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The science of how we talk to ourselves in our heads
December 10th, 2013
Via Research Digest: Our inner voices usually sound to us like our external spoken voice - instances of inner speaking occurring in another person's voice are very rare. Just like our spoken voice, the voice of inner speaking can also express degrees of volume and emotion.
Inner speaking is perceived as wilful - something done, rather than experienced passively. There is huge variation in the frequency with which people speak to themselves in their mind. In one study with 30 participants that involved ten beeps a day for three days, some reported no instances of inner speaking at all, while others reported inner speaking for 75 per cent of the beeps. On average inner speaking was reported at 23 per cent of beeps, although note that doesn't mean people are speaking to themselves 23 per cent of the entire time.
Another curious variation in inner speaking is where people report its location. Some people describe it as occurring in a particular location in their head; others say in their head but are no more specific; still others say their inner speaking occurs in their chest.
Also notable is some people's descriptions of inner speaking occurring while they are speaking aloud - with the two voices saying different things. There are also reports of inner speaking that has no meaning, and inner speaking that is at a much faster rate that would be physically possible for aloud speaking. [...]
Inner speaking is also different from unsymbolised thinking according to the researchers. Unsymbolised thinking is a thoughty experience about a distinct concept or issue but does not involve words, pictures or symbols. Inner speaking also is not sensory awareness - when we're focused on a specific sensory aspect of the outside world or our bodies."
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from Los Angeles
December 9th, 2013
Via Line Breaks & Other Violent Crimes: "It always happens this way. The kids start lining up in front of the school bus again and you think about dressing up for Halloween and fail to dress up for Halloween and you take a slow shower without shampoo and its December. The year-end lists start popping up everywhere and you dont recognize half of the things on them. Your checking account looks sort of hungry and mopey but the screen(s) youre sitting in front of are offering you hundreds of amazing deals on things you need to buy for all the people in your life who mean a lot to you. You havent read the book you wanted to read last summer, your feet are cold, youve forgotten to make a doctors appointment about that thing thats been bugging you, you caught some sort of virus from an airplane trip, youre eating too much but fuck it, youve gradually begun drinking two cups of coffee in the morning instead of one and now you get a headache if you try to go back. You had that one night full of soft lights and dancing and garlic toast and a coat that wasnt yours. You have said I love you hundreds of times and actually meant it. There are songs in every car asking you to sing them and smile. You take a minute to sit down and its December. You remember how lucky you are. You realize its been a hard year. You think about all the things coming up next year that are going to make it an incredible one. Youve stumbled over something full of grace. Youve cried in different places every month of the last year. You think if you could collect all the tears in a big jar and pour them out over the balcony, yelling the whole time, yelling louder than youve ever yelled before, you might not have to do any of this again. You want to do all of this again. Its December and the air is crisp and your arms smell like firewood. Youre tired. Youre still alive."
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by Patrick Feaster
December 8th, 2013
Via Dust to Digital: "Using modern technology, Patrick Feaster is on a mission to resurrect long-vanished voices and soundsmany of which were never intended to be revived.
Over the past thousand years, countless images have been created to depict sound in forms that theoretically could be played just as though they were modern sound recordings. Now, for the first time in history, this compilation uses innovative digital techniques to convert historic pictures of sound dating back as far as the Middle Ages directly into meaningful audio. It contains the worlds oldest known sound recordings in the sense of sound vibrations automatically recorded out of the airthe groundbreaking phonautograms recorded in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the 1850s and 1860sas well as the oldest gramophone records available anywhere for listening today, including inventor Emile Berliners recitation of Der Handschuh, played back from an illustration in a magazine, which international news media recently proclaimed to be the oldest audible record in the tradition of 78s and vintage vinyl. Other highlights include the oldest known recording of identifiable words spoken in the English language (1878) and the worlds oldest surviving trick recording (1889). But Pictures of Sound pursues the thread even further into the past than that by playing everything from medieval music manuscripts to historic telegrams, and from seventeenth-century barrel organ programs to eighteenth-century notations of Shakespearean recitation.
In short, this isnt just another collection of historical audioit redefines what historical audio is."
Thanks to Helga Szentpétery!
Filed under: Visual Music
by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson
November 23rd, 2013
Via Luxonline: "The Themersons' last film, The Eye and the Ear, was also made in England in 1944-45. The film consists of four parts, each based on a song from Karol Szymanowski's Słopiewnie. In the second and third part, the film is an abstract graphic transposition of the music (if one does not count Piero della Francesca's Nativity, which serves as a background to various abstract patterns). The movement and shape of the geometrical forms on the screen reflect exactly the main melodic line as well as the instrumental elements. Technically the film was made in a simple as well as an inventive way. In the second part organ-like forms were created by glass sticks. Triangular smoke-like forms symbolizing notes were achieved by passing the light beams emitted by small bulbs through a special lens. Other geometric forms were cut out of paper and superimposed. The close-ups of della Francesca's singing angels were composed so as to give the impression of one angel moving his lips to the tune. In the last part a glass container filled with water become a receptacle for small clay balls. The camera, placed as before, pointed upwards from below.
The film, although reminiscent of similar abstract music films by Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye or Norman McLaren, differs from them in one essential point. While the artists mentioned above attempted to create visual equivalents to music, the Themersons' approach was of a more scientific character. They treated the film medium as a tool for the analysis of musical structure. The film has been provided with comments which explain the precise function of each element appearing on screen.
In 1983 Stefan Themerson wrote to this author:
'Experiment exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.'
The The Eye and the Ear closed the Themersons' film period. 'Do you remember,' Stefan Themerson wrote to Alexander Ford in 1945, 'our meeting in Paris a long time before the war? It was then that we parted with film for good. Although here, in London, more under the pressure of circumstances than a real, mad, frantic artistic need (the only one that counts), we returned to film making and made two short pieces... Yet, as we were working on them, we realized more acutely than before that the film fever had left us, probably for good.'"
Thanks to Marc Matter !
Filed under: Visual Music
Global Language Monitor
November 12, 2013
Via Gizmodo: "No matter how you feel about 2013 it's depressing to learn that the two most popular words of the year, according to the Global Language Monitor, are 404 and fail. You can't paint a clearer picture than that."
