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computer presentations
the ny times tech-columist david pogue wrote an interesting blog entry on the use of computer presentations (like keynote or powerpoint): Pogue’s Posts – Using PowerPoint With Discretion. in the comments there were some useful links. one is an online tutorial from baruch college on preparing and giving a presentation: Effective Use of PowerPoint: Online…Continue reading computer presentations
upcoming concert: may 1st with hotel desperado
i just played a gig yesterday (saturday) with “hotel desperado” and got another one playing with them on may first in fællesparken (copenhagen) at 17:00 (at the tent of “enhedslisten”).
NY Times: “One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Two-Bit ‘Trashball’”
an interesting article about an artist who collects trash, compacts them in a plastic orb gum ball size and sells them for 25 cents through gum ball machines: One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Two-Bit ‘Trashball’ – New York Times
el’tsin & russia
among the large amount of obituaries (one in aftenposten, fiaskoer trukket frem, claimed that russians couldn’t wait at all before celebrating his death due to his reforms and war in chechenia). the former us ambassador jack f. matlock jr. wrote an interesting obituary focusing on el’tsin before he became president: Boris Yeltsin, the Early Years…Continue reading el’tsin & russia
some photography links and flash
now that i have my camera back and my cokin dedicated creative flash i’m back taking pictures and exploring camera sites on the web. yesterday i joined nikonians, a (or the?) nikon online community. today, while listening to their podcast i stumbled across two other interesting sites, the digital story with reviews, tips and other…Continue reading some photography links and flash
coffee time
there’s a good tea & coffee shop right next to where we live in gentofte called teSelskabet. their coffee is roasted at kontra kaffe which also roasts the coffee for the best cafe (and good travel book store) around my office – tranquebar (named after the former danish colony in what is now india). while…Continue reading coffee time
Online version of “Music Media Multiculture”
The book “Music Media Multiculture – Changing Musicscapes” by Dan Lundberg, Krister Malm and Owe Ronström can be accessed online at old.visarkiv.se/online/online_mmm.html
Book: Global repertoires
I spent today browsing the book “Global Repertoires – Popular music within and beyond the transnational music industry” edited by Andreas Gebesmair and Alfred Smudits (Ashgate 2001). Based on papers from a conference on Music and Globalization in Vienna in 1999 the book is divided in three parts. The first part focuses on the strategies…Continue reading Book: Global repertoires
succulents growing
almost two weeks after planting (13.03.07) most of the succulents have started to grow. while the lithops (lithops coleorum, fransisci C 140, karasmontana, lesliei v. mariae C141, optica ‘maculate’, schwantesii v. marthae H4886) and the pleiospilos bolusii sprouted within a week, the others started to sprout in the second week – cereus peruvianus quite early…Continue reading succulents growing
articles on boris grebenshchikov & music linked to the orange revolution
one of the aims of this phd-blog is to keep a written trail of articles i have read in the course of my research. this morning i actually managed to read two articles 🙂 the first one is by maria brauckhoff titled “Boris Grebenš?ikov – Kult, Gott der Gegenkultur oder nationales Kulturgut?” (published at jfsl.de/publikationen/2005/Brauckhoff.htm.…Continue reading articles on boris grebenshchikov & music linked to the orange revolution
succulents planted
after a month of planning, shopping for equipment (very frustrating here in copenhagen) and ordering seeds (although a little slow, succseed has a good selection of cacti and succulent seeds and deliver by mail) i finally planted the first batch with the following plants: Agave utahensis v. kaibabensis (W Cameron, AZ) Cereus aethiops Cereus peruvianus…Continue reading succulents planted