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Yesterday was a very musically orientated day. I had Symphony orchestra in the morning, then a concert with CCO in the evening in Stone =]
Hence, I gathered my sheet music, my violin, my music ribbon and my Stafford Performing Arts Centre tie for a photoshoot =]
I think I ruined it slightly with the borders though >_<
Musically challenged. Crazy crazy insane by ApSci
OK. I asked my husband, do I look crazy in this pic. He says, well maybe if you were wielding a knife or something. I tried to explain to him, its not psychotic crazy, its like happy crazy. I don't think he got it. He kinda gave me a look like he thinks I am crazy. Aw well.
This song is toooooo awesome. Its the kinda song that gets stuck in your head and 3 days later its still there.
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Group: Musically Inspired Artworks
Siri sez:
"These Meeces are amazing! They party 24 hours a day celebrating all of their 2584 birthdays!
Click on this link to see them at it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UE6gzNuUKo
🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
Even that oligarch-cat Jessie can't afford to own a Steinmouse and Sons concert grand piano. It must be that Brushtail Mousie who owns it.
I'm not smart enuf to be able to play the piano, even though mi' little clause are flexible enuf. Not every cat can be musicilly gifted you see!"
~Rabindranath Tagore~
HBW eve guys! Wish you all a wonderful bokehlicious evening! :)
Please no large glittery graphics or big group invites!
Explored ... #182! :)
One of my favourite performers to photograph, Fatoumata Diawara. She is an absolute joy...musically and photographically.
This is from her gig with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca at WOMAD on Sunday.
I first saw Fatou on stage at WOMAD in 2009, when she was a backing singer to Oumou Sangare. She really stood out because of her smile and her personality.
You can see more of my shots of her, here: Fatoumata Diawara
You can see my WOMAD 2014 shots here: WOMAD 2014
You can see my WOMAD 2013 shots here: WOMAD 2013
You can see my WOMAD 2012 shots here: WOMAD 2012
You can see my WOMAD 2011 shots here: WOMAD 2011
You can see my WOMAD 2010 shots here: WOMAD 2010
You can see my WOMAD 2009 shots here: WOMAD 2009
My thanks are due to Giles Cooper of Borkowski PR for arranging my photo pass.
explored
Cuz when you're gone,
all the colours fade.
When you're gone,
no new years day parade.
You're gone,
colours seem to fade.
Amos Lee - Colors
do you get it? lol im a genius XD jk.jk. but i did think of this one a few times today. i lost my red paint, sigh..... gotta go get a new one or clean the "studio".
So I didnt get the assignment with the dealership. but that's okay, because I received an email from a Marina who wants to know if I could cover an event and how much I would charge. I'll reply to that email shortly. in the meantime.... I just want to enjoy the moment I have that has nothing to do with school, or life, or anything........................................
okay moment over. i got "semi-pulled over" today by a detective who said I should of known that wearing headphones while driving was illegal. like really? he said that I should of read it in the driver's license manual. I totally spaced out for a second because I never remembered reading it and i read that thing left and right. turns out that law passed in 2006, a year after I took my written test. which begs the question.... do i really look THAT young??? Do i NOT look like a 21 year old? my God! :|
anyways I have to get some sleep because Chip Litherland is coming into class tomorrow and we're actually doing a photowalk and I'm excited because of one: he's awesome, two: I actually get to participate.
you know what that means? ...... you'll probably never see all the photos since im about 4 assignments behind on edits. how in the world do i get out of this? ARGHH!!!!
sigh. well. one at a time i guess. :) wish me luck!
project 365: day 252
musically challenged: Colors - by Amos Lee
FGR: CRC!
ABCs - I is for "i" heart you!
March 21, 2014
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth. – Henry David Thoreau
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Spent the majority of my final full day up in the Smoky Mountains hiking to the waterfall pictured above, Abram's Falls. It was a fairly decent hike; about 2.5 miles each way but worth the view at the end.
It seems we arrived and left at just the right moment because we passed a lot of people heading towards the falls as we were heading back up the trail. It would have been difficult to get quiet and tranquil photos with all those people around.
I know this panorama isn't perfect, in some spots the focus is off. But still; having shot this long exposure freehand I'm pleased by the results and decided I may as well go ahead and use it for today.
I had changed my image settings to capture this photo and managed to frustrate myself to no end by forgetting to reset the settings to my preferred means of shooting; so the majority of my photos for today were a little more difficult than usual to process.
