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#petergabriel #progrock #US #altrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #progressiverock #artroick #brianeno #sineadoconnor #johnpauljones Released on September 27, 1992 ... After a rough couple of years that included a divorce and the end of a relationship with actress Rosanna Arquette, Gabriel underwent therapy. The album's reflects some of this in the lyrics and mood. All the angst was used to the max as the album spawned some of Peter's best singles.
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#petergabriel #progrock #US #altrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #progressiverock #artroick #brianeno #sineadoconnor #johnpauljones Released on September 27, 1992 ... After a rough couple of years that included a divorce and the end of a relationship with actress Rosanna Arquette, Gabriel underwent therapy. The album's reflects some of this in the lyrics and mood. All the angst was used to the max as the album spawned some of Peter's best singles.
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#petergabriel #progrock #US #altrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #progressiverock #artroick #brianeno #sineadoconnor #johnpauljones Released on September 27, 1992 ... After a rough couple of years that included a divorce and the end of a relationship with actress Rosanna Arquette, Gabriel underwent therapy. The album's reflects some of this in the lyrics and mood. All the angst was used to the max as the album spawned some of Peter's best singles.
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#petergabriel #progrock #US #altrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #progressiverock #artroick #brianeno #sineadoconnor #johnpauljones Released on September 27, 1992 ... After a rough couple of years that included a divorce and the end of a relationship with actress Rosanna Arquette, Gabriel underwent therapy. The album's reflects some of this in the lyrics and mood. All the angst was used to the max as the album spawned some of Peter's best singles.
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#petergabriel #progrock #US #altrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #progressiverock #artroick #brianeno #sineadoconnor #johnpauljones Released on September 27, 1992 ... After a rough couple of years that included a divorce and the end of a relationship with actress Rosanna Arquette, Gabriel underwent therapy. The album's reflects some of this in the lyrics and mood. All the angst was used to the max as the album spawned some of Peter's best singles.
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The word "factual" you used had directly evoked the association "fractal" in me and inevitably reminded me of the music of Brian Eno.
"Fractal Zoom": an unfolding between space, time, dynamics and ecstasy in meditationfactual fractal z(d)oomed
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The word "factual" you used had directly evoked the association "fractal" in me and inevitably reminded me of the music of Brian Eno.
"Fractal Zoom": an unfolding between space, time, dynamics and ecstasy in meditationfactual fractal z(d)oomed
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The word "factual" you used had directly evoked the association "fractal" in me and inevitably reminded me of the music of Brian Eno.
"Fractal Zoom": an unfolding between space, time, dynamics and ecstasy in meditationfactual fractal z(d)oomed
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The word "factual" you used had directly evoked the association "fractal" in me and inevitably reminded me of the music of Brian Eno.
"Fractal Zoom": an unfolding between space, time, dynamics and ecstasy in meditationfactual fractal z(d)oomed
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The word "factual" you used had directly evoked the association "fractal" in me and inevitably reminded me of the music of Brian Eno.
"Fractal Zoom": an unfolding between space, time, dynamics and ecstasy in meditationfactual fractal z(d)oomed
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Brian Eno - David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne is the singer of US band "Talking Heads", and Eno had worked with the Talking Heads before. He doesn't sing on this album.
All voices are sampled from other sources.
This is still one of my favourite albums, I used to own the vinyl record#BrianEno #davidbyrne #lifeinthebushofghosts #vinyl #vinylrecord
https://youtu.be/W9WUT4FD9-g?list=PLGwE1ohMHeyJigj9sX9hIv5a_yYlZgTrp
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Brian Eno - David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne is the singer of US band "Talking Heads", and Eno had worked with the Talking Heads before. He doesn't sing on this album.
All voices are sampled from other sources.
This is still one of my favourite albums, I used to own the vinyl record#BrianEno #davidbyrne #lifeinthebushofghosts #vinyl #vinylrecord
https://youtu.be/W9WUT4FD9-g?list=PLGwE1ohMHeyJigj9sX9hIv5a_yYlZgTrp
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Brian Eno - David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne is the singer of US band "Talking Heads", and Eno had worked with the Talking Heads before. He doesn't sing on this album.
