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Pearl Jam
I’m off to see Pearl Jam and others at the 2008 Virginfest in Calgary. I’m having the busiest summer in memory so posting will continue to be light for the next while.
Update: Here’s a photo of the crowd at the Pearl Jam concert. I’m right up there, second from the front.
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Sasquatch! Music Festival Photos
A week ago I was up early at 4:30am to ride down to the States with some friends to enjoy the festivities at the Sasquatch! Music Festival. After nearly 12 hours on the road, we arrived at the festival grounds, set up camp and watched as thousands of others did the same.
The Festival takes place in the most beautiful venue I’ve ever seen. It’s a gigantic amphitheatre called The Gorge. There were so many interesting people and so many great artists—check out some of the photos and videos I captured from the event:
[Sasquatch! Music Festival Slideshow – Flickr]
Bicycle Built for 2000
In 1962, the IBM 704 became the first computer to sing. The song was Daisy Bell. John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum programmed the vocals and the accompaniment was programmed by Max Mathews. This performance was the inspiration for the famous scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the HAL 9000 computer sings the song as it is deactivated.
In 2009, the song has been recreated using 2000 clips of human voices collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Workers were asked to listen to a short clip of the 1962 recording and then prompted to repeat the sound as best they could.
See the Bicycle Built for 2000 project page for an interactive look at each sound clip.
Britains Got Talent – Susan Boyle
47 year old Susan Boyle has always wanted to be a professional singer. When asked by Simon Cowell what’s held her back all these years, she replied. “I’ve just never been given a chance before.”
2009 Sasquatch! Music Festival
Even though it’s still over a month away, I’m getting more and more excited about the 2009 Sasquatch! Music Festival. It’s going to be a fantastic time.
Beatles Rooftop Concert
As often as I find myself listening to The Beatles, I haven’t seen much video footage of them playing (except from the Ed Sullivan show and in their movie, Help!).
Here they are, in colour, doing their most famous performance ever, The Beatles Rooftop Concert:
Hit play or watch The Beatles Rooftop Concert on YouTube. Also part 2 and part 3.
Backwards Beethoven
Not exactly backmasking, but close enough:
[Backwards Beethoven – Revver]