Music

  • Everyday,  Music,  Uncategorized

    Rain

    We need it! Compared to the last few months, it has been dry here in the DC area. Here’s one of the most interesting and realistic “musical” interpretations of rain that I’ve seen or heard. I don’t know the source, as it came to me in an email. Seeing it makes it all the more fascinating but just listening, you would not know it wasn’t actual rain. Hey is that Jerry Seinfield as one of the snappers? musical rain This reminds me of an earlier, “everyday” story in the Washington Post regarding Joshua Bell, one of the most accomplished violinists in the world. A Violinist in the Metro From The…

  • Casart® Coverings,  Kick-Start the Weekend,  Music,  Nature,  Photography

    Waves

    We’re getting ready to head to the beach. I’ll be taking work along, unfortunately, as I had a hard drive crash and have to reformat all our new images for casart coverings, coming out this fall. Fortunately I’m almost done. Hey, I’m wondering if anyone else out there got the Shankar, Happy Birthday virus timed to go off on July 25th — his birthday? It’s an old one but attached itself to my Word documents on my Mac and they became corrupted when I got an infected virus from my former marketing folks’ attachments. Fortunately, I have a Mac so even though it was a pain, it was easily fixed.…

  • Culture,  Dance,  Everyday,  Family,  Film,  Humor,  Music,  New Orleans,  Performance,  Uncategorized

    Conversations @ Dancing on YouTube

    OK, you may have seen the wedding video of the attendants and bride and groom dancing their way down the aisle on YouTube. I thought it was pretty cool too, especially the faux Slow Mo part (which the news clips seem to leave out). What I’m more fascinated by is the viral wave that took over after it was posted (July 19th). The couple was featured on Good Morning America; there was a story about it the Washington Post and they were featured on ABC’s Nightly News that night (July 24th). That’s pretty crazy. If they aren’t publicists they should be. The conversation came up about this at dinner that…

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