Tuesday 27 March 2018
Wednesday 21 March 2018
Image of wind turbine landscape. Looks like an image that came with my cellphone when I bought it. ...
Image of wind turbine landscape. Looks like an image that came with my cellphone when I bought it. Reminds me of Japanese modern art, of the art in a large (was in the oversized book section?) Japanese (graphic?) art book found in the Edmonton Public Library (downtown location; in the 1980s or 1990s).
Source: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2013/03/04/the-netherlands-ballast-nedam-and-mammoet-ink-noordoostpolder-contract/
Endless Nights - song from "Backstreets of Tokyo" by Off Course.
I had a penpal named 'Yukio Kawashima' or ('Yuko') (?) from Japan, who sent me the cassette tape "Backstreets of Tokyo" by Off Course, when I was in junior high. I later knew her friend Yuki Naka (?) as a penpal, also. We were all not penpals later on.
What does it mean when it was said by a writer 'Mariah Carey, aka the reigning Queen of the Melisma Kingdom, can sing a lot of notes'?
What does it mean when it was said by a writer 'Mariah Carey, aka the reigning Queen of the Melisma Kingdom, can sing a lot of notes'? ( In post https://samsarictravelling.blogspot.ca/2018/03/how-many-octaves-can-mariah-carey-sing.html )
'Melisma' is:
'Melisma' is:
Melisma (Greek: μέλισμα, melisma, song, air, melody; from μέλος, melos, song, melody, plural: melismata) is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession. Music sung in this style is referred to as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, in which each syllable of text is matched to a single note.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melisma
Monday 19 March 2018
How Many Octaves Can Mariah Carey Sing?
How Many Octaves Can Mariah Carey Sing? She’s Got One Of The Widest Vocal Ranges In Music
Here's a piece of breaking news...NOT: Mariah Carey, aka the reigning Queen of the Melisma Kingdom, can sing a lot of notes. High notes, low notes, big notes, little notes, medium notes, hot notes, cool notes, this-porridge-is-just-right notes, and so on. But exactly how many notes? What is Mimi's vocal range? How many octaves can Mariah Carey sing? Rather than try (and fail with flying Rainbow colors) to figure out the answers to those questions on my own, I turned to one of my favorite sites on the World Wide Web: The geniuses over at Concert Hotels put together a handy-dandy chart that evaluates the vocal ranges of some of the most popular singers in recent history. And duh, Mariah Carey is near the top of the the list. (She's second only to Guns 'N Roses frontman Axl Rose.)
According to the graph, Mimi sings an F#2, her lowest note, in Jermaine Dupri song “Sweetheart”, and she hits a G#7, her highest note, when she’s whistle-singing away at the end of “Emotions”. Her range spans from octave #2 to octave #7, which means Queen Mimi can hit notes in five out of eight octaves.
Enough words! Here's a supercut of Mariah "Five Octaves" Carey obliterating notes left and right:
trentnjones on YouTube
Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/76348-how-many-octaves-can-mariah-carey-sing-shes-got-one-of-the-widest-vocal-ranges-in
Arnel Campaner Pineda, the lead singer of the American rock band Journey.
Arnel Campaner Pineda (born September 5, 1967)[1] is a Filipino singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the Philippines during the 1980s and internationally in 2007 as the lead singer of the American rock band Journey.[2]
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He spent about two years on the streets, sleeping wherever he could: in public parks, or on a narrow bench outside a friend's crowded house. He earned meager money by collecting glass bottles, newspapers, and scrap metal and selling them to recyclers. He would also go to the pier with his friends and take on odd jobs like cleaning scrap metal and docked ships. He didn't have much to eat, sometimes rationing a small package of Marie biscuit as food for two days.[5]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnel_Pineda
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Monday 12 March 2018
About Kurt Thomas, and Kurt Thomas 1978 Worlds EF Floor.
Kurt Bilteaux Thomas (born March 29, 1956 in Miami, Florida) is an American Olympic gymnast.
