November 15ths

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11/15/1969

From an article in New Music Express about Bowie’s Space Oddity:            
       
“I just want to sing to as many people as want to hear me, and I don’t care where I do it. Mind you, I refuse to have my hair cut or change my appearance for anybody. I’m quite happy with the way I look, and people will have to accept me the way I am, or not bother at all.” 

11/15/2001            
         
Show on TV featuring new Chicago groups. There’s a band that arranged The Rite of Spring for rock ensemble. Sounds like the performance and the riot at the same time. It sort of sounded like someone had programmed the score into a sequencer and changed the sound to “heavy metal slop.” It’s good that someone attempted it. Music presents so few challenges these days. 

11/15/2004

Once jazz became suffused in urban environments, it became elite and intellectual. It's now hard to deny that the intelligentsia is part of the fabric of America as a rodeo.
 

[This shifts the focus away from music as an "inside" element to an "outside element. I prefer the inside, but it's interesting that you could operate creatively on a spectrum between inside and outside. But I'm wary because people tend to like the outside because it's easy to suss without effort or deep thinking or reflection].

11/15/2011 

Gorgeous day, 70 degrees. 
            
Low-angle shadow, “Shadow Stack”:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/15/2015

Idea: A site with saved database searches on current events, e.g. for the Paris attacks: instead of following social media, follow or subscribe to queries set up by journalists and pundits. This probably already exists but is not widely known or used.

AI can be used for this where keywords are strung together and searched in different combinations based on results from simple searches. For example when I searched “Paris attacks intelligence”, the top search results related to Israel’s involvement in intelligence efforts.

[11/15/2025: Essentially what prompts are] 
            
Running a search on Facebook returns postings by friends from the first few hours of the attacks. Facebook’s search function is horrible if you’ve ever tried it. It is the equivalent of North Korea’s Internet of three sites.
            
Is the latest terrorist attack “Most Recent” or a “Top Story” in your social media feed?
 

11/15/2016

"Ray", not because I know this stranger, but his face was aglow with the reflected light of a skyscraper on LaSalle Street. During the late fall and early winter, the angle of the sun is such that it reflects off of windows and becomes a kind of heliostat. I always wondered why cities didn't take advantage of this daylighting of dark city canyons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/15/2019, Friday

"Sheeleresque" (a la Charles Sheeler)

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11/15/2021

David Byrne is now more interesting because we know he has Asperger's. He always looks kind of nervous, but when it comes to performances he's completely relaxed. It’s interesting how people's minds work that way in music. Music is a kind of magical thing that emerges from nowhere. People say, “Where did that come from?-- I don't see it in your personality.” It's below the surface–it’s kind of a dream–and you need to be “sleeping” in order to have the dream.  

11/15/2025

Long walk from Fulton Market to Loop to Museum Campus. I've always liked this area even when it was scruffy and rough-and-tumble Chicago. Now there are delivery robots roaming the sidewalks. I see people loving the city--not carrying placards, "Chiraq--Most Dangerous City in the World"