All voices are sampled from other sources.
This is still one of my favourite albums, I used to own the vinyl record#BrianEno #davidbyrne #lifeinthebushofghosts #vinyl #vinylrecord
https://youtu.be/W9WUT4FD9-g?list=PLGwE1ohMHeyJigj9sX9hIv5a_yYlZgTrp
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Brian Eno - David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne is the singer of US band "Talking Heads", and Eno had worked with the Talking Heads before. He doesn't sing on this album.
All voices are sampled from other sources.
This is still one of my favourite albums, I used to own the vinyl record#BrianEno #davidbyrne #lifeinthebushofghosts #vinyl #vinylrecord
https://youtu.be/W9WUT4FD9-g?list=PLGwE1ohMHeyJigj9sX9hIv5a_yYlZgTrp
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Brian Eno - David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne is the singer of US band "Talking Heads", and Eno had worked with the Talking Heads before. He doesn't sing on this album.
All voices are sampled from other sources.
This is still one of my favourite albums, I used to own the vinyl record#BrianEno #davidbyrne #lifeinthebushofghosts #vinyl #vinylrecord
https://youtu.be/W9WUT4FD9-g?list=PLGwE1ohMHeyJigj9sX9hIv5a_yYlZgTrp
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Two vivid dreams last night:
1 - a #zombie #apocalypse: my unconscious neglected to experiment with the genre until it had become a hoary cliche in pop culture.
2 seeing #BrianEno live in a small club: that this was pure wish fulfillment was reinforced by the fact we were both in our 20s. -
Two vivid dreams last night:
1 - a #zombie #apocalypse: my unconscious neglected to experiment with the genre until it had become a hoary cliche in pop culture.
2 seeing #BrianEno live in a small club: that this was pure wish fulfillment was reinforced by the fact we were both in our 20s. -
Two vivid dreams last night:
1 - a #zombie #apocalypse: my unconscious neglected to experiment with the genre until it had become a hoary cliche in pop culture.
2 seeing #BrianEno live in a small club: that this was pure wish fulfillment was reinforced by the fact we were both in our 20s. -
Two vivid dreams last night:
1 - a #zombie #apocalypse: my unconscious neglected to experiment with the genre until it had become a hoary cliche in pop culture.
2 seeing #BrianEno live in a small club: that this was pure wish fulfillment was reinforced by the fact we were both in our 20s. -
“Side B has Cage’s dreamy, beautiful In a Landscape, and even more, #RobertWyatt singing Cage’s Experiences No. 1 and The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, and #CarlaBley singing Forever and Sunsmell” daily.bandcamp.com/features/unc... #music #MusicSky #JohnCage #BrianEno #ObscureRecotds
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“Side B has Cage’s dreamy, beautiful In a Landscape, and even more, #RobertWyatt singing Cage’s Experiences No. 1 and The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, and #CarlaBley singing Forever and Sunsmell” daily.bandcamp.com/features/unc... #music #MusicSky #JohnCage #BrianEno #ObscureRecotds
Uncovering Obscure Records -
“Side B has Cage’s dreamy, beautiful In a Landscape, and even more, #RobertWyatt singing Cage’s Experiences No. 1 and The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, and #CarlaBley singing Forever and Sunsmell” daily.bandcamp.com/features/unc... #music #MusicSky #JohnCage #BrianEno #ObscureRecotds
Uncovering Obscure Records -
“Side B has Cage’s dreamy, beautiful In a Landscape, and even more, #RobertWyatt singing Cage’s Experiences No. 1 and The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, and #CarlaBley singing Forever and Sunsmell” daily.bandcamp.com/features/unc... #music #MusicSky #JohnCage #BrianEno #ObscureRecotds
Uncovering Obscure Records -
