Family Life

POST OF AN OLD DRAFT. Originally dated Monday, April 14, 2008. Debbie recently took Daniel to a piano concert at the central library. He’s learning to play, and she wanted him to see the talent and abilities of a concert-caliber musician. Besides, she wanted to attend the concert herself, and “furthering Daniel’s education” was a [...]

Flickr does video now! It’s an interesting flavour of video, limited to 90 seconds, intended for brief little clips (what flickr calls “long photos”) and it certainly suits my no-time-for-this approach to video. I know YouTube has been doing video for years, but I really dislike their cluttered, convoluted pages. I muchly much prefer flickr’s [...]

Daniel is learning to play the piano, and he’s learning to read. One thing he’s learned of music is that when a note is followed by a dot it is three beats long. He has to name the notes and count while he plays. So playing a piece goes something like, “A, B – two [...]

Last century my mother tried to teach me to play the piano. I’m sad to say I had no interest whatsoever, and after endless frustration on both our parts she gave up. I can’t rightly say I gave up, seeing as I never really tried in the first place. Looking back, I wish I’d put [...]

The geniuses at Improv Everywhere really surpassed themselves with their latest performance. You can read all about it on their web page here, and watch the video below (or directly at YouTube). For our latest mission, 16 agents staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall. We used wireless [...]