Saturday, August 21
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to present Geeks Without Borders at Gnomedex in Seattle.
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Saturday, August 210
Yesterday I had the opportunity to present Geeks Without Borders at Gnomedex in Seattle.
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Given the fact that earlier this month Prince decreed that “the Internet is over,” I’m fairly certain this video doesn’t really exist, I’m not sharing it with you and he certainly doesn’t sing “Raspberry Sorbet” at 14:50 to a Muppet.
Saw this on Hulu…Looks pretty awesome…
Trek Nation – Director’s trailer — Fall 2009 from Scott Colthorp on Vimeo.
Brilliant mashup of two recent memes: Double Rainbow and the Hitler videos:
The dueling piano community in Central Florida is all abuzz with the announcement of a new dueling piano bar opening on Church Street in Orlando. Slated to open later this summer, Baby Grands Dueling Piano Bar is taking over the 6,700-square-feet space that was formerly the Olive Garden…mere steps away from where Howl at the Moon used to be.
Howl at the Moon on Church Street was wildly successful, drawing a steady flow of downtown regulars in the waning years of Church Street Station’s glory days. I know, because I was one of those regulars, and it was my first exposure to dueling pianos as a concept (my mom suggested that I audition, something I actually did many years later).
Baby Grands is opening in a city not without its share of competitors. Howl at the Moon operates over 10 locations around the country, and its International Drive venue has been one of the company’s flagship stores for at least six years. Pat O’Briens in CityWalk and Jellyrolls at Disney Boardwalk also do nightly dueling piano shows. I’ve also heard there are a few bars in the Lake Mary area that have been experimenting with the format on weekends.
To its advantage, the entire 55 West area of Church Street has slowly been making a comeback in recent months. The area already boasts 377 of the most centrally located apartments downtown, Amura Sushi, Panchero’s Mexican Grill and Gino’s Pizza & Brew. Now, in addition to Baby Grands, they’ve announced plans for a new bar called Blend in the old Sharper Image space and Mad Cow Theater is moving into the old Hooter’s space. And apparently Baby Grands will be be serving food…something that most other dueling piano bars (including Howl at the Moon) do not do.
The question on everyone’s mind is: who is behind this new venture? The Orlando Business Journal reports that the principals own restaurants, bars and other franchises in Florida, New York and Virginia.
More importantly: Who’s going to be playing there? There are a limited number of experienced “A” duelers in town (I’ve met or played with most of them) and without exception, all of them have steady gigs at one of the already-established venues. Will the new bar be able to attract talent from the other clubs? We shall see.
One thing is for certain…lips are sealed tight. If anyone is jumping ship, they’re keeping mum about it. But I peeked in the space, and build-out has commenced. Banners are flying in the windows and this week’s “Best of Orlando” issue of the Orlando Weekly featured a 1/4 page color ad for the new club. Baby is on her way.
Piano bar on tap at 55 West – Orlando Business Journal
Baby Grands Dueling Pianos in Downtown Orlando « Pulse of Central Florida.
The Pythagoreans were a persecuted sect, sometimes violently persecuted. They were a threat to traditional religion, like many new sects. Plato’s teacher, Socrates, was famously executed for religious heresy.
“The Pythagoreans realized that when we hear beauty and music, when we hear notes harmonizing, that’s because the notes have simple ratios, like 1:2 or 3:4. So the beauty of music is direct perception of the mathematical order underlying the world. They worshipped that mathematics.”
“Simply put, they were threatening to overthrow the gods on Olympus and put numbers and mathematics in its place. Prior to Socrates being executed, a number of other philosophers were banished or fled because of threats to themselves. It was dangerous in those days to be a philosopher.”
Now it appears that Plato may have hidden secret musical message in his writings. Read More: A Musical Message Discovered In Plato’s Works : NPR.
“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it.
“The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.
“They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”
THE INTERNET IS COMPLETELY OVER? Funny, that’s what I thought about Prince when I first heard “Bat Dance”.
via Prince – world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star’s secret world – mirror.co.uk.
Of course, Kevin Smith already outed Prince’s batshit crazy…
More and more people are running their businesses, quite successfully, as solo founders. If you happen to follow the world of startups, especially web startups, you’ll know that venture capital is undergoing a change and more startups are being run on less initial investment and that the size of each investment is getting smaller. More:Royal We: Single Founder Startups | Ginzametrics.
25 years ago today, the original Back the the Future film was released. It was the top grossing film of 1985. Here’s some things you may not know about the film:
Although Michael J. Fox was always the first pick to play Marty McFly, Fox was too busy filming “Family Ties” to sign on to the project. They replaced Fox with Eric Stoltz. After 4 weeks of filming (and $3 million dollars), the producers and Stotz agreed he wasn’t right for the part and he left the project. Fox was then cast and they worked around his tight schedule to make the film.
Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen dad, Crispin Glover.
When Marty pretends to be Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, he plays a tape labeled “Van Halen” to scare George out of his sleep. It is an untitled Edward Van Halen original written for a movie called “The Wild Life”.
In the sequel the entire ending scene from the original movie was painstakingly re-created, shot-for-shot: