WORKOUT SESSION: SEMIBREVE

December 27, 2016  •  Leave a Comment
It's music season, with lots of semiquavers, flagged flats, and accidentals rattling from car speakers and desktop radios. There's Leonard's major lift, Gruber's famous not-so-silent thirds, and Robert Burns' unforgettable "fair use" of an auld folke song. But let's settle in on just one musical attribute today - the semibreve. The semibreve is t...
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WORKOUT SESSION: NASCANTUR IN ADMIRATIONE

December 13, 2016  •  Leave a Comment
It's December, and we've arrived at the gates of our own Bethlehem after a yearlong journey of inward-focusing photo assignments. There has been an underlying theme, you see, a reason for all of them. Remember ostranyenie, touched in the head, hidden, mumble tracks, memory leak, heavy light, or the one that whacked almost everybody - photosynthesis...
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WORKOUT SESSION: TINFOIL HAT

November 29, 2016  •  Leave a Comment
Yay! It's play time! No more photosynthesis!! For now. Nothing serious for the next couple weeks - we're going to channel our inner kindergärtner and do fun stuff. Complete with a nap at 3 pm (bring your own blanket), and a snack before recess. We'll track mud into the house, crayon the walls, get cookie crumbs in the sofa, and let the dog chase t...
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS

November 16, 2016  •  Leave a Comment
Photosynthesis. Wikepedia defines photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be used to fuel the organisms' activities. Phhht. We know that photosynthesis is really about photography - it has "photo" in it fer cryin' out loud. But ok, maybe photosynthesis is a valid...
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WORKOUT SESSION: I SO LATE

November 01, 2016  •  Leave a Comment
What are your top ten favorite songs of all time? Go ahead, write them down; I'll wait... Got 'em? OK, how many have a main subject or character that's isolated in some way - a broken heart, can't find their way back home, doesn't fit in, better than everyone else, or just plain lonely? None? You live in a fantasy world. All? You live in a...
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