Friday, April 3, 2009

Out with the old.



I'll be moving out of my apartment in the next couple of months, the 3rd move since '08. With every move, I cut down on the amount of stuff I have to bring along. This past move took with it about 200 of my beloved CD's, and yes I still buy them.. (tisk tisk digital devotee). It took me a few weeks to import them all to my comp, but the task is done, and my load is MUCH lighter now. With that said, (and I'm sure you needed to know about my moving habits) I came across an article today about the "Celestial Jukebox", an idea that all music ever recorded should be available to everyone at anytime, without having to become a hermit and have rooms upon rooms of physical media.

The writer talks about the fun of buying physical formats and how innovative artists are re-thinking what makes a physical format. In the third paragraph, he cites a project that we worked on for Polyvinyl's Of Montreal.

Check it out:
The Future of Music: The Celestial Jukebox

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Spanning time.



Dropcards, as a company, has existed since 2004. We have had four versions of a "blog" in that time. This is number five. That's one a year. Me personally, I've been around for three of them. Most incarnations have been a rarely updated, mildly entertaining "news" section masquerading as a blog. Buddyhead circa 1999 they were not (I'm just kidding, no one ever really liked Buddyhead.)

To understand why we've had five blogs in five years you have to understand but one thing; we're pretty boring. We stroll into work at 9-ish. We make some really pretty websites. We print a heck of a lot of download cards. We have meetings. We go visit clients. We talk on the phone. We write e-mails. We sometimes eat lunch. We keep telling ourselves that we'll leave work at 5 -- then 5 becomes 6, 6 becomes 7 and the next thing you know it's almost 1 AM (edit: It's now 1:28) on a Friday night and you're writing the first blog entry of your company's FIFTH attempt at a blog.

How often can you talk about websites and download cards? I could better entertain you by whispering the dictionary in your ear somewhere over the Pacific in the seventh hour of a thirteen hour flight to Japan. Our clients on the other hand, they do a lot of rad stuff and we want to tell you about them. Our industry has a lot of awesome stuff going on and and as regular people in Clark Kent life, we're into some pretty cool stuff too so I'm certain when we put out heads together, and this becomes a little less about us and more about everyone else, we can fill up this obvious attempt at increasing our natural search engine results with a frequently updated Blogger account new blog with lots of fun stuff.

So this is it. We're just having fun now. This is going to be the one that sticks. There will be no sixth blog. And if there is, we're not going to tell you it's the sixth one. We'll pretend it's the first and you'll be none the wiser cuz you're probably not even reading this one. Thanks to you if you are.