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Originally Posted by Deckard
It is a shame [....]
It's f*cked up, that's what it is! Where is the thirst for knowledge these days?
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Too true. But you know, we do have the thirst for knowledge, i mean, the popularity of sites like wikipedia speaks for itself, and the world is a better educated place these days by far! We are by no means deprived of knowledge but i have always applied an idea to the way i do things like make music and play guitar and things like that, in light of the tech advances that we benefit from....
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..what i think is that, for example, when i started editing music on a computer i had a shite windows recording program that made wav files, and i would manually record a selection of soundbites from movies and radio...in such a way that they made a sequence of noises (not very good but it was enough to get me hooked on production of music and sound) - this would take me maybe 4 hours at a time if not more...
..nowadays since i know what im doing and i have far better programmes and equipment i could do the exact same thing in 30mins
....what i try to do therefore is apply that same four hours of work to enhance the piece of music or sound, so that even though i have already achieved the same thing in 30mins, if i apply 4hours i will inevitably learn and progress and do a better more sonically brilliant job than ever before
..if we use the same idea in searching for info online...
....we would manually look for books and info in libraries and archives before the internet, take notes by hand before the computer, 2/3 weeks if not month or two for a college essay.
....these days we can sufficiantly research a topic in less than a week to the same extent as had been done in 2 or 3weeks before.....but what if we still researched for 2/3 weeks with the research we have now... researched until we had nothing left even if that took less than 2/3 weeks... there are of course those that do this anyway these days, and they are inevitably the people that succeed, but i think on average there are less people willing to commit these days to somehting like this and we are becoming lazy... comfortable...
we need an impulse!
sorry its 6am and i havnt slept in 24 hours... so this kinda thinking is bound to result in a reckless and waffling message board rant.. but i am adament about this...we are getting so lazy