Since Andrew has posted himself playing a church organ, I didn't want to
be less, and posted myself playing the guitar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRVwajKHLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8i4CraCbc

  (Yeah, poor video and audio quality, but a MacBook is not the highest
quality video recording setup... Didn't have anything else.)

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                                                          - Warp

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I really enjoyed these. You play very well! I tried to learn
classical style guitar and never could find the
self-discipline, so I strum and I pick a little. Learned
piano when I was a child, so...

Check out my daughter and I:

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5674228

~db



"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:4b463abf@news.povray.org...
>   Since Andrew has posted himself playing a church organ,
I didn't want to
> be less, and posted myself playing the guitar...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRVwajKHLo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8i4CraCbc
>
>   (Yeah, poor video and audio quality, but a MacBook is
not the highest
> quality video recording setup... Didn't have anything
else.)
>
> -- 
>                                                           
- Warp

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DungBeatle <dun### [at] moscowcom> wrote:
> Check out my daughter and I:

> http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5674228

  You either gave the wrong link, you are pulling my leg, or else I'm quite
impressed. That's pro quality (in both talent and recording/mixing).

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                                                          - Warp

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No legs were pulled!

That's my girl and my basement home studio...
Glad you like it! I think she has an incredible voice.

I enjoyed listening to you too. I love homegrown music! I'd
rather listen to homemade music than the pro stuff. We're
planning to put up a video this year, we're still working on
the script.

~db


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> DungBeatle <dun### [at] moscowcom> wrote:
> > Check out my daughter and I:
>
> > http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5674228
>
>   You either gave the wrong link, you are pulling my leg,
or else I'm quite
> impressed. That's pro quality (in both talent and
recording/mixing).
>
> -- 
>                                                           
- Warp

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Warp wrote:
>   Since Andrew has posted himself playing a church organ, I didn't want to
> be less, and posted myself playing the guitar...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRVwajKHLo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8i4CraCbc

We actually get to see Warp's face o_O

*puts on headphones and actually listens to the music*

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Warp wrote:
>   Since Andrew has posted himself playing a church organ, I didn't want to
> be less, and posted myself playing the guitar...

That's pretty impressive. :-)

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   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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DungBeatle wrote:
> Check out my daughter and I:

I'd buy that CD. :-)

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   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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I made a new one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLXVk3TWcs

  And here's me singing (for your amusement):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxnl3uFIpAA

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
>   Since Andrew has posted himself playing a church organ, I didn't want to
> be less, and posted myself playing the guitar...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRVwajKHLo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8i4CraCbc

That's actually not half bad, you know...

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> We actually get to see Warp's face o_O

Yeah. I don't know why, I always imagined him as being more... cyborgy.

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
> We actually get to see Warp's face o_O
> 

He seems familiar, I'm sure I know someone with pretty much same face
from Hämeenlinna, but I can't get to my mind who he is.

-Aero

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> We actually get to see Warp's face o_O
> 
> Yeah. I don't know why, I always imagined him as being more... cyborgy.

Possibly because of the other 'shopped photo he released with terminator 
bits showing thru his skin?

I thought he kept more hair, myself. :-)

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   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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>> Yeah. I don't know why, I always imagined him as being more... cyborgy.
> 
> Possibly because of the other 'shopped photo he released with terminator 
> bits showing thru his skin?

Heh. Does seem to fit his personallity though, eh? ;-)

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Possibly because of the other 'shopped photo he released with terminator 
> bits showing thru his skin?

  Well, obviously the organic parts have been restored to avoid needless
attention.

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On 1/7/2010 1:49 PM, Warp wrote:
>    Since Andrew has posted himself playing a church organ, I didn't want to
> be less, and posted myself playing the guitar...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRVwajKHLo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8i4CraCbc
>
>    (Yeah, poor video and audio quality, but a MacBook is not the highest
> quality video recording setup... Didn't have anything else.)
>

Very nice ... Only saw the first video, though. My brother in law would 
be impressed (He's a pretty good guitarist, and teaches lessons)

Nice to finally put a face to the name, too!

-- 
~Mike

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Warp wrote:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxnl3uFIpAA
> 

Daaaang, you could do movie trailers with that voice.  Also, very nice, 
thanks for posting.