“Side B has Cage’s dreamy, beautiful In a Landscape, and even more, #RobertWyatt singing Cage’s Experiences No. 1 and The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, and #CarlaBley singing Forever and Sunsmell” daily.bandcamp.com/features/unc... #music #MusicSky #JohnCage #BrianEno #ObscureRecotds
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“#BrianEno #CaughtBetween Caught Between (Official Live Video) ” / “Brian Eno - Caught Between (Live) [Official Live Video]” (2 users) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TgMsWzMLUw
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Music Industry Moves: Brian Eno Relaunches Opal Records; Columbia Records Names Corey ‘C-Notes’ Calder SVP
#Variety #News #BrianEno #ColumbiaRecordshttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/brian-eno-relaunches-opal-records-1236857390/
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Music Industry Moves: Brian Eno Relaunches Opal Records; Columbia Records Names Corey ‘C-Notes’ Calder SVP
#Variety #News #BrianEno #ColumbiaRecordshttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/brian-eno-relaunches-opal-records-1236857390/
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Music Industry Moves: Brian Eno Relaunches Opal Records; Columbia Records Names Corey ‘C-Notes’ Calder SVP
#Variety #News #BrianEno #ColumbiaRecordshttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/brian-eno-relaunches-opal-records-1236857390/
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Music Industry Moves: Brian Eno Relaunches Opal Records; Columbia Records Names Corey ‘C-Notes’ Calder SVP
#Variety #News #BrianEno #ColumbiaRecordshttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/brian-eno-relaunches-opal-records-1236857390/
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Music Industry Moves: Brian Eno Relaunches Opal Records; Columbia Records Names Corey ‘C-Notes’ Calder SVP
#Variety #News #BrianEno #ColumbiaRecordshttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/brian-eno-relaunches-opal-records-1236857390/
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A Sense of Doubt blog post 4221 - Brian Eno's Sisters album (2017) - Music Monday for 2609.07. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-4221-brian.html #BrianEno #ambient #MusicMonday #MondayVibes #MondayBlogs
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Je n'aimais pas la musique pop parce que ce n'était que des ploucs. C'est la culture noire qui m'a libéré du stigmate d'une culture sans issue et sans espoir.
#Ambient #Minimalism #Experimental #Piano #Electronic #Drone #NewAge #Music #AmericanComposer #BrianEno #Socialmedia #tv #Interview
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Je n'aimais pas la musique pop parce que ce n'était que des ploucs. C'est la culture noire qui m'a libéré du stigmate d'une culture sans issue et sans espoir.
#Ambient #Minimalism #Experimental #Piano #Electronic #Drone #NewAge #Music #AmericanComposer #BrianEno #Socialmedia #tv #Interview
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Je n'aimais pas la musique pop parce que ce n'était que des ploucs. C'est la culture noire qui m'a libéré du stigmate d'une culture sans issue et sans espoir.
#Ambient #Minimalism #Experimental #Piano #Electronic #Drone #NewAge #Music #AmericanComposer #BrianEno #Socialmedia #tv #Interview
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Je n'aimais pas la musique pop parce que ce n'était que des ploucs. C'est la culture noire qui m'a libéré du stigmate d'une culture sans issue et sans espoir.
#Ambient #Minimalism #Experimental #Piano #Electronic #Drone #NewAge #Music #AmericanComposer #BrianEno #Socialmedia #tv #Interview
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Je n'aimais pas la musique pop parce que ce n'était que des ploucs. C'est la culture noire qui m'a libéré du stigmate d'une culture sans issue et sans espoir.
