I wandered over to TED today for a bit and this music video from 2003 had me smiling all the way through. 18 minutes.
Natalie played here in Redding at the Cascade a while ago, and I’m sorry I missed that show. Saw her at the Britt once, though. Marvelous. TED is running this week in Long Beach.
Airpark Cafe a very pleasant surprise
Some friends and I met today for lunch at the Airpark Cafe, at Benton Airpark off Placer Road up the hill at Gold Street. I didn’t even realize there was a restaurant up there, on the second floor. I was pleasantly surprised to find a really nice setting. I suppose it wasn’t quite on par with some of the cafes you might see if you head to JUSTLOVECOFFEEFRANCHISE.COM but it sold coffee so I was happy!
The breakfast and lunch only menu is very complete. I had an excellent BLT accompanied by terrific fresh fruit, and I saw some delightfully creative looking burgers go by, with fragrant garlic fries. Yum.
Described as the “best kept secret in Redding,” here is the Facebook page for the Airpark Cafe, or call at 530 241 4204. Open 8am-2pm Monday – Sunday. Great service, complete menu, really interesting views, and open 7 days a week. Near the dog park too. Plus, you can fly in, or just watch the flights in and out. Well worth checking out. Tell ’em you saw it at ReallyRedding.
Imagining 10 dimensions in 11 minutes
This was an interesting and fun video about how to conceptualize 10 dimensions, although we beings only seem to occupy 3 or 4 of them. At least, so it seems. Well worth your 11 minutes.
Watch Imagining the ten dimensions in How to Videos | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
After watching this, I lay in bed the next morning wondering if time, the 4th dimension, was actually arranged on a Möbius path. We might find ourselves at the start of our path when we reach the end, like the Flatlander in the video. That would be odd. Anyway, thanks to my brother Ron for sending this one.
Zebras in Palo Cedro
Hawk on a limb photo
Took this one yesterday. Only got one shot before it flew off. Still, I like the composition.
I like to shoot birds. With my camera, I mean. Still, my shots are nothing compared to what you can find here:
http://CloudBoxer.com
Birds fighting in air. Really amazing high shutter speed shots. Seeing those, I don’t think the dinosaurs went extinct. I think they just became birds. Click on the image to go to their site:
A few sample MP3s from Beyond the Portal
As promised yesterday, I am posting a few sound snippets from our new CD. Please enjoy, and if you wish to purchase directly from the artist, you can do so HERE, just as soon as we can get a Paypal button put up.
Our new music CD is released!
Yay! Yesterday, Craig Padilla received the first shipment of our new CD Beyond the Portal.. This his being distributed worldwide on the Lotuspike Label, via Spotted Peccary records, an artist run label. We’re pretty stoked!
We celebrated with champagne we had been saving for the occasion light beer. Yay! Hope to have some samples up soon (of the music, not the beer).
I should point out that this CD was the collaborative efforts of 3 artists. Missing from the picture is Zero Ohms, who lives in Memphis, and was unable to join us in Redding. Hoist one for us, Zero! Our thanks for your fine work.
1,474 Megapixel view of the Inaugural
Click on the image below to see a spellbinding view of the recent innaugural by David Bergman.
The photographer’s blogsite is here:
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/
Or at GigaPan here:
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374&window_height=867&window_width=1663
Really quite a technical photographic achievement that now has become an amazing artistic accomplishment as well. Well worth your time. Scrolling around, you really get a feel for how cold it was. And it’s also interesting to see just how many cameras were there, between the crowd and the pros. Obviously, it was an important moment, and it was covered. I have done many stitched panoramas for online home virtual tours, but this is more extraordinary by an order of a magnitude. The equivalent of 220 photos stitched.
Dinner and a Movie at the Cascade, with a few pix
We attended last evening’s Dinner and a Movie at the lovely Cascade Theater.
Sponsored by chef Doni Greenberg of Food for Thought/A News Cafe among others, this series showcases a food themed movie, and then features a cooking demonstration onstage. Last night, it was Doni, along with Nancy Matthews of Chocolat de Nannette fame. Mmm. Truffles. They have the recipe at the website. I learned a new word for mouth-watering: Ganache. You can click on the link for more.
This was the 3rd in the 4 part series. The movie “Babbette’s Feast” was unknown to me. To say it was slow starter would be an understatement. But the film really grows on you, until the climax, which was as satisfying as the treats Doni and Nancy had made for us all.
We had a glass of Shiraz and enjoyed the exquisite treats they’d made for the audience.
Slow-shutter hand-held view. What a great evening! I hope they continue the series.
