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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Time & Music
I remember a few weeks ago saying I would never write about work. And that's a good thing - but it's killing me in one way - because it seems like all we do now is work. Which means that all I really have to write about is work. And I promised I wouldn't do that. Hm.
I think I've been very lucky in a way - in the six or seven months I wasn't working in Hong Kong I managed to find some people to play music with and be in a band and write songs again. That six months was actually incredibly valuable in terms of the band's development, because it gave us time to come up with a significant amount of material. The number always changes every we time try to account for how many songs we have, but we have well over 20 original songs now. And quite a few of them are *cough* pretty good. Well, at least, they're fun for us to play.
So now it's like we have this catalogue of material to fall back on that we can repurpose for whatever kind of gig we've got coming up. Repertoire - that's the word I'm looking for.
Repertoire - I remember it from when I was playing a viola in a string quartet - we could go for hours because we had an extensive repertoire. And the 1st Violinist was working hard to expand his orchestral repertoire so he could get a spot in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (he did). And there used to be touring theatre companies that had a repertoire of shows so they could turn up at a country town and do a season of tragedies and comedies.
Well, if you want to get an idea of what our repertoire will be like on Saturday night you could investigate these guys.
tags: hongkong | music
I think I've been very lucky in a way - in the six or seven months I wasn't working in Hong Kong I managed to find some people to play music with and be in a band and write songs again. That six months was actually incredibly valuable in terms of the band's development, because it gave us time to come up with a significant amount of material. The number always changes every we time try to account for how many songs we have, but we have well over 20 original songs now. And quite a few of them are *cough* pretty good. Well, at least, they're fun for us to play.
So now it's like we have this catalogue of material to fall back on that we can repurpose for whatever kind of gig we've got coming up. Repertoire - that's the word I'm looking for.
Repertoire - I remember it from when I was playing a viola in a string quartet - we could go for hours because we had an extensive repertoire. And the 1st Violinist was working hard to expand his orchestral repertoire so he could get a spot in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (he did). And there used to be touring theatre companies that had a repertoire of shows so they could turn up at a country town and do a season of tragedies and comedies.
Well, if you want to get an idea of what our repertoire will be like on Saturday night you could investigate these guys.
tags: hongkong | music
Labels: bonetable, music, thedrones
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Little Link List 20
Have you heard about the Crate Controversy? - read all about it;
And here's a photo of the actual crate;
Wow! Control a robot wirelessly with a PSP and see what the robot sees on the PSP's screen!
And here's a photo of the actual crate;
Wow! Control a robot wirelessly with a PSP and see what the robot sees on the PSP's screen!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Geotagging photos
Flickr have just added geotagging to their Organizr section. Which means Flickr users can now pinpoint fairly accurately where on the globe a particular photo was taken. For example, here's a map of the world that shows where a few of my photos were taken (in these cases, Hong Kong, Putian and Melbourne). So if I wanted to I could go through and tag each photo I've got up on Flickr with its location.
This kind of thing is great, although it's going to be slightly tedious for a while as well. At the moment Yahoo's maps and satellite photos don't go into sufficient resolution to for me to find a particular street, which is a bit of a shame. And I'm not sure I'm up to going through a few hundred photos.
But I really like the idea of being able to select a part of the globe and then see photos of that place.
tags: geotagging | flickr
This kind of thing is great, although it's going to be slightly tedious for a while as well. At the moment Yahoo's maps and satellite photos don't go into sufficient resolution to for me to find a particular street, which is a bit of a shame. And I'm not sure I'm up to going through a few hundred photos.
But I really like the idea of being able to select a part of the globe and then see photos of that place.
tags: geotagging | flickr
Labels: flickr, geotagging, photography
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