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by Laura Miller
November 10th, 2013
Via Salon: What makes Spinozas philosophy unsustainable in Goldsteins view is the fact that in its ruthless high-mindedness, it asks us to renounce so many passions. (Among the passions we must renounce is romantic love, which, Spinoza deduces, will almost always end badly
)' Any love that is dependent on something that must inevitably change and cannot truly be possessed such as another person Spinoza explains, is asking for trouble. With a dazzling comprehensiveness, the philosopher seemed driven to topple every species of sacred cow. Anyone who isnt disturbed by his refusal to believe in the conventional notion of God as a person will surely be put off by his skepticism about the secular religion of our own time, true love.
Key to Spinozas heresy was his monism, his belief that everything that exists is essentially a single thing, nature (that is, the infinite universe), and that this is identical with God. (As a girl, Goldstein was taught that Spinoza wickedly equated God with nature, when Jews and Christians agreed that God is supernatural, outside of nature, and a person.) Everything we experience people, events, objects is simply a mode of that single Substance or essence. Because God/Nature is infinite and we are finite, we perceive these things to be separate when they are not; all separate identities, including our own individuality, are merely an illusion or misperception. We perceive good and evil when neither really exists, from the perspective of God. The only way we can come to understand the true unity of the world is through the understanding of pure reason, which is integral to Substance in the same way that roundness is integral to a circle.
We cant fully grasp this our minds arent adequate to the task but with a dash of intuition, we can glimpse it and experience Spinozas notion of true happiness. We can then attain what Goldstein calls a radical objectivity, a perspective thats outside of our own limited identity. This objectivity will enable us to see the insignificance of our own pains, pleasures and losses except insofar as they help or hinder our ability to reason. We will realize that a life of restraint and peaceful coexistence with our fellow man is exactly what will sustain us in this cause; self-interest and virtue will be revealed as identical. Finally, we will be able to regard with tranquility the fact that we are mortal, that our minds, like our bodies, are simply a mode of the great infinity of Substance, and will someday end.
Filed under: People
Laurie Anderson's Farewell to Lou Reed
November 7th, 2013
Via Rolling Stone: "I'm sure he will come to me in my dreams and will seem to be alive again. And I am suddenly standing here by myself stunned and grateful. How strange, exciting and miraculous that we can change each other so much, love each other so much through our words and music and our real lives."
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Mark Applebaums Metaphysics of Notation
November 4th, 2013
Via Lateral Films: "Composer Mark Applebaum's cryptic, painfully fastidious, wildly elaborate, and unreasonably behemoth pictographic score, The Metaphysics of Notation, consists of 70 linear feet of highly detailed, hand-drawn glyphs, two hanging mobiles, and absolutely no written or verbal instructions.
Installed for one year at the Cantor Arts Center Museum on the Stanford University campus it received 45 weekly performances from interpreters from around the world.
There's No Sound In My Head investigates the project and Applebaum's development as a composer. Through interviews with composers and musicologists, performance footage, and conversations with Applebaum as he draws in his studio, the film poses questions about the borders between music and visual art."
Also, check out Mark Applebaum's TED talk.
Thanks to Fabian Scharpf and Christian Schäfer!
Filed under: Visual Music
by Andrei Tarkovsky
November 3rd, 2013
"I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image as opposed to a symbol is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyze the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, its a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it. Andrei Tarkovsky
Filed under: People
November 1st, 2013
The interactive and audiovisual installation av@ar puts the relationship between people and their medial reflection at the center of the experience. In this closed circuit installation, the control, dependencies, and aesthetic reference levels can be explored and controlled interactively with the entire body. A catalogue of emotions serves as audiovisual communication material and leads to a reflection about the systematic use of feelings. The dance with the medial mirror opens a space of experience in the tense atmosphere between the non-digital and the digital ego - the avatar.
av@ar was produced by Manfred Borsch (concept and realization) as his final year project in cooperation with Johannes M. Arend (music).
The final exam was supervised as part of the Audio and Video Engineering program by University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf professor Dr. Karin Welkert-Schmitt and me at the Institute For Music And Media.
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by Mat Honan
October 29th, 2013
Via Wired: "Were living in a remarkable time, when it will soon be impossible to be truly alone. Waldeinsamkeit becomes more and more endangered with every cell tower. And if youre the kind of person who can only leave email behind when you go off the grid, that means youre going to need a new plan. Our streets are already filled with people staring into their hands. So are our dinner tables and cafès, even our living rooms and bedrooms. Rather than focusing on taking temporary breaks from technology, we need the discipline to live with it at all times. We cant rely on a mountain or a remote wasteland to create waldeinsamkeit; we have to create it ourselves. [...]
Heres a better idea: Shut up and bring your iPhone into the backcountry, but resist the urge to open the email app. If you cant manage that, delete or turn off the account. Dont worry, itll come back. [...]
The phone isnt the problem. The problem is usour inability to step away from email and games and inessential data, our inability to look up, be it at an alpine lake or at family members. We wont be able to get away from it all for very much longer. So its vitally important that each of us learns how to live with a persistent connection, everywhere we go, whether its in the wilderness or at a dinner party."
Filed under: Wunderkammer
Große Großzügigkeit
October 28th, 2013
Via Wikipedia: "Generosity (also called largess or largesse) is the habit of giving without expecting anything in return. It can involve offering time, assets or talents to aid someone in need. Often equated with charity as a virtue, generosity is widely accepted in society as a desirable trait.[...]
Over the last five centuries in the English speaking world, generosity developed from being primarily the description of an ascribed status pertaining to the elite nobility to being an achieved mark of admirable personal quality and action capable of being exercised in theory by any person who had learned virtue and noble character (Smith 2009)."
Via Wikipedia: "Courtesy comes from old French 'courteis' (12th century) and is gentle politeness and courtly manners. In the Middle Ages in Europe, the behaviour expected of the gentry was compiled in courtesy books. One of the most influential of these was Il Cortegiano (The Courtier) which not only covered basic etiquette and decorum but also provided models of sophisticated conversation and intellectual skill.
In medieval India too, nobility and royalty were expected to display courteous behaviour. The concept was described by the Sanskrit word, daksinya, which meant kindness and consideration expressed in a sophisticated and elegant way."
