Another live, Electric Gauchos track: Shred Lock. (19.8M mp3)
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More from Free Play: Improvisation in Live and Art -
"We need to recognize that every bit of our culture is school; we are presented moment to moment with affirmations of some realities and denials of others. Education, business, media, politics, and above all the family, the very institutions that might be the instruments for expanding human expressiveness, collude to induce conformism, to keep things going on a humdrum level. But so do our everyday habits of doing or seeing.Reality as we know it becomes conditioned by the tacit assumptions we come to take for granted after innumerable subtle learning experiences in daily life. That is why creative perceptions seem extraordinary or special to us, when in fact creativity is usually a matter of seeing through those tacit assumptions to what is right in front of our noses. A story told of a French railroad passenger who, upon learning that his neighbor on the next seat was Picasso, began to grouse and grumble about modern art, saying that it is not a faithful representation of reality. Picasso demanded to know what was a faithful representation of reality. The man produced a wallet-sized photo and said, ‘There! That’s a real picture – that’s what my wife really looks like.’
Picasso looked at it carefully from several angles, turning it up and down and sideways, and said, ‘She’s awfully small. And flat.’
We often make the mistake of confusing education with training, when in fact these are very different activities. Training is for the purpose of passing on specific information necessary to perform a specialized activity. Education is the building of the person.
To educe means to draw out or evoke that which is latent; education then means drawing out the person’s latent capacities for understanding and living, not stuffing a (passive) person full of preconceived knowledge. Education must tap into the close relationship between play and exploration; there must be permission to explore and express. There must be validation of the exploratory spirit, which by definition takes us out of the tried, the tested, and the homogeneous. “ - p118
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My day began with an early meeting -- an architectural overview of what is now becoming one of the key "just works'" mechanisms within Longhorn. I continue to be blown away by some of the amazing talented and driven people I have the privledge of working with.
One of them, LarryO, celebrated his 20th anniversary at MS today. LarryO, congrats on 20 amazing years. Also, congrats to StanPenn on 4 years today.
Also, a significant day in the future history of Longhorn; the much-rumored "meteor" from JimAll hit this morning at 10:45am. By all accounts, this is great news.
Now, to practice -- first piano, then guitar.
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