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Musical Taste Linked to Personality
September 5, 2008 – 7:35 pm
A recent study has shown that personality types are closely linked to musical preferences.
Fans of classical music and jazz are creative, pop lovers are hardworking and, despite the stereotypes, heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative types who are at ease with themselves.
Michael Thrush at Octane
September 4, 2008 – 4:16 pm
We had coffee at Octane this afternoon and were very impressed with Michael Thrush’s “Post-modern appropriation art,” on display through September 30. There is an opening/reception Friday September 12th.
Waffle House Wedding
September 3, 2008 – 12:54 pm
This series of photographs from the now internet-famous “Waffle House Wedding” actually gave me a serious case of the warm fuzzies.
DragonCon 2008
August 31, 2008 – 9:30 am
I didn’t go to DragonCon this year, but I have had fun looking at other folks’ photos from the events.
Erick Friedman Vitali Chaconne
August 29, 2008 – 3:18 pm
It’s been a good week for violin fanatics! First, the Seidel videos I wrote about last night, and now a kind person has updated this page with Friedman’s stellar recording of the Vitali Chaconne.
Toscha Seidel on YouTube
August 28, 2008 – 7:56 pm
YouTube user dkurgano aims to upload all his recordings of Toscha Seidel (along with accompanying photographs) to YouTube. There are about a dozen clips so far with the promise of more to come. This will be a great resource for violinists and those who enjoy musicianship of the highest quality, as most of Seidel’s recordings […]
OpenStomp
August 26, 2008 – 7:31 pm
OpenStomp has released an open source guitar effects pedal, the Coyote-1. The device allows users to create patches which can be saved and shared with others via software (Windows) interface. IDK if the software is open, but there are currently no Linux or Mac versions planned.
Franz
August 23, 2008 – 7:33 pm
This old Franz electric metronome was an early birthday gift from Michelle. Thanks! Now I might actually look forward to studying Carl Flesch.