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by Brian Eno
October 27th, 2013
The mayor I teach at the Institute For Music And Media just went mainstream:
Via Chronicle Books: "This comprehensive monograph celebrates the visual art of renowned musician Brian Eno. Spanning more than 40 years, Brian Eno: Visual Music weaves a dialogue between Enos museum and gallery installations and his musical endeavors."
Via The New York Times:
"NYT: Do you think of yourself as a synaesthete?
Brian Eno: I wouldnt call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But Ill talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when Im listening to music and think, 'Oh, theres not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'"
Also, check out my Visual Music Archive.
Filed under: Visual Music
by Barry Long
October 26, 2013
"In the game of living, the rule is: everyone dies. You win by finding death before it finds you. The prize is life." Barry Long Seeing Through Death
"It is mans world and he built it on the strength of sexual aggression. Male domination began in sex and in sex it continues unabated. Woman cannot alter this position by marching with banners or withdrawing from sex. She has tried all the means at her disposal down through the centuries; none has worked and none will. The solution is for her to be in command of love. That does not mean to be in command of the man. It means to know inside herself what is right and true and stick to that, even if it means the man leaves her. Woman is love. All she has to do is realise that, by giving up her self doubt and fear." Barry Long Making Love
Filed under: Reading
A great talk by Terence McKenna
October 20th, 2013
Via YouTube: "Join Terence McKenna, author, explorer and philosopher for a think along deconstruction of the deepening worldwide weirdness. With his characteristic hope and humor, McKenna examined time and its mysteries, the nature of language, the techniques of ecstasy, high technology and virtual cyberspace, the role of hallucinogenic plants in shamanism and the evolution of human cultures, and the foundations of post-modern spirituality. The lecture and discussion was didactic, syncretic, challenging, eclectic, eidetic and irreverent intellectual adventure."
Thanks to Manu Burghart!
Filed under: People
by Alan Moore
October 19th, 2013
Via Wikipedia: "Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. [...]
The word integrity stems from the Latin adjective integer (whole, complete). In this context, integrity is the inner sense of wholeness deriving from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character. As such, one may judge that others have integrity to the extent that they act according to the values, beliefs and principles they claim to hold."
Filed under: Wunderkammer
5 Truths And Lies About Your Brain
October 16th, 2013
Via United Academics: "There are two forms of activity that must be distinguished: working memory capacity and general fluid intelligence. The first one refers to the ability to keep information in mind or easily retrievable, particularly when we are performing various tasks simultaneously. The second implies the ability to do complex reasoning and solve problems. Most brain trainings are only directed at the first one: the working memory capacity. So yes, you can and should use these games or apps to improve your mental capacity of memorizing. But that wont make you any better at solving math problems."
Also, check out This → ←That A site that allows you to find the midpoint between two seemingly unrelated terms.
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Zen Habits
October 12th, 2013
Via Zen Habits: "Breathe. If you feel overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions. If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present. If you are moving too fast, breathe. It will remind you to slow down, and enjoy life more. Breathe, and enjoy each moment of this life. Theyre too fleeting and few to waste."
Thanks to Manu Burghart!
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or The Science of Why Girls Love flowers
October 2nd, 2013
Via Wikipedia: "Oxytocin is a mammalian neurohypophysial hormone that acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain.
Oxytocin plays roles in sexual reproduction, in particular during and after childbirth. It is released in large amounts after distension of the cervix and uterus during labor, facilitating birth, maternal bonding, and, after stimulation of the nipples, breastfeeding. Both childbirth and milk ejection result from positive feedback mechanisms.
Recent studies have begun to investigate oxytocin's role in various behaviors, including orgasm, social recognition, pair bonding, anxiety, and maternal behaviors. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as the "bonding hormone". There is some evidence that oxytocin promotes ethnocentric behavior, incorporating the trust and empathy of in-groups with their suspicion and rejection of outsiders. Furthermore, genetic differences in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) have been associated with maladaptive social traits such as aggressive behaviour."
Via NeuroBrainstorm: "Social norms such as giving a girl flowers to show love have evolved for a scientific reason. The origin of this practice is not quite a romance story, rather a specific drug reaction in the brain and body. [...]
Many flowers contain chemicals called Prolyl Endopeptidase inhibitors. The function of these chemicals could be to attract pollinating organisms like bees. They are in the odor so they get absorbed into your body when sniffed. Prolyl Endopeptidase inhibitors increase Oxytocin, α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and Gonadotropin-releasing hormone.
Oxytocin will induce love and memory. α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone is an activator of mental sexual arousal. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone is an activator of testosterone production and thus physical sexual arousal.
The effects of these chemicals are anti-depressant in general. The inhibiting strength of these chemicals are significantly more than dietary sources of these inhibitors, even compared to the herbal anti-depressant rhidolia rosea."
Filed under: Wunderkammer
Why Generation Y yuppies are unhappy
September 22nd, 2013
Via wait but why: Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age groupI call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.
So Lucy's enjoying her GYPSY life, and she's very pleased to be Lucy. Only issue is this one thing: Lucy's kind of unhappy. To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place. It comes down to a simple formula: Happiness = Reality - Expectations
It's pretty straightforwardwhen the reality of someone's life is better than they had expected, they're happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectations, they're unhappy. [...]
Here's my advice for Lucy:
1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it'll work itself outjust dive in somewhere.
2) Stop thinking that you're special. The fact is, right now, you're not special. You're another completely inexperienced young person who doesn't have all that much to offer yet. You can become special by working really hard for a long time.
3) Ignore everyone else. Other people's grass seeming greener is no new concept, but in today's image crafting world, other people's grass looks like a glorious meadow. The truth is that everyone else is just as indecisive, self-doubting, and frustrated as you are, and if you just do your thing, you'll never have any reason to envy others."
Filed under: Wunderkammer
Visualizing Music
September 20th, 2013
Been invited to give my workshop Visualising Music and work as a mentor for the 50+ students at the European Academy of Music and Arts Montepulciano in Tuscany, Italy from September 21th until 27th, 2013.
The aim of the European Academy of Music and Arts is to provide a stimulating environment where young and talented artists and musicians from the world over can work together. To this end the Academy hosts master classes with internationally acclaimed teachers, organizes interdisciplinary projects, offers scholarship residencies, and conducts congresses. Increasingly the Academy is being used by Italian cultural institutions in Tuscany and its facilities are now available for the use of any other artistic or musical project.
