(This has nothing to do with anime, but it might be of interest to those who are into ambient sound.) Here is last month at work, condensed to two minutes:
Author: Don
More ambient music
Here is this past February at the office, condensed to about two minutes:
Going boom …
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I’ve been saving the picture in the banner each time I visit Steven’s place. Here’s what I’ve collected so far. The music is Raymond Scott’s “Celebration on the Planet Mars,” performed by the Metropole Orchestra with the Beau Hunks.
(This is probably not the final version. The software I intended to use decided that it doesn’t like my machine after all, so I had to struggle with a less-capable application with limited output options. I’m not entirely happy with the results.)
The macho swan
The spring dance concert this past weekend at Friends University featured mostly modern ballets, such as an excerpt from Matthew Bourne’s version of Swan Lake, above. The other works were also quite interesting. If they had been any more interesting, I’d have to label this post “NSFW.”
Morning hazard
Today’s mental picture
And to make matters worse, the other events were a cheerleading convention and a Christian youth group convention. I mean, not necessarily antagonistic if physically separated… but apparently the Witchblade cosplayers kept walking into the youth group talks, and that’s just not going to end well….
She’s also been posting singable translations of the songs from the Natsume Yujinchou series. If I understand what she’s doing correctly, these are paraphrases of English translations she’s found.
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I’ve been doing everything but watching anime lately. I’ll get back to it — I’ve got Tokyo Godfathers sitting next to the computer, and I want to watch the rest of at least the first season of Natsume Yujinchou — but right now there are other priorities. In the meantime, here’s a curiosity: a piano version of a tune you might recognize.
Spring has sprung
“February Gold,” which usually doesn’t bloom until March. I think this is the earliest I’ve ever seen it fully open.
Air power
Barry has a new t-shirt.
Beyond Tortalia
A bit of good news: Kunio Kato’s recent animated short, “Le Maison en Petits Cubes,” will be shown in theaters across the USA this month — amazingly, even in Wichita, albeit at the library. Kato is the artist who created The Diary of Tortov Roddle, which has my highest recommendation.
Update: It’s on iTunes.
Update II: “Le Maison en Petits Cubes” won the Oscar for best animated short film,
Update III: Here’s a short interview with Kato, with a brief excerpt from “La Maison.”
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And now for something completely different: “Peach Pie on the Beach,” with cheerleaders.
Dancing fools
See if these play for you:
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Ambient music
Here’s what life has been like here at the office this week:
Here’s what my office currently looks like:
Early start
These are some of the daffodils near my front steps as they were on this early February afternoon today. If winter doesn’t abruptly return, they could very well bloom within a week.
Ancient technology
During an archaeological dig in my office today, I unearthed some relics from prehistoric times.
Remember when floppies were floppy? (Remember floppies?) And eight inches in diameter?
Medieval head-bangers
If the regional Renaissance Faires would bring in bands like Corvus Corax, I might start attending them again. CC’s “best of” album arrived today, and I’ve been listening to it continuously since I got home.
Ancient technology
(Not anime, but possibly of interest to geeky types.) We’re playing musical offices at work, and I unearthed some antiques in the back of one of the cabinets earlier today:
Yes, people actually did use 8-inch discs back in prehistoric times. Floppies really were floppy.
Grrr
I spent most of the weekend installing and tweaking a new theme. It looks fine in my main browser, but I just discovered that in Safari, there are suddenly ads on my site when you click on links to particular stories. Expect more changes.
Update: Fixed.
Grrr
I spent most of the weekend installing and tweaking a new theme. It looks fine in my main browser, but I just discovered that in Safari, there are suddenly ads on my site.
I’ll see if I can root out the offending code this evening, but the chances are that I’m going to be looking for a different theme. Don’t worry; Pyun and Potaru will remain.
Update: It turned out to be an easy fix. I just needed to delete a few lines in three of the .php files.
Book versus anime
True space opera
(Via the LLamas.)