Posts Tagged "nature"

• Video of Chicago’s Storm

  Uncategorized

  Found this video of the storm in Chicago from Wednesday.: Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.  

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• Another View of Natural Inspiration

  On Mind

    I’ve written about the reflection of nature in music before. Now, I realize there may be another approach.  

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• MMOs and Ownership

  On Technology

    Richard Bartle is a major name in game design. He is likely best known for having created Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) – a precursor to the Massively multiplayer worlds that we see nowadays. He also has an excellent paper where he, I believe, pioneered the psychological investigation of gamers by characterizing and describing four basic [...]

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• Man, Music, and Technology

  On Mind

  (… somewhere in my mind is a quote whose origins I can’t quite seem to find … something about music reflecting the state of its society … if only I had written it down … but, …) Is technology empowering or destroying music? Have we lost something on the ride into this electronic world? Or [...]

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• Naming Pieces of Music

  On Music

  Please enjoy the new piece of music I have added to the side bar. I have titled it “border” by the method I seem to use for naming pieces. Specifically, I use the first words that come to mind when I am ready to give the piece a title. It may seem an arbitrary method [...]

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