A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video. …
Rockin’ linked to a terrific “history of the lipdub” video posted on Rocketboom.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Month: October 2009
testing Google Wave
An online friend sent me an invite to try their latest greatest experiment …, Wave:
… “a personal communication and collaboration tool” …
… a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.
… a “preview release” of Google Wave has been extended to about 100,000 users on September 30, 2009. …
This 8min video will give you an idea how it works.
Click PLAY or watch the tutorial on YouTube.
Very cool. But perhaps not particularly useful except for group projects. I don’t have any other “invites” to hand out. Perhaps they’ll send me some eventually.
Bilbao, Spain – Guggenheim Museum
This past summer I finally got to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, a town that has astonishingly reinvented itself from grungy sea port to a hip tourist and arts mecca.
… opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world’s most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism, although Gehry does not associate himself with that architectural movement. Architect Philip Johnson called it “the greatest building of our time”.
The museum’s design and construction serve as an object lesson in Gehry’s style and method. Like many of Gehry’s other works, it has a structure that consists of radically sculpted, organic contours. Sited as it is in a port town, it is intended to resemble a ship. Its brilliantly reflective titanium panels resemble fish scales …
Wikipedia – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
more interesting photos of the Museum
It definitely looks better in photos than in real life.
I spent a couple of hours walking around the building. No two perspectives are alike.
Very cool. I like it.
A French hiker warned me that the highlight was the architecture. He was disappointed with the collections. And felt there was much wasted space. Form over function.
I didn’t get any further inside than the gift shop.
My favourite vantage was The Puppy, “a forty-three feet (12.4 m) tall topiary sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier puppy, executed in a variety of flowers on a steel substructure”.
It reminded me of the Spinx guarding the Pyramids. But a light-hearted variation.
Bilbao is the largest city in Basque Country.
Aside from the museum, about the only subject I hear about the region in Canadian mainstream media is Basque nationalism, especially the terrorist organization ETA.
… Since 1968, ETA has killed over 800 individuals and undertaken dozens of kidnappings. The group is proscribed as a terrorist organization by both the Spanish and French authorities as well as the European Union as a whole, and the United States. …
This wall painting in Bilbao to me seemed to celebrate ETA.
Perhaps I’m wrong. But compare the colour and style to the ETA symbol.
I have no sympathy for ETA. The Basques must work towards more independence, if they choose, through peaceful means.
when did CBC radio get cool?
For decades I was a devoted listener of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation AM radio.
Commercial free talk radio was the best option for me … until the launch of audiocasts.
Now I listen only to these CBC programs, downloaded to me automatically as podcasts:
Definitely Not the Opera
Dispatches
Spark
Brian and co. just convinced me to subscribe to Wiretap starring Jonathan Goldstein. That’s easy to do from the iTunes store. And free.
People are telling me that both Radio One and Radio Two have been much improved in recent months. Modernized. Much more hip. “Chasing a younger audience” (age-35+), some say.
Nice. I’ll have to give it another chance.
CBC Radio operates three English language networks.
CBC Radio One – Primarily news and information, CBC Radio One broadcasts to most communities across Canada. Until 1997, it was known as “CBC Radio”.
CBC Radio 2 – Broadcasts music, arts and culture programming, including opera, classical music, jazz and theatre. It was previously known as “CBC Radio Two”, and before that “CBC Stereo”.
CBC Radio 3 – Broadcasts a youth-oriented indie rock format on Internet radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.
One more thing, Jonathan Goldstein’s most recent book: Ladies And Gentlemen The Bible!
BIG performance art media event Friday
I posted the details on my Gymnastics Blog:
Cirque du Soleil co-founder Guy LalibertĂ© is orbiting the Earth. He spent $35-million to become only the 7th “tourist” to leave the planet. …
His space trip is part of a huge campaign to raise awareness of the need to provide clean water to everyone in the world.
The main event is happening this Friday though the specific details are not yet revealed. You can get some hints on what to expect from the OneDrop.org website. …
details – why is Guy LalibertĂ© in space?
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Astronaut tourist Guy Laliberte – The Right Stuff
My personal favourite charity causes are Clean Water and Education of Girls and Women in the developing world. So I’ll be all over this latest stunt from Cirque.
Coldplay pays off Joe Satriani
Guitarist Joe Satriani claimed the band copied his instrumental If I Could Fly for their own track Viva La Vida, but an out-of-court-settlement now seems to have been reached …
Brian had me listen to the two tracks.
YIKES.
Coldplay had to have stolen the song.
… judge Dean D Pregerson dismissed the case and ruled that each party would “bear [their] own cost” for the litigation. The stipulation, er, “upon stipulation” suggests that the parties came to an out-of-court settlement – most likely that Coldplay paid Satriani off.
Although there is no evidence that Chris Martin and Coldplay directly copied Satriani’s song, court precedents make copyright infringement cases very sticky. George Harrison was famously found to have “subconsciously plagiarised” the Chiffons’ He’s So Fine for his track, My Sweet Lord.
Neither Coldplay nor Satriani have commented on the end of the proceedings. …
Andrew from Creative Guitar Studio posted a little video that has been seen almost 900,000 times.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (9min)
kindly old ladies … that shortchange you
You can find them at the Cooperativa di Cortina, a marvelous gear and food store in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
When I was there this Summer, every single time I went to check out, I was shortchanged one Euro. No matter how obvious I made it that I was counting the change.
They must make good money on an hourly wage shortchanging all the tourists there.
It didn’t seem to matter what checkout clerk I went to, the theft was storewide.
I’ll email management.
RickMcCharles hacked
Just happened upon this old post in my archive:
I assume that happened back when Bluehost.com was unable to protect me from those vandals. The current host, WordPress.com, is never hacked.
my theory of dog walking
Best method is for the human(s) to ride mountain bike(s).
The hound(s) to run on foot.
If I take Sasha to the off leash park, both she and I get a good workout. And we can stay together much more of the time than if I hoof it.
This simulates best the genetic urge of the dog to run with the pack.
testing Google tasks
I’d recently been using software called Remember the Milk, … but could never warm up to it.
Google should be running all aspects of my life, anyway. 🙂
This is an add-on to Gmail. I mainly need it synched to my iTouch when I’m away from the laptop.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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