by Henk ter Heide on Thursday June 4, 2009
I have a day off to kill two birds with one stone.
This afternoon I have to go to the hospital for a check up of my hip and this morning our local recycle shop is coming to get a cupboard.
I could spend the time doing some drawings but I find that I’m rather nervous. So instead I’m watching some video and listening to some songs on youtube.
I came across this old video by Derek and The Dominos and it reminded me how times have changed and how I have changed.
Music has become very important. Nowadays I watch a lot of music videos looking for suitable songs to post on twitter.
In my youth music wasn’t that important. Although my radio played a lot of tunes I never listened to them. I was always reading or doing something else while the radio played.
Only sometimes when there was a really beautiful song on the radio, would I actually listen.
So it took me years to realize that the kind of boring song that runs till 3 min 24 sec and the really beautiful instrumental bit that starts at 3 min 25 sec are actually the same song.
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by Henk ter Heide on Thursday June 7, 2007
Last week I wanted to do a still live about apples and pears but for the live of me I couldn’t remember what apples looked like. Just now I though I draw a banana and the apple just flowed out of my pencil.
One of the nice things about having a blog is that you can watch who is watching you. Well not exactly. Via my stats counter I can see where people who visit my site come from. In which city there ISP lives, which ISP they use, which site pointed them to my site. But I can’t see who they are.
Apples and pears
So a few weeks ago someone in an American town I never knew existed took an hour out to visit my site. That’s a nice all be it surprising act.
Last week while I was thinking of ways to get more visitors I though I might use Del.icio.us to publish the fact that my weblog exists. So now with every entry I post I post a link at del.icio.us.
Using my stats counter I can see that it works. Some of the people who visit me come from del.icio.us drawing page, page 6. Or del.icio.us art page, page 4. I’ve tried looking the link up. But the del.icio.us pages change rapidly. So I stopped trying to find them.
Last Monday I noticed that someone had reach me from a del.icio.us page with a tag I hadn’t used. That surprised me enough to go and have a look.
It turned out that someone found my del.icio.us bookmarks interesting enough to subscribe to my bookmark stream. That’s funny. I never though that anyone could like the way I see the world.
Curious as to what else he might find interesting I took a RSS feed on his subscription page.
The first link I got was of a Youtube showing of a documantary about the autistic music savant piano genius Derek Paravicini prepairing for a concert in the States in front of a crowd of 10,000 people.
This guy really plays the most beautiful pieces of piano music. The documantary is shown in 5 parts totaling close to 50 minutes, but it is wurth it. I’m linking to all five parts:
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