Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Doreen Peri wrote: ↑

April 28th, 2026, 11:29 pm

What a fun poem with rhyming couplets! Interesting that it was originally written in Polish. I wonder if the Polish version also rhymes in couplets. Hmmm.

There's an episode of Radiolab that addresses that very question....

https://radiolab.org/podcast/translation/transcript

I do a little of that when I retouch digital photos. The 3 primary colors of light (NOT of pigments) are red, green, blue. I know that their complementary colors are cyan, magenta, yellow. So when a photo could be warmed up with a bit of yellow, I take out some of the blue. Same reason I tried a mag...

I'd never heard of that technique before... I've heard of "additive" and "subtractive" used in connection with musical composition, but I have NO idea what either means. Selective removal of the jet-black overlayer sounds "subtractive" - reminding me of how little I know!

I like - for some reason it makes me think of virtual particles boiling out of & evaporating back into empty space...........

now it's autotune - even worse, AI. No talent required. The music industry's way of reducing labor costs. somewhere in there jazz-fusion opened its eyes up & coming jazzers trying their hand at rock - complex chord changes odd time signatures virtuosic solos... but disco sold more records - and the ...

warm April day
snowbank remnants hidden
under dead leaves

woodland stroll -
from meltwater pools
spring peepers

overdressed
forgetting I don't need
that extra fleece

there shall be no hiking today: so sayeth the rain spattering overhead on the skylight - the fog-enshrouded woods nod in assent - the muse within me is silent, the blank page before me remains so - and like Holmes reaching for his syringe of seven-percent solution I click on the YouTube icon and beh...

may I show you
my collection of vinyl LPs
and texts on numerical analysis?

The Boogieman du jour.... Gotta have a Them to rally the cud-chewing illiterates against. For a while it was the Hispanics, when Muslim-hating lost its charm. Gays and Blacks had their turn in the barrel, as have Poles & Italians; and the Jews have certainly borne more than their share of scapegoati...

  Bushwhacking could be within your reach, as long as there's plenty of stuff to hang onto, which there usually is in dense woods; and if you have some idea of where you're headed, and allow yourself plenty of time. And watch your feet - I've tripped more than once on sticks not quite underfoot. And...

 
...or staring at an iPhone...
   

 

I'm hoping for you too - I know how important these places are to us. A few days after my 1st hip replacement, my daughter drove me thru one of them, & I got so emotional I couldn't speak for a few seconds. I've lost a lot of muscle strength in my legs, & my balance sucks, but I'm not trying for dis...

these are making me antsy to get out there! Weather's actually been nice, but other commitments have kept me from it. Now that I'm wrapping them up, looks like a week of rain on the way. I actually hope so - drought relief.

I wish I had some words of wisdom for you, but I don't... I was much younger when I made the jump from bandmate to soloist. It was a difficult adjustment, a lot of tears got shed, a lot of rage boiled out... Writing helped enormously - my journals became my therapist. They eventually showed me that ...