26 Saturday May 2012
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bad, baku, conte, contest, eurovision, eurovision song contest, fun, live, livestream, song, tragic, twitterwall, watch
i created a twitterwall for tonights event :
http://twitterwallr.com/thetragicunfolds
and here is the livestream
have fun…i will. why? because http://tcabam.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/tonight-the-57-th-eurovison-song-contest-in-baku/
♥
26 Saturday May 2012
Posted in Uncategorized, tcabam news, collaboration, fun, you tube, art, ♥, cherubimu, @tcabam, wordpress, suggestions, music
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fun, video, contest, watch, cherubimu, song, esc, eusrvision, eurovision songcontest, baku, batching, bad taste, desaster, mean
after last years desaster i decided to feature this bad bad song contest again because it´s just fun to bitch about the costumes, the songs, the singers,the dancers…yes that´s mean. but so much fun!
here is an entry that WOULD have won for germany IF it was nominated…by the one and only CHERUBIMU!!!
the lyrics are great:
when LOL cats cry, rainbows die
and a robothorse is searching for freedom in conscience
it is war of words
and everything is going to be fine
at the freeway exit ramp
i found myself
the sweet corn is high
and the fish are jumping –(twinkle,twinkle)
and it´s summertime and it´s summertime
white stripes in the blue sky
try to fill up the ozone layer
and in japan the core is melting
radiation makes the summer hot
the LOL cats have two heads
but the lobby doesn´t mind
doubts without hope
and doomsday is here
the gate to hell
like every year
ESC is back again
ESC is the hell
eyepain and earache
shit songs
shit singers
and the dancers oh geez oh geez
ESC is the hell
eyepain and earache
AIN´T THAT SOME LYRICS EH? we just realized that it sounds much better sung in english…and ESC ist not ESCAPE but it´s almost the same…no seriously:it´s the twitter hashtag. i´ll be tweeting live from the ESC, gonna watch a livestream…
i´m totally aware of the fact that this is sick…but it´s fun.
♥ nat
24 Tuesday Apr 2012
05 Thursday Apr 2012
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fun, future, games, phillipe gamer, the chase, video games, vimeo
The Chase from Philippe Gamer on Vimeo.
this video is definitely worth a watch…this is the future kids!
nat
20 Friday Jan 2012
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art, artist, fun, health care, health care worker, johnny mattoos, video, work, you tube
i laughed my ass off…
and please…
if you like that i recommend you to check out johnny mattoos you tube channel, he´s a super talented video artist/actor/musician
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnymattoos
*The Collaborative Art Blog And More :past post about johnny mattoos
12 Thursday Jan 2012
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addiction, apologize, Biathlon, crosscountry ski, drug, fun, message, Ruhpolding, serious problem, shooting, spamdora, sports, winter
Okay, I have a serious problem. I love biathlon. I am interested in lot of sports but biathlon is the most exciting one. I don’t do it. I love to watch it. I have to tell you that winter is for me exactly the time between the first and the last Biathlon World Cup. I need to watch all / each / exactly totally any single race of each season. I have to. I feel sick when I miss one. I have been to some Worldcup Races live in Ruhpolding. Some years ago. I loved it.
So, what! When does this fandom start?! I don’t know it … I think it was anytime in the early 90s. I remember my stepdad was watching regularly crosscountry skiing events. In the early 90s it was still too boring for me because crosscountry ski started anywhere in the stadium and went directly into the woods and then there happened nothing exciting for me. Biathlon is exciting … as much as Nordish combination … but I like Biathlon more. It is the combination of crosscountry skiing and shooting. You know, I am not a fan of weapons at all but as long as it is just for this sport that is great. Because the athletes cannot trust only in their crosscountry skiing skills. They have to shoot pretty well to win a race. It is always necessary to shoot no mistakes. In some races you have to do extra crossskiing meters for each fault and in one you get 1 min punishment for each one. I cannot describe you how much I suffer with each athlete when they have to shoot. I am fighting with them anyhow.
I remember when I started to watch it at TV. There were still legends in the Worldcup like Magdalena Forsberg and Liv Grete Skjelbreid … who later married the awesome Raphael Poirée. He was one of my fave biathletes … But most of the time I honestly do have a heart for those guys who cannot shoot. Because you are even more happy when they do it well like Alexander Wolf (who is by now actually injured and not in the Worldcup Team) .. Frode Andresen (who is actually pretty bad and didn’t get a ticket for the A Class of the Norwegian Team.)
Usually you are not allowed to interrupt me when I am watching biathlon. Is a kind of religion for me. Some people love tennis, some love soccer/football and I am mad about biathlon.
Actually I really like the emotions of the fans and the up and downs of all the athletes within one race. I am always happy when someone different is winning. But I am not annoyed when some Norwegian or a German is at the top at the end. 
More info about biathon … you can get at International Biathlon Union IBU
This years World Masterships (which one takes each year place in Biathlon) will happen in Ruhpolding
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Edith says: Biathlon is not art, is it?! IT IS ART. It is the art to combine crosscountry ski & shooting and to be fit in the moment. I believe in it.
