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Live Music Archive

Get your Live Music fix here. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Need a .shn player?  Check here before you convert those wonderful lossless files!  

Places I’ve Been

Retracking my steps… here are just a few of the places my journey on the WWW led me tonight: Ideas for next project Ihateclowns.com The PTK The Surrogate Band RedBrokenToaster DONT ASK Ok, if you must know, I was looking for the name of that really hot chick with black hair who was in that one video… she was a runway model….Continue readingPlaces I’ve Been

Do Something About It…

 “We insult her everyday on TVAnd we wonder why she has no guts or confidenceWhen she's young we kill her will to be freeWhile telling her not to be so smartWe put her down for being so dumb” John Lennon – 1972

Detroit Rock City!

Just a few bands you might want to keep your eye on, and yeah, they are straight from Detroit Michigan, baby! The Dirty Americans The Detroit Cobras The Von Bondies   And yeah… don't forget Broadzilla

The Colors of Infinity

Pink Floyd provides the soundtrack to this informative movie that explores the Mandelbrot fractal set, aka “The thumbprint of God”.  Arthur C. Clarke narrates as the viewer is taken on a magical journey of color, science, and mathematics with a little theory thrown into the mix for good measure.  Though incredibly complex, fractals are based on simple mathematic principles. In Paris, inContinue readingThe Colors of Infinity

Apophysis

I recently discovered an excellent fractal program and I am totally addicted to it. It renders beautiful effects that can be manipulated not only by changing the mathematical equation, but by adjusting elements manually. The program also offers an incredible range of color scheme presets. For the last couple years, I have been studying light in juxtaposition to stark darkness.Continue readingApophysis

M. C. Escher

“… I do indeed believe that there is a certain contrast between, say, people in scientific professions and people working in the arts. Often there is even mutual suspicion and irritation, and in some cases one group greatly undervalues the other. Fortunately there in no one who actually has only feeling or only thinking properties. They intermingle like the coloursContinue readingM. C. Escher

Animals

Listening to Pink Floyd's Animals today, and just had to share one of my favorite parts: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want He makes me down to lie Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by With bright knives he releaseth my soul He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places He convertethContinue readingAnimals

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