Michael Cavna at The Washington Post reviews WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation.
Now, long after Lichtenstein’s death in 1997, the U.S. Postal Service is issuing a stamp set to commemorate his birth centennial; its release will be celebrated April 24 in a ceremony at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Happiness is accomplishing a known goal. That’s a Scientology definition, a tidbit I picked up the summer in college when living on Cape Cod. The Falmouth public library had a large collection of Scientology books. No, I’m not a Scientologist.
That happened to be the Jaws movie summer. Seeing it in Falmouth was funny, because people who were extras in the movie, and their relatives, were in the audience. They weren’t shy about letting everybody know when they, or someone they knew, appeared on the screen.
But I digress. The happiness context here is this. Just as I brought this installation of WordPress back from near death, and got my Sony 300-disc CD changer working again, last weekend I worked on my Logitech Media Server network until it had been returned to full functionality. The solution was to get the Squeezebox Radios off their native WiFi implementations by using Ethernet-to-WiFi adapters.
It’s been suggested to me the radios were dropping off the network because of interference from a WiFi 6 signal somewhere within range. Even if that’s what happened, there’s no explanation why the adapters don’t have the problem. Also it was suspiciously coincidental with changes that I noticed had been made to the mysqueezebox cloud service that required an update to the LMS software running in the house.
Anyway, I’m happy now that everything is working again. There’s an Android app for controlling the network players that I started using this morning. Why hadn’t I looked for it before? Because I tried one a long time ago on the first generation of the Roku streaming player, and it was terrible. I assumed they would all be awful, but I sure was wrong about that. Squeezer is an excellent app, and it’s free.
Next up? Seeing if I can put LMS on the Raspberry Pi 3 that tastewar gave me.
A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to tastewar for catching a video tour, posted today, of Studio 2 at Abbey Road. The place was known as EMI studios when the Beatles were recording there. There’s a lot of tech talk about vintage gear.
Studio 2 is a huge room for pop music recording, and there’s discussion about the room’s acoustics. This early Beatles recording, engineered by Norman “Hurricane” Smith, is a good example of the effect of the room on the sound.