Edith says: The Fandom started in 1988 when I had to do a poster documentation about the East German Winners at the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. I was forced to watch everything where an East German sportsmen/women did attend and I do remember now, that biathlon was the most interesting stuff. By the way, the documentation was called “Goldrush in the Rocky Mountains”. And it was a sport where an East German did win. Both races … Frank-Peter Roetsch
05 Thursday Jan 2012
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arithmetics, fun, india, joyful, knowledge, mathematics, numbers, playing, spamdora, vedic
Yes, when you are unemployed like me and you force your brain not to rust you are looking for some exciting stuff to do. There are many options for me … painting, writing, reading books (DFW Infinite Jest) … and other stuff but I just had massive fun during the last days to learn vedic maths which is invented in old India. That was pretty exciting and makes working and playing with numbers sooooo easy and joyful.
Example?!
I learned how to do the vedic arithmetic … Hey do you want to know how to do it fast to find an answer for 998×887
998 >>>> there is 2 til you get 1000
887 >>>> there is 113 needed to get to 1000
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calculate the 887 MINUS the 2 >>> 885
calculate the 2 PLUS the 113 >>> 115
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So, you finally get : 885.115 — that is the answer for 998×887=885.115
I was completely fascinated by this version to calculate. I didn’t learned it that way at school. But it makes it soo easy to calculate. The Indian man said, it would work only for numbers that are close to the 10.
More info about Vedic Arithmetics you can get HERE where you can test and practise yourself as well.
Anyway, I just wanted to share this fun with you and as long as mathematics is art as well. I had to post it here.
Have fun.
08 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in art, ♥, fun, HAMBURG, music, reviews & previews, show, spamdora, suggestions, you tube
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2011, 3rd Symphony, 3rd Symphony of Gustav Mahler, Alexandre Riabko, Ballett, fun, Gustav Mahler, hamburg, Hamburg Ballett, John Neumeier, Reproduction, reviews, Silvia Azzoni, spamdora, Wiederaufführung
On Saturday (Nov 5th) I have been to the Reproduction Premiere of Gustav Mahlers 3rd Symphony by famous choreographer John Neumeier and his Ensemble at the Opera here in Hamburg.
I was a bit afraid of it because I remembered what my sister told me about the latest Mahler Piece “Purgatorio” – {attention – very subjective: which one was kind of strange for her}.
This piece was awesome! The music was brillant and the ballet did a splendid two hours in one piece (without break) job.
It was the premiere of Silvia Azzoni after her baby break. She was brillant in an own category. I mean … the choreography was and is brillant and the whole company on stage was it but Silvia was on top of it an own “brillant” way. You could see it even in Row 24 that she had fun to dance. And it was the biggest fun for me and my compagnion to see her dance with her husband Alexandre Riabko.
Some words objectively bout the ballet.
It is completely choreographed to the music of Gustav Mahler’s 3rd Symphony and it has it’s premiere back in 1975. John Neumeier is that is not a secret a fan of Mahlers music. So he uses the music of him quitely often in his ballets.
The 3rd Symphony (the ballet) is put into 6 parts.
All you need to know about the piece in very short form is that there is that character in the first part (danced by Alexandr Riabko) and he is just dropped into all those parts of life … like a secret guide through the Symphony and a very open guide to fulfillment and love by the end.
The piece is from the beginning to the end always playing with the music. The dance is not put as a plus to the music. I thought quite often that the music melted into the dance and that this music wouldn’t work alone for me. I liked that.
Usually I am terribly bored when there are just one or two dancers on stage. But Neumeier creates always choreographys that doesn’t make me feel this way and I am extremely happy about that.
You can watch this ballet in this season again on following dates:
Only tickets for the Ballet Days are left at the Staatsoper Hamburg Shop
23 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in fun, jillaye, music, reviews & previews
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Quicktrax: TechnoDance Music Station Pro
Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
I wanted a music mixing program not because I am a great musician, but because I want to record a scary story or two for the All Hallowed Hallow-Day & Eve, soon to be here.
Recording even decent background music is somewhat of a challenge while trying to read and emote a story, even though I have a keyboard with different synth and voice settings. I have used Audacity (which is great for a free product, but no sound files are included, or loops) and Sony ACID Music Studio, which, to me, is very complicated (I got that in a software bundle, or I wouldn’t even own it).
Within seconds of downloading, (because of the large number of loops and samples, downloading took awhile with my broadband) I had made a song.
When the program opens, the user is presented with a somewhat puzzling screen, but as the mouse crosses each button, menu or file, the function is presented in the title bar at the bottom of the screen.
After choosing the types of beats and loops, the user drags and drops them into the measures at the top of the screen, blends as desired, selects menu and exports. So far, (I have had the program less than an hour) I haven’t figured out how to shorten files, but I simply exported my .wav file, opened it in Audacity, deleted the silence at the end and exported as an mp3.