#Ambient #Minimalism #Experimental #Piano #Electronic #Drone #NewAge #Music #AmericanComposer #BrianEno #Socialmedia #tv #Interview
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In This Episode You'll Learn
・Why ambient music works so well in luxury environments
・How silence and controlled sound became associated with comfort
・Why ambient music demands less active attention
#AmbientMusic
#BrianEno
#Ambient
youtu.be/mwg36uGPjwQ
The Luxury of Silence: Why the... -
In This Episode You'll Learn
・Why ambient music works so well in luxury environments
・How silence and controlled sound became associated with comfort
・Why ambient music demands less active attention
#AmbientMusic
#BrianEno
#Ambient
youtu.be/mwg36uGPjwQ
The Luxury of Silence: Why the... -
In This Episode You'll Learn
・Why ambient music works so well in luxury environments
・How silence and controlled sound became associated with comfort
・Why ambient music demands less active attention
#AmbientMusic
#BrianEno
#Ambient
youtu.be/mwg36uGPjwQ
The Luxury of Silence: Why the... -
In This Episode You'll Learn
・Why ambient music works so well in luxury environments
・How silence and controlled sound became associated with comfort
・Why ambient music demands less active attention
#AmbientMusic
#BrianEno
#Ambient
youtu.be/mwg36uGPjwQ
The Luxury of Silence: Why the... -
Les mélodies ne vieillissent pas, pas plus que les paroles, la seule chose qui résiste difficilement au temps, ce sont les rythmes de batterie.
#RoxyMusic #BrianEno #PhilManzanera #AndyMackay #PaulThompson #RikKenton #GlamRock #ProgressiveRock #British #UK #Rock #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsA-W1e8MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_5a0miWk
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Les mélodies ne vieillissent pas, pas plus que les paroles, la seule chose qui résiste difficilement au temps, ce sont les rythmes de batterie.
#RoxyMusic #BrianEno #PhilManzanera #AndyMackay #PaulThompson #RikKenton #GlamRock #ProgressiveRock #British #UK #Rock #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsA-W1e8MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_5a0miWk
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Les mélodies ne vieillissent pas, pas plus que les paroles, la seule chose qui résiste difficilement au temps, ce sont les rythmes de batterie.
#RoxyMusic #BrianEno #PhilManzanera #AndyMackay #PaulThompson #RikKenton #GlamRock #ProgressiveRock #British #UK #Rock #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsA-W1e8MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_5a0miWk
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Les mélodies ne vieillissent pas, pas plus que les paroles, la seule chose qui résiste difficilement au temps, ce sont les rythmes de batterie.
#RoxyMusic #BrianEno #PhilManzanera #AndyMackay #PaulThompson #RikKenton #GlamRock #ProgressiveRock #British #UK #Rock #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsA-W1e8MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_5a0miWk
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Les mélodies ne vieillissent pas, pas plus que les paroles, la seule chose qui résiste difficilement au temps, ce sont les rythmes de batterie.
#RoxyMusic #BrianEno #PhilManzanera #AndyMackay #PaulThompson #RikKenton #GlamRock #ProgressiveRock #British #UK #Rock #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsA-W1e8MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_5a0miWk
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/263024/ Tallinna Lennusadamas kõlab Brian Eno “Lennujaamamuusika” akustiliselt | Muusika #BrianEno #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Entertainment #erso #Estonia #Estonian #lennujaamamuusika #Lennusadam #meelelahutus #VambolaKrigul
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/262688/ Tallinna Lennusadamas kõlab Brian Eno “Lennuväljamuusika” akustiliselt | Muusika #BrianEno #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Entertainment #erso #Estonia #Estonian #lennujaamamuusika #Lennusadam #meelelahutus #VambolaKrigul
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/262536/ Tallinna lennusadamas kõlab Brain Eno “Lennuväljamuusika” akustiliselt | Muusika #BrianEno #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Entertainment #erso #Estonia #Estonian #lennujaamamuusika #Lennusadam #meelelahutus #VambolaKrigul
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Kinderstar, Knast, Kultstar – das Leben von Musiklegende Hans-Joachim Roedelius
https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:b44c8634952e9906/
#BerlinSounds Inside – Der #Musiktalk mit #AnjaCaspary · 19.08.2026 · 30 Min.„Nur mit einem Berg Schokolade konnten die Filmleute der UFA 1938 den kleinen Hans-Joachim überreden, an der Seite von Willy Birgel ein krankes Kind zu spielen. Er hat das nicht eingesehen, schließlich war er gar nicht krank. Seitdem, erzählt der 92jährige Urvater der elektronischen #Ambient - #Musik, konnte er gut schwindeln. Sein Leben ist filmreif: Er desertierte von der NVA, saß in Bautzen ein, war Butler bei einer Berliner Fabrikantenfamilie, später Hippie in Paris, Physiotherapeut an der Charité, Masseur in einem Nudistencamp auf Korsika. Und da hatte seine Karriere als Musiker noch gar nicht angefangen. Wie es weiterging, wie es zur Zusammenarbeit mit seiner Band #Cluster und #BrianEno kam, was er mit #Kraftwerk zu tun hat und wie er heute noch Musik macht,“ in dieser Folge.
