Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts

Saturday 14 January 2012

2012 Mayan iPhone Ringtone Interrupts New York Philharmonic Performance


Synchromystics wont be struggling to pull a meaningful silk thread of narrative out of the story that a customer at the New York Philharmonic refused to turn off their iPhone Marimba tone ringing during a performance of Mahler's most spiritual and peaceful 9th symphony.



Yuppies will call it irony however I prefer the term synchromysticism to describe that during the final 9th wave of the Mayan calendar the me me me iPhone meme culture interrupted Mahlers last ever 9th symphony in the finale movement that is considered a celebration of mother Earth and nature. It was never heard by Mahler himself who died before getting the chance.



The Marimba is an instrument of Mayan origin. The cell ringtone of this instrument on an iPhone forced the conductor to stop. Even with shouts from the audience the person responsible tried to pretend it wasn't their phone which to me is all you need to know about the "pretend something doesn't exist" culture of fin de siecle consumer capitalism as the final wave washes over the deck of the Kali-Yuga Age-of-Iron Titanic.  Look how ABC news treats the story. I feel ill every time I see this fake news faux reportage on US media clips these days. It reeks of smug deception as they segue from grinning light-entertainment mild disdain at home, to sober outrage of middle East war drum propaganda drumming for the military industrial complexes next conflict in the middle East.; It is a sickness and it is paid for with commercials.



The New York times article is more reality based here.

Hat tip to George who is well worth reading as the US plummets into a self absorbed vortex of perpetual war abroad and corn-syrup plasma-screen type-two diabetes awesomeness at home.

Thursday 21 April 2011

The Apple SpyPhone


In an aged of increasingly aggressive policing, phantom terror alerts, media manipulation of Islam threats and ever closer security pat downs and random electronic scanning by the police I find it troubling that a log file has been discovered on the iPhone that isn't removable. Put simply there's no way to disable the logging of all your moves. Why would Apple do that? That's thinking very differently from how normal people think of each other. You've been warned.

Thursday 20 December 2007

iPhone Upgrade

Well, it didn't take long for China to crack out a new 'improved' iPhone with extra vibrating feature. I did see a girl using one in McDonalds this morning but now I'm sceptical if it was the real thing. This ties directly into Chris Anderson's Keynote speech on the topics of free and abundance at Nokia World just recently, and which is a must see video presentation over here.



Tip of the hat and thanks to Alvin for alerting me to this.