Folks, directeur here... Please do share some of your traditional music, art literature... Everything that's really different. I'm thirsty for such knowledge :) Love, directeur
Yes, I'm not really into U.S. or UK nowadays pop or movies, maybe I'm really old fashioned, and I, OF COURSE, don't judge those who like this stuff. I don't and will never dictate people's tastes! I just wanted to learn more :)
- directeur
Directeur, I have become a big fan of Vinx. He's a musician from Senegal, I believe. I heard about twenty seconds of one of his songs back in 1992, and I bought the CD on the spot. It's really driven me to look for more African drum music and those killer harmonies. Here's one track: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Now that's DIFFERENT Matthew! Thanks a lot! :)
- directeur
a thirty year old message still has value I think
- Matthew DeVries
ha3rvey, That's exactly the kind of things I'm looking for! Thanks for sharing your experience, I'll look for some "Vinx" to listen to, I too am deeply in love with African drums and harmonies! Music from people like Toumani Diabaté, Salif Keita or Ali Farka Touré really are wonderful! :)
- directeur
usually your music is reshared at FriendFeed music room http://bit.ly/rusica -- thanks, directeur! -- but did I send you an invite for Visual Arts http://bit.ly/visual ? of course, all friends are invited and welcome!
- Adriano
I really like music from Cabo Verde (Cape Vert). Apart from diva Cesária Évora, try the oldies Travadinha and Djurumani (Carlos Germano) and the newcomers Lura, Nancy Vieira and Mayra Andrade.
- Carla Graça
Thanks a lot Adriano! I'm joining both rooms! Carla really a good set of artists there! Thanks for sharing! :)
- directeur
I always worry that people will find Jim Henson's interpretation of traditional African Mask Art disrespectful.
- Matthew DeVries
Some of my favorite Native American artists: R. Carlos Nakai, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Mary Youngblood, Robert Tree Cody
- April Russo (app103)
@directeur, they are preparing Çiğ Köfte (raw meatballs) there :) It is somewhat traditional among people in eastern side, Urfa, Antep. That event is called "Sıra gecesi" (Sıra night) I think that culture is specific to Urfa region, people gather sing, dance, eat and chat ...
- Onur Gündüz
Very enriching, Ahmet! Tekrar Teşekkürler :)
- directeur
Thank you everyone :-) Canau: we just got the ring, we still didn't got into the "plans, tickets and parties" phase :-P Want an invitation for what: to see the ring? ;-P
- Marcos Marado
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Now I was sure that you folks both have umbrellas for a reason! Congratulation, I really am happy to know you :)
- directeur
Thank you all. Directeur: the umbrellas have nothing to do with it: they're just useful nowadays, with all this rain... ;-)
- Marcos Marado
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"graphics chip company NVIDIA have announced a deal with browser developer Opera to create a new optimized version of the Opera 9.5 mobile browser that should bring a real desktop browsing experience to mobile phones"
- Marcos Marado
Paul Buchheit - "Sometimes, it's faster and easier to just use the command line. Thanks to the new FriendFeed API, I was able write a little script that connects my command line to my FriendFeed." - Bash script to upload images to FF.
- Mitchell Tsai
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I love Bret Taylor's comment "I still have nightmares about him [Paul Buchheit] launching a major redesign of the product through a FriendFeed message :)" http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Lovely thing about Mac OS X is having unix command line for emergencies. Pop open the Terminal window. Love showing some people ftp or ls/cd the old way... (when a computer's window manager is really freaking out).
- Mitchell Tsai
which reminds me to finally try out ms powershell for vista [hei, i do have my selection of uhnieks tools available here and no, no cygnus. ]
- Nicole Simon
Bret Taylor - "He [Paul Buchheit] informed me that unless I am around to write a blog post, he is only using FriendFeed because he can do it from the command line." http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Sad: Usually the only thing I do on a command-line now is "ping" to see how good/bad my internet connection is when a webpage is slow to load. :-(
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Julie. I saw your tweet. Nice Ukelele. This is such a light sounding guitar and song, it's suited for each other. "you're all looking at me like I'm going to do something" he must have a mic on the guitar. This guy is great, the only thing is, that we didn't hear him improvise a solo
- Jeremiah Owyang
Didn't read the article, but I see a picture from Revenge of the Nerds, and that's all I ever need to see.
- Anna Haro
I shudder tho think of the number of times I watched this in junior high
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I really wonder if it's not the reaching out to early adopters that's the problem, but that the product isn't compelling enough for mainstream users.
- Mark Trapp
That picture alone gets you a huge Like ;-)
- Eric Berlin
The pic is a cover of the "Birth of the Cool" by Miles Davis, and you're listening to "Naima" by John Coltrane... Two things to convince you to join the room, if you're still hesitating :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
John "Sheets of sound" Coltrane is a nice contrast of energy vs Miles Davis' minimalistic approach, a match made in heaven.
- Jeremiah Owyang
That's such a moody song with dark blues, can appreciate best on a rainy day with a bottle of merlot.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah: Totally agree, one could wonder at first how John Coltrane and Miles Davis could have worked together but when you listen (and I mean listen) you'll find out that there couldn't be a more perfect match. John the warm and the smooth, and Miles the minimalistic and the sharp :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
"A Digital Games 2008 é a primeira conferência de uma série, que se deverá passar a efectuar anualmente, e possui na sua organização pessoas ligadas a eventos anteriormente ocorridos em Portugal na área dos jogos digitais nomeadamente o GAMES e o VIDEOJOGOS. A Digital Games 2008 realiza-se no Porto a 6 e 7 de Novembro 2008 em conjunto com a ARTECH 2008 - 4th International Conference on Digital Arts, e visa promover um fórum de discussão de questões ligadas à multidisciplinaridade da área em Portugal. Para tal, pretende reunir investigadores e profissionais, permitindo a divulgação de trabalhos e a troca de experiências entre as comunidades académica e industrial. No âmago da conferência estão fundamentos teóricos e práticos emergentes do design, desenvolvimento e públicos que procurarão explorar novas abordagens por parte da comunidade"
- Marcos Marado
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