Halloween Soundtrack Day One

by on October 14, 2013 at 11:57 am
Posted In: Test

Well it looks like the season is upon us and with Halloween just half a moth a way I thought It’s time to get into the mood with my Halloween playlist. This playlist is very much a work in progress and since I generally don’t work on it any time other than October it’s not very big and mostly classical. I’m always looking out for suggestions (I definitely plan to compare notes with a friend of mine whose collection of Halloween music can be measured in days.)

So anyway let’s start with one of my favorites, Modest Mussorgsky‘s Night on Bald Mountain. It’s a wonderful theme poem that embodies the raw emotion of a witch’s sabbath and the terror of the unknown.

Like most people I discovered Mussorgsky’s work through Disney’s Fantasia and was blown away from it. I’ve always been a huge fan of the animator Bill Tytla and his animation of Chernobog is easily his strongest work.

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Kris at the Geoduck Festival

by on October 12, 2013 at 12:32 pm
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Kris-as-touristJust a quick color shot of Kris in all of her unstoppable glory as she was at the Geoduck Festival.

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Friday Museum Sketches

by on October 11, 2013 at 9:33 am
Posted In: Art

StLukeToday’s Sketch is of St. Luke the Evangelist by Giovnni Di Paolo (c 1470-75)  from the Seattle Art Museum.

This piece is another reason I’ve slowly begun to love medieval art. In most of the art history courses I took in college would have been using a work like this as the final step to the Reneisance pointing out the lack of perspective and anatomical accuracy and for the longest time I would agree with them looking down my nose at works like this.

But when you really look at these works and see the intricate brushwork you see the artists of this periods new exactly what they were doing and were very good at it.

Another thing I like about this painting is the bull. Now the winged bull is the symbol of St. Luke and you will see it in nearly every image to help identify the saint. But in this picture it looks like a strange but very cute pet.

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by on September 24, 2013 at 6:58 am
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There’s time’s where it seems that some version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is the default for this series of posts but this one is cool, promise!

This one is done as the a capella version of Tim Blais’ master’s thesis on on three-dimensional gravity as performed by Tim Blais.

So here it is, “Bohemian Gravity”

Enjoy.

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The Joys of Slow Server

by on September 19, 2013 at 9:49 am
Posted In: Rhapsodies, Test

MalwareFor the past month or so I’ve been having trouble with the internet slowing down after seven o’clock at night I’m not the only one who’s noticed it I was very amused following a tech support thread where the Comcast guy was trying to blame the modem. Yes that’s right folks planned obsolescence is now time sensitive.

For the most part I’ve been trying to ignore it as the nuisance it is. After all one shouldn’t be spending the entire evening surfing the internet anyway, right?

But despite this every now and then I have a last minute thing to do and then it’s murder.

The frustrating thing is that most pages I use seem to have been speeding up… most everything except WordPress. So here I was late on my deadline for today’s strip. I had just finished it and was trying to upload it on time so I could go to bed.

It was like trying to suck a basketball though a straw. In the end it took me nearly 45 minutes to upload a 50k image and post it. It almost makes me miss the halcyon days of dialup.

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