Hands up who can guess where Bluey and I were last night? Okay perhaps this is a quiz that is too easy but the reformed band that played last night to 11,000 in Brisbane was just amazing. The sound was crisp and clear and the band was just on fire. They had tons of energy and did a lot of the older material interspersed with songs from the new album. go to Crowded house website to see what we mean in a small way. Or go to the show on one of the other Australia tour dates! They played in Calgary in Sept. did anyone get to see them there?
Anyway enough about them.... I've been playing with facebook a bit lately and am pretty blown away with the fact that I can look at friends of friends and see who's who. I have been adding friends at a fast rate and am connecting up with friends in Canada that I haven't seen for over 11 years. It's quite nice really but many of them have not caught up with "what's up Chris" before so they may be a bit surprised. Welcome anyway.
I've been watching Lisa Mckay to get ready for her auditions at various universities for their Musical Theatre programs. I drove her up to one in Bundy that I thought she did really well at.... based on the fact that I heard her through the walls and did not hear either of the two others in front of her! I heard her dance audition piece... the one that another friend of hers edited on their computer. I immediately offered to redo the edits as they had missed the beats a bit. This is the kind of thing I was doing back at Uni in the 70's and it was very interesting to be able to do it again using digital techniques instead of the pieces of 1/4 inch reel to reel tape splicing I was doing then. I haven't heard how she likes it yet as I finished it just before we went to Brisbane. But at least it's on the beat now. Did you know I took two years of dance at Uni? As a budding lighting designer I wanted to understand more about Dance. I got teased a bit by my buddies until I pointed out that there were three guys and 20 women in my class! Two really good years! Anyway as the token techie in class I was in high demand to do editing for all my classmates short pieces. I remember one girl wanted a 5 minute piece of music cut into about 12 parts and stitched back together completely differently. I really learned about editing music that day. Hey I can let you hear the piece on this blog...just a minute. Nope I still need to figure how to do this.
I love that my life included digital editing for dancers and now includes helpingClydesdale foals get up for that first suckle.
more later
Chris
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