Musical genius

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Paul| 1 Comment

Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin


I love music and comedy and also love science, technology and rational thinking. And one man combines these passions: His name is Tim Minchin and everything I’ve seen him do is simply fantastic. As well and being an amazing pianist, the best since Les Dawson, his songwriting talent is simply something else. Having caught him on Loose Ends on Radio 4 earlier this evening, I was reminded to write a glowing review of his work, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Continue reading →

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A gentlemans tiff…

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Paul| 3 Comments
Boxing

Boxing

One of my favourite musical genres is hip-hop; beats, rhymes and life as the saying goes. A big part of hip-hop culture is the MC battle where two or more MCs spit freestyle venom at each other, sometimes in a good-hearted manner, other times less so. This battling can also be taken onto plastic, resulting in so-called battle tracks or diss tracks. Sometimes this whole scenario gets out of hand; think the whole east-coast vs west-coast rivalry of the 1990′s or more recently Nas vs Jay-Z, 50 Cent vs Ja Rule. Well, a whole new battle may just be breaking out on UK shores and this one promises to be a lot more, well, polite. Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different…

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Paul| Leave a comment
Laser scanning

Laser scanning

Having been posting about all kinds of random stuff of late, I will soon get back to some archaeology. Just for a change. I’ve been busy of late at work with a number of laser scanning survey and photographic projects and will be posting some results over on my Wessex Archaeology blog. As such, in addition to using Pointools quite a lot, I’ve also been tinkering with some photographic bits n bobs (HDR, stitching, rectification and more panoramas) which I will post about also. So rest assured, some more on topic material coming soon as I’ll summarise the work stuff here also.

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