… as a Menger Sponge.
Also: mathematical origami.
Bonus link: More mathematical fun — Context-Free Art.
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Swingin’
There’s still little time for anime. The only current series I’m up-to-date on is Oh! Edo Rocket (or Oedo Rocket, or Ohedo Rocket). ((Though I download Denno Coil and Seirei no Moribito as new episodes become available)) Eighteen episodes have now been subtitled, and it continues as off-the-wall as ever. The word is that the dramatic story is concluded in the twentieth episode and the remaining six focus on comedy, which is fine with me.
The soundtrack is distinctive. About half of it is big-band swing; the rest is mostly swing/rock hybrids, with a bit of pseudo-flamenco here and there. I don’t know how well it will sustain repeated listenings, but in small doses it’s fun. Here are a couple of examples:
(This tune recurs in different arrangements throughout the series. Another setting can be heard in the second video excerpt here.)
*****
Speaking of soundtracks, I discovered yesterday that the other dealer is selling Geneon CDs for $5.99. This includes many outstanding OSTs — Haibane Renmei, Azumanga Daioh, Someday’s Dreamers, Noir, etc.
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Different kinds of memory
Here are a couple of New Yorker articles of interest concerning amnesia and music, and life as an Aspie. (The former link via Fred.)
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There’a a guest choreographer, Shawn Stevens, working with the students at Friends University this week, and I hope to get out there to snap a few pictures each day. ((By “a few,” I mean about 200 or so. Digital “film” is dangerously cheap. I shot 250 frames in a little more than a half-hour this afternoon.))
Music for harp and didgeridu
How to compose music for an online RPG. (Also why I avoid using violin samples in my own music.) If you can read French, the original is here.
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It’s past time to mow the lawn, but I’m not complaining
fyi
This came up in an email exchange with a friend. I thought that other victims of photography might appreciate it:
The default mode in all digital cameras is “caricature.” The software automatically looks for slight defects in a person’s appearance and exaggerates them. If there are no defects, it will interpolate some. (Film cameras have a similar feature.) Unfortunately, camera manuals are minimal these days and seldom include directions for changing this default. In other words, nobody looks as bad as his picture.
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This month’s token cute kid picture: the ring-bear bearer.
Still more pictures
I’ve uploaded several galleries of my old pictures to the new server:
Dance photography
Costume Con 2007
SCA costuming
Pennsic War XXVII
Music photography
Some of these pages go back ten years, so the formatting is primitive and the pictures are sized for 14.4k dial-up connections.
I also uploaded The True History of the Dumbek for those who enjoy mathematical horror stories.
It’s a cute, cute, cute, cute world
While going through this month’s search terms, I noticed a theme:
kawaii watches
criticisms of kawaii culture
kawaii car stuff
kawaii room maker
couple kawaii hat
how to be kawaii
kawaii oak panio
teenage kawaii
kawaii camera
kawaii sequencer
kawaii computer
kawaii software
english clothes kawaii
chicago kawaii
kawaii multiply theme
kawaii comments
kawaii culture
Also:
japan fake reality cute
silly japanese cute words
Some kowai searches:
jewish anime
why is jackson pollock named jack the ripper
hello kitty boots without socks
dokuro chan costume prop — Don’t. Just don’t.
when did solomon become a satanist
horribly good saki
asian bluegrass metal — Something like God of Shamisen?
miss mune mune costumes — You probably shouldn’t, even if (particularly if) you have the figure.
paprika ubik — There’s a term paper here.
bartok lambda calculus music
rock critics are idiots — Obviously.
chicken dance accordion — Be careful what you search for. You might find it.
More pictures
I recently looked at various picture gallery plugins for WordPress. None of them were satisfactory. Therefore, I’ve established a gallery independent of my weblogs. The software I’m using, by a curious coincidence, is Gallery. Thus far, it works pretty well; I haven’t yet yelled at the computer. I’ve uploaded a selection of this year’s Winfield pictures for starters. There will be albums of dance and botanical pictures in the near future, and other kinds of subjects as well.
Update: I’ve added a selection of my old black-and-white SCA pictures.
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Before the wedding.