Just picked up Laura Gibson’s new album, La Grande, and heard it last night. You might be interested in the backstory — yes, it does have to do with the very La Grande we all know — and watch this music video:
Read the story behind La Grande here
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And you can learn more about Laura Gibson here and elsewhere, such as here. This album is a bit of departure from her earlier stuff, which have been among my favorites, btw.
We were warned in the Sixties that everything we knew was wrong: http://news.yahoo.com/did-leonardo-da-vinci-copy-famous-vitruvian-man-145205550.html
In solidarity with Wikipedia, Fark and many others, I at least offer this link:
http://www.stopthewall.us/?gclid=CP_9xvub2q0CFYUZQgod3xGInw
For just the present 24-hour period, you can see the special messages at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
… for example …
A bit more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/sopa-blackout-internet-censorship_n_1211905.html
This (you may have the dismiss an ad with a click of the x) was brought to my attention today, a day that a number of co-workers are calling in, snowbound:
More Surfing Videos
And I recalled my old photography partner, Bill, who was lead photographer for International Surfing Magazine when I first met him in L.A., years ago.
Taking off for work this morning in the semi-darkness, I leave Kim (look closely) behind and trudge through falling snow which is adding to the six or eight inches that came upon us overnight.
For most of us, about a million. But if you are an IBM Research scientist — according to this ComputerWorld report — it may only take 12 atoms (in a few years).
Last night, we were joined by Nik, Ivi & Jordan in watching the first season of Portlandia via Netflix stream. Highly recommended, by the way, whether you are familiar with Portland or not. The second season starts this week. We — speaking mainly of Nik and myself — are big Battlestar Galactica fans, so I was particularly amused by this preview clip from the upcoming second season:
You can see an extended version of this hilarity and more on the new season at http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-one-moore-episode
During the Seattlites’ recent visit, I was introducing Jared to some of my basement music servers. They are certainly nothing to look at — in fact, one is held together with duct tape — mostly resurrected from obsolete but still working pedestrian Windows and Linux machines. But I have been inspired to consider something with some aesthetic quality to inject directly into the array of upstairs audio equipment by one Jeffrey Stephenson. whose stunning computer enclosures can be at http://slipperyskip.com, One example, his Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Unisonian computer case, is shown here. Now if only I had some woodworking skills …
Sunday we head for the Mt. Emily area to select a tree at one of the rural purveyors. After the requisite struggle to actually saw, haul and stash the thing, we discover that the battery of our conveyance has died, and refuses a charge. The tree farmer invites us to relax by the fire in his shop while we await an AAA rescue.
A little Christmas music, delivered differently …