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[Katja Herbers @katjaherbers]

I wish Taylor Swift was in love with a climate scientist

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Refreshing to see Matt Gaetz fuck someone over 18

[Daylight @daylightdj]

@MADEOFOAK Always knew you’d come around to the trap hats ;)

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The U2 x Las Vegas Sphere show took two years to create and will make ~$270m.

In Fall 2021, the band was approached to open the $2.3B mega-structure (with a capacity of 18k).

Willie Williams — U2’s creative director since the early 1980s — initially thought it was a “terrible idea”.

Why? U2’s iconic tours have been breakthrough custom sets from Zoo TV in the early 1990s (pioneering giant screens on stage) to the 360 Tour of late 2000s (360-degree stage for stadium shows).

They weren’t keen to build an act around the Sphere’s requirements, especially one with the most ambitious audio-visual specs ever: 

▫️160k+ speakers
▫️366ft tall x 516ft wide (9 floors)
▫️Largest LED screen ever (160k sq ft)

However, the idea of a residency — instead of a moving tour — appealed to U2 because of COVID travel uncertainty.

One major obstacle was that dome-shaped buildings are typically awful for audio, per Variety.

The Sphere solved the issue with its 167k speakers including one in each seat. Effectively, every person is “getting studio-quality sound” according to James Dolan (owner of NY Knicks, NY Rangers, MSG and the man behind the Sphere). 

Meanwhile, the visuals were a collaboration with the world’s top creatives (Es Devlin, Marco Brambilla, John Gerrard and long-time producer Brian Eno).

The amount of data created to fill the LED screen is mind-boggling, per Wallpaper:

▫️ there are 268,435,456 pixels…
▫️ …which is equal to 72 HD TVs
▫️ … which is equal to 12k screen resolution 
▫️ …which means “every minute of content produced for Sphere is the equivalent of one hour of streaming television”

“With all the big stuff I’ve done for U2 and anyone else, we don’t start with the equipment, we start with the idea, and then figure out what we need to realize that idea,” Williams tells Variety. “And sometimes it involves big video, sometimes it doesn’t. Whereas here, the only given we had going in was the building — and a building that didn’t exist, and in fact isn’t finished now. So it was odd starting a show with hardware and with a space rather than the other way around.”

Here’s some napkin math for “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere”:

▫️25 dates x 18,000 per show x $600 per ticket (range is $400 to $1400) = $270 million

The entire U2 team — Williams, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Bram van den Berg (who is subbing in for the injured Larry Mullen Jr) — clearly made a risky bet.

But the viral clips and buzz from opening night show it has paid off big time.

[Alex Tumay @alextumay]

If songwriters/engineers/producers don’t take heed the music industry will soon be a horrific place to try to make a living until some sort of regulation is in place for AI.

[Nick Sanborn @MADEOFOAK]

fuck this

https://t.co/7NfZTupdka

[Sam Morril @sammorril]

“I will honor the spirit of the strike by not doing a monologue, New Rules or desk pieces.” Bc you can’t. Writers did that stuff. That’s not honoring them. It’s something you are not able to do.

[Caleb Nathan @calebmoscoso]

@kaelinellis Put Soothe2 on the instrumental in mid/side mode + link set to 0% + Ld Vx trig the side chain input. Carves space in the inst but only in the mid while the vocal is present.

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

This is also the episode where Elaine breaks up with her boyfriend because he is anti-abortion

[Alex Tumay @alextumay]

Music creators deserve a plug in or app to test Apple/Spotify/Tidal’s exact algorithms for compression and normalization. I know there are some that emulate but we should be able to see the exact outcome and adjust accordingly. We spend so much time on songs to be surprised later

[Matt Schnuck @mattschnuck]

Bill Gurley has funded unicorns like Uber and seen thousands of careers play out.

In 2018 he gave a now-infamous talk about the pattern he uncovered.

Inspired by Tom Petty, it was called "Runnin' Down a Dream."

5 steps to DREAM job success that lasts for decades:

[Mike Scollins @mikescollins]

RICO LAW

[James Blake @jamesblake]

Forced us all onto platforms that reduce our art and now sad that it’s hard to find breakthrough artists 👩‍🎨

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

What a surprise, guy who is supposed to enforce checks and balances thinks checks shouldn’t apply to him.

Too bad!

Corruption and abuse of power must be stopped, no matter the source. In fact, the court should be *most* subject to scrutiny, bc it is unelected & life appointed.

[Meech @MediumSizeMeech]

If a man who has been making music since 2005 has NEVER had a #1 single until the day he releases some racist slop and his music shoots up the charts? That tells you all you need to know about America

[Daylight @daylightdj]

@agadmator @ChessProblem Agad what do you think this says about you? Do you expect people to view you as some kind of “free thinker”? Tucker and Tate is the worst combo possible regardless of the content of the interview. Massive disappointment 👎

[Alex Tumay @alextumay]

Everyone in music pretending not to see this while they do nothing to prevent it is hilarious.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is a scandal. The Supreme Court is now just a 9 person legislature, slinging takes and making law with cases that are basically made up by friendly right wing groups in order to get the new law they want from their 6 buddies on the court. https://t.co/mXYJPvHLDN

[Tim Ryan🦤 @TheSportsHernia]

Dave Grohl’s story (and impression) of Christopher Walken asking whether the emphasis was on “Foo” or “Fighters” is absolute gold.

[Tom McGovern @tommcgovern27]

They promised me the standing desk would help with my back pain