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Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxnl3uFIpAA
> > 

> Daaaang, you could do movie trailers with that voice.  Also, very nice, 
> thanks for posting.

  My normal speaking voice is not nearly as low as that. It's curious,
really. It's like when singing you arrange your throat in a completely
different way, which would feel very unnatural (and ridiculous) when
speaking normally, so your singing voice is very different from your
speaking voice.

  In fact, it's so different from speaking that I didn't even know that
I could sing like that until I was like 25, for the simple reason that
I had never actually *tried* singing that low. I had tried singing using
the same pitch as everybody else (ie. almost an octave higher than that),
and my singing voice at that pitch is just horrible. In fact, somewhere
at about C4 I just *can't* sing anymore because my voice is incapable of
reaching that (without using falsetto, which sounds horrible). For this
reason I lived for over a decade (ie. from puberty to about 25-27) thinking
I can't sing at all, that I simply don't have what it takes, physically.

  I have a friend who sings that low as well, and I found it cool that he
always sung an octave lower than all the other men. One day it just occurred
to me to *try* singing that low as well, and much to my great surprise,
I was not only able to reach those low notes (down to D2 and even lower
on good days), but it felt *comfortable* singing at that pitch.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:

>   My normal speaking voice is not nearly as low as that. It's curious,
> really. It's like when singing you arrange your throat in a completely
> different way, which would feel very unnatural (and ridiculous) when
> speaking normally, so your singing voice is very different from your
> speaking voice.

I can't sing.

Or rather, I can produce tones that are in tune, but DAMN you wouldn't 
want to listen to it for more than a few seconds! o_O

Also, after singing for a while, I start to experience mild symptons of 
hypoxia. [This, presumably, just means I'm doing it horribly wrong.]

Out of curiosity, have you ever been *taught* to sing?

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, have you ever been *taught* to sing?

  Nope.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, have you ever been *taught* to sing?
> 
>   Nope.

Ah well, I've never been taught to play pipe organs either. But I'm kind 
of not completely hopeless at it... [In my rather biased opinion.]

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A created another arrangement. Had to work quite a lot to play it as well
as I do in the video, as it's quite difficult (at least for me).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGDJwVThB6k

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
>   A created another arrangement. Had to work quite a lot to play it as well
> as I do in the video, as it's quite difficult (at least for me).

Very nicely done.  Makes you appreciate the talent of professional 
performers, doesn't it?

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   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
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Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   A created another arrangement. Had to work quite a lot to play it as 
>> well
>> as I do in the video, as it's quite difficult (at least for me).
> 
> Very nicely done.  Makes you appreciate the talent of professional 
> performers, doesn't it?
> 

That might have come out wrong. I mean, the fact that something like that 
took a lot of work to learn to play well can make you appreciate how much 
talent a professional who can dance around stage live while fireworks are 
going off and make it sound as good.

I didn't mean "that sounds so awful it makes me wish only professionals 
could play." :-)

(I probably wouldn't have needed the clarification except that I exasperated 
you recently and you might think it was something personal. :-)

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> (I probably wouldn't have needed the clarification except that I exasperated 
> you recently and you might think it was something personal. :-)

  I think you are being paranoid.

  Pros play so effortlessly and so perfectly that it is, indeed, quite
admirable. But it's always the result of lots, lots, lots and lots of
practice. Like at least 6 hours straight every single day for years.
I could never hope to reach that level. I don't have the motivation nor
the patience.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:

>   Pros play so effortlessly and so perfectly that it is, indeed, quite
> admirable. But it's always the result of lots, lots, lots and lots of
> practice. Like at least 6 hours straight every single day for years.
> I could never hope to reach that level. I don't have the motivation nor
> the patience.

I've seen Carl Palmer play live several times now. He always as a couple 
of other performers with him (because, let's face it, who's going to 
listen to a drummer for 2 hours?) One of them is this guy called Paul or 
something. He looks about 12 years old [although obviously he isn't]. 
Big mop of blond hair. And he can do absurd things to a guitar. I'll 
never forget watching him play The Flight of the Bumblebee. Christ, that 
was insane...

Some might argue that the facial expressions are over the top. But hey, 
when you can play this well, I think you're entitled to look enthusiastic!

I have no idea how the hell somebody this young got to be so damned good.