The summer academy, called the College for Music and Art Montepulciano, is organized by Dr. Sybille Fraquelli at the Academy for Music and Dance Cologne and this year's annual motto is Displacement of Time.
Filed under: Talks & Workshops
by Janet Kwasniak
September 18th, 2013
Via the New Sheldon wet/dry: "Language is not the only vehicle for many aspects of thought. Many assume that without language it is impossible to think, to remember, to communicate, to have categories/plans/procedures, to have culture and to even have consciousness. Slowly it is being shown that other animals can do many of the things that used to be classed as only-with-language skills. We just do them more effectively with language. [...]
It seems obvious that musical composers think when composing and that they think in musical not semantic ideas. Sculptors think but not in words but in three dimensional shapes. Athletes, for instance soccer players, think but they think kinetically. In fact they often do not have the time to think in words and choke when they try. In cases like these it may be possible (it also may not) to document in words the processes that ended in a tune, a statue, or a scoring goal but that is not relevant it is not how the process actually happened but just a not very accurate description of it."
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by Alan Watts
September 17th, 2013
"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience."
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by Jun Kaneko
September 15th, 2013
Lokah samasta sukhino bhavantu.
Via Wikipedia: "The yoga practice is a form of ritual. Regardless of the style of yoga, most classes follow the same pattern. It begins with a short opening period where the practitioner gathers him or herself up, turning inwards, away from the mundane world and setting an intention for the practice. Following that comes the practice itself. In the closing of the practice comes an integration phase, where the effects of the practice are allowed to take hold and penetrate deep into the self. Shavasana is the primary vehicle of that process."
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by Ernst Bloch
September 10th, 2013
Via Wikipedia: "Der Mensch ist immer ein Lernender, die Welt ist ein Versuch, und der Mensch hat ihr zu leuchten." Ernst Bloch: Vorbemerkung zur Tübinger Einleitung in die Philosophie. Frankfurt 1977.
"The world is an experiment that this matter performs with itself by means of us" (Bloch 1977, Vol. 8: 281)
Thanks to Ralf Neubauer!
Filed under: Wunderkammer
Diploma / Final exams
September 9th, 2013
Max Spielmann invited me to chair the diploma jury at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel from September 9th until 11th. 20 students are graduating in Postindustrial Design at one of their institutes called HyperWerk. At HyperWerk the students are trained in complex process design to initiate and shape the social changes of the future.
Filed under: Talks & Workshops
by Can in 1979
September 7th, 2013
It was, is and will be true:
"Then the gates, they couldnt say where the beats came from,
By the time we realize the way we got to play.
All gates are open now, now it seems,
Now the music blended with the sounds we play.
Now is there any way for you to say where the woman ends,
Where the music ends and where the man begins?
All gates are open now for you and for me,
How we play the tune, each others symphony.
And your breathing sound is really beauty,
It doesnt seem much softer than the drum."
Thanks to Marcus Schmickler!
Filed under: Wunderkammer
September 6th, 2013
Darkbwoyy is a visual music performance by Roland Nebe, featuring visuals developed by WARPED TYPE (Andreas Huck, Florian Breuer, Roland Nebe, Stefan Hings) and music written and produced by Roland Nebe and Markus Girrulat. Darkbwoyy premiered on 17 Feb 2013 at Monophonist Projection Mapping, in a special visual adaptation for a three dimensional stage design developed with Daniel Hölscher, and featured Markus Girrulat on live electronics, Kamilla Eggeling and Enrica Gissel on violoncello, Roland Nebe on double bass and Frederik Weissel on acoustic drums.
The visual offers an array of stylized animated masks beamed onto human faces, and draws the spectator into evolving stages of blankness, initialisation, archaic organisation, mechanisation, a network-like restructuring and finally a new, more sophisticated blankness, suggesting that this cycle may continue in an ellipse. First the work focusses on a few individuals; later, when repeated at a wider scope, it reveals the evolution of a group, a community and finally a society. While creating vivid structure and colourful diversity, the whole process employs simple overlapping patterns and could be easily expressed in a very simple mathmatic algorithm (as found in pixel based simulations such as Conways Game of Life).
The music reflects this by weaving synthetic sounds and acoustic material into organic patterns, alternately revealing or obscuring a rythmic superstructure, while the whole piece is held together and driven by a forceful beat.
Supervised Darkbwoyy in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski at the Institute For Music And Media.
Filed under: Students
Songwriters: Tony Banks & Michael Rutherford
September 3rd, 2013
Bluegirls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise,
They got pretty blue eyes.
For an hour a man may change
For an hour her face looks strange -
Looks strange, looks strange.
Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand,
Pulls you down on your knees,
While youre down a pool appears.
The face in the water looks up,
And she shakes her head as if to say
That its the last time you'll look like today.
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Sail away, away.
The face that launched a thousand ships
Is sinking fast, that happens you know,
The water gets below.
Seems not very long ago
Lovelier she was than any that I know.
Angels never know its time
To close the book and gracefully decline,
The song has found a tale.
My, what a jealous pool is she.
The face in the water looks up
She shakes her head as if to say
That the bluegirls have all gone away.
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
They've gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
Ripples never come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
Oh, they've gone to the other side...
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
The ripples never come back, come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
They've gone to the other side
Ripples never come back
Sail away, away...
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by Andy Kirk
August 17th, 2013
Via Andy Kirk: "Having spent a number of years assessing and learning about effective visualisation design I was interested to take a specific analytical look at the range of different capabilities required to ensure that any project is undertaken in the most rounded sense. These can be roles fulfilled by a number of people or they can be the different, deliberate mindsets of an individual to ensure that the problem is viewed and tackled from all necessary directions and not from a limited perspective. This is where I came up with the 8 hats of data visualisation design."
The 8 Hats:
The Initiator is the leader.
The Data Scientist is characterised as the data miner.
The Journalist is the storyteller.
The Computer Scientist is the executor.
The designer is the creative.
The Cognitive Scientist is the thinker.
The Communicator is the negotiator.
The Project Manager is simply the manager.
