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A Rough Ride to New York--Airline vs Guitar - http://www.petersprague.com/eye...
Guitar #1
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
These guys never learn their lesson from "United Breaks Guitar"...
- Jason
from iPhone
Woke up after a 4 hour nap and completely panicked for 10 minutes thinking I had slept till 6am, Friday.
Rediscovered Atmos Trio demo tune. "Everyday." (Bringing this back into the fray)
07 Everyday.mp3 5 MB
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Josh Haley, Jason and 6 other people liked this
I think I've discovered nearly two albums worth of forgotten tunes. Good that I have these recordings: I'm too much of a space to remember this stuff... As I recall--this song was abandoned because it seemed too introspective to work live
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Circa 1998. Played on the, then new, Godin Multiac. Recorded on a Roland VS-880, R-70 Drum Machine and an Alesis S-4+ Quadrasynth.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I enjoyed listening to it just now!
- Anne Bouey
Thanks for checking it out Anne!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
This represents the kind of demo that I produce when I'm presenting a piece to the band.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I like the idea of having this FF post embedded into my blog--but it won't appear in rss. Oh well.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Here's an example: http://feeds.artistdata.com/bitn5BP...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Supposed to look something like this: http://www.atmosmusic.com/wordpre...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Cool FF feature none-the-less.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Nice tune. Stuttering melodies and all. :)
- Jason
Thanks for listening Jason.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Nice embedding of this post on the website. Listening now.
- Josh Haley
"Everyday"...old sentiments sometimes take on a new meaning.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
The importance of keeping an engineering log - http://www.facebook.com/note...
Winston Teo, Chu Yeow, arunthampi and 2 other people liked this
I wanted to do this. This post finally made me get off my ass and do it. Hopefully it lasts
- Deepak Jois
Post is friends-only I guess. I cannot view it.
- Ashwin Nanjappa
I keep all my engineering findings in my Google Notebook, and sometimes I replicate some stuff in my blog. The stuff that I found most useful in keeping a log of are Getting Started instructions of these and that, which I will use once in a blue moon, but ever so helpful when the instructions are somewhere.
- Winston Teo
Jason: Thanks, can see it now. I keep a GDoc for this kind of stuff, but it is not well updated though.
- Ashwin Nanjappa
I rolled my own setup and started the log with two entries. Lets hope this lasts http://github.com/deepakj...
- Deepak Jois
Deepak: Are those markdown log pages viewable somewhere? I only get to see the underlying HTML/MD code at github.
- Ashwin Nanjappa
Ashwin : Download the repository and view the log.html on local machine for now. If you dont have Git, you can find a download button on top.
- Deepak Jois
Redha E and arunthampi liked this
the webpage is slow? or pushes/pulls?
- arunthampi
webpage's slow. pushes & pulls are ok :)
- Jason
Oh ignore my last tweet, you were talking about github pages being slow, not the git repos itself.
- Chu Yeow
just curious why're using the webpage? is it for issues?
- arunthampi
@chuyeow There's also the (very) beautiful http://invoicemachine.com/home but I needed something to monitor business cash-flow too.
Sunny Wong and Chu Yeow liked this
To my fellow geeks, you guys rock! RT @E27sg: New post: Programmers and the startup scene in Singapore: http://www.e27.sg/2009...
Chu Yeow liked this
Lol "having close associations with hard-core programmers"
- Chu Yeow
@chuyeow : ahem! Thanks for noticing:P
- Granova
lol at "I dont care"
- Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
Hey Chuyeow, SauSheong & I are having trouble getting Yahoo! for SRB meetup this wed. Is Wego able to host us for this month? :)
- Jason
Yup Sau Sheong already asked me about it. Will get back to Sau Sheong soonish.
- Chu Yeow
I'm creating a friendfeed group for #geekcampsg tmr.
Whatever happened to friendfeed room? Guess it's turned into groups?
- Jason
Or you could use icanhazthread ;)
- arunthampi
cool, this thing needs to import from twitter, flickr as well
- Lim Chee Aun
@iamclovin Yeah! Although can you make it RTC by tmr? :P
- Jason
can embed this on the site too http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Lim Chee Aun
Yeah. Friendfeed's my long lost friend.
- Jason
Google Wave's your new friend? :P
- Lim Chee Aun
haha yeah. although he's raw and inexerienced. :P
- Jason
Done! Friendfeed embed! http://geekcamp.pbworks.com/FrontPa...
