I recently stumbled upon a website called We Transfer, you can send up to 2 GB file in one shot!
The famous you send it allows for a maximum of 100 MB file!
Adding to the size limit, a very simple nice and modern interface makes We Transfer the site of choice for sending files through the net, when it exceeds your email service limit.
Category: Music
This year I encountered many interesting album titles, from the smart creative to the stupid and grammatically wrong, from the funny and ironic, to the extremely long names.
This my final list of the top 5 weirdest album names of this year:
5. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
4. Of Stars and Other Somebodies
3. ‘Em Are I
2. Feel. Love. Thinking. Of.
I have seen long album names in the past like: This is my truth, tell me yours by Manic Stree Preachers and Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? by The Cranberries. But no one came close to this! I think MEW wanted to compensate their short three letters name but they have overdone it!
PS: The most proper album name of 2009 is Album
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
I was watching a clip from a concert of one of my favorite bands, Detektivbyrån. It was from a concert they did in Stockholm. They were playing “Om Du Möter Varg”. I could not believe my eyes when I saw Martin moving towards some kind of an electronic instrument, which produces sound by just moving hands in midair! The sound was amazing! The crowd got really excited at that moment, and they started screaming. I had goose bumps….
This instrument is called the Theremin.
Léon Theremin playing his invented instrument, later known as Theremin
Thermin was created more than 90 years ago (very ahead of its time)! by the Russian inventor Léon Theremin. The instrument consists of two antennas that sense player’s hands positions and control the pitch and volume of the sound accordingly.
The Thermin was mostly associated with eerie sounds, so used specially in soundtracks of sci-fi movies, like the 1951 movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still.
In 1994, the history channel produced a documentary about the instrument and its inventor.Theremin – An Electronic Odyssey
The most famous Thereminsts today are:
Pamelia Kurstin: Watch Pamelia performing and talking on ted.com
Clara Rockmore : This is a wonderful performance by her.
If you want to learn about the Thermin this is a good introduction
And here is a video demonstrating a complete resources list to start learning this instrument.
And if you want to hear the Thermin like you have never heard it before, then check this out: Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam
