Sunday, 14 March 2004

Another photo of my guitar 9:01:03 PM    comment []; Luna Negra XL XL Luna Negra? How big? - Adam Solomon • 3/13/04; 11:26:48 AM For a complete band history just go here. The band filmed at Bravo! was: OL - Flamenco Guitar + Electric Guitar Daniel Ward - Flamenco Guitar Jon Gagan - Fretless Bass Guitar + Keyboards Ron Wagner - Dumbek, Tablas + Percussion Mark Clark - Cajon, Timbales + Percussion Mike Chavez - Drumkit Kanoa Kaluhiwa - Tenor Saxophone Mike Middleton - Trumpet This should be the track listing for the Bravo! concert: "Verano de Alegria" "Summer Lovesong" "Spanish Steps" "Ballad for Santana" "Snakecharmer" "Bombay." "Sante Fe." 8:53:02 PM    comment []; Paolo Uccello + the Cheese Continuing the Lives of the Artists as Chaps, today we reach Paolo Uccello. A man afflicted by snacks. Paolo di Bona, called Paolo Uccello because he liked painting birds (Uccelli), was born in Florence around 1399. His main work was kept private. He locked himself up for days at a time, studying perspective. Remember, at this time, artists weren't very skilled at showing things in the distance, or giving solidity to figures. Medieval pictures appear totally flat, and it was only through the work of figures like Uccello that later Renaissance paintings got their depth and solidity. The stuff you learnt in school about vanishing points and the like is actually much less than obvious - it took hundreds of years to figure out. This resulted in many arguments between the painters and the sculptors over who was the most skilled. The painters, who could only work with one viewpoint, or the sculptors, who had to deal with people walking around to the back. The ending of this argument was nifty, and for another day. So Uccello draws and paints away, mostly pictures of spheres and pyramids and suchlike - like ray trace demos from 1989. Vasari, the old art historian, said: Paolo Uccello would have been the cleverest and most original genius since the time of Giotto if he would have studied figures and animals as much as he studied and wasted his time over perspective, for although it is an ingenious and fine science, yet he who pursues it out of measure throws away his time, makes his manner dry, and often himself becomes solitary and strange, melancholy and poor [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent] To be continued at above link........ 6:53:07 PM    comment []; The Global Village Starting next month, Japanese Wi-Fiers will be able to seamlessly hop onto Singaporean wireless LAN networks, and vice versa. Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Singapore's SingTel... [Gizmodo] I want Wi-Fi everywhere I go! 6:48:32 PM    comment []; Egiptanos I have been reading a book simply called "Flamenco!", by photographer Ken Haas and author Gwynne Edwards. The photos don't do much for me and a lot of the writing shows the very traditional outlook of the writer, who is a fan of the old-style Flamenco. It is interesting to me that many of the writers covering Flamenco and who are proclaiming the old-style to be the best and most meaningful are all foreigners - foreigners for Spain that is...... Maybe there is a similarity here to the Blues and to African music, in that many of the people who praise the old music and who are calling for African music to be preserved, instead of changing with European and American pop influences, are neither African nor black.... But I must say that the book is very well researched and I am learning a lot. Always thought that Gitano was a word the Spanish gypsies use to describe themselves....instead it is a distortion of the word "Egiptanos" - meaning from Egypt, which is where the first big wave of gypsies came from, thus it was a term by which the Spaniards described the Gypsies. 6:47:53 PM    comment []; From the BMI web site... If I assign my copyright in a song to a publisher, can I ever get it back? Yes. Regardless of anything in your songwriter agreement with the publisher, a work not made for hire that was assigned by you on or after January 1, 1978 can be reclaimed by you (or your copyright-entitled heirs) 35 years after the work is published or 40 years after the assignment, whichever is earlier. The law specifies the mechanics of giving notice to the publisher in order to accomplish this. I assigned Publishing to Higher Octave in 1990 and Sony in 1992 - I should get all of my songs back in 2025 and 2027...by then they'll be old, old, oldies... 6:45:57 PM    comment []; Drinking Coffee Prevents Diabetes One more reason to drink coffee - a major study found that those who drank the most coffee had the lowest chance of getting diabetes. [Minding the Planet] 6:45:41 PM    comment [];

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