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I may not remember much from this uneventful game, but I have to say I will probably remember Clint Eastwood making everyone at the party I was at stop and listen for 2 minutes. That man really gets your attention. While it boiled down to being a car commercial, I think it had a really …
I am continuously impressed by the works of some artists that rely on auto-tune as their primary means of composition. From explaining the need to send man to Mars to making one ordinary man an overnight sensation for his double-rainbow encounter, the creativity level has continued to rise. This is the most recent video by …
Sir Ken Robinson is on the offensive once more, arguing that we are facing a dangerous situation in our current global industrial style of education. It appears he gave another TED talk this year, with his last one being in 2006 which I shared here. This time around, he also gave a brief interview with …
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I came across another excellent TED talk, with Temple Grandin speaking about how students with autism are currently treated, and how we should be embracing their alternative methods of thinking in order to help them focus for success.
I don’t have a lot of time to write at the moment, but I came across this video and had to share it. Promoting creativity in schools is a strong passion of mine, and in this video Ken Robinson argues how we are currently killing creativity in children and teaching them to be afraid of …
A new Symphony of Science music video is up today. As with all of them, it takes a couple watches for it to grow on you. I hope this guy puts out a full album someday.
“Remember, it’s only a game! Muahahaha” Dress rehearsal tonight went very very well, minus a very fixable glitch or two. The pit and singers are working really well with each other now. It should be a great show. I’ll be running through my book to fix a thing or two, but aside from that I …
Okay, this is the final ‘Chess’ related video I’ll post. I saved the best for last! The song most people know from the musical: One Night in Bangkok.
New song of the day from Chess. I think this fits my feelings perfectly, lyrically. “You and I, we’ve seen it all, chasing our hearts’ desire. But we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Unfortunately I cannot embed this one, but it’s a beautiful piece of music, and a tragic way to …
I got back from La Crosse not too long ago after the pit-only rehearsal of “Chess” at Viterbo University. Unfortunately the contract was wrong, so we got through less than half of the book before we had to call it. We were contracted until 8, however we were SUPPOSED to rehearse until 10. I would …