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Welcome to Improv 101 Many guitarists view improvising over chord changes as the unobtainable holy grail of their guitar journey. But it doesn’t need to be that way. It took me 30 years to crack the code, and now that I can see the path clearly, I want to illuminate it for you. Every guitar player can learn to improvise. The problem isn’t you—it’s the way this stuff is usually …

A cover of the song Sommarfågel by Wintergatan, performed on a selection of my homemade 8-bit and 16-bit instruments.

A personal philosophy In order to be a modeller of railways there needs to be a model railway. It doesn't matter if it is a loft or an Ikea box, there has to be a railway, otherwise we are mere collectors of things in boxes.Occasionally, a thought begins to become a concern, why build a model railway and why choose a particular subject? My obsession, for it is an obsession, …

The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically

[UPDATE: the carved box is SOLD. If anybody else wants one, send an email & I’ll put you on a list…] a follow-up to my previous post here. A friend of Drew’s Langsner’s (& mine) was able to get over to NJ and collect those two chairs of his that were for sale. I was glad for the outcome – nice to know the chairs got saved. I finished up …

In 2020 I summarised the then published research on puberty blockers in a blog. That blog post remains a comprehensive overview of the pre 2020 literature, with relevance to discussions today. There has been a significant body of research on puberty blockers published since that 2020 blog, that I will summarise and keep updated here. I’ve been meaning to update that blog, 4 years later. I was given encouragement by …

Social share images unfurl beneath link shares on many popular social platforms, such as Discord, Slack, LinkedIn, and more. Did you ever notice those social media share images that automatically pop up for a site and think to yourself, "wow, it would be really cool if I could get that set up for my blog"? In this post, I will show you how I use 11ty shortcodes and Cloudinary to …

Klauss, grupo argentino fundado en 1988 por el músico y experimentador sonoro Ernesto Romeo (sintes, secuenciadores, samplers, mellotron, teclados, batería electrónica, ordenadores y procesadores) y Alejandro Vázquez (sintetizadores, percusión, guitarra eléctrica y sintetizada, ordenadores y procesadores). Posteriormente pasaron por el grupo Walter Alderete y Ángel Castro (sintes) para finalmente quedar definitivamente como trio con Ernesto Romeo, su hermano Lucas Romeo (guitarras, sintes, teclados y procesadores) y Francisco Nicosia (sintes, samplers, …

We’re back with an update on all things D&D Adventurer! Take a look at our Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer Issues The post Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer Issues 54-65 Contents Confirmed appeared first on FauxHammer.

Posted on October 24, 2024 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:zine I have no idea either. Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess. If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template). A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped …

Pic: Isabel Gonzalez Belobradic By Lucy Snell and Isabel Gonzalez Belobradic Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters, including groups from the ELL boroughs, met at Trafalgar Square on Saturday to call for an immediate ceasefire and for the UK government to cut ties with Israel, as the conflict continues. Among the participants were activists from the boroughs Lewisham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, and Croydon, who expressed their anger at the British government’s ongoing …

Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le Corbusier Archiobjects The Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, stands as one of the most iconic works of modern architecture. Completed in 1952, this structure is a paradigmatic example of the urban and residential vision of the renowned Franco-Swiss architect. The concept of the Unité d’Habitation stems from Le Corbusier’s idea of creating a vertical […] The post Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le …

Performance reviews are useful for two things: Thing #1: Succession planning. There’s a decent chance you’ll get a new manager before the next performance review. That new manager needs to know how you’re doing, where you’re excelling, where you’re struggling, what you’ve accomplished, what your goals are, etc. Reading past performance reviews helps with that onboarding. Thing #2: Compensation. If your company ties performance ratings to raises and bonuses then …

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire 3, launched in 2022. This is a product, the ad tells us, that ‘makes fitness so fun, you’ll move more, love it and see how it all adds up’. Oh, and don’t forget: ‘track it or it didn’t happen’.The global fitness tracker industry was worth around $54 billion in 2023 and …

Can a map be a mile long? Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired Magazine) and David Rumsey created one with The Speed of The Earth art installation, a roughly one mile long line of 30 strobe lights mapping the rotational speed of the earth on its axis - 1156 feet per second or 788 miles per hour. Installed at Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada in September …