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currently empty: http://github.com/oyd11/« oyd11 (Kobi Kai Calev) This is you! Name: Kobi Kai Calev Member Since: Nov 13, 2009 (32 minutes) » fridays' 13 rocks! can't go wrong with that.
The 'Social Coding' slogan is great! but is this it? is this the 'facebook of coding'? the 'flickr' of coding? We need something like, for 'casual coding', when one could categorize a 'project'(let) under a title ('physics', arithmetics-tricks, audio-hacks, whatever), you would have your 'friends' and groups, which would be social, and not necessarily 'project related', ie, a 'speech-synth' group, a 'ray-tracing' group, were one would deploy simple lil hacks, there would be a comments or releases, etc... oh well. Tags: coding, social web
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זכרונות. לונדון, תשרי 2009, בסוכה של דוד שלי.
Memories. London, in my Uncle's Suka. Sukkot, October 2009, [Tishrey 5770]. .. Late evening. My uncle and I, sitting in the Sukkah, reminiscing. He's telling me about him and my mother being kids, about my mum being a little rascal. We talk about how the world's changed beyond comprehension since he was kid, since I was a kid. About him and my mum scanning ShortWave-radio, to find classical music from Balkan radio stations. Then I recall - I did the same - scanning shortwave-radio, we talked about how the internet's changed the world, both access, and ease of publishing. Morning, I wake up, my head full of vivid memories of childhood and the 'media', last-night's talk did the thing. I think I'm eight year old, it's the mid 1980's; Me and my friend Doron, publish a (very-local!) newspaper. We write 2 short fiction-stories, a quiz, a maze, draw a centre-fold poster of some monster, and promote our new radio-show. We write it together, then copy 10 copies, by-hand. I recall being very pleased about how the monsterboy centrefold looks different of each and every copy. Then we hand the copies, each at thier own school, to friends. We've made three-monthly-issues I think. I especially remember the style of the centrefold drawing, and how we developed it together, each copying the other's drawing. Our radioshows: So we had this radio, and I had a microphone, I used to scan shortwave-radio for hours and hours as a kid, mostly on saturday mornings, I would sit with my headphones, listen to the 'flying-saucer' sounds go across when turning the dial. then I started playing with the microphone feedback. then I started recording them. Later-on, the young mr. Falke joined me, we started interviewing one-another, tell stories, I would always cut into the sound-effects, and sometimes put on a Jean-Michel-Jarre tune from my mother's collection... come to think of it, it was kindof a 'proper radio show', considering we were 9 or 10 at the time. We couldn't broadcast it, so we would make copies on a doublecassette, and distribute it in class, sometimes I would use the doublecassette to play in double-speed (the copying option), and record the double-speed-Jarre tune with a microphone, playing with some mic-location and room-sound... Our magazine promoted the radio-show, and vice-versa. I recall not making enough copies of the radioshows, lacking cassettes, and probably collecting tapes, and overtaping the next-shows. I really wonder whether I could find one of these show in my mum's Boydem. London, 2009 again. My uncle and I tell stories about people surviving the war; admittedly what you call holocaust stories. Talk about the neighbourhoods where each of us grew up, and how much Yiddish was being heard. I was still hearing lot's of poor kids shouting Yiddish, three month ago.
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Ajay uses a real nice opening prayer, noting it's from the Kurma Purana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurma_Purana(couldn't locate it there...), quoting prayer sheet his sheet: I'd love to find it in context, and read it... and find translations... I'll go ask him. Jeevamani bharajath phana | The common soul (jeeva) shines like an emerald on the head of the snake Sahasra vidruth vishwambara | Which has a thousand heads and is all-pervading Mandalaya ananthaya | with three circles, unlimited Nagarajaya namaha | King of Snakes, I pay respect to you Abahu purushakaram | Manifest in human form Shanka chakrasi darinam | Bearing the conch and the wheel Sahasra shirasam shwetam | With a thousand snow-white heads Pranavami Patanjalem | I surrender to you, Patanjali ( this is weird, "Pranavami", vs "pranamami" in the KP Jois text?, why Patanjalem not Patangalim? sounds like 'older' sanskrit, could be) Gurubhyo namaha | I pay respect to the guru Devatabhyo namaha | I pay respect to the divine adepts.
