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Friends (and friendly strangers) sing Happy Birthday for Alon outside Madrone. 
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N’importe comment Toxic Avenger feat. Orelsan) Facebook meets French Rap … 
Inside the 1:10 scale model of Jean Nouvel’sParis philharmonic
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“… He adds that babies probably will remember a CD that the mother plays regularly during the later weeks of pregnancy, and that this could be used to calm them after birth.” 
“With the birth of the automotive industry, a series of noises never heard before entered our ears. Techno music is representative of the future, in which the soundscape we anticipate is largely composed of flying cars whizzing by. These whizzes, hums and glitches from futuristic engines become components of present-day Techno music Ironically enough, it is the old analog machines that produce more noise than the futuristic electric cars. During the manufacturing process of these electric cars, Hollywood sound designers were consulted to construct artificial mechanical noises. A certain degree of noise is required for safety of pedestrians. One of the enjoyable aspects of listening to music is expecting one thing to happen, and then hearing something completely different. Perhaps part of the reason Techno is so enjoyable, is because we are in that part of historical time that is expecting a certain event to occur.” (via Techno Music and The Future of Sound | Darwin vs The Machine)
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Alex AinslieI'm a recent Cornell CS MEng graduate interested in data, computation, design and their intersection. In 2009 I graduated early with an independent BA in Computing, Cognition & Aesthetics and minors in French and Information Science. My honors thesis examined the traces our Bluetooth-enabled devices leave behind in public space and my masters thesis explored opportunities for machine learning and visualization to inform personal sensemaking. I have spent the past three summers as an intern at Google working on mobile maps and gmail, suggest, query refinements, social search, and most recently goggles and mobile local search. I joined Google fulltime in August 2010 - the views expressed here are mine alone. This site was born as a personal photo journal during a semester spent abroad in Paris and has evolved into a curated collection of links, text, and images. |
