April 10, 2007

There were 5 posts published on April 10, 2007 (this is page 1 of 1).

The Street Musician Virtuoso

The ever-excellent O’Donnellweb found this story of an experiment conducted by the Washington Post. The Post wanted to see if commuters on the Metro would pay attention to a street musician playing in the station if the musician happened to be a virtuoso. The musician was the master violinist Joshua Bell, who has played in the finest venues in the world.

Included in this captivating story are video clips of Bell’s performance, as well as the reactions of the passersby. As for me, listening to him play sent chills through me. His music brims with emotion.

Guess what reaction he draws from commuters?

Local Events To Honor UNC Student Jason Ray

According to WRAL, there will be two local events to remember Jason Ray, the UNC student who portrayed UNC mascot Rameses who died after being hit by a car last month:

A celebration of the life of Jason Ray will be held Tuesday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Carolina Club of the George Watts Hill Alumni Building.

Also, a concert in his honor will be performed at the Cat’s Cradle April 17th. The show will raise money for the Jason Ray Memorial Fund.

Girl

Beck
Girl

I saw her, yea I saw her
With her black tongue tied round the roses

A fist pounding on a vending machine
Toy diamond ring stuck on her finger
With a noose she can hang from the sun
And put it out with her dark sunglasses
Walking crooked down the beach
She spits on the sand
Where their bones are bleaching
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Photos From RTP 2.0

I’ve posted my pictures from the RTP 2.0 social I went to the other night. You can check ’em out here. (My RTP 2.0 pics are hereby placed under the Creative Commons Attribution-3.0 Unported license. In essence: go crazy with them, just let folks know I took ’em.)

The beer at Tyler’s was outstanding, though the eats turned out to be two bags of soggy potato chips. Regardless of my hunger, the sponsors made the right call in favoring the bar over chips. I can eat stout all night!

I was happy with the people there, too. I met a Massachusetts-transplant graphic artist looking to team up with a photographer, a local entrepreneur/angel investor sniffing out the Next Big Idea, and an old friend/former coworker-turned-entrepreneur whom I hadn’t seen in six years. My only real complaint is there just wasn’t enough time to talk to all the interesting people there!

Kudos to Fred, CED, Broadwick, and everyone else who made it happen.