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I mentioned the other day how excited I was for the new apps that bring Apple’s iLife suite to the iPad 2. Well, it looks like a band has gone and recorded the first album entirely with GarageBand on the iOS.
As Wired reports, Ultramod has put together an indie-punk “record” using nothing for recording and editing but the $5 app and the $500 iPad. The result, Underwear Party was produced for tens of thousands less and is already for sale for $10 online.
What did Ultramod think of this stripped-down process?
“I see [the GarageBand app] as an everything-combined-into-one package,” said Max “Bunny” Sparber, The Ultramods’ lead singer. “Both new musicians and professional musicians are going to be very surprised with what they can do with it.”
I couldn’t agree more. Listen to a track to see just what this inexpensive solution can do.
(From my iPad blog)
Not to be confused with Soylent Green or Ubik, Product 19 is a cereal from Kellogg’s that was conceived in the 1960s as a healthy competitor for Total. Apparently the copywriter had one of the largest “fuck it” moments in the history of his trade and named the 19th product pushed through his office in 1967 exactly that. No, really. Though still being produced, Product 19 is being discontinued by grocers, thus providing the scifi/surreal (ce-real?) cart you see above.
[…] a modern economy requires “collective action”—it needs government to invest in infrastructure, education, and technology. The United States and the world have benefited greatly from government-sponsored research that led to the Internet, to advances in public health, and so on. But America has long suffered from an under-investment in infrastructure (look at the condition of our highways and bridges, our railroads and airports), in basic research, and in education at all levels.
In light of Pennsylvania’s genius decision to potentially slash funding for public higher education, the recent Vanity Fair article “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%” was most apropos.