Posted in Drumming on Sep 30th, 2005 16 Comments »
This is a set of simple practice rhythms from a frame drum workshop a few of us took with Glen Velez. There are many more rhythms like these in Glen’s books which can be bought from his web site: Glen Velez – Frame Drums. These practice rhythms can be played on any drum. This is [...]
Posted in People, Reading on Sep 29th, 2005 2 Comments »
Carrie Coco is one of my wife Anne’s oldest friends in Connecticut; they go way back. I’m a relative newcomer as I’ve only known Carrie for about seventeen years. In that time I’ve learned of our mutual interest in photography, images in general, politics and world events, and both of us enjoyed the book, The [...]
Posted in Our Place on Sep 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Was walking by the dish drainer and noticed a wonderful water bead on the bottom of the coffee pot. Had to give it a go.
Posted in People on Sep 28th, 2005 7 Comments »
We were at a publication party for our friend Carrie Coco who just published a new book. Her grandson, Dom was a perfect gentleman… …very photogenic, well behaved… …until the magnets came out.
Posted in Ideas on Sep 28th, 2005 No Comments »
600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island: “The biggest treasure in history has been located,” said Fernando Uribe-Etxeverria, a lawyer for Wagner, the Chilean company leading the search. Mr Uribe-Etxeverria estimated the value of the buried treasure at 10 billion dollars US.
Posted in Food, Our Place on Sep 25th, 2005 6 Comments »
Pancakes, maple syrup, glass plate, table cloth from France, reflection. Sunday morning pancakes are a tradition at our house. I “invented” the recipe over about two years of making them for a then teenage stepdaughter. It worked, we both lived through her teenagehood and became great friends. Half whole wheat, half white flour, baking powder, [...]
Posted in Music, People on Sep 23rd, 2005 3 Comments »
Drove into New York City last night to see my good friend choreographer and modern dancer Martita Goshen perform her fall program. She used David Darling’s cello music in it so he, my wife Anne and I went down together. It was a great performance (no photography allowed) and David’s music worked well in it. [...]
Posted in Flowers, Our Place on Sep 23rd, 2005 1 Comment »
All of these tendril shots are in our garden. Our squash and pumpkin vines have gone wild and are taking over the lawn, the garage, the driveway, everything. These tendrils are the secret weapon; it’s how they grab and hold and then keep spreading. I find the tendril form beautiful. Here’s a tendril attaching to [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Tools on Sep 22nd, 2005 15 Comments »
Kendall Clark over at O’Reilly has written a piece On the Joys of Primitive Computing: The AlphaSmart Neo which is worth a read. I think it would be fascinating if a groundswell of linux programmers adopted Neo as their retro writing and coding too. I found the Clark piece through an article and link at [...]
Posted in Macintosh, People on Sep 20th, 2005 4 Comments »
Robert X. Cringely has done a fantastic interview with Andy Hertzfeld on NerdTV. I highly recommend watching if you know anything about the history of the Macintosh, and even if you don’t. Hertzfeld is the programmer’s programmer and a very smart, cool, and nice guy. Related at this site: Switcher, Macworld Expo Boston 2004 Keynote [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas on Sep 20th, 2005 11 Comments »
The US. Postal Service has some great new stamps out that you may not have seen at your local post office. My current fav is this R Buckminster Fuller first class stamp but there are many others. Man, this is making me want to get back into stamp collecting. Gad, too many hobbies. Source: Gary [...]
Posted in Ideas on Sep 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
25 MacArthur Fellows Announced by the MacArthur Foundation Today. Dang, I was hoping to be on this list. Oh well…
Posted in Places, Trees on Sep 20th, 2005 5 Comments »
We buy all our apples from Averill Farm down the road from us. They have a variety of excellent apples and allow you to pick your own or buy bags of already-picked fruit. On a nice fall day like this, it’s a joy to walk through the well-pruned trees and pick. We were after macouns [...]
Posted in Humor on Sep 19th, 2005 No Comments »
Yoga, Y’all will crack you up. Give it a read if you do yoga, and even if you don’t (I don’t but it made me laugh). Source: Anne Wanderman
Posted in Photo Gear on Sep 19th, 2005 21 Comments »
Richard: I have three canon lenses the 18-55 it comes with, a 75-300 and a 28-90. I was also looking into buying a macro lens, maybe the 100mm f2.8 do you have any preference for a macro lens. – Stephen Canon makes numerous macro lenses but the three most often considered are: EF 100mm f/2.8 [...]
Posted in Music, People on Sep 19th, 2005 4 Comments »
Maya Miller-Vedam did a program of Bharata Natyam (expressive dance drama) at the Indian Cultural event at Western Connecticut State U. Her performance was incredible and she was spectacularly beautiful. Notice the ankle jingles. Every move she made made sound and her movement told a story but it also did it rhythmically. So, experiencing her [...]
Posted in Photography, Politics on Sep 19th, 2005 2 Comments »
A Photographer Gets His 15 Minutes as the President Requests a Quick Break: “Rick Wilking, a photographer for the Reuters news service, may soon be best known for a picture he took showing President Bush passing a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice” (Via NYT > Business.)
Posted in Drumming, Music, People on Sep 18th, 2005 8 Comments »
Last night a few of us went to see Sandip Burman play tablas at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. The concert was one of the better concerts of any kind I’ve seen in years. Part of it is because it was just plain good, part of it is because I play drums now and [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources on Sep 17th, 2005 2 Comments »
I was down in NY at Canon Expo the other day. To me, it was a total bomb except that I got to see and handle the new Canon 5D and the new 24-105mm f4 IS L lens. Imagine the Javits Center (huge convention hall) with Macworld-like banners and displays and black suited sales droids [...]
Posted in Drumming, Music on Sep 15th, 2005 1 Comment »
Scott Feiner, an American living in Rio and a professional pandeiro player is about to release Pandeiro Jazz, a new CD of fusion pandeiro playing. Scott’s other site, Pandeiro.com is a great place to follow the evolution of this traditional Brazilian tambourine/frame drum in both the samba world and the jazz world as well as [...]
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