Musicians can also record and add files of their musical instruments and, of course, their voices.
This is so much fun, for under ten bucks! I can’t wait to work some of my keyboard and even mandolin playing into my recordings. And my Halloween stories…those too. heh heh.
Update: I like my second song, FunkSpace, a little better. Plus, it’s almost twice as long. Double the pleasure (or torture).
26 Monday Sep 2011
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accordion, also posted by natascha :), art, concert, emotions, fun, hamburg, Jason Webley, music, natascha, reviews & previews, show, spamdora
It is September 24th. The third day of Reeperbahnfestival and we just don’t give a damn bout it cuz we used to be in places where not anyone is around. At places where you can catch and breath the “independency” … just like at this evening at the Jupi Bar at the Gängeviertel. That is a place that seems to be from another world within the hip inner City of Hamburg. It is full of creativity, rural old artifical mindblowing and independence seeking breath. I like it. And just within … there happened the concert of Jason Webley. Jason was spit out into this place and the first thought of mine was: Well he just fits here … this is just the place for him and this is just the place where he has to be loved and supported while the commercialised independent stuff is going to party on at the Reeperbahnfestival some S-Bahn trainstations away.
the jupi bar
the place was empty at first, maybe 10 people, beer for a donation (!!!), nice people. spamdora/devi had the idea of giving jason a little painting after a photo she took at last years evelyn evelyn concert in hamburgs kampnagel.so i (natascha) painted until 4 o clock in the morning to give the painting to jason at the concert.
so he came in,we talked before the show,gave him the painting, hugged, made photos…yes…stuff like that…:)
photo by @timemastertim
funny story about this photo (taken by spamdora) i used for the painting:
he didn´t know this photo was taken in hamburg too, he knew it because it was the photo he gave the police in leipzig. well…he did not get his accordion back,but now he has a little painting of it.
i scanned the painting for me and got a signed print of the painting. you can see it here: http://natascha-blankpage.blogspot.com/2011/09/autograph.html
i also recorded a very dark video (because my camera is old) of jason webleys famous “violins and trombones” crowd activating “song” which one is called “There’s Not A Step We Can Take That Does Not Bring Us Closer.”
he has a great stagepresence even if there is no stage…he´s an amazing artist.
when his stuff and his accordion was stolen in leipzig , he tweeted about it (we blogged about it: please also check our post about the stolen accordion . ) and when he arrived in prague the fans brought him clothes and about 10 different accordions to choose from.
that made him see the good in the bad and made him feel very blessed.
Jason Webley seemed to be pretty amazed by the amount of humans and Zombies that came to the extra opened Jupi Bar at this evening. He started with own written songs like
Icarus
He knows how to encourage and interact with his audience. So very very fast the audience even those people who haven’t seen him before started to endless smile and sang along during his yadadaaa chorus lines.
A slightly emotional part was of course his funny coverversion interruption with songs of R.E.M., The Cure, Michael Jackson and more that I simply cannot remember. He didn’t want to play The Police … like I wanted to listen to. 
Really beautiful was “Raise them Higher”
and I did get just a climpse of my favourite “Mayday”
Jason was very tired he said after the concert. You could see it by the end of his wonderful concert. It was by the end very emotional. He was talking bout his year 2011 so far before the “Last Song” and he asked us all to forgive him he wouldn’t do an encore. It was a good choice and a brillant end of the show. Just to finish it with his whole dilemma of being always there were shit happens. And anyhow not to know whether it is a curse or it is just destiny. I hope whole Hamburg let him know, that it is not a curse to have him around and that the shit happens always in the same amount each year but it is a different thing when you are witness to trouble. His trouble definitely was the lost accordion and he just gave the Thanx again out to Nat who painted the picture for him (as my idea from the picture I took … did we mentioned it yet?).
Last Song
It was a really good night. I felt it was the best decision we could do. Just pull our hearts out for this dedicated and emotional artist. And I absolutely felt not sorry for any money I left at the show. Jason Webley asked for a donation. I donated 35 Euros during the show. Usually I wouldn’t pay so much money for any artist. But I just thought Jason deserved it … and I gave it with pleasure.
I bought my personally best album for you and got it signed “The Cost of Living”. There will be a contest at the creative blog “Buchstabenwald” where you can win this album. Check in and be creative to get the album.
related links:
http://www.jasonwebley.com/events.html
http://www.myspace.com/jasonwebley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Webley
http://twitter.com/#!/jasonwebley
http://www.lastfm.de/music/Jason+Webley
spamdora also bought a cd for YOU folks!!! we will make a contest here so you can win a signed jason webley cd here on our blog. but that will be in another post.
peace
spamdora & natascha
*the black text is from spamdora, the green text from natascha...
and finally … here you can catch an interview of Jason Webley that was done in Dortmund.
And I really want to say thank you to the whole twittergang that made the concert of Jason in Hamburg possible and that was doing endlessly promotion for this awesome evening.
