Category Archives: Control

Do I Paint my Own Reality? (I didn’t even Realise I Held a Brush…)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by atlumschema

I got to thinking a few days ago as I perused status updates on my Facebook page. Most people were posting inane comments, humorous pictures and videos, but then I noticed one of my friends had posted a link to … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Future, Media | Tagged algorithm, censorship, cookies, facebook, google, like, manipulation, search | Leave a comment

Our Father who art in London

Posted on May 25, 2011 by atlumschema

Our current capitalist ethos comes with a health warning. We see it every day. On a large scale, market bubbles bursting, financial systems collapsing, an increase in the division between rich and poor. On an individual level, widespread mental illness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Observation | Tagged bursting, collapse, evil, finances, god, idol worship, mental illness, money, occupy, paradox, protests, rich and poor, unsustainable economy | Leave a comment

Education and Sales Resistance

Posted on February 23, 2011 by atlumschema

I was reading a book by Wendell Berry (writer, philosopher, farmer) the other day and was really struck by a few points he makes about our attitude toward education and educated people. In the book “Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community” … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Observation | Tagged assumptions, control, corporate, education, elitism, marketing, power, sales resistance, wendell berry | 1 Comment

Adverts are NOT Art: Discuss

Posted on February 14, 2011 by atlumschema

I hate advertising. By hate I don’t mean actively and consciously despise it or what it is promoting, but rather I use the word as an opposite to unconscious love. The sort of love that invokes a genuine reaction of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Control, Ideas, Observation | Tagged advertising, bill hicks, branding, creative, fake, flash mob, imitation, life giving, life sucking, marketing, money, not art, reality | Leave a comment

Soundcloud and How Major Labels are Spoiling Things…Again

Posted on January 22, 2011 by atlumschema

Those involved in the music world are all pretty well aware that the major labels, on the whole are pretty regressive, reactionary and retrogressive in their ability to move forwards and change with the rest of us. It is completely … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating, Control, Future, Independent Thinking, Inspiration, Music, Sheep Dressed Like Wolves | Tagged big business, control, major labels, money, not legal but moral, soundcloud | 4 Comments

An Odd Experience of Creative Barf

Posted on November 5, 2010 by atlumschema

People often ask me about my song-writing process; whether I write lyrics, melodies, chords etc first. I tell them it depends to which song they are referring because it is pretty much always different and I have no formula, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Ideas, Independent Thinking, Politics | Tagged anger, ayn rand, bankers, bottom line, competition, cut throat, everyone hates everyone, government cuts, michael gove, money, political songwriting, song | Leave a comment

Fan Funding and the Compromise of Integrity?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by atlumschema

I don’t really have any fixed views on this issue but am intrigued to see what others are thinking about the current wave of fan-funded project models. I write this as someone who used something similar in the pre-sale period … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, False, Future, Ideas, Independent Thinking, Observation | Tagged artist sell out, cheapening, fan-funding, money raising, pledge, raising, sellaband, slice the pie | 2 Comments

One World Less

Posted on August 31, 2010 by atlumschema

Within every human mind there lies a unique world. On this planet there are around seven billion different worlds, each of them as significant as you consider your own. Each one dreams. Each one desires. And each one is inevitably … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Dreams, Future, Ideas, Independent Thinking | Tagged art, background, dreams, one world less, reality, unique people, where do we fit | 1 Comment

Hypey New Year

Posted on January 11, 2010 by atlumschema

It is a New Year. It is a time to reflect and also to look forward. This is all the more apparent as we slide into a new decade – and yes, I am quite aware that technically we still … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, False, Future, Independent Thinking, Media | Tagged bbc sound of 2010, donald miller, ellie goulding, florence and the machine, hype-machine, industry, la roux, massimo zeppetelli, new year, predictions, tastemaker, x factor | 1 Comment

Fulfilling the Big Dream

Posted on October 23, 2009 by atlumschema

I noticed recently, while watching a reality TV competition show that there is a strange phenomenon that the powerful now use in order to control the weak; the capacity to possess access to fabricated dream-fulfilment. It has probably always been … Continue reading →