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Kinderstar, Knast, Kultstar – das Leben von Musiklegende Hans-Joachim Roedelius
https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:b44c8634952e9906/
#BerlinSounds Inside – Der #Musiktalk mit #AnjaCaspary · 19.08.2026 · 30 Min.„Nur mit einem Berg Schokolade konnten die Filmleute der UFA 1938 den kleinen Hans-Joachim überreden, an der Seite von Willy Birgel ein krankes Kind zu spielen. Er hat das nicht eingesehen, schließlich war er gar nicht krank. Seitdem, erzählt der 92jährige Urvater der elektronischen #Ambient - #Musik, konnte er gut schwindeln. Sein Leben ist filmreif: Er desertierte von der NVA, saß in Bautzen ein, war Butler bei einer Berliner Fabrikantenfamilie, später Hippie in Paris, Physiotherapeut an der Charité, Masseur in einem Nudistencamp auf Korsika. Und da hatte seine Karriere als Musiker noch gar nicht angefangen. Wie es weiterging, wie es zur Zusammenarbeit mit seiner Band #Cluster und #BrianEno kam, was er mit #Kraftwerk zu tun hat und wie er heute noch Musik macht,“ in dieser Folge.
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Kinderstar, Knast, Kultstar – das Leben von Musiklegende Hans-Joachim Roedelius
https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:b44c8634952e9906/
#BerlinSounds Inside – Der #Musiktalk mit #AnjaCaspary · 19.08.2026 · 30 Min.„Nur mit einem Berg Schokolade konnten die Filmleute der UFA 1938 den kleinen Hans-Joachim überreden, an der Seite von Willy Birgel ein krankes Kind zu spielen. Er hat das nicht eingesehen, schließlich war er gar nicht krank. Seitdem, erzählt der 92jährige Urvater der elektronischen #Ambient - #Musik, konnte er gut schwindeln. Sein Leben ist filmreif: Er desertierte von der NVA, saß in Bautzen ein, war Butler bei einer Berliner Fabrikantenfamilie, später Hippie in Paris, Physiotherapeut an der Charité, Masseur in einem Nudistencamp auf Korsika. Und da hatte seine Karriere als Musiker noch gar nicht angefangen. Wie es weiterging, wie es zur Zusammenarbeit mit seiner Band #Cluster und #BrianEno kam, was er mit #Kraftwerk zu tun hat und wie er heute noch Musik macht,“ in dieser Folge.
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“Function reforms form, perpetually”*…
Diagrams from How Buildings Learn. On the left, a diagram by Frank Duffy showing the increasing capital costs over the lifetime of a building. On the right, a diagram by Stewart Brand and Donald Ryan showing the Shearing Layers of Change. (source)Over the years I have given away many, many copies of many books in the hope that they might be of interest/use to the recipient. The book of which I’ve gifted the most copies is How Buildings Learn- What Happens After They’re Built, published in 1995 by my GBN partner and Long Now colleague Stewart Brand. While it has certainly earned its plaudits as a work of architectural criticism, I’ve handed it out because it’s the most thoughtful and evocative book on strategy I’ve come across; it’s p-o-v and principles, rooted in (often literally) concrete examples, amount to the best manifesto I’ve found for thinking and planning for the long term.
