Here are a couple of New Yorker articles of interest concerning amnesia and music, and life as an Aspie. (The former link via Fred.)
Author: Don
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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.
Rangers and ragtime
I’ve just added Seven of Seven to my buy list (though it will have to wait awhile):
I used to play Joplin half a lifetime ago when my fingers were in shape. Using his music in the soundtrack could backfire, of course. I hated The Sting partly because I disliked Hamlisch’s arrangements. I hope Yoshihisa Hirano uses the original piano scores.
Incidentally, while most of Scott Joplin is lively and cheerful, he did write a few slow pieces, e.g., “Solace,” and some of his later rags, while not depressing, do leave a bitter aftertaste, e.g., “Scott Joplin’s New Rag.”
Resistance is futile
It’s like having to go through rehab without having a drinking problem.
(I’d explain why I’m quoting TSO today, but who knows who might read this.)
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Spiritual Life Center chapel.
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There’s something odd about those trees.
On Geneon
To put the recent news concerning Geneon in perspective, here are some of the titles on my shelves with a Geneon (or Pioneer) label:
Haibane Renmei
Serial Experiments Lain
Cardcaptor Sakura
Someday’s Dreamers
Sugar, a Tiny Snow Fairy
Paranoia Agent
Ah! My Goddess Movie
Kamichu!
Magical Project S
… not to mention Bottle Fairy, both copies of which I bought I sent to nephews and nieces, and others on my shelves I haven’t watched yet.
That’s three of my personal top five and many more of my favorites. Geneon peddled a lot of crap, but the number of first-rate titles they released more than compensates for the garbage.
I wonder if the “pre-licensed” Seirei no Moribito ever will actually be available in America?
