The Signed Photograph, Anna Black’s mission to find 2190 people to have their photograph taken with the signed photograph of Arthur Bostrom while raising awareness of M.E. / CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue), has a new website.
Go and check it out NOW; http://thesignedphotograph.wordpress.com/
Here something else I haven’t done for a while, so without further ado, I gave you the links that have managed hold my wandering attention for much longer than the usual five seconds;
Will I do another links post next week? Tune in to find out.
Recently I have again been playing about with a composing and remix music. Creating music is a hard and frustrating experience especially when, like me, you have a very limited talent for it. However I was over the moon when I saw the Crap Remix Compo over at Remix64′s forum as it seemed right up my proverbial street (I live on a road). The idea of the the competition is to intentionally create bad music, a cover/remix of an existing Commodore 64 tune, but the twist is to make it so bad it’s funny.
This is actually much harder than it sounds, but after playing around a while with a few different tunes, I managed to do this to the Commando title tune (with apologies to Rob Hubbard)
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I think it is both terrible and pretty funny, and I’m quiet proud of it in a strange sort of way. It was recently played on the Anna Black Anorak on Slay Radio to a great response.
I may even try to create another one.
Recently we all said a sad goodbye to the Burnley Wallet. Well now it’s time to turn those frowns upside down, as we can now say a happy hello to two brand new Blogs from the people who brought us the wallet.
First of we have, Mikey’s Blog an eponymously titled blogger hosted blog looking at boozey nights out, football, and other stuff, as hinted by the site’s url, and then we have a tumblr based blog called time is short from Pete, which is about anything and everything but in a interesting to read sort of way.
Enjoy.
As you may have noticed I’ve not done much blogging recently, so to make up for it here is a massively long post (for me). I’ve been on a two week break from work ,as a usually do this time of year, and a few things have happened during this break.
First of all was Conor’s 10th Birthday. He had a nice birthday cake and loads of cards also and he got Wii Sport Resort with two of those new Wii Motion Plus controllers and a lot of new books.
Conor and I have had great fun playing Wii Sports Resorts, but I’m a little annoyed that his random shaking of the Wii Motion Plus allows he to beat me in the Sword fighting every single time.
A couple of days after that it was my Birthday, I’ll skip over my age which I’ve decided to only count in hexadecimal in future.
As a treat to myself I purchased a collection of Retro Video Game albums from Ebay
Some absolutely brilliant stuff here, including the three Remix64 and Back in Time albums and others from Reyn Ouwehand and Makke. Conor took a liking to Karma 64 and asked for it be put in the car.
Now I’ve got all these albums I may even get around to doing that remixed c64 music radio show that I’ve been talking about for almost a year.
The present from my lovely family was rather awesome, being a Sony PRS-505 eBook Reader.
Another birthday to happen in the last two weeks was this Blogs Birthday. It had it’s 8th Birthday on the 8th August, so here’s to another 8 years of sparely posting.
Also during those two weeks holiday, we’ve had a few days out,the nice of which was a trip to Whitby. It was the only place I remembered to take any pictures. I’ve seemed to have got out of habit of taking my proper digital camera out with me everywhere I go, which is quiet a change around for me.
One place I will have my Digital Camera with me, is York this Saturday night. It’s a bit of busy Weekend for me, as I’ve got a Stag Night to fit around a four day summer Karate course. I will be training on Thursday and Friday Night, training on Saturday morning, then jumping on the train to York for the stag night, and then on Sunday morning I shall be taking the train back from York in time to see the final half day of the course which will have Kata and Kumite Competitions.
I had some great times, years ago, while living in one of those those flats, but considering the location and the neighbours, I can chearfully say nothing of value was lost when Glentworth and Fulbeck house were demolished at the weekend.