalists have been killed since Putin came to power, including three in 2009, and in no cases have the organizers of the murders been prosecuted. Vague laws on extremism make it possible to crack down on any speech, organization, or activity that lacks official support. Discussion on the internet is largely unrestricted, but the government devotes extensive resources to manipulating online information and analysis. In November 2012, a broadly worded new law, ostensibly targeting information that is unsuitable for children, created a blacklist of internet outlets that initially led to the shuttering of more than 180 sites.
Freedom of religion is respected unevenly. A 1997 law on religion gives the state extensive control and makes it difficult for new or independent groups to operate. Orthodox Christianity has a privileged position, and in 2009 the president authorized religious instruction in the public schools. Regional authorities continue to harass nontraditional groups, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. While Russia has long struggled with anti-Semitism, Putin supported the creation of a $50 million Jewish museum that opened in Moscow in late 2012.
Academic freedom is generally respected, though the education system is marred by corruption and low salaries. The arrest and prosecution of scientists and researchers on charges of treason, usually for discussing sensitive technology with foreigners, has effectively restricted international contacts in recent years. Historians who seek to examine controversial aspects of Russian and Soviet history, such as the fate of ethnic minority populations that were deported to Siberia during World War II, and the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, face severe pressure from the authorities.
The government has consistently reduced the space for freedoms of assembly and association. Overwhelming police responses, the use of force, and routine arrests have discouraged unsanctioned protests, though pro-Kremlin groups are able to demonstrate freely. At least 18 people were arrested at a rally on the eve of Putin's inauguration in May 2012, and the one person tried and convicted to date received four and a half years in prison after he admitted to attacking the police. In August, a Moscow court sentenced three members of the performance group Pussy Riot to two years in prison for filming and posting on YouTube an anti-Putin "punk prayer" in an Orthodox cathedral in February. Amid international criticism of the verdict, one of the three was freed by an appellate court in October.
A 2006 law imposed onerous new reporting requirements on NGOs, giving bureaucrats extensive discretion in deciding which groups could register and hampering activities that the state deemed objectionable. The law also places tight controls on the use of foreign funds. A law enacted in 2012 required all organizations receiving foreign funding and involved in vaguely-defined "political activities" to register as "foreign agents" with the Justice Ministry. Noncompliance can be punished by steep fines and prison terms. In November, the Justice Ministry shut down the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), which apparently drew the authorities' ire by opposing development projects. The state has sought to provide alternative sources of funding to local NGOs, including a handful of organizations that are critical of government policy, though such support generally limits the scope of the recipient groups' activities.
While trade union rights are legally protected, they are limited in practice. Strikes and worker protests have occurred in prominent industries, such as automobile manufacturing, but antiunion discrimination and reprisals for strikes are not uncommon, and employers often ignore collective-bargaining rights. The largest labor federation works in close cooperation with the Kremlin.
The judiciary lacks independence from the executive branch, and career advancement is effectively tied to compliance with Kremlin preferences. The justice system has been tarnished by politically fraught cases such as that of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The criminal procedure code allows jury trials for serious cases, though they occur rarely in practice. While juries are more likely than judges to acquit defendants, such verdicts are frequently overturned by higher courts, which can order retrials until the desired outcome is achieved. Russia ended the use of jury trials in terrorism cases in 2008. Russian citizens often feel that domestic courts do not provide a fair hearing and have increasingly turned to the European Court of Human Rights.
Critics charge that Russia has failed to address ongoing criminal justice problems, such as poor prison conditions and the widespread use of illegal detention and torture to extract confessions. In October 2012, opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev was allegedly abducted by Russian authorities in Ukraine, where he was preparing an asylum application; forcibly repatriated; and compelled to signed a confession to charges of planning mass riots. Russian officials insisted that he had turned himself in. The circumstances surrounding the 2009 death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pretrial detention, after he accused government employees of embezzling millions of dollars, suggested that the authorities had deliberately denied him medical treatment. As many as 50 to 60 people die each year in investigative isolation wards (SIZOs), according to the Moscow Helsinki Group. In some cases, there has also been a return to the Soviet-era practice of punitive psychiatric treatment.
