Thursday, October 4, 2012

Some cool stuff.


Theo Jansen: My creations, a new form of life 
 
 
 
 

Tom Shannon's gravity-defying sculpture

 

Monday, October 1, 2012

Honey moon. swweet.


With my lovely wife will go on a honeymoon that is sweet with a lot of gravitational pull. I would travel around Europe. First I'd take a cruise to England and visit Stone Henge. Then we'll take a cruise to Scandinavia for a few days. We'll stay a week in Germany and visit monuments such as the Berlin wall. We'll also go to Wacken music festival and have a good time listening to music. We'll also go to other music festivals such as Summer Breeze and Metalfest. In the Netherlands, we'll go visit the red-light district and see the various scenery and museums. In Italy, we'll eat pasta and pizza. You know eat the spaghetti in that way. I like to lasagna. I like carbonara. I like Pasta in general. I chose to go to Europe mostly because of the weather. Europe has a lot of scenery and there is a lot of history there. Maybe in Denmark we'll join a RPG game. Those games where there are class you can be such as mage, warrior, archer, etc etc. I think it'll be fun.  

The First thing i see when I wake up.


The first thing I see when I wake up is my bass guitar. I started to play the bass about two months ago. The compositions that I play to is advanced compared to what beginners play. I didn't start with the easy stuff, I just went straight to intermediate sheet music. I believe that I have a natural talent in playing music. I surely don't think that I got that gene from my parents but rather from my ancestors. I discovered my musical talents at the age of four when my parents had me take piano lessons. From then on I've been walking the path to musicianship and I plan on getting a minor in Music along with possibly a minor in biology and majoring in Engineering. Whenever I listen to music, of course since I'm a drummer I listen to the drums, but I also listen to the bass. For a lot of songs I notice that the bass player is way in the back of the mixing which makes the song sound thin, if you understand what I mean. The purpose of the bass sound is to plant a foundation for all the other instruments: bass on the bottom, drums bottom to top, guitars in the middle as well as vocals. Have you heard any bass solos? Man, I have to tell you that they are amazing. I like how they use the body of the bass to produce that drum-like beat and play their notes over that. I like bass.