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[memo] Going to Bangkok next week, and London the following one. will be shopping for *tea*, books (I need a *Go* book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) ), and *shoes* (becoming abit obsessed). [London:: turns out I could do most things round Islington... funny] Clubbing: * Fabric: (Havn't been there for about 7 years!) Fridays DnB etc, Saturdays, Techno. http://www.fabriclondon.com/contact/ http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/travel* Forward @ Plastic-People (Old-Street tube), sunday eves (teh dubstep thing) http://www.ilovefwd.com/location.html* Spektrum weekly:: at the Herbal: Wednesdays (minimal, etc) http::/www.herbaluk.com http://www.herbaluk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236:spektrum-weekly&catid=53:wednesday-event&Itemid=232*Where do they playing oldschool garage though? Shopping: http://www.planetorganic.com (Great! there a branch in Islington) http://www.sportecltd.com [ vibram fivefingers ] http://www.borders.co.ukhttp://www.twinings.co.ukhttp://www.twinings.co.uk/footer/our-shop/ [ 216 Strand, London,.tube: Temple, or Charing Cross | Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Saturdays, 10am to 4pm. ] Bangkok: Shopping: * Earthshoes - http://earth-healthshoes.com * Tea - Ongtea - http://ongtea.blogspot.comYoga: * YogaElements - http://www.yogaelements.com heard real good things, and it's on the 24th floor. what can go wrong? * AbsoluteYoga - http://www.absoluteyogabangkok.com * DharmaYoga-Bangkok - (?) http://www.dharmayoga-spa.com/contact-cont.html couldn't understand website, but that's were Ajay told me he gave a workshop
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travelling with an mp3 player, with podcasts alone, getting the links ready: http://rinse.fm/index.php/podcasts [rinse:: dubStep, techdub, ukg, occational oldskool] http://clairvoyants.podomatic.com [on Rinse, techdub to minimal] http://rampradio.co.uk/Media/downloads.html [dubstep, ukg. J-da-flex, El-b] http://www.subfm.com/archive/ [where bass matters. M2J, sines]  I wish I knew any Jazz stations I listen to regularly, something combining oldschool/dixie/standards contemporary and 20th c music... gotta be a station making podcasts like that.... Tags: music, podcasts, radio
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I don't like airport and flying, it's the exact opposite of trains, which are so inspiring! The bottled-air, the security-and-seriousness atmosphere, fuel, only the amazing clouds can be forgiven. Having the avaliable time though it's great, it's a great way to catch up on some reading. I'll try to find a copy of " What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"/Murakami while in Heathrow, are there real-bookstores in Heathrow? I think there was even a W H Smith. Well, I should be able to find Murakami on the transit. I probably will just find myself wondering about Longford and surrounding neighbourhoods, not bad. Keeping it local. Silvia's [^Rotozaza] words on urban-spaces echo.
[telAviv -> London -> Bangalore] yes, not in that particular order of arrows.
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, 'As pretty as an airport'" [Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul] Tags: london, mysoreblog, travel
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As a fan of Arm-balances so to speak, a friend just asked me how to do 'that acrobatic pose' which is eventually Astavakrasana. It is fairly easy, and similar to the 'weigh-shift' passages in Ashtanga series. As all arm-'balances', it requires knowledge and grip of the palms, and a connexion or awareness to Uddiyana and Mula bandha. Basically: (remember to breath, fully, and engage bandhas etc)
- Assume the Malasana squat, (aka cobbler, or laundress pose)
- Bring both palms to the floor, right-hand on the outside, and the left-hand *over* the left-foot, placing the back of your knee as high as possible on the arm, close to shoulderhieght.
- Lean forward, when your feet leave the ground, hook your right foot around the ankle of your left foot
- Straighten legs to the left, look forward straighten back
- The pose should be stable and comfortable
- Possibly, separate feet, left leg still on arm, straighten right leg, and pull backwards into chaturanga.
 See also, Ann Pizer's explains similarly in About: http://yoga.about.com/od/yogaposes/a/eightangle.htmPhoto: Astavakrasana © Barry Stone. Tags: arm-balances, asana, yoga
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Ok, yoga-tourism, preflight: Yoga Shala's I've found in mysore, in the Laxmipuram / Gokulam area: (they all seem serious and interesting, and friendly in email, got personal recommendations from friends on several too):
- [http://www.sthalam8.com] Ajay Kumar. An Ashtanga studio,
back-bending, hip-opener and Sanskrit courses too.
- [http://www.pranavashya.com] Prana Vashya Yoga : Vijay Kumar. A sequence of sixty asanas, back-bending courses, and pranayama courses (non-retention pranayama, and retention pranayaga), I'm very curious about this one.
