Cafe at the End of the Bike Path: August 2015

Friday, August 7, 2015

‪1959 The Year that Changed Jazz‬

‪1959 The Year that Changed Jazz‬
https://youtu.be/dou3aSZmEg0

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue [Full Album] (1959)
https://youtu.be/HMPL_ACKmHk

So What 00:00
Freddie Freeloader 09:24
Blue In Green 19:12
All Blues 24:50
Flamenco Sketches 36:28
Flamenco Sketches [Alternate Take] 45:52

Miles Davis -- trumpet (band leader)
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley -- alto saxophone, except on "Blue in Green"
Paul Chambers -- double bass
Jimmy Cobb -- drums
John Coltrane -- tenor saxophone
Bill Evans -- piano (except "Freddie Freeloader"), liner notes
Wynton Kelly -- piano on "Freddie Freeloader"

Dave Brubeck, Time Out
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x120kud_the-dave-brubeck-quartet-time-out-1959_music

Charlie Mingus, A hum
https://youtu.be/-NxXHi-qpoE

Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) [Full Album]
https://youtu.be/Lbt9DDolcag

Hey Andy Warhol ! Happy Birthday !

Las `Selfies´ de Andy Warhol, Por: Ángeles Pino Villela, 23 de Enero 2014
http://www.garuyo.com/trend/selfies-de-andy-warhol-fotos

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Hey (Movie For Andy Warhol)
https://youtu.be/fx0orwxJ4lI

David Bowie - 09 Andy Warhol
https://youtu.be/oH_bCyH_1sg

The Dandy Warhols-TV Theme Song
https://youtu.be/6FidZlbZLCc

Hey (Movie For Andy Warhol)
https://youtu.be/fx0orwxJ4lI

David Bowie - 09 Andy Warhol
https://youtu.be/oH_bCyH_1sg

The Dandy Warhols-TV Theme Song
https://youtu.be/6FidZlbZLCc

The Dandy Warhols - Boys Better
https://youtu.be/QGHZ5h54Xkc

The Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be A Holiday
https://youtu.be/FuFtfhOipNQ

The Dandy Warhols - You Were The Last High [HD]
https://youtu.be/siqjCanf0vU

Dandy Warhols - Ride
https://youtu.be/0Hm41Mu6ij0

Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/D7TPxA5sp4I

Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You" Live at Glastonbury 2002
https://youtu.be/ZBQNH5TFztM

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Hiroshima - 6 August 1945

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum display depicting the fireball over the city center

The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction, How committee meetings, memos, and largely arbitrary decisions ushered in the nuclear age
Paul Ham, The Atlantic, 6 August 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-anniversary/400448/

How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world
By Herman Wong , Washington Post, 6 August 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/06/how-the-hiroshima-bombing-is-taught-around-the-world/

Hiroshima
How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath.
John Hersey, The New Yorker, 31 August 1946
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

The 'sanitised narrative' of Hiroshima's atomic bombing
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, 4 August 2015
 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33754931/

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Why are Japanese Humanoid Robots So Often Women

Why are Japanese humanoid robots so often women: A question prompted by "Erika," a android who speaks natural conversations.

Q:

Say konnichiwa to Erica, the android who can have “completely natural” conversations
Scott Wilson, Rocket News 24, 5 August 2015
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/08/05/say-konnichiwa-to-erica-the-android-who-can-have-completely-natural-conversations

A:

Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female
Tanya Lewis, Live Science, 19 February 2015 07:15am ET
http://www.livescience.com/49882-why-robots-female.html

Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human
AP, USA Today, 24 June 2014
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/06/24/robots-creepily-human/11302235/
Robots mentioned include
- Hiroshi Ishiguro, OsakaUniversity (himself)
- Kodomoroid
- Otonaroid
- Pepper

Why Siri's Voice Is Now A Man (And A Woman)
Bianca Bosker, Huffington Post, 11 June 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/siri-voice-man-woman_n_3423245.html
- a man’s voice saying what a woman would say would creep you out.

Clifford Nass and Corina Yen, 2010. The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1617230049/

Clifford Nass, 2010. The Man Who Lied to His Laptop (Lecture)
https://youtu.be/lCuW2VOeS9Y