Summer must be here, the bikers and skaters have arrived in Ingólfstorg again!
My friend @ceciliakovacs24 had her life wrecked by domestic abuse from a criminal, and has now been failed by the police and legal system. Join me in helping her get her life together again: gofundme.com/qrs52s
#gurdy trompette study tip: watch the trompette string whilst buzzing. Watching its motion can help judge the evenness of your buzzes, and help identify buzzes which are weaker, shorter or merging together. It’s a convenient, built-in way of making the invisible (sound) visible (movement of a string).
Graph showing anticipated success of silly plans in DnD:
Our new office printer does its bit for the environment by stubbornly refusing to print anything.
Added the dove and Ecuadorian fragrant wood to my Wood Is Good shrine back home in Iceland:
(The lego figures are of a scientist and pizza delivery person, representing wood science and delicious wood-fired pizza ovens, respectively)
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Amy Guy:
Hmmm I have a lot of conferences all over continental Europe during May, do I just get an interrail pass and stay away for a month? #travel
Amy Guy:
Hmmm I have a lot of conferences all over continental Europe during May, do I just get an interrail pass and stay away for a month? #travel
@rhiaro go for it! I did that last summer, it’s inexpensive and loads of fun.
A short recording of Gregory Jolivet’s beautiful 5-time waltz “Main Dans La Main” played in C on my Vio gurdy, after a post-travel maintenance session and string change:
I’m now using a steel core, stainless steel wound low G chanter. It has a slightly harsher sound than the synthetic+silver strings I was using before, and is prone to attacks with lots of high partials, but is much more durable.
Just found out about Vicente Parrilla, a rather excellent early recorder player with a focus on improv:
Can sadly confirm that this 50.50 post about the state of sex ed in the UK is accurate. Non-UK friends: is it better elsewhere? Were you taught about consent and LGBT relationships? Did you experience similar religious censorship?
Barely noticed the Turkey-wide power outages this morning as the building I’m staying in has a redundant power supply. Istanbul seems to be mostly back on line now.
“Cleaning staff” just knocked on my door and asked if I wanted any water. At 23:18. This hotel just gets weirder and weirder.
This is the view from our hotel in Istanbul. Apparently it’s also the site for the 2016 world satellite dish counting championships.
Valley near the Midas Monument, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Kyle MahanHa ha, thanks :) The latest versions of Hugin actually make things really easy — I used to be a purist and set all the control points manually, but that automatic cpfind function now works pretty well. Modern phones with panorama features take some of the novelty out of manual stitching, but you can still get much better results this way!
Lesson learned this evening: If a waiter offers you food, and there’s the tiniest, slightest sliver of a chance it might be off menu, ask how much it’s going to cost up front.
Getting ready to leave Eskişehir @ Rixos Hotel. Thanks to everyone at ICWS and to all the wonderful people I met in Eskişehir for making this part of the trip such a great experience! Next stop: Istanbul.
Ben Werdmüller#TIL about Songlines, an indigenous Australian belief which serves as a communication and navigation tool. Songlines, as well as much other aboriginal culture, seems to be fascinating supporting evidence for the thesis of The Singing Neanderthals — that proto-language was made up of holistic (no grammar), multi-modal communications utilising metaphor and mimickry.
Planet Külliye:
