I saw this beautiful thing played at a concert by La Follia Baroque; its player, James, told me about its history. Designed and built by luthier Timothy Johnson of Hewitt, it is a division viol (which the VdGSA says is an English type of bass viola da gamba). Johnson says the inlaid pattern is acanthus... Continue Reading →
Psychology researcher and author Shawn Achor gave this quite funny TED talk in 2011, with five quick, science-based ways to increase happiness daily that he explains further in the video and in a blog post: Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to most of those research papers and others. Achor talks about... Continue Reading →
At least I hope the directions are clear! I thought I would share with y'all a website I made to help fellow journalists post resumes on the web, but of course it works for anybody. Go to sueowenresume.wordpress.com and I'll walk you through the steps of setting up a WordPress site like this one --... Continue Reading →
Got lucky with the light out at my folks' place the other evening.
The ideas and links on Matthew Waite's syllabus for his JOUR 491 news apps class are too good to lose, so I'm saving them here (abbreviated): Jan. 14, 2014 Introduction to news applications. Homework: -- Read: A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change by Adrian Holovaty --Read: A dao of web design by John... Continue Reading →
Piano scholar and player James Goodwin has a number of videos up on YouTube. This, he says, "is an improvisation in the piano blues style that developed in the barrelhouses and whorehouses of Texas in the 1920s and 1930s. Characteristic is the use of slurred notes in the right hand and pumping chords or stride... Continue Reading →
Earlier this month Pantone selected its Color of the Year for 2014: "Radiant Orchid," or 18-3224 in the Pantone color-specifying system that prevents designers from having to say, "It's a kind of purpley lavender... No, not that bright." This business of selecting colors may strike normal people as complete horse hockey, but I am pretty... Continue Reading →
Been planning to try making a logo like this for a while but needed to learn some stuff, like how to make 3D text, drop an image onto text and erase the background of semi-transparent flames, since you can't separate the red channel in Photoshop Elements (I used settings of Contiguous and tolerance 13%). This... Continue Reading →
If it is good enough for the Bird, it is good enough for me. This is also kind of a classic example of the mid-20th-century "open four cans of Campbell's" school of cooking. (Bonus: Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for scones.)
Ran across this piece of history by Western swing man Adolph Hofner. To quote a Texas Monthly story from 2000 about him: Here's the true sound of the South and Central Texas dance hall. Adolph Hofner, born in 1916 in the predominantly Czech community of Moulton and based mainly in San Antonio since the thirties,... Continue Reading →
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