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Month: July 2013

  • Gravity Trailer

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    Film clips often make the best trailers. Case in point, this trailer for Gravity. When used properly, film clips can set the premise of the film and provide a single coherent scene, giving the viewer a chance to not only know the premise prior to seeing the film, but to know the film’s style and…

  • KlezFest 2013

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    I had a great time jamming with Sarah and other fellow musicians at the 2013 KlezFest. I’ll definitely plan to do this again next year.

  • State of the Word 2013

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    This year’s State of the Word, sort of the annual address to the WordPress community by co-founder Matt Mullenweg, is now available for viewing (and embedded below). I highly recommend watching it if you’re interested in the current state and future of WordPress. Some tiny bits worth noting are that 18.9% of the web is now…

  • RWBY: Not Anime Fairy Tales

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    I have been speculating that RWBY would be an anime-style treatment of popular fairy tales ever since I saw the first trailer. It looks like I’m a bit wrong, but I’m not disappointed at all. It had seemed that Red would be Red Riding Hood, White would be Snow White, Black would be Belle, and Yellow would be Goldilocks, but there isn’t…

  • Metallica vs. Herbie Hancock

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    Music mashups are magical things which combined two or more songs into one. It takes a real artist to create a mashup that sounds like it should have actually been a performable piece at some point, especially when combined two entirely different styles, and Master of Doin’ It by Wax Audio is no exception. Master…