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Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

Will — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Thanks to my twitter friend Patti Digh, I came across Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and a couple sweet covers. Here are the relevant youtube links. Each about 6 minutes long.

I’ve come to see this as a sweet and sexy love song. Honest and intimate in a way that I aspire to. Thank you Jikan.

“Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen

Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Ansel Adams and Brooks Jensen

kestrel — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:33:34 +0000

From Grandmother Mountain Looking East towards Widow Peak

The New York Times has a wonderful presentation of a few of Ansel Adams photographs with audio commentary by Andrea Stillman, a former assistant. The presentation is great, the commentary is great but mostly this shows an alternative method of displaying photographs. This dovetails nicely with Brooks Jensen’s recent discussion of Folios. (Search for LW0421-LW0425) Brooks also presented yet a different method of presentation of photographs in his “Made of Steel” podcasts. (Search for LW0384-LW0389) All total maybe an hour of superior quality photography instruction. Three different means of presentation, all heartfelt and fitting to the goals. Check them out.

The interconnected life

Will — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:52:27 +0000

The Danish Poet is a 7 minute short animation that shows both the interconnectedness of life and power of Youtube to spread love. Put this down as one of the noble uses of the internets.

With beautiful Liv Ullman’s voice telling me a simple tale, all the way
from Denmark. A tale of a Danish poet. Oh, go ahead. You have time for
a sweet story, don’t you?

Animation that shows Moon Wobble (libration)

Will — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:39:33 +0000

The Moon’s apparent size changes slightly, though, and a slight wobble called a libration is discernible as it progresses along its elliptical orbit.
There is so much our brains can no comprehend on their own. Here is an example of how photography expands knowledge. I had never seen this before. Looking at the moon each night, I can not perceive the slight changes as shown in this little animated GIF. This is one of the advances that photography has brought to our understanding of our environment. This reminds me of a podcast Brooks Jensen made where he pointed out that it has only been a couple of hundred years since the development of photography, before which there was no photography at all, to now where millions, tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions photographs are taken each day.

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Will — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:35:55 +0000

Piano patterns and electronic pulses teamed with simple animation. Enjoy

“Does it matter if you have a clean desk?”

Will — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:19:33 +0000

My desk on a better day.

Having a organized and tidy desk does promote productivity, period. Mark over at Manager Tools has a great post today clarifying this. This is not only great advice for me but also for the people that I mentor. I like this quote because it is advice for us mere mortals! Horray for all us mere mortals.

All good career advice starts with the fundamental premise that for the
purpose of the advice, everything else IS equal. It may not always be
able to be purely applied (YES, brilliant geniuses can have AWFUL
desks), but it is the best way to advise your charges (because they are
likely NOT brilliant geniuses for whom standards of culture don’t
apply.)

I recommend to anyone who is a manager or wants to manage themselves, get over to Manager Tools. There are great tools and resources there. Some are text, some are audio, all are priceless. Priceless in there value and price less as in FREE! I still can’t believe this stuff is free.

In the above picture of my desk we can see my home made bleacher for my hipsterPDA (link and link) with my custom vi key bindings card in the front. I still use the evil 3M Sticky Notes. Next to my eye glass case is a fun little retro PDA tool called pocketMOD. It is a PDA made out of a single sheet of paper. I haven’t used it but it is cute and my appeal to some. I’d like to figure out how to put callouts on pictures like this ala Flicker so that this things in the photo can be identified.

The Linux Action Show

Will — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:41:11 +0000

Found a new Linux podcast and it is great. A good mix of fun, personal and enterprise information. Their working on episode 4 as of this post. Check it out here.

http://www.linuxactionshow.com

Music in the moment

Will — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:32:03 +0000

Great short video interview between Robert Wright and Joseph Goldstein about living in the moment. I don’t think Robert gets it. There are more ways to experince life than the usual conditioned experince we usually settle for. It is well worth a look at this 4 min video.

This is part of Slate’s MeaningofLife.tv interview series. Good stuff!

Alan Watts Podcast

Will — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:18:55 +0000

Wow, even Alan Watts, gone since 1973, has a podcast.
Alan Watts on wikipeda.

Buddha: The World First Baby Boomer

Will — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:06:03 +0000

National Geographic has a great feature on Buddhism in the West on their interactive website. I especially liked the slideshow and the video interview with the author. Well worth checking out.