Tate Modern turns 10 on 12 May 2010,
and, to celebrate, Tate Modern invites
you to contribute the ten best images
you’ve taken of Tate Modern and in
Turbine Hall.
As part of their 10th birthday
celebrations, the folks there are also
planning a short film that tells the
story of Tate Modern.
Some images posted to the Flickr
group before April 16th 2010 may
be selected to be included in the
Tate Modern is 10 film.
Go to the following link for full details: #mce_temp_url#
A video featuring pictures of the Irish countryside and music
by Celia and Marc of the Irish duo Salmon’s Leap —
[A bodhran is a hand-held goatskin drum used in traditional
Irish music. The tin whistle (also called the tinwhistle,
whistle, penny whistle, Irish whistle, feadóg, or feadóg stain)
is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.]
This band is called “The Corrs” and is made up of 3 sisters
and a brother — Jim on keyboards, Sharon on violin (fiddle),
Caroline on drums and Andrea on tin (or penny) whistle.
They are from Dundalk in the east of Ireland, which is
located about 50 miles from Dublin.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!!!
And who is it, now, who will draw me a pint of lovely Guinness??? 🙂
Dancing on Wheels, a current BBC production, is a dance competition like no other.
After viewing, visit Diana’s site for the inside scoop on this reality
show: #mce_temp_url#
Also, the BBC site for Dancing on Wheels has an interactive game
in which you become a judge of dance. Can you cut it as a judge???
Find out here: #mce_temp_url#
A drum and a Native American flute performance that is sure to please. 🙂
Click on the
following link
to view some
of the work
from today’s
Quote of the Day
Photographer,
Burt Uzzle:
You see fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair’s breadth away. You have then judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully… And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.
Burk Uzzle
(1938 – )
American Photographer
Burk is the guy who took a bunch of Woodstock pics.
From Boing Boing:
“Burk Uzzle shot the festival from the vantage point of a participant. In one particularly telling photograph, a sea of humanity as dense as a carpet of wildflowers in a meadow spills over a hillside; in another, a young hippie couple standing in a tender embrace under a grandmother’s quilt became the icon of a generation. Rather than document the music, Uzzle chose to focus on details of living, existence, and enjoyment over that three day period. In so doing, he captured the spirit of the festival and ultimately an era.”
And here’s the story behind one well-known Woodstock photo:
The greatest value
of a picture is
when it forces us
to notice what
we never expected
to see.
John W. Tukey
(1915 – 2000)
American Chemist/
Topologist/Statistician
Tukey was an pre-computer home-schooled data geek. Check out his bio here:
The following is from Wiki:
“Tukey coined many statistical terms that have become part of common usage, but the two most famous coinages attributed to him were related to computer science.
While working with John von Neumann on early computer designs, Tukey introduced the word “bit” as a contraction of “binary digit”.[2] The term “bit” was first used in an article by Claude Shannon in 1948.
The term “software“, which Paul Niquette claims he coined in 1953, was first used in print by Tukey in a 1958 article in American Mathematical Monthly, and thus some attribute the term to him;[3] incorrectly, according to Niquette’s claim.
[Is anyone else having a problem spacing the lines in their posts, or is it just me??? I keep trying for my usual
“white space” gaps, but the end view never appears as I’ve typed it.]
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