- Jason
@iamclovin What about an iframe embed for i.canhazthread.com? :P
- Jason
@Jason make the iframe wider :)
- Lim Chee Aun
Done!
- Jason
hehe thanks man :)
- arunthampi
@iamclovin Your presentation's gonna be fun! :)
- Jason
If friendfeed performs like facebook's current speed, we're screwed.
- Jason
What motivates you to go to a concert or any music performance?
Morton Fox, Kol Tregaskes, Geer and 10 other people liked this
good music
- echostreamer
Me too--but is that enough by itself to make you buy a ticket and drive across town to attend a show? Or does it take something more?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Knowing the band on a somewhat personal level. Having a connection with the group. Good music alone doesns't do it for me.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It's gotta be the quality of the show for me, and of course music comes into that but when you have Kiss-esque glitter cannons and zip wires going off, then it'd probably tempt me!
- Tom Bon Scott
@Rahsheen & Tom--Now we're getting somewhere: A personal connection and/or visual elements will get you out of the house. Anything else?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
What gets you to drive 5 hours and stay in a hotel, as many do for the DMB or Phish? What about crowds that I see in videos for the Pat Metheny Group, Or Chik Corea's band?
- Neil Alexander
@Neil. People go because they feel they MUST go. Maybe aligning a show with a cultural event (Burning Man, a festivals, a dance event...) Older acts (Pat Metheny & Chick) have been around long enough to attract people form a nostalgic stand-point, as well as from an artistic one.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Good music, performers that I want to see, a good venue with good equipment/sound/acoustics. I'm spoiled being here in Los Angeles.
- Derrick
Agreed. But how do you get people to feel that way about something they're unfamiliar with? Word of mouth works well (if people do that. My demographic is 40 and up - less likely), as does playing in far away places for no money sleeping in a van. Trying to get with the former. I agree with the cultural event idea.
- Neil Alexander
Also been trying to gleen an opening slot; or get a festival promoter to "take a chance", thinking that if we can actually get in front of a large number of people that will help.
- Neil Alexander
The ethereal connection... the idea that the same air is being breathed by someone you admire on such a deep level. That the same sound waves they create are the same ones that pound your chest. That chance to be able to have them hear you sing along or cheer means more to them than they let on. It's a shared experience, a moment of win. :)
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
@Derrick--what factors make a performer one that you "want to see?"
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
@Josh--Can you have a similar connection with musicians you may not have heard before?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It must happen, as new
- Neil Alexander
It must happen, as new "indie" artists break in all the time. So do new jazz artists. The connections are made, and somewhat quickly (?). Though there is the story of the "10 year overnight success".
- Neil Alexander
@Josh--check-out Neil's music: He's a freakishly great jazz/fusion keyboard player on the east coast. We have the challenge trying to fill seats in concerts, yet, despite our tireless promo, networking and constant musical output, we still find ourselves occasionally playing to an indifferent rooms. We're trying to get to the core of why people do or don't attend a show.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Are all you cats in CA? 'cause it's late here in NY and I gotta get some sleep. But this is happenin', special thanks to @Rob.
- Neil Alexander
Very little. I've gone because the ticket was a birthday present, because admission was free at a city festival, because it was MC Hammer, because I was invited to go to a Mannheim Steamroller concert, because Doc Severinsen was leading at a Pops, and because it was Prince (in his notPrince days). I think that's all of my concerts.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Rob- absolutely. it's a little different because any admiration is immediate/brand new but yes I have been blown away by opening acts before. Moke opened for King's X the first time I saw them and I felt like I connected with them and bought their CDs right then and there.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Neil--I think most of us are in CA.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
FYI, I can only get 8 people to a show - but they make noise (re: applause) like 20. So people like what we're doing; It's just not translating into more people.
- Neil Alexander
Music is almost always better live (unless the band sucks, obviously). There's something about the energy and atmosphere of a live performance.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
The common theme emerging from this thread for me is what I had already suspected: The music is only a portion of the experience people are looking for from a concert. Somehow, this experience needs to be clearly communicated so that others will want to come and be a part--participate in it. Writing great music and performing it brilliantly is not quite enough all by itself.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
That sounds about right.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
The music is still the most important thing, though, I think. I mean, you don't have to have massive theatrics like KISS, or on a smaller scale, Of Montreal. A lot of times I prefer the shows where the bands just play and focus on the music. The thing that's important to me with small bands is personability - if I liked the show, I want to come to your merch table and meet you after. If...
