Whiplash and The Beethoven Effect
“ ‘Good Job’ are the two most harmful words in the English language,” says fictional Jazz conductor Terrence Fletcher in 2014’s Whiplash, an explosive film that [...]
Articles by Jake Perry
About Jake Perry
Don’t Starve: The Life of Indie Games
You are low on food and starving. Your sanity is wearing thinner and thinner, and there are movements in the dark you are sure are getting closer every night. The landscape [...]
Skiing Switch: A Sport in Flux
There have been better times for the ski industry. In its heyday, lift tickets were cheap, mountain towns were affordable and the snow came down like fossil fuels weren’t [...]
“Festival Express” – a highlight and review
“Festival Express” is a documentary following some of the most famous musicians of the twenty-first century, as they traveled across Canada on a music, booze and [...]
A Whole Different Kind of Game
Congratulations everybody. We did it. We made it to the spotlight. They used to make fun of us, and those who came before us, we who enjoyed past times that weren’t [...]
The View from the Kitchen
Every restaurant is different. Every single place you will go to eat will have different ways of handling the food preparation and serving and creating their unique [...]
Our Indie Culture
“It’s a machine, and it’s money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it’s embarrassing.” –Justin Vernon. Straight from the horse’s [...]
The Last Innocent Generation
We are approaching the last days of the innocent. The last people who can honestly say ‘I didn’t know’ or ‘I had no way of knowing’. We are coming to a singularity [...]
Lost Music
“I work my fingers to the bone. Not a pretty little penny have I got to show. Not looking for much, just a little bit of rest by the side of the road…” -David Lamb of [...]
Exponential Growth
Within the last hundred years we have seen unparalleled growth in every kind of technology. In the early twentieth century we opened our eyes to germ theory, nuclear physics [...]