Parts of the country, especially the North Caucasus area, suffer from high levels of violence. Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov's relative success in suppressing major rebel activity in his republic has been accompanied by numerous reports of extrajudicial killings and collective punishment. Moreover, related rebel movements have appeared in surrounding Russian republics, including Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria. Hundreds of officials, insurgents, and civilians die each year in bombings, gun battles, and assassinations.
Immigrants and ethnic minorities – particularly those who appear to be from the Caucasus or Central Asia – face governmental and societal discrimination and harassment. Institutions representing Russia's large Ukrainian minority have come under selective government pressure. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people also encounter discrimination and abuse, and gay rights demonstrations are often attacked by counterdemonstrators or suppressed by the authorities. In 2012, St. Petersburg and some other cities passed criminal bans on LGBT "propaganda."
The government places some restrictions on freedom of movement and residence. Adults must carry internal passports while traveling and to obtain many government services. Some regional authorities impose registration rules that limit the right of citizens to choose their place of residence. In the majority of cases, the targets are ethnic minorities and migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
In December 2012, Putin signed a ban on the adoption of Russian children by families in the United States. The measure was seen as retaliation for a new U.S. law, named for Sergei Magnitsky, that imposes asset freezes and travel restrictions on Russian officials found to have committed human rights abuses.
State takeovers of key industries and large tax penalties imposed on select companies have illustrated the precarious nature of property rights in the country, especially when political interests are involved.
Women have particular difficulty achieving political power. They hold 13 percent of the Duma's seats (down from 14 percent in the previous term) and less than 5 percent of the seats in the Federation Council. Only three of 26 cabinet members are women. Domestic violence against women continues to be a serious problem, and police are often reluctant to intervene in what they regard as internal family matters. Economic hardships contribute to widespread trafficking of women abroad for prostitution.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
8th St. Hyper-gentrified
The Daily News files a startling report on 8th Street's upcoming upgrade--it's going from "under-retailed" to an "artisanal center."
Marlton House, Jeff Bachner, Daily News
Stumptown Coffee is coming first--they're a foodie favorite in the uber-hipster Ace Hotel (formerly the Breslin, a tragic story there). After that, BD Hotels, of the Bowery and Jane Street Hotels (more controversy there), will open a new boutique hotel in the former SRO Marlton House.
The neighborhood flippers have arrived.
Says BD Hotels' Richard Born, "We've had the experience of changing neighborhoods like with the Bowery Hotel, where we saw the area take off. We think that will happen here. I bet we raise square-footage prices by $100 across the street when we open... The beats hung out here, and in a way, hipsters of today are the beatniks of yesterday. I think Eighth St. will be as cool as Prince St. in SoHo."
Now we know who to credit for the Bowery Tsunami that turned an edgy neighborhood into Meatpacking East--a massive wave that has kept rolling, most recently right over Mars Bar. But "edgy" is hip and that makes it a prime target for the hyper-gentrification juggernaut.
The Marlton House, most recently a New School dorm, has a storied past. It housed many artists and bohemians, including Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and radical feminist Warhol-shooter Valerie Solanas. That gives it cachet. New York City's counter-cultural history is catnip for the trend-makers of today--we see it from the current gutting of the Chelsea Hotel to the foodie takeover of classic restaurants and bars.
This is not to say let's celebrate shuttered shoe stores and college dorms that once were SROs, but it seems that every time a boutique hotel, a hipster coffee chain, or a foodie-fetish restaurant drops on a block, it all becomes "as cool" as SoHo--another manufactured neighborhood.
As urban scholar Neil Smith says, gentrification in New York today is "really a systematic class-remaking of city neighborhoods...it's about creating entire environments." So let's not delude ourselves into thinking this is just normal New York change. There is a Big Machine at work.
From strategically designed Bergen Street to the deep reaches of "authentrification," New York is starting to feel a lot like a Disney "master-planned community."
32 comments:
- Alex in NYC said...
"in a way, hipsters of today are the beatniks of yesterday"
Oh fuck you. - February 6, 2012 at 7:44 AM
Have you actually been to Disney World recently? They are quite good at what they do. There are actually a few areas of the park that seem livelier and even more authentic than some of these ultragentrified blocks in New York.
It wouldn't surprise me to see the Mars Bar reconstructed by Disney, either as part of a New York theme hotel or in one of their periodic attempts to provide nightlife for the adults who go there. - February 6, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- VisuaLingual said...