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- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Sweet! I wish we could get together an jam easily. (Neil, I am a drummer turned bassist and am a midi/computer music enthusiast and love to write and play music). I was already trying to work up the nerve to collaborate digtally with Rob... now I am even more motivated. :)
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I will say that the shows that stick my memory the most are the ones that had the best banter/connection with the crowd. Inara George of The Bird and the Bee and Neko Case are fantastic at this.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Thanks Jandy--that's valuable feedback. For a long time, I would play a gig, strike my gear and leave. At a certain point, I forced myself to get in the habit of approaching people in the audience: walk up to their table and thank them one-by-one. This has made a big difference from my perspective: I now see many more familiar faces at my shows.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Britney
- sofarsoShawn
Jandy - I always talk to folk at my shows; sometimes I don't get around to talking to everyone because I lose myself in it. I always hang out afterwords, much to the chagrin of the venue, who want to me pack up and leave. :)
- Neil Alexander
@josh - this might be a good excuse to try eSession; I"m already on indaba, but my computer's too slow.
- Neil Alexander
Ooh, I forgot about Weird Al at King's Island! Three motivations: Weird Al, friends, amusement park!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I REALLY got to go to bed. Night all, and MANY thanks. I'll check the feed in the morning.
- Neil Alexander
Real-time internet collaboration is something I'm watching pretty closely. Josh--let's do it!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
esession and indaba. Never heard of either, but will check them out. I've been more of a "here's the wav files for you to import into your DAW" kind of guy, unless I can get the same software as the other person.
- Josh Haley
Real time would be tricky, no? But hey, If you know something I don't... ;)
- Josh Haley
Neil, that's the way to do it! I'm pretty sure I've been kicked out with the band from venues wanting to close a time or two. ;) And Rob, yeah, a LOT of the shows I go to are because I saw the band opening for someone else earlier and hung out and chatted with them. Having talked to them makes me much more likely to seek them out again. Robert, I'm pretty much in your boat. When I have...
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- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Josh--Indaba & eSession are browser-based DAW-type service--I think there is a small fee to use them: Looks interesting.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Thank you everyone: I really appreciate all of you taking the time to participate in this thread.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Riveting entertainment
- Jason
A lot of times someone I know that is in the band has asked me to come to a show, some times I :"find a band" on the internet and if it turns out that they are local (inside of like 60 miles) I'll try and see them live at least once.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
is there a cover? is there alcohol?
- Jack Lhasa
Q: I have saturated the web; I give away songs; I post often; I have extensive websites. But still no one comes to shows. Why?
J. Abdul-Qahhar, Helen Sventitsky, Jason and 2 other people liked this
You teach, and accompany other performers. Do THEY come to your shows?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
from iPhone
They know & like ur work--this is promo demographic that pays you.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
from iPhone
@jason - of course not. I'm not trying to get "everybody" to come, only to create a fanbase of people who DO go to shows.
- Neil Alexander
I think its the economy, a lot of little things may be working against you
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Possibly. Certainly other artists are going foward. I'm trying to find and focus on the things that will work for me.
- Neil Alexander
from Nambu
Need to give up Indian citizenship? Goto mustafa... Wait wtf?
Andy Croll and Ajay Thampi liked this
You really can get everything at Mustafa Centre
- Andy Croll
The place's bigger than it looked. I needed to climb 3 storeys, cross a bridge and down 3 storeys to get to the department that I want.
- Jason
Man on train showing off iPhone to wife who has a Nikia e71. Wife looks half jealous half admiring http://maps.google.com/...
Yeah I get that kinda look from my wife too except she's vocal enough to say "dear I want one too!"
- Jason
Winston Teo, Redha E, Jason and 2 other people liked this
ugh! never thought about it like that... nice catch there...
- Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
"belittling arm chair expert". Well said! I'll jot that down into my notebook of catch phrases. :)
- Jason
People are always quick to criticise, but slow (or never) to praise.. Sad society..
- Winston Teo
If you wanna follow my train journey, ill be on Google Latitude throughout. Send me an email at Burnflare (at) gmail (dwat) com for invite
You want ppl to stalk you? LOL
- Jason
Yup, latitude's accuracy without a gps is quite bad anyway.
- Vishnu Prem
from email
Yup, latitude's accuracy without a gps is quite bad anyway.
- Vishnu Prem
from email
Yup, latitude's accuracy without a gps is quite bad anyway.
- Vishnu Prem
from email
Yup, latitude's accuracy without a gps is quite bad anyway.