- [http://mandala.ashtanga.org] BNS Iyengar. Ashtanga, used to be Sheshadri's studio.
- [http://www.sheshadri.com] Sheshadri's new place, it's unclear whether it's open yet. An ashtanga studio, also, Pranayama, Cooking and Philosophy classes.
- [http://www.kpjayi.org] the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, K. Pattabhi Jois's (RIP) place, now his grandson Sharath is in charge.
Music: Nothing found online, but I've been told there are several carnatic-music schools in the area. Language-learning: I intend to learn Kannada, the local Dravidian language rather than Sanskrit for now, mainly because I like languages, and in particular spoken ones. Sure, Sanskrit is also cool and posh, one step at a time. I have not found any useful learning material online, this somehow surprised me, (compare to learning material of Danish, for example, but it's probably just a matter of internet timing). Books: I've found what seems to be this goverment series by 'Krishna Gopal Vikal' "Learn Kannada in 30 Days Through English", and "Learn Kannada In A Month" / Srinivasa Sastry. [There's http://www.flipkart.com, which seems to be the 'indian amazon' (bookstore)].
'Mysore aka "Garden City" aka "City of Palaces" .. has also earned the nickname "Ashtanga City" for the proliferation of wonderful yoga teachers who reside here. It is one of the major cities of the state of Karnataka, surrounded by sandalwood and rosewood forests.' (Ashtanga City - the Westerner's Guide to Mysore / Rosemary Vargas [ http://books.google.com/books?id=IbR3aCi6KGUC])
So yogastudy, indian percussions, and languagelearning, seems to be a busy schedule. Tags: kannada, language, mysoreblog, yoga
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Finally travlling to Mysore, Karnataka [south-india] this week. While there, I'll try to: * Study yoga, in the local shala's * Start studying south-indian (carnatic) percussion [planning to centre on the Ghatam :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghatam] * Study the local language [Kannada (Dravidian), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_language ] I'll trying documenting practicalities, for myself and other travellers, so what are practicalities? * On Finding a place to live * On getting a bike, and getting around * Finding local schools (yoga, music, language?) bookstores * Getting there, trains planes and automobiles (I hate airports, trying to relax) [I've heard from friends 'relaxing' things about Mysore daily life and generally getting sorted there] * Monsoon - was it a wise enough to coming during the Monsoon season? * What to pack, what to leave behind? (Mosquito net? friends suggest I don't forget my british-colonialist outfit, and a supply of gin and tonic.) Tags: mysoreblog, studies, travel, yoga
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"[The boat captains] used to get their position by echo whistling. They'd give a short whistle and estimate the distance from the shoreline by the returning echo. If the echo came back from both sides at the same time they'd know that they were in the middle of the channel. They could recognize different shorelines by the different echoes - a rocky cliff, for example, would give a clear distinctive echo, whereas a sandy beach would give a more prolonged echo. They could even pick up an echo from logs. The Vancouver Soundscape, 1974, p. 17. "
even though I'm involved in the audio-synthesis scene so to say, for a quite a-while, I'm getting exposed to this whole other scene of audio-research (other one than the CCRMA / KTH / medialab/CMJ / HuT.fi / DA-FX , IRCAM, whatever that scene might be...) Maybe these scenes are connected, or connecting... let's go on.
