Michael Jackson was fascinated by celebrity tragedy. He had a statue of Marilyn Monroe in his home and studied the sad Hollywood exile of Charlie Chaplin. He married the daughter of Elvis Presley.
Jackson met his own untimely death Thursday at age 50, and more than any of those past icons, he left a complicated legacy. As a child star, he was so talented he seemed lit from within; as a middle-aged man, he was viewed as something akin to a visiting alien who, like Tinkerbell, would cease to exist if the applause ever stopped.
Baseball caps and birkenstocks meets Beethoven and Brahms. Here’s a look at the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s behind the scenes rehearsal performance.
The BSO recently started a “Sneak Peak” series; tickets at reduced prices and an informal rehearsal setting. The series let’s people see the work that the symphony and the conductor do before the big show, as well as ask questions at the end in an “Inside the Actor’s Studio” sort of way.
Here we see guest conductor Lucas Richman rehearsing pieces of Beethoven’s Consecration of the House with the symphony.
IMPORTANT: To watch in HQ, click the link above, it takes you to the YouTube page, then just click on the link immediately below the video on the right side that says “Watch in High Quality”.
Recorded with my Flip Mino HD camera. Edited in iMovie and uploaded to YouTube.
If you compare this video to the Catch Phrase video below, even when viewed in High Quality on YouTube, there’s no comparison, the Vimeo video quality is far superior. Even considering that the lighting is much poorer in this video, making the overall quality lower to begin with, YouTube compresses it to hell and it looks like ass. YouTube High Quality certainly helps, but I Vimeo is the way to go.
This idea comes from Cheesefry’s blog (Unsure.org). Here are the rules. Give it a try and see what you get. (No changing your content beforehand though!)
1. Fire up your iPod.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. Write it up in your blog or journal and link back to at least a couple of the other sites where you saw this.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.
My Results
Reise, Reise – Rammstein Make You Feel Better – Red Hot Chili Peppers Cyanide – Metallica Life In Technicolor – Coldplay Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? - The Offspring Never Gonna Be Alone - Nickelback Helden – Apocolyptica Breaking Inside – Shinedown Deceiver – Distrubed Rehab - Rihanna
Submit YOUR results in a comment. Just click the comment button on the lower right.
I actually came up with something very similar to this about a year ago. Bastards stole my idea… It is a damn good idea though. I’ll have to make a prototype of my idea and pick one of these up for $20 and compare.
The original idea came to me when playing golf, riding around in the golf cart we wanted some tunes, so I used my iPhone and just turned it up so we could hear it… but we could barely hear it, esp. when driving. When it was my turn to t-off, I put the phone in the cup holder (speaker pointed down), it fit well, and to my surprise amplified the music a whole lot, to the point I had to turn it down because it was too loud.
It basically redirects / concentrates the sound-waves, kind of how the Bose wave radio works. Only this was a thin plastic cup holder, with a small hole in the bottom. It worked great, I wanted to patent the idea or something, but never got around to it… damn it.
You could easily construct something like this for yourself from junk at home, it’s would come in very handy for camping and travel and you could probably easily incorporate an optional charging plug into your design.
Griffin Aircurve
“AirCurve from Griffin is designed specifically to work with the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. No power source is needed—the AirCurve directs sound from the iPhone speakers through a “coiled waveguide” that, according to Griffin, produces a sound akin to a set of desktop speakers.” -Gizmodo
