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Pork and Beans

// May 26th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // entertainment

And now for a completely different style of music…

Pork and Beans, the new single by Weezer is a parody of multiple popular YouTube videos. Can you spot them all?

The Cello

// May 24th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // entertainment

When I was about six years old, I attended a matinée performance of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. After the performance, they asked if any kids in the audience knew what a particular instrument was. I waved my arm in the air and when picked, correctly answered, “The cello.” I was then invited on stage, where I got to conduct the orchestra for a few minutes while the actual conductor whispered in my ear what to do. I still remember those basic conducting instructions.

The cello is featured in my favourite piece of music (of any genre) Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Here’s a video of Jacqueline du Pré performing the 1st movement of that concerto:

Jacqueline was one of the first female cellists to play with her legs apart. The cello Jacqueline is playing is the 1712 Davydov Stradivarius which is now used by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who performed the same piece on the same instrument 45 years later.

Mesh08

// May 21st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // events

Today and tomorrow, I’m attending the Mesh conference here in Toronto. If you’re at Mesh also, please say hello in person, or on Twitter.

I’m on a discussion panel at 1:30 pm today called Video is Everywhere. There’s a few people from traditional broadcast (myself included) along with BlipTV founder Dina Kaplan discussing the past & future of video online. If you’re here, I hope you can come out, listen and participate in the discussion.

Right now I’m listening to the keynote with Ethan Kaplan. Ethan works with Warner Bros. Records and has a really refreshing, positive outlook about the business of music. My understanding is that most of the sessions today will be made available online and if so, I’ll add a link to this keynote later. If you’ve been listening to music execs panicking over piracy the last few years, you have to give Ethan’s cool & collected outlook a listen. If you can’t wait for the video, the boys from CTV are live blogging the keynote over at shiftedit. UPDATE: 11:02 a.m. shiftedit is now ScribbleLive and I’ve now joined the Mesh conversation over there.

Let Mesh begin!