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What Better Tools Really Mean

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“I’d have an assignment to do an ink drawing that took me two weeks, three weeks, and I’d show it to my friends and they’d say, ‘Cool. My friend can draw. Now let’s go play ball. Let’s go downtown and talk to some girls.’ But when I’d work on a track, I’d work on it for just that afternoon — chop up a sample, put some drums to it. And if my friends liked it, we’d make a tape of it and play it all the way downtown. We’d listen to it all night, keep rewinding it. I made a decision at that point to focus on painting with sound instead of painting visually.” The point, for those of us that make tools, is that every time you make something a little bit easier to do, the number of people who do it explodes. Then a bunch of really amazing things happen… People use this new nicer thing to express themselves in new ways. People from diverse backgrounds see this as something interesting worth trying out. These people are young, hungry to leave a mark and innately cool. So now this newly accessib

What Better Tools Really Mean What Better Tools Really Mean | pketh.org About Archives RSS Kinopio May ’15 What Better Tools Really Mean learning In an old issue of PAPER mag, —- writes about art school and music: “I’d have an assignment to do an ink drawing that took me two weeks, three weeks, and I’d show it to my friends and they’d say, ‘Cool. My friend can draw. Now let’s go play ball. Let’s go downtown and talk to some girls.’ But when I’d work on a track, I’d work on it for just that afternoon — chop up a sample, put some drums to it. And if my friends liked it, we’d make a tape of it an

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