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December 30, 2004

good old chorus music by request

Rummaging through more tapes, I found another little set of gems. This time it was some audiotapes dating back to 1994. These are two Festival performances by the chorus I was in at Sweetwater middle school. This would be during my sixth grade year, well before the hormones kicked in, if they have at all since.

Enjoy:
Sing a Jubilent Song (3.1 Mb mp3)
God Who Toucheth Earth with Beauty (3.0 Mb mp3)

Posted by cliff at 11:54 PM | Comments (0)

oround

http://chromogenia.typepad.com/artatlanta/ where have I been? An atlanta-centric art blog
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-12-29-jeopardy-super_x.htm Jeopardy super-tournament! Jeopardy super-tournament! Jeopardy super-tournament!
http://www.43folders.com/ good hacky things. So I don't forget
http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html long article on a Radiohead experience
http://www.northfieldlabs.com/polyheme.html emergency blood substitute with a shelf life of 12 months and compatible with all blood types
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/004047.php vacuum packing art.
http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ the graphing calculator story
http://marco.metm.org/self_levitation_platform/ this is one of the most beautiful interactive pieces of art I've seen. It appears he's made a more complicated mechanical version of it. I find that horrid.
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000623.php low temp moldable plastic.
http://www.kakiking.com/ guitar player
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm annotated list of good useful freeware programs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4099615.stm mathematician crochet

Posted by cliff at 03:04 AM | Comments (0)

December 22, 2004

stephen

I took a trip over to the storage place the other day hoping I could rummage through some boxes. As I looked for a particular videotape, my curiosity got to me and I grabed a hand full of tapes with cryptic labels on them. What's more fun than going over to Teresa's house for a big video helping of "Cliff Senior". Turns out it was a collection of home movies from different after school activities and performances from my senior year of high school. There was the talent show, getting into the limo before prom, Honors Chorus, and many other things to fast forward through. This tape also had a selection from my chorus's christmas time "Madrigal Dinner", where this clip comes from. Have I got something for you..

Scene:

To finish the night, the whole chorus files out two-by-two singing "silent night". The camera operated by one of my parents starts to pan to follow people they recognize as the chorus leaves. Then a family friend, Stephen, notices the camera.


(3 mb) wmv file click pic to play
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December 15, 2004

recent around

http://www.framedrums.de/index2.html?/lessons/darbuka/index.html the single best source i could find for covering the basics of the darbuka, if i want anything better i'm going to have to go on amazon and buy it
http://www.framedrums.de/lessons/tonbak/strokes/index.html visuals for basic tonbak strokes, i can use the snap stroke with my darbuka not having rounded corners around the rim.
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=vxlx9ewq3a9r7940jh6noemlujoyz7ht semantics, derivations and definitions of "smart"
http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20041214.html eye glasses for bridge piercing
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003968.php playing with shadows
http://www.accounting-owl.co.uk/asm/oranges/index.htm mini detailed oranges how-to
http://www.theatrefx.com/index.html yay flash paper
http://www.f3p.com/doumbek/choosing-handout.pdf choosing and using middle eastern drums
http://www.therotunda.net/drum/ doumbek rhythms etc
http://www.rhythmweb.com/doumbek/index.html goblet drum page at rhythm web
http://www.blackroot.org/drumming/drumming.html quick and dirty guide to doumbek rhythms
http://www.mastersgames.com/rules/horseshoe-pitching-rules.htm a very simple set of rules for playing horseshoes
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003936.php proposed temporary shelters for homeless
http://www.pennyatlas.com/ finding elongated penny machines
http://www.isem.univ-montp2.fr/GE/Adaptation/Bibliographie/Faurie_PRSLB_05.pdf an evolutionary explanation for the prevalence of left-handedness
http://www.timhunkin.com/94_illegal_engineering.htm brief history of safes and safe breaking
http://artnet.com/Magazine/features/davis/davis12-7-04.asp interview with John Baldessari - I have this much of a chance to get into UCLA and work with this guy
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/422384.html human body parts scaled to relative size in proportion of brain area devoted to it durring certain sensory functions.

Posted by cliff at 07:38 PM | Comments (0)

December 08, 2004

around

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003898.php Universal Whistling Machine, developing a communication with computers
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html web color scheme generator
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache... Google Cache of a long discussion on the human eye in photographic terms, summary: ~35mm panoramic f/2.5 - f/11
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/creativity.html six myths of creativity in business
http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/character-Skeletons cartoon character imagined skeletal systems
Who would've thought? The guy who wrote The West Wing theme was not the same guy who scored Jurassic Park.
http://www.gerberblades.com/latest/nautilus.php the pocket knife I think I decided on. Gerber Nautilus
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000602.php sewing awl, for heavy-duty low-tech sewing
http://www.lemurbots.org/guitarbot.html guitar bot, played a concert at Julliard recently
http://www.expo-marey.com/ANGLAIS/indexGB.htm the early scientific photographs of Etienne-Jules Marey

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December 07, 2004

cheating and a bird

dark + fog + wal mart = pretty sometimes ?
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a bird in my curtain
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December 04, 2004

Editing notes for my dvd

(things need fixin')

1. fade in sound on title sequence
2. fade in sound on door
3. fade out sound on door
4. lower volume on discs sequence
5. edit out end of duet "rolling"
6. extend hula slide times 3 seconds
7. add white noise to switch, backpiece and wall
8. fade out last bell on wall
9. reorder piece on dvd
10. fix #5 - #6 fork transition
11. meditation title too wide
12. fade out sound on meditation

Posted by cliff at 02:02 PM | Comments (0)

December 03, 2004

got some editing done

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Four compleatly new videos, all .WMV files
...three covering pieces without previous video

Untitled Meditation (fork) 6.2 mb
Untitled Meditation (hex) 2.3 mb
Switch 1.2 mb


...and one to replace the old

Backpiece 4.4 mb


...and a previously seen one with some mildly new sound editing

Chair 1.8 mb

Posted by cliff at 10:05 PM | Comments (0)