- Vishnu Prem
from email
Yup, latitude's accuracy without a gps is quite bad anyway.
- Vishnu Prem
from email
My iPhone's sad, sad state
Aaron Draczynski, Anew, Jay and 34 other people liked this
Wow!
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh no!
- Jay
Noooo! Sadness. :(
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Getting ready for iPhone 3GS I presume?
- Andrew Trinh
That doesn't look so good.
- Sam Harmon
:(
- Mo Kargas
I have one that sat in a snow drift for months. Miraculously, it almost sort of boots up now. I really should just recycle it, but I can't help but think there is some kind of use for it.
- LogEx
OMG this is going to give me a nightmare! That sucks big time April.
- BEX
on the bright side... you get to get a new 3GS :)
- Bindu Reddy
Yay! Time to upgrade! ;)
- Pete Delucchi
Wow. Surely there is a story? (And I see it now) Poor iPhone.
- Louis Gray
Time for a new 3GS!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Did your iPhone commit suicide intentionally for the 3GS
- Thomas Chai
Mine cracked recently as well, and I found this service: http://www.jetcitydevices.com
- Scott Ludwig
if only the touchscreen is cracked...$60 gets you a replacement. if the display was damaged as well, then the replacement is approx $150-175. (DIY)
- Carlos Ayala
It's grotesquely beautiful, in a way.
- Josh Haley
It's so pretty. Keep it like that
- Becca
Nooooo!!!!
- Rodfather
Hehe, ah the joys of iphone ownership. My ipod touch is two years old and still not broken :-)
- Richard A.
Looks like me after a "night out".
- Michael McKean
Oh dear, looks like you *need* to order a 3gS.... :-)
- Mark Hendy
Oh dear, quite the opposite. It's time to upgrade to a non iphone glass slab. Get a real phone, where they can afford buttons and functions for when you're not online :-)
- Richard A.
MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
well-loved
- anna sauce
Hmm, so much for that "Its got a glass screen" as one of its big feature comparison points.
- jcunwired
You'd be shocked how much that would get on ebay even WITH the broken screen.
- Andrew Leyden
That's just horrible, I don't know what I'd do if that happened to me :-) Bummer!
- Brian
There are no words...well, except UPGRADE!!! :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
The seasoned road warrior!
- Jason
I had this happen to me less than two weeks after I got my first one (about a year ago) and had to go buy a new one. I wish I had known about the $60 touchscreen replacement option Carlos mentions above. Not one told me that then. It is all the more reason to get a good case.
- Ragani Harris
Un-like.
- Alix Whitmire
Oh, no! My phone looked like that earlier this year. I eventually found a place that replaced the screen for about $140 in 5 minutes. Cheaper than going to Apple!
- Bryan Person
Ouch. :-(
- Håkan Dahlström
I've seen a couple of those in person. It's one reason I used to disparage the iPhone so much; my HTC phones bounced quite a bit before they lost functionality. The iPhone wins in that the cracked/shattered screen still knows where you're pressing, whereas all of my non-phone touchscreen devices were useless with even a small crack in the corner. I bought a case for my second-hand iPhone right away, and it's bounced just fine several times.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Today's Basic Instruction cartoon: http://basicinstructions.net/...
- Simon
had good Chinese food for lunch. now I miss Singapore!
Where thou art?
- Jason
@Jason - I've moved to Bangalore last month.
- Harish Mallipeddi
Asian Poses - The Definitive Guide to Asian Poses - http://asianposes.com/
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Nyan
- kimyong
This gal looks like MediaCorp artiste Yvonne Lim
- Jason
LOL!
- Deepak Jois
Meoooow!!! :-)
- Ashwin Nanjappa
nguink quink...:)
- Herry
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.” - Australian psychiatrist W. Béran Wolfe
I love this quote. Thanks arunthampi!
- Jason
My husband's a happy man. But I don't see him doin any of these things... ;)
- Angeline Tan
Sure I'm doing those! Replace the following... boat => application, symphony => program, son => guitar, dinosaur eggs => souls Gobi Desert => marketplace :)
- Jason
@jasonong: hah.. *phew* you manage to escape...
- Kenneth Jayden Lim
YouTube - Shutter Island Trailer 1 HD - Martin Scorsese - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jason liked this
Da man is back
- arunthampi
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If there's DiCaprio I'll surely watch!
- Jason
oh, for me da man is scorcese
- arunthampi
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