Thanks to Julian Rohrhuber!
Filed under: Wunderkammer
Souvenir Automat
August 15th, 2013
Souvenir Automat is a Visual Music study by Milan Schell. It concerns the attempt to visually support the musical development of tension in Milan's own composition. Although audio and video composition can stand on their own, combining both aims at achieving plausibility and an extension in dimension, thus creating a new entity without generating an artificial effect. This should be successful even though it is made more difficult by applying two different animations on a single repeated musical unit.
Supervised Souvenir Automat in my Visual Music class at the Institute For Music And Media.
Filed under: Students
by Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer
August 10th, 2013
Via Daniel Franke: "The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the images was later put together to a three-dimensional volume (3d point cloud), so we were able to use the collected data throughout the further process. The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer, as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective."
Filed under: Visual Music
Breaking bad
August 7th, 2013
Via Wikipedia: "The fourth wall is the imaginary wall at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in 19th-century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience.
Speaking directly to or otherwise acknowledging the audience through the camera in a film or television program, or through this imaginary wall in a play, is referred to as breaking the fourth wall and is considered a technique of metafiction, as it penetrates the boundaries normally set up by works of fiction."
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by Sheryl Sandberg
August 6th, 2013
Via Wikipedia: "Sheryl Sandberg released her first book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, co-authored by Nell Scovell and published by Knopf on March 11, 2013. Lean In is a book for professional women to help them achieve their career goals and for men who want to contribute to a more equitable society."
Via TIME: "In 2003, Columbia Business School professor Frank Flynn and New York University professor Cameron Anderson ran an experiment. They started with a Harvard Business School case study about a real-life entrepreneur named Heidi Roizen. It described how Roizen became a successful venture capitalist by using her 'outgoing personality
and vast personal and professional network
[which] included many of the most powerful business leaders in the technology sector.' Half the students in the experiment were assigned to read Heidis story. The other half got the same story with just one differencethe name was changed from Heidi to Howard.
When students were polled, they rated Heidi and Howard as equally competent. But Howard came across as a more appealing colleague. Heidi was seen as selfish and not 'the type of person you would want to hire or work for.' This experiment supports what research has already clearly shown: success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
I believe this bias is at the very core of why women are held back. It is also at the very core of why women hold themselves back. When a woman excels at her job, both men and women will comment that she is accomplishing a lot but is 'not as well liked by her peers.' She is probably also too aggressive, 'not a team player', 'a bit political; she 'cant be trusted' or is 'difficult.' Those are all things that have been said about me and almost every senior woman I know.
The solution is making sure everyone is aware of the penalty women pay for success."
Sheryl Sandbergs TED talk: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Thanks to Miriam Stein!
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by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio
August 5th, 2013
Via ArchDaily: Shelf-Pod is a private study facility, located in Osaka prefecture, Japan. The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested that we create this building with the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition.
In order to satisfy this demand effectively, we designed a lattice structure made from 25mm thick laminated pine-board which serve as book-shelves. The dimensions of each shelf are as follows: 360mm height, 300mm width and 300mm depth. All of the architectural elements in this space (stairs, windows, desks, chairs, etc) have been designed on the basis of this shelf scale, with the aim of achieving geometrical harmony which is comparable to Islamic Architecture.
This innovative structural system affords not only large amount of book storage, but the possibility of flexible floor level which can be delivered from every height of bookshelf. Each space for different activity rise up helically, giving the impression of exploring a wooden jungle gym.
The original image of this structure is derived from the Japanese woodcraft of Kumiko. The structural integrity against an earthquake is provided by a panel of plywood board nailed on the shelf. Initially, the horizontal resistant force guaranteed by the panels was examined in a real-scale model. Further to this, an analysis of the whole structure was performed in order to determine the placement of the windows and panels. The inter-locking laminated pine-board was manufactured precisely in advance and assembled on-site. Similarly, the pyramid-shaped roof was assembled on-site, from 12 pieces of prefabricated wooden roof panel. The completed roof has a thickness of only 230mm and sensitively covers the whole space like the dome of a Mosque.
In addition to its unique structure, the outer wall employs the construction techniques of a traditional Japanese storehouse Dozou. The bamboo net wall foundation layer was attached to the lattice structure and the clay and straw mixture was applied to the foundation by the trowel. Then the red cedar panels forms exterior wall. The interior clay wall was finished with white plaster. These techniques are in accordance with urban fireproofing specifications, as well as maintaining a suitably humid environment for the storage of books."
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Kammermusik [Chamber Music]
August 4th, 2013
A glance at the rear of the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf, which is out of hearing range. Where the windows are closed and the curtains are drawn to allow for anonymous practicing and testing without having to produce works that are ready for a concert performance. This is where the perspective allowed Katharina Blanken to produce her work with the title Kammermusik [Chamber Music]. It is a sound portrait, in which individual and independently practicing students and their rhythmic and harmonious sequences are brought together in various ways. This provides the observer with a comprehensive insight and a questionable combination at the same time.
Supervised Kammermusik in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski at the Institute For Music And Media.
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by Ulrike Ottinger
July 29th, 2013
Via Dennis Grunes: "In Berlin, Shethe only name the film gives herwanders on a drunken binge and in an alcoholic stupor in Bildnis einer Trinkerin. Aller jamais retour [Portrait of a Female Drunkard. Ticket of No Return], at its best a remarkable film from West Germany written, directed and cinematographed by Ulrike Ottinger. She is richly, elegantly dressed and statuesque, and mute as in a dream, although there is attached to this no sense of handicap; She is complete as is. The captivating encounters and episodes through which She moves generate a swirl of Surrealism and zaniness. Unless one is New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin, Ottingers lovely piece is exceptionally hard to resist. One opens ones eyes and welcoming arms to it.
Why does She drink? We may infer that she is attempting to blur the coldness and harshness of the non-egalitarian nature of West Germanys capitalistic system. In a wonderful shot, seeking exit from the airport terminal, She finds herself face-to-face with a working-class woman who is washing the glass barrier that stands between them; She subsequently adopts as her companion a homeless woman pushing her worldly belongings in a shopping carta shabbily dressed sister who is as taken up with alcohol as she. She herself suddenly becomes the secretary-receptionist for a business firm; her boss castigates her for drinking the booze intended for his clients. Social and economic injustice is reason enough to hit the cognac.
