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The Robotic Action Painter
As much as we enjoy a bit of the artsy fartsy now and then, we are much more the connoisseur of labor saving devices. Thats why the Robotic Action Painter (his friends call him RAP) scores major points with us. Not only is he doing the whole pen-on-paper, expressing-his-feelings type of stuff, but he does it completely without human intervention, based on his own "sense of rightness." There is an element of randomness in his AI, but the robot watches its own work and looks for patterns of colors in order to decide once his masterpiece is finished. Then he signs his initials and dons his beret for an afternoon in the cafe. He's quite the abstract artist, and is strangely silent on the meanings of his work, but we're sure it all comes from a troubled childhood and an overbearing motherboard.[Via WMMNA]
Who needs a record label? Submit your own music to the iTMS with Tunecore
Are you a musician with some tracks that deserve their time in the iTMS spotlight? No one's promising you'll make the Top Songs list, but Tunecore can at least help you take a shot.While Apple offers an online application through which you can ask them to 'consider your music for the iTMS,' Tunecore (notice the hip 'beta' marking) can actually submit your music to not only the iTMS, but Rhapsody, MusicNet and Napster too. They offer what I would consider a reasonable one-time fee structure (meaning: the don't take a % of each song/album sale), and they can add your music to a number of international stores (not just the U.S.) with 'more coming soon!' One last feature to note about their service which might be music to indie musicians' ears: you keep all the rights and ownership of your music, i.e. - Tunecore a middle-man who actually remains a middle-man.This sounds like a great service. I hope more musicians can use it to hop on the digital distribution bandwagon.[thanks Andre Dupont!]