#dave mandl

[dominicumile]

My friend Dave Mandl spent more than a year tracking down and photographing dead-end streets in Brooklyn, NY.

He began the survey in the era before Google Maps, using a paper atlas to track down terminal spots marked with a yellow diamond. A handful are in the heart of Brooklyn, but most are on the periphery. The conceit forced Mandl to explore what he calls “the limits of the officially recognized or permitted landscape,” the “no-go zones” that most people ignore.

[dominicumile]

No way was this the original recording I knew and loved. I tried a different “This Diamond Ring” and got the same bogus recording. That’s when I noticed the parentheticals next to some, but not all, of the tracks: “(Re-Recorded Version).” Re-recorded?

"Same Old Song? Not Exactly." David Mandl, Slate

[therumpus]

Dave Mandl takes on radical covers in Here's What We Think of Your "Classic":

One clear sign that you’re witnessing an instance of this phenomenon is that, almost without fail, the children of the Revolution will choose some respected old chestnut—a famous piece of classical music, a twenty-five-year-old pop song—and re-record it in the New Style. This is often an intentionally irreverent, nose-thumbing gesture by the revolutionaries, meant to demonstrate that nothing’s sacred and that even the most classic of classics can be remade, only much better, with them in charge.

[dominicumile]

As a radio DJ, music writer, and borderline OCD case, it’s likely that I care a lot more about this than most, but record release dates are important, and in some cases they’re crucial.

Who Cares When Your Record Was Digitally Remastered? -- Writer, DJ, (my) editor, and friend Dave Mandl on the importance of knowing when a record was actually first issued.

[amycvdh]

[O]ur entire digital world is made up of alphanumeric language (the 1s and 0s of computing). You know sometimes when you receive a JPEG in an email and it comes in wrong, appearing as garbled text instead of an image? It’s a reminder that all of our media now is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words...

How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn’t find a speck of language lurking below the surface. The interesting thing is that now you can open a JPEG in a text editor, dump in a bunch of language, and reopen it as an image, and you’ll find that the image has completely been changed—all as a result of active language. This is so new, and the implications for writing are so profound and paradigmatic.

- The Web's Hidden Language Dave Mandl's interview with Kenneth Goldsmith (via the Daily Dish)