The film becomes somewhat attenuated and repetitious, taxing the genuine smile it has put on our face, but concludes with a stunning image of She stumbling through a crystal corridor that multiplies her image in bits and pieces, brilliantly evoking the fractured identity that is the culmination of living in a capitalistic society which does its best to divide those who should be sharing a mutually supportive existence. (Breaking or broken glass is a motif throughout the film.) One cannot be oneself in such a world, because one needs others to be oneself: equal others.
Some compare Ottingers film to works by Fassbinder, but, early on, there is more the spiritand the ubiquitous glassof Jacques Tatis Playtime (1967), and thereafter the influence, above all, of Věra Chytilovás Daisies (1966) kicks in."
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from David Ogilvy
July 28th, 2013
Via Brain Pickings: "...here comes some priceless and pricelessly uncompromising wisdom from a very different kind of cultural legend: iconic businessman and original Mad Man David Ogilvy. On September 7th, 1982, Ogilvy sent the following internal memo to all agency employees, titled How to Write and found in the 1986 gem The Unpublished David Ogilvy (public library):
The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who think well, write well.
Woolly minded people write woolly memos, woolly letters and woolly speeches.
Good writing is not a natural gift. You have to learn to write well. Here are 10 hints:
1. Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
2. Write the way you talk. Naturally.
3. Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
4. Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
5. Never write more than two pages on any subject.
6. Check your quotations.
7. Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning and then edit it.
8. If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.
9. Before you send your letter or your memo, make sure it is crystal clear what you want the recipient to do.
10. If you want ACTION, dont write. Go and tell the guy what you want."
Thanks to Manu Burghart!
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by Dr Cleo Odzer
July 23rd, 2013
Via Mind Hacks: "The Groupies is a remarkable record. The 1969 LP features nothing but interviews with super groupies who discuss the culture of sleeping around the 60′s rock n roll scene. It was made by, and featured, an 18 year-old version of the future Dr Cleo Odzer who shows her early interest in both sex and culture both of which shed study in her career as an anthropologist. [...]
Odzer died at the age of 50, in Goa, after returning there from New York. Accounts vary. Possibly she died peacefully in her adopted home, possibly she finally succumbed to a lonely death with AIDS.
But when you listen to The Groupies LP, and the full audio is online, you can see the beginnings of a common thread that ran through her work.
It touches on a genuinely interesting social area which most people would have dismissed as seedy but which has a clear culture emerging from it. The analysis is slightly chaotic but genuinely insightful in places. It captures the excitement but in retrospect, it took something from her."
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July 15th, 2013
Journey is a 2D-animation project and probably the world's first non-interactive video game. The hero crashes on a desolate planet, only to find out that he has a mission to fulfill, a mission that's full of danger and excitement. So, basically: shooting, explosions, giant monsters, sword fighting (on a high-speed train of course) and maybe a laugh or two.
Journey could only be completed with the premium support by composer Christian Barth and sound designer Andrew Mottl.
Journey is the diploma thesis of Patrick at the Motion Design program of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy supervised by Prof. Manfred Becker and me.
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Music Is The Key
July 12th, 2013
Motion graphics are part of every day audio-visual media. E.g. in commercials and abstract art works, in music videos and data visualizations. They are all based on similar principles, dealing with the synthesis of image and sound as well as the relationship to each other. Why does this work so well and achieves such great effects?
Dance is closely related to motion graphics. A dance performance on stage represents and visualizes music. In his work Music Is The Key Igor Krasik combines music, urban dance and motion graphics to create a stunning abstract composition. His central theme is Visual Music.
Music Is The Key is the diploma thesis of Igor Krasik at the Motion Design program of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy supervised by Prof. Manfred Becker and me.
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A former mayoral candidate for the leftist Liberty and Refounding Party, or Libre - Graciela Lozano - and Radio Globo journalist Juan Carlos ArgeA al, a supporter of former President Manuel Zelaya, were murdered by gunmen in separate incidents, Honduran police reported Sunday.
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Driving into Tegucigalpa to observe Honduras's November 24 presidential election, our 17-member National Lawyers Guild delegation searched in vain for billboards featuring Xiomara Castro, candidate of the LIBRE party and wife of former President Mel Zelaya, ousted in a 2009 coup.
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Santa Marian Kamalen is honored as the patroness of the Marianas by Chamorros everywhere.
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HD FaceTime camera may be used in redesigned iPad 3
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The point of focus is the larger cut out for the front-facing camera. This could indicate that Apple may use a FaceTime camera with HD capabilities... More
Apple sets the stage for event on October 23
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iPad mini could further dent PC sales
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With the imminent debut of the iPad mini, a report by Cnet now quotes an analyst who claims that the upcoming tablet could add a further blow to the PC market. More
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iPad mini prices may start from $349
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Apple may discontinue iPad 2 to make way for iPad mini
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When Apple launched the new iPad earlier this year, the brand had retained last year's model, the iPad 2. It appears that the iPad 2 will see its last few days with the debut of the iPad mini. More
Images of iPad mini display leak online
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iPad mini may land on shelves by November 2
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As per a report by CNET, it appears that with the unveiling scheduled to take place on October 23, the iPad mini may land in stores on November 2, 2012. More
Apple may introduce 24 iPad variants at event on October 23
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The website has received a list of iPad mini stock keeping units (SKU), which show 24 different, upcoming iPad models. More
Apple sends out invites for event on October 23
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Apple has sent out media invites for an event slated for October 23 with the caption, 'We've got a little more to show you.' More
iPad mini may have a 4490mAh battery
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A recent report by MacRumors states the website has received images of the battery of the Apple iPad mini. The photos indicate that the tablet will run on a 4490mAh battery. More
Apple 'iPad mini' event may focus on iBooks
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The iPad mini is slated to be announced October 23. The iPad mini will share the stage with announcements pertaining to iBooks and education. More
iPad mini to come with cellular and Wi-Fi options
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Apple may unveil iPad mini on October 23
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What Kids Are Reading 2013
If you've ever wondered what British children are actually reading, then look no further than the annual What Kids Are Reading report written by Prof. Keith Topping of Dundee University and published by Renaissance Learning.
