Saturday, January 28, 2012
Los Indios Tabajaras Adios, Begin the Begining
Adios for today, as much as I want to stay and wander thru music ...with my mind begging me to continue through the sounds of our world, I must go! So Los Tabajaras, say again for me, Adios!
"Till the End of Time" Perry Como
This was one of the great voices of the 50's! Everywhere we went, our cars spurted out this music from the radio, along with Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Vale, and here again is the Classical music that follows us through life in all its improvisations.
Amazon.com: windtalkers - Amazon Instant Video: Movies & TV
Amazon.com: windtalkers - Amazon Instant Video: Movies & TV for those who don't know, Windtalkers, their story in the 2nd World War
One of my favorites
One of my favorites
Alicia Bridges - I love the night life 1978
We have come a long way from the classical expression to the age of Disco and beyond...how can one not like this ...
Enya - Listen to the rain
Would music therapy work in prisons? Would it lift the spirits of bedridden patients , it costs little to try it. If it helps us as individuals, to overcome tough times, if it assists in the beat of our heart, why not?
BOLERO fantasy [ Music: Maurice Ravel - Bolero / 10 min. version ]
Music that brings us to outer space, after it creates a gorgeous ice dance
Torvill & Dean - 1984 Olympics - Bolero - HQ
A perfect 6 to Ravel's Bolero, the music quality is not great, but the combination of human movement , expression, to the music is my goal.
Sviatoslav Richter plays Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 (1/6)
here is one of the great's playing one of my favorite composers of Classical music. It is a story of the life and glory of Russia in my mind, maybe because I heard it in the background of a film about Russia, who knows? It is poetic, yearning, powerful, yet soft, it cries and sings for joy! In all the classsics you hear the human experience repeated in the music of each age, even to the deep drums of the 80's, the tinkling piano's of the 40's, etc. Music is the language of the human experience that goes deeper than words can ever hope to do.
Amazon.com: A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between (9780307266378): Stuart Isacoff: Books
Amazon.com: A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between (9780307266378): Stuart Isacoff: Books Being in love with music, makes this book particularly attractive to me, I feel that we have so much to discover about the value of sound and music in our lives. It is a buy for me, and maybe my grands will read it too, I hope.
Amazon.com: this is your brain on music by daniel levitin: Books
Amazon.com: this is your brain on music by daniel levitin: Books
Music is much more than we imagined, it could be. It is now becoming important to scientists to discuss the role of sound in the making of matter. New studies indicate that music can do so much more, as the "kids" say, "I study better when I am listnening to music", well it looks like they are right! No one told me I could not listen to music when I studied, but we know that some students are told in specific situations that they must go to a quiet study hall. Think about it.
Music is much more than we imagined, it could be. It is now becoming important to scientists to discuss the role of sound in the making of matter. New studies indicate that music can do so much more, as the "kids" say, "I study better when I am listnening to music", well it looks like they are right! No one told me I could not listen to music when I studied, but we know that some students are told in specific situations that they must go to a quiet study hall. Think about it.
Amazing Stop Motion Video Made with a Desk Toy and Google Street View
Amazing Stop Motion Video Made with a Desk Toy and Google Street View
How wondrous life can become for people who can no longer get out to see the world around them
I wonder if treating prisoners to this look of life outside, while using music therapy to help their emotions, would make it easier for them to recover and return to society.
How wondrous life can become for people who can no longer get out to see the world around them
I wonder if treating prisoners to this look of life outside, while using music therapy to help their emotions, would make it easier for them to recover and return to society.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Ventures - PIPELINE
Peter Frampton, know who he is? It is just another expression of creativity, joining in an upbeat song, with other artists . Many artists are so concentrated on their art, that they miss other opportunities to be great, just look at Leonardo, perhaps one of the outstanding creators in the world, who stepped beyond one form of expression
The Ventures - Sleep Walk
Creativity, differences in expression, are even more obvious here. Do you like the chord break down? Why do some artists appeal to all, some to a few, it is all in the attraction of the positive and minus expression. This is a great rendition, a different appeal. Imagine listening to this song in all the different expressions for an hour or so. This is the world and its people easily viewed through music.
Les Paul - Sleepwalk
Les Paul, sublime to me. Music helps creativity, thinking about the sounds, the blending of the sounds, the presentation of sounds from the mind of the performer
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Sleepwalk
How does Brian do up against Les Paul?
Posting that next, as you know one of my favorite songs....
Posting that next, as you know one of my favorite songs....
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Sleepwalk
How does Brian do up against Les Paul?
Posting that next, as you know one of my favorite songs....
Posting that next, as you know one of my favorite songs....
More thoughts on Pyramid design
Voynich News
To quickly recap just about everything important about the Great Pyramid (aka the Pyramid of Khufu, or his Greek name Cheops) that I know…
* The Great Pyramid was constructed on top of a pre-existing hillock.
* All the rooms and passages in the Great Pyramid lie in (broadly speaking) a single vertical plane.
* The lowest chamber is an unfinished underground chamber carved into the hillock.
* The next highest chamber is known the “Queen’s Chamber”, though there’s no evidence a queen (or indeed anyone else) ever used it.
* The highest chamber is known as the “King’s Chamber”, and contains a large (but poorly finished) sarcophagus.
* The King’s Chamber has five large cavities above, thought to protect it against being collapsed by earthquakes.
* The King’s Chamber has two narrow shafts that extend diagonally upwards to the exterior of the pyramid.
* The Queen’s Chamber has two (originally concealed) narrow shafts that go sideways for about two metres and then diagonally upwards, but don’t obviously go to the exterior of the pyramid (i.e. where all the robot crawlers have gone a-trundling)
* The Queen’s Chamber lies immediately below the pyramid’s central axis, but the King’s Chamber is offset to one side.