Jeremiah, as a Brooklyn expat now living in Cincinnati, I use your blog to keep up with things between my trips back home. This is sad news indeed, although I'm not surprised.
I just read a restaurant review that you might find interesting and/or annoying, for a new place in my neighborhood in Cincinnati.
Blah, blah, blah, the key part is, "It's definitely Cincinnati, but it's the Cincinnati we're becoming — an aspirational version, to use the marketing term. It's not us at home on the sofa in our fuzzy socks. It's the hip, progressive area of Over-the-Rhine that's closer to Williamsburg in Brooklyn or Chicago's Logan Square." See, it happens everywhere. - February 6, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Marty Wombacher said...
"hipsters of today are the beatniks of yesterday."
No they're not. - February 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
visualingual, you're right. it's the brooklyn plague, which isn't about brooklyn really, at all.
- February 6, 2012 at 9:20 AM
- Tricia said...
This makes me feel nostalgic for the 8th Street Bookshop, which I can now barely remember. Looking up when it closed--1979--found this wonderful memoir "Positively 8th Street" by Bill Reed who worked there in the 1960s and '70s
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/positively-eighth-street/ - February 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM
"in a way, hipsters of today are the beatniks of yesterday"
No they are not, asshat. Hipster zombies are the antithesis of the beatniks and real artists of yesterday, and are the embodiment of everything they were against. - February 6, 2012 at 9:41 AM
- Little Earthquake said...
"in a way, hipsters of today are the beatniks of yesterday"
Not to overvalue the beatnik scene, but I'm trying to think of the hipster equivalent to the novels, art, music, and poetry that was produced by the beats.
"The hipster movement did not produce artists. It produced tattoo artists. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts." —Mark Greif - February 6, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
that Greif quote is great. thanks for adding it.
- February 6, 2012 at 11:16 AM
As someone who has lived in Florida for several decades and visited Disney World a number of times since its opening in the early 70s, I can say that they are decidely NOT a desirable option for overhauling New York, including in regards to authenticity. Just what they did to their own Main Street U.S.A. is a prime example - once a colorful and nostalgic thoroughfare lined with unique individual businesses that were reminiscent of the early 1900s, it was gutted and turned into a series of homogenous interiors that all pimp the same Disney merchandise. In fact, it used to have a wonderful nickelodeon, complete with vintage equipment and wood paneled atmosphere; all gone. Sure, the storefronts are intact, but the contents that were once very compelling (save for the candy store)have disappeared. Definitely not an improvement. Also, several friends of mine are park employees, and it is a pretty oppressive enviroment. But if you want to see something pretty telling about Disney's corporate mentality and how their power and influence overrides other civic entities, try driving along I-4 and get a load of this:http://paulbates.com/mickey-mouse-shaped-power-line-celebration-florida-pictures-photos/
You won't have a cleaned up New York, instead you'll have Disney North. If there are folks out there that want the late Pleasure Island in the midst of Manhattan, with the addtion of an antiseptic Mars Bar, they have my pity. - February 6, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- Filmatix said...
VisuaLingual's link to the Cincinnati small-plates-wine-bar write-up initially got me hopeful that the reviewer would at least partly acknowledge the loaded nature of "aspirational" cuisine and retail. This year, my semi-formal New Years' resolution is to try to be far less of a hater, but it's a little hard when you encounter bits like ""Where do you take people so they realize we're not hicks after all?" Good food is good food, and more power to 'em, but what is it about so much food writing that irks some of us so much? Maybe it's the smugness that goes hand-in-hand with the aspirational monoculture that's virally infecting regional urban landscapes cities all over the US. The relentless pursuit of cool is hollowing out the character of so many places.
- February 6, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Y'all are using the word "hipster" in a way I don't recognize. Surely no one who can afford the Ace Hotel is a hipster, by definition. Or a new lease on 8th Street for that matter.
- February 6, 2012 at 1:21 PM
- esquared™ said...
Hipsters are usually trustafarians who dress up "poor" but are really rich and like to live and "slum" in a poor and ethnic neighborhood to "create" their art, so that they can be cool and ironic.
So, yes, a hipster can afford the Ace Hotel. Ok, maybe not the hipster, technically, but the hipster's parents. - February 6, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- James Campbell Taylor said...