Examining the book-reading habits of over 300,000 students from Years 1-13 in more than 1,600 British schools – who collectively read in excess of 4,000,000 books throughout the 2011/12 school year – this is the fifth annual report.
In the report, Prof. Topping not only looks at the titles children of all ages and abilities are reading, but also enjoying – as every student that took part in the study voted on their favourites, and the results may surprise you.
What the papers say about the findings of the 2013 report:
- BBC News: Teenagers' book choices 'go for easier reads'
- The Guardian: Alarm over secondary school reading habits
- Daily Mail: Teenage reading ability slips back to primary school level once they reach 16
- Daily Telegraph: Secondary school children 'shunning difficult books'
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books continue to prove popular with children, demonstrating two key trends in this year's top 10 books; books with a fantasy or adventure theme to them, and books which have had success on-screen. Overall, the honour of the most popular title goes to the first book in Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires series. | However, perennial classics from the likes of Roald Dahl (Matilda, The BFG) and Allan Ahlberg (The Jolly Postman) are notable by their absence from the top 10; although according to separate but related data showing the most read (as opposed to most popular) books, they remain some of the most widely read books by UK children. | |
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Venus Williams cruised Monday into the second round of the U.S. Open. (Matthew Stockman / Getty Images / August 26, 2013) |
NEW YORK -- Venus Williams, unseeded at the U.S. Open, where she is a two-time winner, upset 12th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens from Belgium on Monday in the first round of the tournament by the straightforward score of 6-1, 6-2 in 1 hour, 24 minutes.
Williams hasn't gotten past the second round here the past two years after she announced she was suffering from an immune system disease called Sjogren's Syndrome,
Wearing a flower-patterned dress and her hair dyed pink to match some of the flowers, Williams played nothing like a lady who was ready to garden.
Her smooth movement and powerful forehand kept the 27-year-old Flipkens, who is having her best year on the WTA Tour, off balance.
Kim Clijsters, also Belgian and a U.S. Open winner, is retired and awaiting the birth of her second child within a month. She has helped Flipkens with mental and mechanical tips this summer.
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As part of this week's handshake deal on a $27.7 billion spending blueprint, leaders of the Republican majorities in the Legislature promised the GOP governor they would push for passage of four bills he wants on his desk before lawmakers' scheduled summer break begins a week from now.
"We have some details to work through, but I think it's a very reachable goal," said Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware.
The proposals would expand a tax-credit program that helps children from low-income families transfer to private schools or better public ones, establish a process for assisting financially distressed school districts, place the regulation of charter schools under a statewide board and broaden teacher evaluations to include students' performance on standardized tests.
All the bills need majority support to become law. None is a slam dunk, especially when lawmakers have only a week to pass a state budget and deal with other bills competing for their attention.
But the proposed expansion of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit clearly has a leg up. The leadership agreement tentatively calls for a $75 million increase—one of the largest in a discretionary program from the budget now in place—that would double spending in the program to $150 million in the year that starts July 1. Money for public schools, meanwhile, would remain level.
Corbett campaigned for governor in 2010 on a promise to open an array of taxpayer-financed alternatives to public schools, but so far has not delivered. He was roundly criticized last year for failing to do enough to win support for a Senate-approved school-voucher plan that collapsed in the House.
Expanding the popular EITC program would represent tangible progress toward enhanced school choice, good news for Republican candidates and Corbett, who is not up for re-election until 2014.
Advocates for public schools oppose the idea, calling it a giveaway of scarce state dollars that should go to public education.
The EITC program rewards businesses that contribute money, property or services to nonprofit groups that offer scholarships to students from low- and middle-income families who transfer to private schools or to public schools outside their home district. Qualifying contributions also may be made to nonprofits that provide grants for innovative programs at public schools.
The 11-year-old program generated more than a half-billion dollars in business contributions—an average of $57 million a year—during its first decade, according to the Department of Community and Economic Development, which administers the program.
"We know that the EITC is a successful mechanism to fund education. It's got a proven track record," said Kevin Harley, the governor's spokesman.
Much of the new money for the EITC program would be set aside for a proposed new element—an "educational improvement scholarship credit" aimed at helping students in the state's academically worst schools. It would mark the first time schools' performance—a key element of vouchers—would determine eligibility for the scholarships.
State Rep. Paul Clymer, chairman of the House Education Committee, has scheduled a two-hour informational meeting Monday on the proposed scholarship credit, which is contained in a bill sponsored by Rep. Jim Christiana, R-Beaver.
"The bottom line is we want to provide the best education we can," said Clymer, R-Bucks. "I'm anxious myself to hear what people have to say."
Sen. Andrew Dinniman, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Education Committee, said any EITC expansion is likely to win bipartisan support so long as the state government can afford it.
"No one quite knows what to do with all these (public) schools that aren't working, so this is one approach," said Dinniman, D-Chester.


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Z, I saw it popped today after lunch. 10m? Nice. It didn't look like it, but that cold dense air does pack a punch at this time of year....
same todayit's blowing again.....note that it picks up late, blows for 2 hours and then backs off.....too busy today to get some....Looks like this weekend it's gonna blow. Maybe Sunday???
I'm fresh out of Sunday Hall Passes, but will hope for something Thurs/Fri or Saturday.....Have kites, will drive.
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Educator and humanitarian Johnnetta Cole told graduates, "You must not only believe that change can happen, you must be instruments for that change," during Hollins University's 171st Commencement Exercises on Sunday, May 19.
Hollins conferred 156 bachelor's degrees and 61 master's degrees during the ceremony, which commenced under cloudy skies on the university's historic Front Quadrangle and persevered despite a steady shower that began roughly an hour into the program.
Cole, this year's guest speaker, has enjoyed a distinguished career as an anthropologist, author, teacher, and college leader, during which she has been committed to achieving the goals of racial and gender equality. She made history in 1987 when she became the first African American woman to serve as president of Spelman College, a post she held for ten years. She then returned to teaching, spending three years as Emory University's Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and African American Studies. In 2002, she was appointed president of Bennett College for Women, where she founded the Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute, whose mission is to create, communicate, and continuously support the case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace through education, training, research, and publications. Currently, she is director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, the only national museum in the United States dedicated to the collection, exhibition, conservation, and study of the arts of Africa.