But; all that aside, it was still a great day. Tomorrow will most likely be in the city until it's time to venture to the airport so that I can return to snow... I mean reality.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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One of the Hall’s chief glories, the organ was always designed to be the interior focal point, visually and musically. By 1912, the city was searching for the best candidate to build it, finally settling on Norman Beard of London. His design, installed late in 1913, was built on the grandest scale, complete with a Spanish mahogany case by Adam Currie of Edinburgh.
Over the years, the organ gradually fell into disrepair. A lack of moisture and temperature control led to significant unreliability, and by the start of this century it hadn’t been played for some years. Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of the Usher Hall Organ Trust, Harrison and Harrison of Durham were appointed to restore it, and since 2002 the organ has once again taken centre stage at many of the Hall’s events.
One of my favourite performers to photograph, Fatoumata Diawara. She is an absolute joy...musically and photographically.
This is from her gig with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca at this year's WOMAD Festival.
I first saw Fatou on stage at WOMAD in 2009, when she was a backing singer to Oumou Sangare. She really stood out because of her smile and her personality.
You can see more of my shots of her, here: Fatoumata Diawara
You can see my WOMAD 2014 shots here: WOMAD 2014
You can see my WOMAD 2013 shots here: WOMAD 2013
You can see my WOMAD 2012 shots here: WOMAD 2012
You can see my WOMAD 2011 shots here: WOMAD 2011
You can see my WOMAD 2010 shots here: WOMAD 2010
You can see my WOMAD 2009 shots here: WOMAD 2009
My thanks are due to Giles Cooper of Borkowski PR for arranging my photo pass.
A portrait of Rob Townsend, who is musically responsible for sax, flute and blown sundries in Steve Hackett's Band.
I took this during the gig at Boerderij, Zoetermeer last month.
You can see all my posted shots of Steve in my Steve Hackett set., from both this concert and his gig in Glasgow last November.
You can see lots of my pics from this show on Steve Hackett's website here:
HackettSongs Zoetermeer May 2010 Gallery
You can hear all Steve's excellent new album 'Out of the Tunnel's Mouth' here:
and you can buy it here:
Another musically inspired image. This was created from an iphone shot and a ME/ICM shot made with my x-E1 and 35mm fujinon
13th July 2019 - Liverpool based band 'Rongo Rongo' are a firm favourite amongst Liverpool's most musically educated, They are admittedley worth checking out... Good band, great bunch of guys!!
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin
Self-Portrait
Madeira 2018
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For Tappers week!! It was Tapper's week - once upon a time - - This is for the Musically Challenged Group - love ya guys!
My eyes aren't big or anything are they?
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
I made it past the 30 day mark which was my goal. I think I only 'cheated' a couple of times which is pretty good for me. I think I'm gonna keep going with it. See how far I actually get.
Taken for the musically challenged group.
If I Could Start Today Again by Paul Kelly
Not too keen on the video but I really like the song.
Hope everyone is having a fab weekend!! My baby said 3 words this past week!! I can't believe it! He had such a great week. He said "hi", "wow", and "no". Still nothing consistent but he is trying and I am thrilled!!
For my fave Musically Challenged Group!
"Freewill"
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance
A planet of play things
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
'The stars aren't aligned
Or the gods are malign...'
Blame is better to give than receive
[Chorus:]
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill
There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotusland
All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate
[Chorus]
Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
you wanna let something in, you gotta tear it out
I wanna feel the sun, I just need some air
- B.R.M.C., Need Some air
My client shoot this morning got cancelled. Which was probably for the best since I've spent the day feeling groggy and drugged for some reason. Oh well. At least it's Friday.
Not sure where this concept came from, but I had a super disturbing and upsetting dream when I tried to nap this afternoon, so maybe that had something to do with it. Whatever. It was quick and easy, so that fit well with my mood today.
Musically Challenged: B.R.M.C. - Need Some Air
Always a moving and powerful song- musically and lyrically….
Song of the day: Coming Back To Life
By: Pink Floyd
Where were you when I was burned and broken?
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless?
'Cause the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside, the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight into the shining sun
Theme: Guitar Tuesday
Year Fourteen Of My 365 Project
Imposing sounds can be heard when this speeder pushes air through its pipes.
Built for the LSB 2021 Musically Inspired Category
I've been fiddling with tube stereo since the early 1990s, and I think this system is as musically satisfying as any other I've ever pulled together.