In 1997, The BBC released a six-part series based on the book (with music by GBN and Long Now colleague and friend Brian Eno). As Open Culture reports, Stewart has created a YouTube channel to make the series available to us all…
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”). He also vigorously campaigned in 1966 to have NASA release a photograph showing the entirety of Earth from space—something we take for granted now, but fired humanity’s imagination back then.
During the 1970s and beyond, Brand founded CoEvolution Quarterly, a successor to the Whole Earth Catalog; the WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”), “a prototypical, wide-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over;” and eventually The Long Now Foundation, whose work we’ve highlighted here before. When not creating new institutions, he has poured his creative energies into books and films…
… Based on [the book, How Buildings Learn], the TV series offers a critique of modernist approaches to architecture (think Buckminster Fuller, Frank Gehry, and Le Corbusier) and instead argues for “an organic kind of building, based on four walls, which is easy to change and expand and grow as the ideal form of building.”
Brand made the series available on his YouTube channel, with these words: “Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like… Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project.” And he added the noteworthy footnote: “this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital—shot digital, edited digital.”…
A wonderful series on architecture– and more broadly, on planning for the long term: “Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno,” from @openculture.bsky.social.
Watch the series here.
Further to yesterday’s post (and thanks to friend MK) an obituary of Don Michael, another GBN friend, and author of another book– Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn: The Social Psychology of Changing Toward Future-Responsive Societal Learning— that I’ve given away many, many times.
* Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
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As we take the long view, we might recall that it was on this date in 1914 that Frank Lloyd Wright’s self-designed home in Wisconsin, Taliesin, was the site of mass murder and arson. Julian Carlton, a servant of Wright, set fire to the home and brutally attacked the people there during lunch. He ultimately killed seven, including Wright’s partner, “Mamah” Borthwick.
Wright was among the architects that Brand criticized in How Buildings Learn. Brand argued that Wright designed rigid, static “magazine architecture” that prioritized photogenic style and artistic ego over practical function, durability, and the way buildings must adapt to weather and human use over time. That said, Stewart never even thought of reaching for the matches nor a hatchet.
The earliest known image of Taliesin I, taken in the winter of its construction in 1911-12. Southwest elevation (source) #architecture #BrianEno #culture #FrankLloydWright #history #HowBuildingsLearn #longTermThinking #planning #StewartBrand #Taliesin #trueCrime -
“Function reforms form, perpetually”*…
Diagrams from How Buildings Learn. On the left, a diagram by Frank Duffy showing the increasing capital costs over the lifetime of a building. On the right, a diagram by Stewart Brand and Donald Ryan showing the Shearing Layers of Change. (source)Over the years I have given away many, many copies of many books in the hope that they might be of interest/use to the recipient. The book of which I’ve gifted the most copies is How Buildings Learn- What Happens After They’re Built, published in 1995 by my GBN partner and Long Now colleague Stewart Brand. While it has certainly earned its plaudits as a work of architectural criticism, I’ve handed it out because it’s the most thoughtful and evocative book on strategy I’ve come across; it’s p-o-v and principles, rooted in (often literally) concrete examples, amount to the best manifesto I’ve found for thinking and planning for the long term.
In 1997, The BBC released a six-part series based on the book (with music by GBN and Long Now colleague and friend Brian Eno). As Open Culture reports, Stewart has created a YouTube channel to make the series available to us all…
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”). He also vigorously campaigned in 1966 to have NASA release a photograph showing the entirety of Earth from space—something we take for granted now, but fired humanity’s imagination back then.
During the 1970s and beyond, Brand founded CoEvolution Quarterly, a successor to the Whole Earth Catalog; the WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”), “a prototypical, wide-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over;” and eventually The Long Now Foundation, whose work we’ve highlighted here before. When not creating new institutions, he has poured his creative energies into books and films…
… Based on [the book, How Buildings Learn], the TV series offers a critique of modernist approaches to architecture (think Buckminster Fuller, Frank Gehry, and Le Corbusier) and instead argues for “an organic kind of building, based on four walls, which is easy to change and expand and grow as the ideal form of building.”