Cole reminded the class of 2013, "Here at Hollins University you have received a quality education. That means you have come to better understand the world, and you understand your responsibility to whatever you can to help make our world a better place." She emphasized "the power of community service to transform lives and strengthen communities" and urged graduates to "act on the basic principle that doing for others is just the rent you must pay for your room on Earth."
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My stay at Tamarindo Hostel was good. Security was very good and they keep the gate locked at all times. They open the gate for entry and exit of each guest. The hostel does conduct a neighborhood store out of the hostel also. As the gate is locked, every time a street customer wants a soda, chips or other item, they ring a buzzer to get the attendant. This becomes a bit of a pain, if you are trying to chill out or take a nap. Tamarindo is a tad bit expensive, even for San Pedro Sula.
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Bacon Cheeseburger Spaghetti Recipe
- 10 ounces uncooked spaghetti
- 1 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
- 2/3 cup chopped onion
- 6 slices ready-to-serve fully cooked bacon, chopped
- 1-1/2 cups ketchup
- 1 cup chopped dill pickles
- 1 cup barbecue sauce
- 1/2 cup prepared mustard
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the bacon, ketchup, pickles, barbecue sauce and mustard. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Drain spaghetti; stir into meat mixture.
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So I normally don't rate recipes, but I made this for supper tonight. I just ate like about 3 bites of it. I hated it. I made it for my family also and they didn't like it either. It just is thick and gross. I am pretty good at making almost anything, but this will definitely be a never again.
My husband hated it, and both grandsons 5 and 11 didn't like either. Way to much BBQ sauce. If I make this again I would reduce the BBQ sauce, ketchup and pickles. gjk
was great, would make again.
My college boys did not care for this at all! Ended up being a pizza night!
Loved this! Others with problems with sweetness try a different type of bbq sauce. I used extra meat and pasta, and already cooked crumbled bacon. Next time I will sprinkle the bacon on top of the cheese, I think it will save the bacon flavor more, it kind of got lost in the bbq and ketchup sauce. I did not increase the amount of sauce to match the extra meat and pasta and it was just right, not too saucy/soupy. Adding this to the regular rotation for sure!
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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First, it looks like our new caramel shop, Velatis (8408 Georgia Ave), may be opening its doors this weekend. So you better get to the dentist to make sure your teeth are up to this task. These are sugary sweets - so come prepared. My wife and I walked by today and there were about a dozen people inside making preparations. They had planned to open last month, but alas, we are in Mont. County aren't we.
But they will certainly be open to supply much of our sugar needs for the holidays. We learned the family who started the shop had both Italian and Greek ancestry - not a bad combo. And while the Velatis' sold the shop in the 1990s, the recipes made today are the originals! I look forward to chowing down on some caramels - which will be made right at the SS shop - very soon.
Next up, just south of Velatis, and immediately south of Pyramid Atlantic, in a former pawn shop, is a building that is undergoing tremendous renovation. I'm sure if you've driven or walked by you have noticed the transformation. It's not done yet, but it certainly stands out on the Avenue. It's quite a mod design. Anyway, I just learned that the owners are looking to lease the space downstairs to a restaurateur. The upstairs will contain a business of some sorts. But who really cares about that. No one has leased the first floor space yet, but you can be sure I will stay on top of this one. If the restaurant matches the setting, you can be sure it'll be a nice place.
I also heard that our new pizza place, Pacci's, had its brick oven delivered last night. It is so big it had to come through the ceiling. Wow! I can't wait to order an extra large pie there! But it looks like we'll still have to wait a while till any of us can do that. It appears Pacci's and 8407 are in line for spring openings. But I think most of us expected that anyway.
And while I cannot confirm this, rumor has it that Mayorga (8040 Georgia Ave) will be shutting its doors on their SS location. I'm not sure how much business they do since I have not set foot in the place in at least two years, but I just assumed they were doing OK. Maybe the recession hit them like other places? I guess if you're interested in getting one of their brews, you'll have to truck your way over to Rockville. If anyone can confirm or refute this news, please let me know.
One last thing, Frank Morales, is taking over for Sam Adkins as head chef at Jackie's. Morales was previously the chef at a place in Alexandria called Rustico. While I have never eaten at this establishment, it has received good reviews. He gets good marks for creating gastropub fare that matches well with beer. I look forward to seeing his influence soon at Jackie's. I'll try to get some more info on Morales and his plans for downtown SS. But it's obvious he prefers downtown SS over stuffy old Alexandria. As always, SS rulz!
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- squirrelist said...
Mayorga IS closing down at the end of the year. I'll be sad to see it go. I long for the days when their coffee was good, their service was quick, and their food was tasty. They've been letting it slide lately and the only thing they have left is their location and their atmosphere.
Just to be clear, the coffee they served was lousy compared to the beans they sold. I hope Giant continues to carry their beans, as they are the best I can find. - December 9, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- socoblogboy said...
Thanks for the confirmation. It seems with that location and the development down EW highway that another establishment should likely take up residence in their spot. Maybe another full service braiding salon?? With the square footage over there that could be one tricked out shop!
- December 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM
- WashingtonGardener said...
Nowwho knows how to pronounce "Velatis" - I have not heard the same way twice and it does not exactly roll off the tongue.
- December 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- WashingtonGardener said...
PS Velatis is open - walked by today and crowd inside!
- December 15, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- socoblogboy said...
Let the caramel buying (and eating) begin!
- December 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Talked to a manager, Mayorga IS closing end of the year, but they are looking for a new space nearby. Main reason they gave wasn't the recession so much but the neverending construction nearby that wiped out the local parking. At this point I'm out of coffee houses: Kristen's gone, Savory gone, Mayorga gone, that coffee shop on Wayne across from downtown SS gone. I'm afraid to start going to Keva, it might drive them out of business!
- December 19, 2009 at 12:30 AM
- socoblogboy said...
I think Kefa Cafe can handle you as a customer, since they've been thriving over on Bonifant for more than 10 years. Also, Highland Origin Coffee House on the corner of Fenton and Silver Spring Avenue has very good coffee and free wifi. For goodness sakes, don't let Mayorga's departure drive you to Starbucks.
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