It’s also the least expensive by far, so I thought I'd write it up. You can get a good taste of what modern tube audio sounds like with this system. The amp and speakers cost $350, and you'd be hard put to find a more natural, lyrical system for chamber music at four times that price. A system with deeper bass? Yes. A system that plays louder? Assuredly. But a system that better conveys the beauty of a performance? I can't think of one.
This little stereo is pure magic on vocals, and it’s 90% of what I'd ever want for jazz, folk, piano and chamber music. It’s great with percussion -- lots of kick!
It sounds more than decent on orchestral music and rock at modest volumes. The little APPJ N3 amp has three tubes and produces only 3.5 watts per channel. It’s tiny, yet it makes classic, water-clear, nineties-style tube audio.
I'm using it at my desk with the speakers about one meter from my ears. In this situation, the amp is called on to produce a fraction of a watt to play as loud as I want to play it. Thus, 3.5 watts is more than enough. With the speakers shown above it can produce ~95 dB SPL at 1 meter, far louder than I want.
The speaker is a four-inch (105mm) Fostex Kanspea kit from Madisound. It took less than an hour to assemble both speakers, so it’s only nominally a kit. Anyone with an icepick and a screwdriver can put them together. (I’ve heard that selling it as a nearly-completed kit lessens import duties, so that may be why it’s marketed in this fashion).
One rather special driver (Fostex FF105QWK) per channel covers the entire audio range from ~80Hz to 20kHz. Fresh out of the box, it sounds pretty sibilant, but once the speaker has played for 100 hours or so, the sound is remarkably sweet and coherent. (I left it playing all day in a room with the door closed for several days to burn it in.)
Despite the missing tweeter, there’s plenty of well-rendered treble response. In fact, I swapped out the stock Shuguang EL-84 tubes because the treble was a little too hot. The cabinet is a simple bass reflex design. Apart from the driver, the materials are nothing special, a 9mm fiberboard box with a wood-grain vinyl finish, cheap connectors and no speaker grill.
I've listened to a lot of fancy stereos over the years, including a few in the $100,000 range (which were not mine, obviously). This little system punches well above its price class. To my ear, it’s more musical – more listenable – than our big system downstairs, though it lacks that system’s extended bass and ability to play orchestral works at concert-hall levels.
On the downside, the system is mercilessly revealing when there are recording defects. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because that kind of system also reveals the details in good recordings with great delicacy and accuracy. My favorite badly done recording of a good song is Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors”. It'll make your ears bleed on this system. Also, if you use Bluetooth or play MP3s you'll likely hear the compression artifacts.
It deserves a good turntable or CD-or-better quality digital sources. Give it good source material and it'll bring tears to your eyes.
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Amp: APPJ N3 PA PA0901A (Amazon)
Input tube: RCA long, black plate 12AX7 (Ebay)
Power tubes: New JJ EL-84s (Ebay)
Speakers: Fostex P1000E kit with FF105QWK. (Madisound)
USB DAC: Schiit Audio Modi 2 (Manufacturer)
Source material: CD-resolution files from Mac hard disk
The musically inspired speeder bike trophy, for the LSB - Speeder Bike contest 2021.
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So its my turn for Musically challenged group. Check it out!! its a really cool group!!
Dirty Town Song by Mother Mother
Iphone saves my 365 again :)
i heart Owl City. it/he is the next best thing to a new Postal Service album, which will probably never come to fruition.
I opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light
Walking down by the bay, on the shore, staring up at the planes that aren’t there anymore
I was feeling the night grow old and you were looking so cold
- "The Saltwater Room" by Owl City
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*for Musically Challenged
Created for The Hypothetical Awards
The 4th Annual, Musically-Themed Challenge…"Album Cover Design!"
Enjoy this Album, my friends ..
when no one steps on my dreams, there'll be days like this
when people understand what I mean, there'll be days like this
when you ring out the changes of how everything is
well my momma told me there'll be days like this.
- Van Morrison, Days Like This
Woke up early this morning and got some errands done before a whopping allergy attack overtook me and I had to submit to a benadryl coma to kick it. Feeling better now but still super groggy from the drugs so I doubt I'll be doing much this evening. I hate feeling like a lump. Hope you guys are having a more productive and enjoyable Hump Day.
Inspired by Abi's Day 45.
On reaching the Osmotherley-Hawnby road the Cleveland way swings left, on down the steepish brackeny slopes of Thimbleby moor into Oakdale. Here Jenny Brewsters gill babbles musically through a shady copse...It was here that we witnessed a savage murder, we saw a stoat biting the head off a twitching rabbit.
