iPhone Passion

Bits and pieces this evening.

• I’m warming to the idea of making music on the iPhone. Along those lines, although from a visual arts perspective, is this New York Review of Books story: “David Hockney’s iPhone Passion.”

“It’s always there in my pocket, there’s no thrashing about, scrambling for the right color. One can set to work immediately, there’s this wonderful impromptu quality, this freshness, to the activity; and when it’s over, best of all, there’s no mess, no clean-up. You just turn off the machine. Or, even better, you hit Send, and your little cohort of friends around the world gets to experience a similar immediacy. There’s something, finally, very intimate about the whole process.”

• It appears my next door neighbor has bought a new toilet, a Kohler. The box, out on the sidewalk, bore this tagline: “The Global Leader in Performance Toilets.”

• Via Blip.fm, I came across FoxyTunes, Yahoo’s music player browser plug-in. It’s a great conduit from iTunes to Twitter. I wish they had something equivalent on the iPhone, which is how I do most of my listening. Anyway, the FoxyTunes page on Genesis’ “Anyway” led me to this YouTube video of the pianist’s eye view of the tune. Very nice.