Sea Animal/Creature Images from Daily Mail

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[mairdie]

Not sure what general title covers fish, otters, seals, whales and dolphins, but the sea life images are from Daily Mail, and the music by Joseph Blanchard.

[mairdie]

While I was talking to Mr Blanchard, he mentioned that he has trouble keeping track of his compositions because he just sits and plays/composes and then tries to remember what it was he played. Love the problem. Suggested he only play with a recorder running.

[mairdie]

There are enough videos of his work now that I've put the videos into a separate playlist.

Joseph Blanchard Videos Playlist

[Berlin_Freeper]

Picture postcards from Binz
https://flic.kr/p/XC4Jwn
https://flic.kr/p/XQfhia

[Bob Celeste]

I think the category to post this under is the “AIN’T GOD GREAT? category.

[mairdie]

Nothing short of WOW!

[Berlin_Freeper]

https://flic.kr/p/XKa729
https://flic.kr/p/XykQ2o

[mairdie]

You’re quite right. It’s amazing to live in a world with such variety and complexity. We always wonder if there’s life on another planet. It just occurred to me, for the first time, to think that a planet that DID have life could actually have all this wondrous diversity, and not just a lime green alien with antennae.

[mairdie]

That is a great sunset. What are the little boxes behind the pyramid in the first photo? They look like beehives.

[Revolutionary]

Thanks! I needed a little happy time today.

[Bob Celeste]

thank you.

[mairdie]

You’re most welcome, Revolutionary. But I have to say that my mood rises just because our president spoke last night. That always brings me such comfort.

[mairdie]

Thank YOU for your kindness in replying. It’s much appreciated, Bob.

[huldah1776]

wow. I love pics and wish they were shown a little longer. Maybe I’m just getting older and wiser and want to look at the details? Anyway, I’m going to share with a homebound friend. She’ll love it, too.

[mairdie]

Someone suggested clicking on the gear on the bottom of YouTube, and set the speed slow so you can watch the images and mute the sound.

I do know that my body clock seems to go faster than other people's. And I'm from the laid-back midwest! I was once transcribing a late 1700s/early 1800's music manuscript into the Mozart program to develop MIDI files. I can't play an instrument and that was the best I could do. A retired musicology professor offered to help me and I divied up the pages. But when she would present me with her pieces, which I'm SURE were the right way to do them, it drove me up a wall because I couldn't stand the slow speed. So all of my MIDI pieces went like a bat out of the appropriate place.

The land animal piece is slower, but the art piece is more my preferred speed. I have one more of these to post for now, then I'm going into an experimental mode that might force a slow down. I only know one grandfather and great grandfather through newspaper articles and National Archive pictures. GGF was brought to DC by Stanton to run the investigation of Lincoln's assassination and was a special judge advocate during the trial. Later on he put together the records for LoC. GF was a newspaperman who won and lost mining fortuntes from Alaska down to Central America. Lots of material there. So I want to try moving through newspaper articles to music and see what happens.

Henry Livingston Music Manuscript

The Duenna, from an 1807 Score

[huldah1776]

cool, thanks for the tips and more links. Friend is 92 so slower will be good for her too!

[mairdie]

I’m 73 and my heart-rate doesn’t seem to be slowing yet. Free Republic is just a reservoir of good information and advice. Great people!

[mairdie]

Here’s a link you might enjoy. Henry put Yankee Doodle into his music manuscript and it’s slightly different from what we play. He probably put it in for flute, so that’s what I used for Midi. He became a Major in the Revolutionary War in 1775 and went up to invade Canada. Also left behind a diary of his Revolutionary War experiences. Little fighting, lots of defense building, most interest in the lumber and property he passed through. A civilian putting in his military time.

http://henrylivingston.com/music/midi/yankeedoodle.mid

[SERE_DOC]

"Not sure what general title covers fish, otters, seals, whales and dolphins, but the sea life images are from Daily Mail,"

seafood or dinner, works for me!

[mairdie]

You are absolutely funny! I don’t eat much seafood and I never ONCE thought of any of them as food.

[JoeProBono]