Hectic Eclectic

TED TALK - David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve

Really enjoyed this recently...  good old Ted.com

Seric to Sponsor Edinburgh International Film Festival

Over at Seric Towers we are all rather excited by the fact that we are to be a technology sponsor for Edinburgh International Film Festival.  As a long time film fan I'm personally delighted and looking forward to doing a good job working with all the other partners and sponsors engaged to make the event go with a bang.

Good old fashioned fun from xkcd.com

 

From the love of maths to the futility of technology...

You can find out more about xkcd here see he's done some stuff for IBM's Smarter Planet - which I like but I suspect someone in IBM's marketing dept will be shot for going this far out there

I Am Jack’s Overwhelming Sense Of Awe

Picked this up thru Google reader...

Oh Philip, you made it all better again and again and again

What a gift to conceive/dream/imagine/invoke/create/transcribe/deliver such a beautiful noise for Solo Piano.

Life is just easier with Mr Glass.  A friend, lost to me through time and separate lives, introduced me to PG and a very many others almost 20 years ago but this is the one that cuts and mends me.  Standing the test of time along with perhaps only two others in the 1000's of listens category.  Good luck wherever you are big J.

For anyone interested enough the others are 'Laughing Stock' by Talk Talk and 'In A Silient Way' by Miles Davis.  And although I enjoy a very many others, across a very much more Catholic taste than my short shortlist might suggest, and each give me something, nothing sustains me like these three, save a single track Canteloube's 'Baïlèro (Chant de bergers de Haute-Auvergne)'.

Music is the purest art form and these have spoken to me most, if you haven't stumbled across any of these I hope you enjoy them.  I came to these through good friends and despite a musical non-education at school; I took the triangle and f*cked off just like I was told.  That said they were right - only the ears work.  ;-)  

Fat girls & Gingerbread Men: the wonderful world of Sarah-Jane Szikora

We got a couple of Sarah Jane Szikora prints a few years ago, SWMBO is a real fan and my niece and nephew love them to bits.  Personally I allways wanted to track down Foolish biscuit.  Funny I never dug online for her stuff so it was nice to stumble onto www.sarah-janeszikora.com

Of the newer stuff - I really liked Damien's dress. 

And I never tire of the antics of her Gingerbread man.

Here is the aforementioned foolish biscuit.  I see a lot of myself in him - though he is thinner despite liking milkier tea.