The difference is that hipsters (in the current sense of the word) want the acclaim, credibility and trappings of artistic success but aren't interested in doing the work/being poor. They are the personification of corporate America.
- February 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM
What do we call people who look like hipsters but don't have parental support, then? That's like 95% of people who work in the media and non-profit sectors in NYC.
Anyway even the hipsters from rich families aren't going to be at the Ace Hotel or living on 8th St. because, as you say, they like to
"slum." - February 6, 2012 at 4:25 PM
- esquared™ said...
People who look like hipsters who do not have parental support are still called hipsters; they have investors support.
Are you sure these hipsters won't be slumming, as I say it, in the Ace Hotel? The Ace Hotel itself is slumming it in the neighborhood. I don't know what you have vested in hipsters, unless you're just being just being ironic like they are. - February 6, 2012 at 9:05 PM
Hipster is just an artificial label people invented for a large and diverse group of people who have a bunch of qualities, real or imaginary that are distasteful to the people who came up with the term. I know this because the people who decry hipsters the most, are precisely the people who I would most likely identify as a hipster in the first place.
- February 6, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
two things i worry about when it comes to hipster bashing:
1. i'll be mistaken for a hipster because i share some of their attributes (but i think i am too old for this to happen--what's the hipster age cut-off?).
2. some young people who are creative, cool, and true oddballs get lumped in unfairly with hipsters because they have the same haircuts and footwear. - February 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM
esquared--Investors? I don't think we're talking about the same people at all. Maybe a generation gap.
I can get into fights about this because I use the word hipster in a more value-neutral way than most people, who use it as a vicious insult (none more than hipsters themselves, as the cliche goes). - February 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM
To add a note about the beatniks-hipsters comment:
In a way this is not totally wrong, though I doubt the guy who said it meant it in this regard. People here are correctly associating "beat" with the poets and artists who gave fame to the term. But, once the term became popularized as a way to classify a group of people (much in the same way hipster is today), "beat" became a catch-all for youth culture that spread out of the original art movement and was otherwise perceived as pretentious and shallow by outsiders. Just like "hipsters," "beats" were derided in the media as pseudo-intellectuals and artists who should work and contribute to society, &c. Hipsters/beats are a brand of people that don't ever leave society, but poseurism should not be mistaken for originality. - February 6, 2012 at 11:26 PM
J, i dont agree w/this one. rows of crappy shoe stores & cellphone stores are boring. 8 st. has not been cool since early 60s. the last hip beatnik places closed like in 1963-1964. "sam kramer" the jeweler (the glass eye pendents), & "fred braun" shoes (those brown strong leather laced flat shoes w/a long toe w/a squared off edge, very hip). when do you roam on 8th anyway? i know you dont. it turned very cheesy during the late 60s. so now i dont mind some added ascetics. this is one place that bit the dust almost 50yrs ago. & i hate cheap shoes.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:06 AM
- esquared™ said...
I bash on the hipsters -- real or imaginary, parental money or investor's money or no money -- because they have whitewashed and look down on the ethnic natives of the neighborhood where they've moved into, treating them with such distrust, disrespect, and condescension, avoiding them on the sidewalks, etc., having an air of superiority attitude and they call themselves liberal. Instead of assimilating into the neighborhood, they not only want the neighborhood to assimilate to them , they want them to bow to them. And if they can't have that, they would totally destroy a neighborhood to mirror their image.
I decry on yuppies and yunnies too. I guess I identify myself as one of them also.
Hipsters or not, 8th street will still be Disneyfied and luxufied thus gentrified, nonetheless.
I liked this post before it was popular. - February 7, 2012 at 9:13 AM
"some added ascetics".
I didn't realize 8th st. was getting an infusion of Buddhist monks.
There were some great record shops on 8th in the 80's, and it had far more foot traffic than it does now.
Whether a boutique hotel and Stumptown coffee can force a renovation of the entire length of the street is questionable. I think the hotelier is overselling his magical powers of transformation just a bit. It's a long street.
