Buz v. Pizza By The Slice
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Two big downtown LA loves: the aircraft of the California Science Center including a Blackbird (A12/SR71) and now the Endeavor space shuttle. w00t!
Space Shuttle flying through Griffith Park
“Ticket to the Twenties”: Free 2-day Event at Homestead Museum
- Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16
- 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. (both days)
- Free admittance & free parking
- Homestead Museum, City of Industry, California
A good line-up of local acts, including Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys, Ian Whitcomb (site does not say whether Ian’s regular band-mate Fred Sokolow will be performing), Dean Mora & His Modern Rhythmists, Night Blooming Jazzmen with emcee Maxwell DeMille, plus some quite good food trucks (After School Special, Bakery Truck, Border Grill, Frysmith, and more…)
Celebrate the Roaring Twenties as you enjoy dance demonstrations and lessons… silent film screenings with live musical accompaniment… ukulele sing-alongs and lessons, crafts, music, games, vintage automobiles, historic house tours, and tasty food.
(via Homestead Museum)
(via beginnersuke)
Had a terrific time last night at Yang and Emily’s wedding — got to see so many old pals. A highlight was their engagement video set, of course, to Bruno Mars’s “Marry You”. That said —this video is AWESOME (yes, I’m a cry baby):
Isaac’s Lip-Dub Proposal! set to Bruno Mars’s “Marry You”
Via meghanpcoleman:
This might be the most amazing proposal I have ever seen! It makes me want to move to Portland :)
Totally agree with Meghan’s comment (PDX is truly an awesome town). If this doesn’t lift you up, well, please check for a pulse.
Play along on your uke (only three chords!): F Gm Bb F :
F: 2 0 1 0
Gm: 0 2 3 1
Bb: 3 2 1 1Bruno Mars is one talented performer whose success pleases me no end, chiefly because he’s so appreciative of his good fortune and is clearly having a blast — oh, and he’s a terrific entertainer. Doubters need only watch Bruno tackle any song this audience calls out — from “Eye of the Tiger” to some Tina Turner and Michael Jackson ditties.
You’ll also encounter “Marry You” for the ukulele in this alternate key: D Em G D
Ian Whitcomb discusses and signs “Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age”
September 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm, at Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, California
Taylor Swift wields one, Train made the Top Ten with “Hey, Soul Sister,” and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam made an entire album with just the four strings of a uke. But this isn’t the first time the tiny instrument has gotten so much attention. In Ukulele Heroes, Ian Whitcomb—a prestigious ukulele player in his own right—takes readers back to the instrument’s golden age and profiles the glorious individuals who made ukulele history. Featuring stage, screen, and recording stars who pioneered the uke, from Ukelele Ike to Tessie O’Shea, these profiled stars made the uke’s current resurgence possible.
(via Vroman’s Bookstore, hat tip,me: BeginnerUuke)
Zack Rock’s “Mel Goate and the Purple Tuxedo”
Lots of fine work-in-progress art plus daily sketches over on illustrator Zack Rock’s blog. And this children’s book about a uke playing, cardigan wearing goat… heckyeah!
(hat tip, well, me: BeginnersUke)
Whoohoo! “Men in Suits” met its Kickstarter goal — there’s still time to pre-order the documentary, too!
Mathemusician Vi Hart is back with anti-parabola propaganda and some musing on math class, cardioids, connect the dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami. Also see Hart’s Fibonacci numbers explained in stop-motion vegetables, the Victorian novella Flatland on a Möbius strip, and the science of sound, frequency, and pitch in stop-motion doodles.
(Source: busranediyoki, via toshiyukikuchi)
Oh.my.gah.
I was recently introduced the beautiful “aquascape art” of Takashi Amano, one of the most influential people in the aquascaping community. He introduced Japanese gardening concepts such as Wabi-sabi and Zen rock arrangement to create some of the most uniquely intricate, yet balanced fish tank compositions. His surreal, artistic aquascapes often mimic nature in their appearance, as he uses a lot of aquatic plants, river rocks, and driftwood. And guess what? He’s also… a photographer! Swoon.
The photos above are some of my favorite Amano-inspired fish tanks. What incredible mastery of aquatic landscaping… Doesn’t this just rock your fish-tank world? [I can’t wait to do this someday.]
(via gthegentleman)
