That's a kool idea! Perhaps even some Flash thing... we'll see. =D [I have only posted some of the sunset photos that I took... in fact I have photos of every second of it! ;)]
This is really kool. I mean REALLY REALLY. Based on the ancient Aeolian harp, and made out of Adruino BT Bluetooth board, this little instrument plays with wind. Oh, and it’s solar powered. More info can be found here.
Thanks for the tip, Aasemoon - I liked it so much - http://www.jackdlogan.com/music/winduino_II.html - surely, the Aeolian harp must have been the way humans first learned about pitched sound; in its original form -
"Aeolian harps in literature and music
Aeolian harps are featured in at least two Romantic-era poems, "The Aeolian Harp" and "Dejection, an Ode", both by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In William Heinesen's novel The Lost Musicians set in Tórshavn, Kornelius Isaksen takes his three sons to a little church where, in the tower, they sit listening to the 'capriciously varying sounds of an Aeolian harp', which leads the boys into a lifelong passion for music. Aeolian harps are mentioned in Vladimir Nabokov's classic Lolita. A lyre is mentioned in Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" which is another name for an Aeolian Harp. An aeolian harp is featured in Ian Fleming's 1964 children's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to make a cave seem haunted.
Henry Cowell's Aeolian Harp (1923) was one of the first piano pieces ever to feature extended techniques on the piano which included plucking and sweeping the pianist's hands directly across the strings of the piano. The Etude in A flat major for piano (1836) by Frédéric Chopin (Étude Op. 25, No. 1 (Chopin)) is sometimes called the "Aeolian Harp" etude, a nickname given it by Robert Schumann. The piece features a delicate, tender, and flowing melody in the fifth finger of the pianist's right hand, over a background of rapid pedaled arpeggios. One of Sergei Lyapunov's 12 études d'exécution transcendante, Op.11 No.9, is named by the author "Harpes éoliennes" (aeolian harps). In this virtuoso piece, written between 1897 and 1905, the tremolo accompaniment seems to imitate the sounding of the instrument.
Young Thomas at work on his harp.
In 1972, Chuck Hancock and Harry Bee recorded a giant 30 foot
Yes, you may laugh at me all you want... but here's my latest eBay adventure. =P I incidentally came across possibly one of the last survivors of the floppy disk era, a 9 year old external [USB] Microtech floppy drive that has somehow been sitting in it's box somewhere waiting.. getting bored... not being used...! =P
Neat-o. They sure knew how to build back then.
One of the girls I went to grad school with was from Italy. Her family has lived in the same house for over 500 years. The have added on over the centuries, but the main part of the house is still in full use. The coolest thing was when she brought back pictures--there's a step up leading into the kitchen area. The threshold is a hand carved wooden beam. So many people have stepped on this wooden stair so many times over the years, that there is this huge rounded depression worn down into the stair. My house is 10 years old, and I'm constantly having to fix something. I can't imagine the amount of upkeep has been necessary to keep these old places livable.
More random photos from Tehran. Some funny photos from here and there that didn't belong anywhere else. =) Some photos with friends and family. And... uhmm... Mahyar really knows how to make a face. =P
Hehe.... well, this tree is hundred of years old. To the Indigenous people of the island, it has a bit of a holy status. They put tie those knots around the branches and the roots, as a sign of a prayer.. something they wish for.
But you know what? I also have another really BIG question that I really have to bring up here... Sayid Jarrah is supposed to be Iraqi right? Then can somebody tell me, why on earth he has an IRANIAN PASSPORT????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!