I actually like it there. I don't think it's "cheesy" at all. - February 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM
CALEO: @one time 8th street was all private small businesses. mostly boutiques. it was the opening of "whelans" drug store (the first chain) in the 60s which started the decline. then fast food came in. 6th ave. began to change & 8th street went w/it. by the time i returned to the village (as a teen), 8th st was commerical junk. the last 2 stores closed. i had been there when i was a child, & it was another world. im sure there were some record stores there in the 80s. i blame chain stores for everything. whether its the low end or high end. i would take the hip stuff over walmart any day, dont know how much of a choice we have. ESQUARED: for the past 50plus years, latino immigrants moved into areas & destroyed them. it took time for them to assimilate. also the migration in the 1950s when the blacks came up from the south. so many neighborhoods were taken over & became slums, as these people could not maintain the properties. the white people moved to the suburbs. first to brooklyn, then out further. because of crime. i resent "white" bashing. it works both ways. people move into an area & dont respect what was there before. both these examples are 2 extremes, & both are wrong.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
i liked a lot of things before they were popular. i have this thought often and worry: does it make me a hipster?
- February 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Filmatix said...
I have had, and continue to have, trouble separating folks that would qualify as hipsters, vs. just simply alternative. I grew up here, and have many friends that are lifelong natives and a good amount who came way later. A good chunk of the former might be identified as hipsterish, mainly because they're musicians.
When I moved back from abroad in mid-2010, I took the first job I could find, with an "artsy" moving company, and 75% of the movers were people from elsewhere in the US, most of them here from 1-3 years. Haven't met a cooler bunch of people who I may otherwise have painted with the hipster brush. Maybe it's a class thing; the workers came from a variety of backgrounds, but they were hustling to raise extra cash, and seemed to have a completely different perspective on the city than semi-employed college grads funded by their parents while they took coveted (unpaid) internships, or pursued their art without the stress of making rent every month.
"Hipsters" are like pornography-you may not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it. For me, the telltale sign is the pointless drivel people go on in their disdainful, yammering voices, and on about when you're forced to eavesdrop behind them on the sidetalk, or end up at a party where you're forced to mix with 'em. Little Earthquake's quote from the NYmag article, "What was the Hipster?" is a good place to start. Maybe hipsters are just people that have no substance to them besides their consumption choices.
Realized we all wandered off-topic here. If 8th Street never "took off," it'd be fine by me. You need one sorta dead street in the city. - February 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I think the idea of the underemployed, family-supported hipster is largely a strawman created by hipsters trying to avoid the label themselves. "See, I can't be a hipster because I make my own money!"
- February 7, 2012 at 12:18 PM
"J": liking something "after" it was popular is the SAME as liking it "before". as that thing is the same thing. if it "had" value, than it still "has" value. value is not based upon someone else. people like things for different reasons. chances are that these phony hipsters you speak of will change their mind & its on to the next thing. they go w/trends, they are immature. maybe they will always be that way maybe some will grow out of it. i looked on the "stuff white people like" web page. just checking. some stuff is me. some i never heard of, thank god. ok im an individual.
- February 8, 2012 at 12:18 AM
@ filmatrix
Intentionally or not, I think you may have hit on the definition. At least it's the definition that I'm going to use from now on.
"Maybe hipsters are just people that have no substance to them besides their consumption choices."
And by the way, I think that it can be appropriately applied across generations. Beats and hippies, those that joined the "scene" without really understanding it are probably just as guilty of hipsterism as the current incarnation found in Brooklyn, Silver Lake, South Congress, Portlandia, etc. etc.
I think I remember reading once that the term hippie was derived from hipster. - February 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM
- esquared™ said...
@lauran Back then it was about survival and they didn't know any better. Today, it's about homogenization and they know better. Both are wrong, yes, nonetheless...
As for liking things before they were popular, the hipsters only say they don't like things before they were popular, but they still really like popular things, hence the irony. They wear "unpopular" clothes to look indigenous, yet they shop for these said clothes at popular places such as Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, Buffalo Exchange, where they are expensive.
I think I've had my say with hipsters. Time to put this to bed[bugs]. - February 16, 2012 at 12:28 PM
@James Campbell Taylor February 6, 2012 1:47 PM
God LOVE you. You've exquisitely hit the nail on the head. - February 21, 2012 at 10:08 PM
- The "hipsters" of today are the "plastic hippies" of yesterday.
- March 19, 2013 at 8:45 PM


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