codywalton
Robert Porazinski
Field, 2013
Oil on canvas, 48” x 60”
the-bushido-code
mrjakeolsen
The day the music died.
I was crushed to receive a Dear John email from the exfm founders yesterday:
“After an amazing four years of sweat and tears, we’re ever-so-reluctantly accepting the reality of sustaining the Exfm platform as it exists today. The high costs of processing millions of new songs every month while attempting to keep that data relevant and useable is monumental. The technical challenges are compounded by the litigious nature of the music industry, which means every time we have any meaningful growth, it’s coupled with the immediate attention of the record labels in the form of takedowns and legal emails. Today, subscription services are gaining in popularity and enjoy the blessings of most major labels at a non trivial cost to those companies.”
exfm introduced me to new music and genres I would have never discovered on my own - all with beautiful execution on the app and absolutely free to use. I carried this little app with me around the world - one of the few music services that worked perfectly during my time in China. This was my only music player for the last 4 years - in the car, at work, at the gym - anywhere I could stream through bluetooth or headphones.
Most importantly, exfm liberated me from my obsessive mp3 hoarding tendencies (700+ GB) and has fully converted me to an online audiophile. For a music junkie like me, having the world’s music catalog at your fingertips is bliss - having it taken away creates very real withdrawal symptoms.
In honesty, this service was too good to be true. A searchable, play on demand, create your own playlist, no commercials, no hooks app that provided access to millions of the most popular songs was like Napster redux. I guess I always knew that each exfm song played could be the last, but it was sure good while it lasted.
Farewell exfm. Please know that I did my part to spread the good word - sorry it was not enough. To the team who built this service: well done, well done.
indiestatik
gimmetinnitus
scienceisbeauty
Gravity and Spacetime (as is framed by Einstein’s General Relativity) explained for children (and laymen), impossible not to infer the concept.
H/T: ScienDump
scienceisbeauty
Pack-Any-Shape (PAS) is a numerical algorithm that simulates dense random packings of virtual hard particles. The shapes of the particles can be arbitrary. PAS is able to handle spheres and non-spheres, symmetric and asymmetric shapes, convex and concave ones. Learn about how it works trough pack-any-shape.com
angulargeometry