Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
I've just arrived back in Adelaide from the holiday/photography trip in Tasmania I came across this article on the Grateful Dead by Joshua Green in The Atlantic.
The Grateful Dead's version of Deep Elem Blues which they played from their earliest days up till 1983:
What is of interest is Green's observation that the band understood that in the information economy the best way to raise demand for your product is to give it away.
Giving something away and earning money on the periphery is the same idea proffered by Wired editor Chris Anderson in his recent best-selling book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Voluntarily or otherwise, it is becoming the blueprint for more and more companies doing business on the Internet. Today, everybody is intensely interested in understanding how communities form across distances, because that’s what happens online.
The Grateful Dead in allowing their fans to tape and trade their concerts freely created a gigantic fan base, which in turn, generated a cash flow for them.
A funky big band version Deep Elem Blues by the Levon Helm Band in 2008:
It's good to see Levon Helm still making music, even if he still relies heavily on the The Band's back catalogue.
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