Brand made the series available on his YouTube channel, with these words: “Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like… Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project.” And he added the noteworthy footnote: “this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital—shot digital, edited digital.”…
A wonderful series on architecture– and more broadly, on planning for the long term: “Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno,” from @openculture.bsky.social.
Watch the series here.
Further to yesterday’s post (and thanks to friend MK) an obituary of Don Michael, another GBN friend, and author of another book– Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn: The Social Psychology of Changing Toward Future-Responsive Societal Learning— that I’ve given away many, many times.
* Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
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As we take the long view, we might recall that it was on this date in 1914 that Frank Lloyd Wright’s self-designed home in Wisconsin, Taliesin, was the site of mass murder and arson. Julian Carlton, a servant of Wright, set fire to the home and brutally attacked the people there during lunch. He ultimately killed seven, including Wright’s partner, “Mamah” Borthwick.
Wright was among the architects that Brand criticized in How Buildings Learn. Brand argued that Wright designed rigid, static “magazine architecture” that prioritized photogenic style and artistic ego over practical function, durability, and the way buildings must adapt to weather and human use over time. That said, Stewart never even thought of reaching for the matches nor a hatchet.
The earliest known image of Taliesin I, taken in the winter of its construction in 1911-12. Southwest elevation (source) #architecture #BrianEno #culture #FrankLloydWright #history #HowBuildingsLearn #longTermThinking #planning #StewartBrand #Taliesin #trueCrime -
“Function reforms form, perpetually”*…
Diagrams from How Buildings Learn. On the left, a diagram by Frank Duffy showing the increasing capital costs over the lifetime of a building. On the right, a diagram by Stewart Brand and Donald Ryan showing the Shearing Layers of Change. (source)Over the years I have given away many, many copies of many books in the hope that they might be of interest/use to the recipient. The book of which I’ve gifted the most copies is How Buildings Learn- What Happens After They’re Built, published in 1995 by my GBN partner and Long Now colleague Stewart Brand. While it has certainly earned its plaudits as a work of architectural criticism, I’ve handed it out because it’s the most thoughtful and evocative book on strategy I’ve come across; it’s p-o-v and principles, rooted in (often literally) concrete examples, amount to the best manifesto I’ve found for thinking and planning for the long term.
In 1997, The BBC released a six-part series based on the book (with music by GBN and Long Now colleague and friend Brian Eno). As Open Culture reports, Stewart has created a YouTube channel to make the series available to us all…
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”). He also vigorously campaigned in 1966 to have NASA release a photograph showing the entirety of Earth from space—something we take for granted now, but fired humanity’s imagination back then.
During the 1970s and beyond, Brand founded CoEvolution Quarterly, a successor to the Whole Earth Catalog; the WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”), “a prototypical, wide-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over;” and eventually The Long Now Foundation, whose work we’ve highlighted here before. When not creating new institutions, he has poured his creative energies into books and films…
… Based on [the book, How Buildings Learn], the TV series offers a critique of modernist approaches to architecture (think Buckminster Fuller, Frank Gehry, and Le Corbusier) and instead argues for “an organic kind of building, based on four walls, which is easy to change and expand and grow as the ideal form of building.”
Brand made the series available on his YouTube channel, with these words: “Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like… Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project.” And he added the noteworthy footnote: “this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital—shot digital, edited digital.”…
A wonderful series on architecture– and more broadly, on planning for the long term: “Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno,” from @openculture.bsky.social.
Watch the series here.
Further to yesterday’s post (and thanks to friend MK) an obituary of Don Michael, another GBN friend, and author of another book– Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn: The Social Psychology of Changing Toward Future-Responsive Societal Learning— that I’ve given away many, many times.
* Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
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As we take the long view, we might recall that it was on this date in 1914 that Frank Lloyd Wright’s self-designed home in Wisconsin, Taliesin, was the site of mass murder and arson. Julian Carlton, a servant of Wright, set fire to the home and brutally attacked the people there during lunch. He ultimately killed seven, including Wright’s partner, “Mamah” Borthwick.
Wright was among the architects that Brand criticized in How Buildings Learn. Brand argued that Wright designed rigid, static “magazine architecture” that prioritized photogenic style and artistic ego over practical function, durability, and the way buildings must adapt to weather and human use over time. That said, Stewart never even thought of reaching for the matches nor a hatchet.
The earliest known image of Taliesin I, taken in the winter of its construction in 1911-12. Southwest elevation (source) #architecture #BrianEno #culture #FrankLloydWright #history #HowBuildingsLearn #longTermThinking #planning #StewartBrand #Taliesin #trueCrime -
“Function reforms form, perpetually”*…
Diagrams from How Buildings Learn. On the left, a diagram by Frank Duffy showing the increasing capital costs over the lifetime of a building. On the right, a diagram by Stewart Brand and Donald Ryan showing the Shearing Layers of Change. (source)Over the years I have given away many, many copies of many books in the hope that they might be of interest/use to the recipient. The book of which I’ve gifted the most copies is How Buildings Learn- What Happens After They’re Built, published in 1995 by my GBN partner and Long Now colleague Stewart Brand. While it has certainly earned its plaudits as a work of architectural criticism, I’ve handed it out because it’s the most thoughtful and evocative book on strategy I’ve come across; it’s p-o-v and principles, rooted in (often literally) concrete examples, amount to the best manifesto I’ve found for thinking and planning for the long term.
In 1997, The BBC released a six-part series based on the book (with music by GBN and Long Now colleague and friend Brian Eno). As Open Culture reports, Stewart has created a YouTube channel to make the series available to us all…
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”). He also vigorously campaigned in 1966 to have NASA release a photograph showing the entirety of Earth from space—something we take for granted now, but fired humanity’s imagination back then.
During the 1970s and beyond, Brand founded CoEvolution Quarterly, a successor to the Whole Earth Catalog; the WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”), “a prototypical, wide-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over;” and eventually The Long Now Foundation, whose work we’ve highlighted here before. When not creating new institutions, he has poured his creative energies into books and films…
… Based on [the book, How Buildings Learn], the TV series offers a critique of modernist approaches to architecture (think Buckminster Fuller, Frank Gehry, and Le Corbusier) and instead argues for “an organic kind of building, based on four walls, which is easy to change and expand and grow as the ideal form of building.”
Brand made the series available on his YouTube channel, with these words: “Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like… Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project.” And he added the noteworthy footnote: “this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital—shot digital, edited digital.”…
A wonderful series on architecture– and more broadly, on planning for the long term: “Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno,” from @openculture.bsky.social.
Watch the series here.
Further to yesterday’s post (and thanks to friend MK) an obituary of Don Michael, another GBN friend, and author of another book– Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn: The Social Psychology of Changing Toward Future-Responsive Societal Learning— that I’ve given away many, many times.
* Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
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As we take the long view, we might recall that it was on this date in 1914 that Frank Lloyd Wright’s self-designed home in Wisconsin, Taliesin, was the site of mass murder and arson. Julian Carlton, a servant of Wright, set fire to the home and brutally attacked the people there during lunch. He ultimately killed seven, including Wright’s partner, “Mamah” Borthwick.
Wright was among the architects that Brand criticized in How Buildings Learn. Brand argued that Wright designed rigid, static “magazine architecture” that prioritized photogenic style and artistic ego over practical function, durability, and the way buildings must adapt to weather and human use over time. That said, Stewart never even thought of reaching for the matches nor a hatchet.
The earliest known image of Taliesin I, taken in the winter of its construction in 1911-12. Southwest elevation (source) #architecture #BrianEno #culture #FrankLloydWright #history #HowBuildingsLearn #longTermThinking #planning #StewartBrand #Taliesin #trueCrime
