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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Midrange, compression and the history of technology
If you do any music production, even at the tyro level like me, you realize that there’s a characteristic “sound” to most pop music: mid scooped and compressed. It’s a very odd sound, highly un-natural, and it’s completely ubiquitous. But it was not the characteristic sound of other eras. In the 20s, music sounded the […]
Evidence and Scarcity
As digital technology expands, our whole relationship to presenting evidence will have to change. Other disciplines roll their eyes at historians for having too many examples. A lit scholar might read a historical article and think “he had me at five: the forty five examples that followed didn’t accomplish a damn thing.” And even history […]
Movies and History
The death of Tony Curtis today reminds me of a movie we used to see all the time on TV as kids: The Black Shield of Falworth. Curtis plays Miles, a young man of noble birth raised as a commoner, becomes a knight etc etc. It’s famous for Curtis in tights pronouncing his lines in […]