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Invisible wrote:

> I've seen Carl Palmer play live several times now. He always as a couple 
> of other performers with him. One of them is this guy called Paul or 
> something. He looks about 12 years old [although obviously he isn't]. 
> Big mop of blond hair. And he can do absurd things to a guitar.

This guy:

http://www.paulbielatowicz.com/

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> (I probably wouldn't have needed the clarification except that I exasperated 
>> you recently and you might think it was something personal. :-)
> 
>   I think you are being paranoid.

Just careful, because I like and respect you, and that doesn't always come 
across in ASCII. I'm glad you didn't read it in a way it wasn't intended. :-)

>   Pros play so effortlessly and so perfectly that it is, indeed, quite
> admirable. But it's always the result of lots, lots, lots and lots of
> practice. Like at least 6 hours straight every single day for years.

Indeed.

> I could never hope to reach that level. I don't have the motivation nor
> the patience.

Not for music, but for programming. I imagine musical pros would go "Whoa, 
how do you do that?" when seeing some of the cool programs you're written.

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   The question in today's corporate environment is not
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   "what color is your nose?"

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Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> I've seen Carl Palmer play live several times now. He always as a 
>> couple of other performers with him. One of them is this guy called 
>> Paul or something. He looks about 12 years old [although obviously he 
>> isn't]. Big mop of blond hair. And he can do absurd things to a guitar.
> 
> This guy:
> 
> http://www.paulbielatowicz.com/

Indeed. And flight of the bumblebee is the first video on
http://www.paulbielatowicz.com/sights-and-sounds/videos/

Very impressive.  Sort of the Harlem Globe Trotters of guitar.

Altho I imagine there are more difficult instruments to play flight of the 
bumblebee on.  Like... trombone maybe. :-)

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   "what color is your nose?"

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Darren New wrote:
> Altho I imagine there are more difficult instruments to play flight of 
> the bumblebee on.  Like... trombone maybe. :-)

And a quick search of youtube shows that I'm not the first to have thought 
of this.

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   "what color is your nose?"

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Not for music, but for programming. I imagine musical pros would go "Whoa, 
> how do you do that?" when seeing some of the cool programs you're written.

  Nah. How many people look at an average house in the middle of a city
and say "wow, the architect who designed this is really good and clearly
knows his job"? Most people just think "yeah, a house".

  Or when people drive over a bridge, how many of them think "wow, the
person who designed this thing is really talented, I could never do this
myself"? Most people don't even notice.

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Warp wrote:

>   Nah. How many people look at an average house in the middle of a city
> and say "wow, the architect who designed this is really good and clearly
> knows his job"? Most people just think "yeah, a house".
> 
>   Or when people drive over a bridge, how many of them think "wow, the
> person who designed this thing is really talented, I could never do this
> myself"? Most people don't even notice.

Indeed. I'm sure I already mentioned that one about "This feature should 
be easy to add. After all, it only requires one additional button on the 
Customer screen."

For that matter... tea bags. What are tea bags made out of?

You didn't say paper, did you?

Think about it. If you get paper wet, it instantly falls apart. If you 
get it even slightly moist, it falls apart. So... what the **** are tea 
bags made of?! I mean, you pour BOILING WATER onto them! And then you 
squish them, and they still don't break.

For that matter, what the hell kind of glue to you glue them shut with 
that doesn't disolve in boiling water, and is non-toxic??

Ever stop to think about THAT? Huh?? ;-)

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Not for music, but for programming. I imagine musical pros would go "Whoa, 
>> how do you do that?" when seeing some of the cool programs you're written.
> 
>   Nah. How many people look at an average house in the middle of a city
> and say "wow, the architect who designed this is really good and clearly
> knows his job"? Most people just think "yeah, a house".
> 
>   Or when people drive over a bridge, how many of them think "wow, the
> person who designed this thing is really talented, I could never do this
> myself"? Most people don't even notice.
> 

Me for one. But then I live in a country that is rich in architecture.

