Should music just be legal?

As with everything else, the music industry has switched majority of its processes to digital over the last few years.  The biggest advantaged (and to some disadvantage) with digital product is the ease at which it is accessed.  Because of this, there also has been a rise in the number of cases surrounding copyright law in the music industry.

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Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da [Dubstep]

What is music?  I bet you can ask anybody the same question and get a different answer from each of them.  You might say something along the lines of a combination of different instruments to create something that sounds pleasing.  Some people might add vocals in there.  Others might add some mixes on their computer which is considered electronic.  Regardless of your opinion on “What is Music?” my goal today is really to make us all think if there is a difference between music and noise and exactly what that is.

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What do you mean my pictures are made up of letters, symbols and numbers?

Me again.  Today I’m here to discuss a different way to edit those pictures that we so often love to play with in Photoshop.

Now, we use Photoshop for a number of fantastic things.  We can use it to adjust the color scheme on a photo, to fool our friends that we actually are walking the red carpet with celebrities like Beyoncé and even to get rid of pimples from our always attractive school portraits.

Photoshop is great and all but today we’re going to talk about a different way to potentially edit your photos, simply using that beautiful keyboard we often take for granted.

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Howdy.

Ricky here, taking you on a journey through my LAST semester of college and hoping to sound a bit intelligent on the way.  #Adulting

I’ll use this space to take complex ideas, simplify them and hopefully get a few thinking caps on.  Also, I’ll occasionally post some artsy stuff I put together and hopefully have a bunch of pretty “Art” to show at the end of this.

Wish me luck!