In 1978, Thomas was the first American male gymnast to win a gold medal in floor exercise in a world championship.
Two gymnastic moves were named for him, the Thomas Flair, a pommel horse move, and the Thomas salto, his signature skill on floor exercise, a tucked 1.5 backward salto with 1.5 twist into a roll out (a difficult and dangerous skill even by today's standards).[3] The Thomas Flair on pommel horse, and then also performed on floor, was developed over years by several Pommel Horse specialists.[4] However, in gymnastics, new moves are named in the gymnastics rule book after the gymnast who is the first to perform the move in international competition.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Thomas_(gymnast)
0:08 to 0:10 is the Thomas flair (on the pommel horse), according to commentator.
0:54 to 1:01 is the Thomas salto? I don't know.
1:37 to 1:43 is the Thomas flair on the floor, according to commentator.
In 1978, Thomas was the first American male gymnast to win a gold medal in floor exercise in a world championship.
Two gymnastic moves were named for him, the Thomas Flair, a pommel horse move, and the Thomas salto, his signature skill on floor exercise, a tucked 1.5 backward salto with 1.5 twist into a roll out (a difficult and dangerous skill even by today's standards).[3] The Thomas Flair on pommel horse, and then also performed on floor, was developed over years by several Pommel Horse specialists.[4] However, in gymnastics, new moves are named in the gymnastics rule book after the gymnast who is the first to perform the move in international competition.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Thomas_(gymnast)
0:08 to 0:10 is the Thomas flair (on the pommel horse), according to commentator.
0:54 to 1:01 is the Thomas salto? I don't know.
1:37 to 1:43 is the Thomas flair on the floor, according to commentator.
Gymnastics Tragedy - The Story Of Elena Mukhina
0:37 In 1979, while training for the 1979 worlds Mukhina suffered a broken leg which kept her from competing.
1:00 She begged them not to remove her cast and discharge her because "they're dragging me from home to workouts" and she knew she was not yet healed.
1:59 With lingering weakness in her leg and mounting exhaustion from the grueling weight loss workouts she had to do to lose the surgery weight, Mukhina had great difficulty coming back up to speed on performing The Thomas Salto.
2:33 Elena had lost her mother at age of 5. Having only her grandmother, there was nobody who could protect her.
2:40 On July 3, 1980, two weeks before the Olympics, Mukhina was practicing the pass containing the Thomas salto when she under-rotated the salto and crash-landed on her chin, snapping her spine. She was instantly rendered a quadriplegic. (Meaning she could not move her body from her neck down)
1:00 She begged them not to remove her cast and discharge her because "they're dragging me from home to workouts" and she knew she was not yet healed.
1:59 With lingering weakness in her leg and mounting exhaustion from the grueling weight loss workouts she had to do to lose the surgery weight, Mukhina had great difficulty coming back up to speed on performing The Thomas Salto.
2:33 Elena had lost her mother at age of 5. Having only her grandmother, there was nobody who could protect her.
2:40 On July 3, 1980, two weeks before the Olympics, Mukhina was practicing the pass containing the Thomas salto when she under-rotated the salto and crash-landed on her chin, snapping her spine. She was instantly rendered a quadriplegic. (Meaning she could not move her body from her neck down)
My own artwork #5: Batman. Freehand drawing from imagination. Two types of black pens and one type of blue pen, blank white paper.
back side:
Update of July 19, 2018:
Why are there two writings and signatures on the back of my Batman drawing? I think it MAYBE was this: It's because the first black type of pen was "felt-like", so the ink would soak into the paper, so that when I wrote and signed it, I had to do it lightly for fear of the ink soaking in and being seen on the front drawing side. So the writing with that "felt" black pen was not sharp, not clear, but blotty. Therefore, I wrote again and resigned it later -- after having worked on the drawing past midnight to the next day -- with the other black pen type of "normal" ink. That's all. Ai.
Sunday 11 March 2018
Saturday 10 March 2018
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