Barry Fox unearthed a patent application from Apple that has amazing implications:
We could soon see a new kind of display screen from computer maker Apple – one that simultaneously takes pictures while showing images.
The clever idea is to insert thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor […]
Here is part 3 of “Whizzer, the Talking Airplane.” I’ve been very anxious knowing that Whizzer is now approaching those big scary black clouds. Hold on to your seats boys and girls, and let’s find out what happens of our favorite aeromorph. Thanks to kiddierecords.com for digitizing this 4-part drama originally issued as 78 […]
I never thought of Frank Zappa as being sexy. Bizarre, weird, and kinky, yes. That is until I saw THIS picture:
Frank Zappa from the 1975 tour. Photographer unknown.
I studied with Donald Martino at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1977 - 78. Although we were very different people, I learned a great deal from him in that one year.
Don was a hopeless smoker. He told me he even smoked in the shower. He said that he smoked for the first third […]
I spent today rearranging the house. Wow, look what I found!
I was a twisted child. I remember laughing hysterically for what seemed hours with my brother Andy reading “The Ultimate Sick Joke Book.” The illustrations obviously had their roots in this publication.
Here is part 2 of that cool aeromorph, “Whizzer, the Talking Airplane” with that amazing sound known as Sonovox. Thanks to kiddierecords.com for digitizing this 4-part drama originally issued as 78 LPs.
Whizzer the Talking Airplane
Background
“Pretty Things” is like a Schubertian parlor moment.
[from the composer’s commentary on “Pretty Things” (Want One) on rufuswainwright.com. Accessed Dec. 7, 2005.]
“…how words sound is more important to me than the meaning. That’s why my music is someaningless for the most part: My thing is that it sounds pretty.”
[“Make it sound pretty: Rufus Wainwright reaches […]
In life, some of us are fortunate enough to meet people who truly love people, and like to introduce people to other people. Angus Whyte has been that person in my life.
I first met Angus Whyte when he was working for Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1978. Lenny’s wife had just died, and Angus’s job […]
WNYC gives us a preview of two of the six songs called BLOOM composed by Rufus Wainwright for the Stephen Petronio Company and the Young People’s Chorus of NYC with texts by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Waiwright offers a most interesting and revealing interview where he discusses his own (failed) classical education at McGill […]
As with any exercise program, discuss the R4YL! plan with your doctor before you get started. Don’t jump ahead. This is a progressive program. Start where you are. Learn the difference between actions that are productive and those that are destructive. An injury can stop you in your tracks. Respect your fitness level; don’t think […]
My brother, Andy, has had his own blog for quite some time. Although he’s on a hiatus from blogging of late, I’m lifting a post from his blog that I found stimulating. Each of us is different in what stimulates us creatively. I have avoided “artist colonies” as I’m perfectly happy working at home. And […]
Composer, flutist, professor, and close friend Mark Carlson is celebrating 20 years of presenting chamber music concerts in the Los Angeles area. The group is called Pacific Serenades and they pride themselves, and have been awarded two ASCAP grants for adventuresome programming, in commissioning a new composiition for every concert. Mark was the first in […]
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