Pianos for Left Handers

Posted: March 6th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ideas, Products | No Comments »

João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim

I found a video of Tom Jobim that evidently had the video reverse somehow, so that his left hand was playing the melody in the upper register. I commented on it on YouTube and got a reply, that there is a company in Germany (Gezo Losa) that makes pianos for left handers.

Check out the interviews with the company, and the teenagers who are learning to play reversed pianos: Pianos for left-handers. Could someone please explain to me why this is not crazy?

I think I may make a movie where I demonstrate a new piano that I pretend to have developed, supposedly updating a design from which a few instruments were built in the 1940′s. Show Erroll Garner playing it (it was easier for him to switch because he was ambi-dextrose). The footage would just be reversed, no need to actually construct an instrument.


Hermeto Pascoal, musical genius

Posted: February 3rd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Ideas, People, Products | No Comments »

Hermeto is a Brazilian albino multi-instrumentalist wizard. Trying to find a source to purchase his DVD “Chimarrao Com Rapadura” which he made in 2006 with Aline Morena. In the meantime, check out the clip on YouTube. Be sure to stay until the end to the bits with battery-powered animals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRPP2KM7RQ


TED – ideas worth spreading

Posted: October 19th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ideas | No Comments »

You’re probably aware of TED and their “ideas worth spreading”. I hadn’t been back there for a while, just checked in, and felt like I was home. Honest—I made this blog without copying their look. Great minds think alike–looks like we’re using the same eading on this page to bold in order to even more closely match theirs.

http://www.ted.com/


Fun facts about where we live

Posted: October 16th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Ideas | No Comments »

It may seem like we’re just sitting in one place, but actually we’re zooming around all over the place, in a bunch of different directions at the same time:http://willshare.com/willeyrk/creative/earthfax/earthfax.htm


Welcome!

Posted: October 16th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Books, Happenings, Ideas, Media, Movies, Music, People, Places, Products, Science, Things | Comments Off

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