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	Stephen

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PS Nice playing,

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	Stephen

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Orchid XP v8 a écrit :

> 
> For that matter... tea bags. What are tea bags made out of?
> 
> You didn't say paper, did you?
> 
> Think about it. If you get paper wet, it instantly falls apart. If you
> get it even slightly moist, it falls apart. So... what the **** are tea
> bags made of?! I mean, you pour BOILING WATER onto them! And then you
> squish them, and they still don't break.
> 
> For that matter, what the hell kind of glue to you glue them shut with
> that doesn't disolve in boiling water, and is non-toxic??

1: Tea bag are bad.
They are a misuse of the original intend: individual dose of tea, to be
removed from the bag. Lazyness and clueless make such wonders!

The "paper" is made of long vegetable fibers (such as abaca, a kind of
banana cultivated for its fibers on the trunk), as opposed to the finely
reduced fibers (and stones) in your nicest glossy white sheet of paper.

The glue can be just any thermoplastic: PVC or polypropylene.
As it does not disolve, it can be toxic, no problem, you're not supposed
to chew the teabag.

2: Worse than tea bag for the environment: the coffee capsule.

3: Use a tea infuser, only junk the exhausted tea-leaves.

It took some Americans to start the tea-bag, but Europeans are to be
blamed for the capsule.

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Le_Forgeron wrote:

> 1: Tea bag are bad.
> They are a misuse of the original intend: individual dose of tea, to be
> removed from the bag. Lazyness and clueless make such wonders!

And the fact that a teabag is much simpler and easier than trying to 
seperate out the tealeaves afterwards? (Believe me, I've tried this.)

What puzzles me is that nobody has yet had the idea of just selling the 
resulting infusion, rather than the leaves themselves. (Then again, 
anything with water in it is more expensive, so...)

> The "paper" is made of long vegetable fibers (such as abaca, a kind of
> banana cultivated for its fibers on the trunk), as opposed to the finely
> reduced fibers (and stones) in your nicest glossy white sheet of paper.
> 
> The glue can be just any thermoplastic: PVC or polypropylene.
> As it does not disolve, it can be toxic, no problem, you're not supposed
> to chew the teabag.

I see...

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Invisible a écrit :
> Le_Forgeron wrote:
> 
>> 1: Tea bag are bad.
>> They are a misuse of the original intend: individual dose of tea, to be
>> removed from the bag. Lazyness and clueless make such wonders!
> 
> And the fact that a teabag is much simpler and easier than trying to
> seperate out the tealeaves afterwards? (Believe me, I've tried this.)
> 

Why separate afterward, from a tea-infuser ? Rinse and flush!
Reusing tea bag ?

Keep your tea leaves dry and in metal box until you need them.

> What puzzles me is that nobody has yet had the idea of just selling the
> resulting infusion, rather than the leaves themselves. (Then again,
> anything with water in it is more expensive, so...)
> 
And what do you think Lipton is selling under the name ice(d) tea, in
venture with PepsiCo ?
A lot of canned and bottled water with various flavours.


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Le_Forgeron wrote:

> Why separate afterward, from a tea-infuser ? Rinse and flush!
> Reusing tea bag ?
> 
> Keep your tea leaves dry and in metal box until you need them.

I've tried keeping the leaves in a box, and using a tea strainer to 
remove them after you add the water. It never, ever, removes all of 
them. There's always bits of tea leaf left over.

Some people say that by observing the pattern of the leaves at the 
bottom of the cup, you can predict the future...

>> What puzzles me is that nobody has yet had the idea of just selling the
>> resulting infusion, rather than the leaves themselves. (Then again,
>> anything with water in it is more expensive, so...)
>>
> And what do you think Lipton is selling under the name ice(d) tea, in
> venture with PepsiCo ?
> A lot of canned and bottled water with various flavours.

Haven't heard of that one...

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Invisible wrote:
> What puzzles me is that nobody has yet had the idea of just selling the 
> resulting infusion, rather than the leaves themselves. 

I feel I must be misunderstanding something here. Either that, or England is 
ripe for a british version of Starbucks to come in and make billions.

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   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> What puzzles me is that nobody has yet had the idea of just selling 
>> the resulting infusion, rather than the leaves themselves. 
> 
> I feel I must be misunderstanding something here. Either that, or 
> England is ripe for a british version of Starbucks to come in and make 
> billions.
> 

Remember that it is Andrew writing here :-)
If we go to a Starbucks type tea house then all is lost. :-(


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	Stephen

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