- Soul Savers, Revival
Had to get one more Musically Challenged song in before the end of the week. Really dug the selections this week.
And I have to apologize, but this is a total post and run. I've gotta get changed and head out for soccer tonight. It was a long day at the office, believe it or not, and I had just enough time to get this shot done, scarf down a turkey sandwich while editing, and now post it before having to bolt. Everybody have a great Thursday evening.
Is it too soon to say TGIF? Maybe, but eff it, I'm saying it anyway.
**Explored**
365 Days (self portraits): Day 310
Musically Challenged: Soul Savers - Revival
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
cause theres too many places Ive got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldnt be the same.
cause Im as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I cant change.
Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling I cant change.
But please dont take it badly,
cause lord knows Im to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldnt be the same.
Cause Im as free as a bird now,
And this bird youll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I cant change.
Lord help me, I cant change.
Musically Challenged/TOTW: Baby It's Cold Outside
It snowed today.
It’s pretty hilarious. Us Brits really can’t handle snow. Everything comes to a complete standstill and everyone starts to panic.
The only news story today is that there was some snow; apparently nothing else happened in the world today.
Taken Handbridge, Chester
when i got my first dSLR, i headed straight down to Santa Monica Beach. not only is it one of my very favorite places but you'd be hard pressed not to find something worthy of a good image. a beach, a boardwalk, a Ferris Wheel, beneath the pier, loads of people and more.
you think i'd have grown tired of if by now, but you'd be wrong. i suppose i should choose another beach with a different pier. there are dozens of them scattered about Southern California. but i keep going back to Santa Monica.
aside from the obvious, i think it's in large part due to the nostalgia. i spent many, many days there as a child with my mom and brother, the games and such on the boardwalk that are decades old and remind me of faded photographs of Coney Island (though i'm well aware, on the whole, it's no Coney Island!), and the smell of cotton candy and saltwater: two of the best scents ever.
- for one of bebelabrees list of weekly songs in Musically Challenged.
- for round three in FU64 Challenge.
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"Boats and Birds," by Gregory and the Hawk
If you be my star I'll be your sky
You can hide underneath me and come out at night
When I turn jet black and you show off your light
I live to let you shine
I live to let you shine
Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love.
You knew what I feel, then you couldn't be so sure.
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God.
If you feel angels in your hand, tear drops of joy runs down your face, you will rise.
Fillin' me up, now drain me
Skin begins to grow back slowly,
faster until I'm choking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dave Matthews
For this week's Musically Challenged Group!
photo by chrissy abbott
© 2009 Chrissy Abbott. All rights reserved.
This photograph may not be used without written permission. chrissyabbott@gmail.com
I'm almost caught up...another double bubble weekend!
I cooked today - a chicken and lentil curry (for the freezer, I've got a busy week coming up!), butternut squash soup, an Irish stew, a banana cake, lemon nuts (like ginger nuts, hard lemony biscuits). I spent all day in the kitchen with half an eye on the snooker and half an ear on my Ipod.
I meant to do this back in September, but I only got round to it this week. Sorry about that, -=Tom=- , but better late than never ;-). Two years ago, I went to see The Arcade Fire at Alexandra Palace (where we used to broadcast the telly from in London) and gosh, it's an amazing venue, and I got drunk and the gig was incredible and the guy I was with - a seriously random date - told me off for being "over-zealous" and we never saw each other again and it took me two hours to get home and I'd do it again tomorrow.
I wanted to try the type of processing the impeccable Emily has tried recently: low contrasty and pinky and this was as good as it got. Sorry for a not particularly wonderful tribute, but a tribute nonetheless.
And I find it funny how something we do every day scores so low Scrabble wise. Gotta love Scrabble
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Rebellion (Lies) by The Arcade Fire
Sleeping is giving in
No matter what the time is.
Sleeping is giving in,
So lift those heavy eyelids.
People say that you'll die
Faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie,
Scare your son and scare your daughter.
People say that your dreams
Are the only things that save ya.
Come on baby in our dreams,
We can live our misbehaviour.
Everytime you close your eyes,
Lies, lies!
People try and hide the night
Underneath the covers.
People try and hide the light
Underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
Hidin' from your brothers
Uderneath the covers,
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
People say that you'll die
Faster than without water,
But we know it's just a lie,
Scare your son, scare your daughter
Now here's the sun, it's alright!
Now here's the moon, it's alright!
Now here's the sun, it's alright!
Now here's the moon, it's alright!
But everytime you close your eyes,
Lies!