Finially I find more and more relevant organisations: "International Community for Auditory Display": http://www.icad.org[and] "Sound and Music Computing" - have a concerence (between 23 and 25 July 2009! too bad I'm only hearing about this now,,, well, next year...) http://smcnetwork.orgCITAR - in Portugal (Research Center for Science and Technology in Art|Centro de Investigação da Escola das Artes) http://www.artes.ucp.pt/citar/en/
Manne-Sakari Mustonen - is a researcher and author in the field "A review-based conceptual analysis of auditory signs and their design" [PDF] http://www.icad.org/node/2366http://www.icad.org/Proceedings/2008/Mustonen2008.pdfand his book, which I should get: "Introducing Timbre To Design Of Semi-abstract Earcons - The Role Of Timbre In Meaning Creation Of Non-speech Interface Sounds" / Manne-sakari Mustonen http://www.flipkart.com/introducing-timbre-design-semi-abstract/3639042492-1dz3fsi3nf[Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound A State of the Art in Sound and Music Computing Pietro Polotti and Davide Rocchesso, editors] http://smcnetwork.org/public/S2S2BOOK1.pdfAlistair Edwards: on Earcons, etc http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/publications/http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/research/dphil/jckh/sigcaph65/gramears.pdf [earcons with musical grammars] http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair/research/dphil/jckh/icad98/description.pdf [Musical Grammars as the Basis of Non-Speech Audio Communication / John C. K. Hankinson] "Most earcons do not interfere with spoken passage comprehension" / Terri L. Bonebright + Michael A. Nees (Exactly the stuff I was looking for!!!) http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~mnees/Nees%20articles/Bonebright%20Nees%20ACP%202009.pdfhttp://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~mnees/ [ Michael A. Nees /Georgia Institute of Technology Sonification Lab]
seems like the sonic-alphabet should be possible to hack. Tags: plans, sonification
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"יוגה היא השקטת הפעילות המנטלית. אז שרוי הרואה במצבו הטבעי. אלמלא כן, הוא מזדהה עם הפעילות המנטלית" - פטנג'לי, I.2-4 Dr. Danny Rave's translation, flows (and available online:) http://www.yogalife.co.il/files/patangeli.72361888.doc [word doc, google's HTML version: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:brQh2xv4FdcJ:www.yogalife.co.il/files/patangeli.72361888.doc ] Swami Jnaneshvara's commentaries, eases reading of the sankrit texts (abit longish) (understanding basic sanskrit is not that hard, it is classic indo-european) http://www.swamij.com/yoga-sutras-10104.htmfor example: (quote) 1.3: tada drashtuh svarupe avasthanam. ('אז שרוי הרואה במצבו הטבעי') tada = then, at that time drashtuh = the seer's, of the soul, witness, Atman, Self; from the root drsh, which means to see (It is significant to note that Patanjali is not trying to define who is the seer, or the nature of that seer. This is left to be answered or resolved in direct experience.) svarupe = in its own nature, own form or essence; (sva = own; rupa = form) avasthanam = stability, settling, remaining, being in a state, resting, standing, lying, abiding; the root stha means to stand (/qoute) Tags: hebrew, patanjali, sanskrit, yoga
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 Geiom is so cool! Besides the nice tracks and *brilliant* mixes! Turns out he's still sequencing from an *Atari-ST* on his live shows! what a guy!! (mix, on EE, with equipment list) http://electronicexplorations.org/the-show/week-031-geiom-live/The 'propeller' mix - such a brilliant mix of Garage, Minimal-tech and dubstep! [ Maurizio, Stephan Bodzin, ELb, Zed Bias] http://www.bassfaced.com/2008/11/geiom-propeller-mix.html[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari-ST]http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2007/11/geiomix.htmlhttp://unknownclubberz.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/geiom-forbidden-planet-mix-july-2008/yeah that's an Atari-ST in the pic:  Tags: atari, dubstep, garage, geiom, minimal, music, oldskool
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Hans Reichenbach! I always forget his name, and have to search for it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_ReichenbachFounder of the Berlin Circle, Philosopher of time, Mathematition, Physicist, Engineer and Linguist. Especially useful, are his: Reichenbachian(Adj) , as listed in the "Dictionary of linguistics and phonetics / David Crystal": (not quoting, free-rewording) A treatment of *TENSE*, in which a SENTENCE, is intepreted as relative to three points in time: ''point of event'' ''point of speech'' ''point of reference''. In his original publication, there's nice example diagrams, showing various stuctures and how they can be described by these collection of point. It's a nice unification of 'tense' and 'aspect', esp useful whilst learning (forgein) language-structures, and *should-be* presented in textbooks and grammar-refs! Let's google it: ah. http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/khwagner/verb/pdf/Reich.pdf"Reichenbach's Theory of Tense and it's Application to English / Susanne Hackmack" Great! http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/hackmack/With the diagrams. and issues presented. Now, any takers, for making such diagrams, for contemporary hebrew? biblical-hebrew, slavonic-languages? Another article, with a nice explanation: http://www.hember.net/ak/pdfs/Kibort08Perfect.pdf"Modelling ‘the perfect’, a category between tense and aspect / Anna Kibort" [ http://www.hember.net/ak/linguistics/publications.html]Tags: linguistics, time
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http://www.hardscore.com"Welcome to Hardscore.com, Here you will find only the best in 1990’s DJ Studio Mixes & London Pirate Radio recordings to download." Bailey, DJ Hype,Donovan Bad Boy Smith, LTJ Bukem , Mickey Finn... mp3 Tags: hardcore, jungle, london, mp3, music, pirate-radio, rave-scene
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