Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation Today / Santa Clara, California FROM A BOOTH AT DENNY’S RESTAURANT TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE CHIP MAKER _________________________ The origin story of the Nvidia, the world’s most valuable chip maker, started in 1993 when three engineers started meeting at a Denny’s in Silicon Valley and brainstorming ideas about computing over Grand Slam […]

Becoming a Leading Poster on Local Media

In A Silent Way / Miles Davis _____________________________________ John Fraim I never started out to be a leading poster. None of these leading posters ever really considered this as a goal. Rather, I think that perhaps more than anything else, there was the need and desire to share things. For those who don’t know, Nextdoor […]

Father and Son

Cat Stevens “Father and Son” / Live at the Troubadour in LA (1970) __________________________ (Below is from the Audiophile Style article by Josh Mound 3/15/22) In March of 1968, Cat Stevens was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a collapsed lung. He spent the better part of the next year receiving treatment and recovering — first at […]

Columbus

Amazon Warehouse in New Albany, Ohio America’s Fastest Growing City Fly With The Wind / McCoy Tyner ____________________________________________ In 2015, Steph and I moved to New Albany, Ohio on the Northeast side of Columbus, Ohio. It was not my first time in Columbus. I lived in the Upper Arlington and Grandview parts of Columbus from […]

An Uncivil War

Base of the Western Forces Attacking DC “Lovefingers” by Silver Apple / A Song in Civil War __________________________ Review of Civil War John Fraim The film Civil War opened in middle April of 2024, seven months from the Presidential election in November. I saw the first screening of it in Columbus at the old Drexel […]

Music in Education

The Last Repair Shop / Academy Award Winner: Best Short Documentary 2024 ________________________ Since 1959, Los Angeles has been one of the few United States cities to offer and fix musical instruments for its public school students at no cost. Those instruments, numbering around 80,000, are maintained at a Los Angeles downtown warehouse by a handful […]

Internet Utopians & Dystopians

“Dystopian – an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. Utopian – a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions.” Websters Dictionary “Need for Speed” / Amin Bhatia from the album Virtuality ________________________ John Fraim A paradox of our Digital Age is represented by two views of […]

What Happened to Romantic Love?

Casanova Restaurant / Carmel, California By Jon Rappoport (Reposted from his site) / Photos by John Fraim April 4, 2024 ____________________________ I have a bunch of articles lined up on, God forbid, the Positive! Do I need to include some kind of disclaimer, or an apology? Nah. I’ve always been a romantic at heart. If […]

SORA

TEXT TO VIDEO OPENS A NEW ERA OF AI __________________________ John Fraim The world of AI is changing so fast it is almost impossible to keep up with new aspects of the technology. In a general sense, one can make the observation that it started with text to text and progressed to text to images. […]