Your Intellectual History challenge here is to explain the function of the two narrow shafts in the Queen’s Chamber. Here’s my answer:-
I suspect the Great Pyramid was built in two major stages of ascending grandeur / pharaonic megalomania. That is, I think that the Queen’s Chamber was to the originally planned pyramid as the King’s Chamber is to the final pyramid. For the following image, I’ve taken a West-facing CAD image from Rudolf Gantenbrink’s exemplary website, inverted its colours, shrunk it and overlaid an arbitrarily-placed missing “virtual inner pyramid” outline in red:-
That is, I suspect that the Queen’s Chamber’s southern shaft terminates early because the pyramid itself was planned to terminate early, perhaps either at something like the red line I mark, or indeed directly at the current end of the shaft itself. Hence, it might be that what is beyond the “door” is simply the second stage of construction, the “outer virtual pyramid” if you like: the shaft stopped roughly where it was supposed to, but the construction plans changed around it.
Why, then, was the Queen’s Chamber’s northern shaft any different? My suspicion is that the south end of the pyramid may have been built up first, with the north end lagging behind. Then, when the construction plans changed, the Queen’s Chamber’s southern shaft was left (quite literally) high and dry.
Alternatively, it could be that an earthquake during the first phase of building made it clear that the Queen’s Chamber was not going to be strong enough to survive the centuries in the way originally intended. Hence the decision may have been taken to add extra blocks to the North and South walls (if not the East and West walls as well), bringing the walls roughly two metres inwards. This could be why there is a two-metre horizontal section at the start of the Queen’s Chamber’s two shafts: that they were built diagonally up from the original walls, but that the walls were then thickened (for whatever reason): the shafts were similarly extended horizontally with the walls.
With all this in mind, I think I should note it’s entirely possible that Khufu’s pyramid may have originally started life as a smaller in-progress pyramid being built for (say) one of his predecessors, who intended to be interred in the (originally larger) Queen’s Chamber: but that Khufu’s architects saw the opportunity of extending it all into an humungous des res fit for a king (or, rather, Pharaoh). So, the burning question is: might the Great Pyram
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Digital Silence - Hardware, Software and Technology News
Digital Silence - Hardware, Software and Technology News Interesting new approach from NASA, what do you think. Guess it isn't too secret
Voynich News Interesting news for AB proponents. |
Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:52 AM PST  Unless you’ve been in something dangerously close to cryogenic suspension for the last year, you’ll know that these have been troubled times in Egypt – but you may not have heard that these have also been troubled times for Egyptology. Adding to 2011′s regime-changing brouhaha, Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian government’s 64-year-old ministry-level head of Ancient Egyptian stuff (and owner of a hat that practically has its own Discovery channel), has been fired/resigned then reinstated then fired/resigned again. It’s a tricky one to balance: though tourists love him, I think it’s fair to say that Egyptologists basically don’t – it has often been alleged that to work for him has been to sign any chance of historical research glory over to him (oh, and to his TV channel partners too). Is he charismatic, thoughtful and generous, or egotistical, controlling and bullying? Or perhaps some combination of the above? If you track this area, you probably have your own opinion… I certainly have mine. From an alt.history perspective, one of Ancient Egypt’s splendidly enduring unexplained mysteries is the internal structure of the Great Pyramid – in particular, the function of the four narrow shafts leading upwards from two chambers. The upper (“King’s”) Chamber has two shafts leading off right to the exterior of the pyramid: but the lower (“Queen’s”) Chamber’s two concealed shafts (only discovered in 1872 through a mixture of intuition and persistance) do not apparently reach the outside of the pyramid. So… where do they go to? Countless theories have been devised to try to explain these curious shafts, frankly none of which I believe for a moment. Yet the shafts’ first proper unveiling moment came in 1993, when German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink’s “Upuaut-2″ robot at last crawled right to the top of the lower southern shaft, where its newly-installed video equipment discovered… “a finely-worked slab of special limestone, of a kind otherwise used only for the pyramid’s exterior sheathing and its interior chambers. And that slab is adorned with two copper fittings.” Of course, the question on everyone’s lips suddenly became “what’s behind that slab?” However, because Hawass (so the story goes) took some kind of dislike to Gantenbrink, these efforts of 1992-1993 were only followed up by a second (different) team’s robot crawler in 2002, which again crawled right up to the top, drilled through to the other side, poked a tiny camera through, discovering… another block just beyond the first one, with a cavity between the two. Then in 2011, yet another robot from yet another team crawled its way to the top and peered through the previously drilled-out hole with a bendy camera, to try to get a proper look at the cavity: this revealed (arguably) a cipher mystery aspect to all this. For on the floor in the cavity there is a set of unidentified red markings. What do they mean? What could they mean?  Of course, I have really no idea – it has been noted that other red measuring marks (presumably put down by Egyptian masons) have been seen elsewhere, so this could very plausibly be what we’re looking at here. But that’s basically as much as we can sensibly say for the moment. Perhaps 2012 will see yet another team with yet another robot crawler, perhaps this time with a super-duper-mega-drill. Could it be that Rudolf Gantenbrink will finally be drawn back to the Great Pyramid, with his Upuaut robot now expanded with something like a miniaturized Thunderbirds “Pod 5″ Mole? We shall see!  |
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Tony Bennett With K.D.Lang ( featuring Chris Botti) Because Of You
Just listen to the three great artists, on this recording....
Because of You - Tony Bennett
In someway this song is pinned forever in my mind to Tony, and there where lots of others who sang it.
Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You (Original)
one of my all time faves, waiting for it to make a comeback....comon Rod Stewart
The Crests - The Angels Listened In (1959)
Wish we could get somone to record some of this old music, great tunes loaded with rhythm