Stairs as Piano Keyboard? A Social Experiment
IF you turn the stairs into a keyboard, will people take the stairs instead of the escalator?
See the You Tube video below of piano stairs by the FunTheory.com
IF you turn the stairs into a keyboard, will people take the stairs instead of the escalator?
See the You Tube video below of piano stairs by the FunTheory.com
I just posted a new column for Creative Catalyst on Story Circle Network’s Telling Her Stories. This is the last post in our third cycle exploring the creative process.
Call for poems, fiction, essays, and visual art. Deadline February 2, 2010. Join the company of Richard Newman and Phillip Gounis. Send 1-3 poems, fiction, essays or visual art meditating on the Theme: “Whorticulture.” Culture as a whore? One’s own bumping heads with “whoredom” or society’s misappropriation of the word “whore”? Contribute your own interpretation…
Womens Memoirs keeps coming up with new, fun contests. This one uses the Google-Search tool to make your own You Tube video that quickly shows the arc of your story. Besides being fun, it helps you sharpen the classic story stages. Does this sound complicated? Not at all. The technology is transparent with easy instructions….
Pop and I were musicians in public this weekend. We played both days at the Alton Sesquicenntenial. Just so you don’t have to look it up, that’s 150 years, the anniversary of the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates in Alton. Click here for a schedule of the weekend and more information on the Alton Sesquicenntenial. On Saturday…
Juneteenth is “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States”. I celebrated my first Juneteenth in the early 1990s as a member of Luisah Teish’s “Full Accord Ensemble: Arts at the Crossroads.” This year, though, I celebrated Juneteenth with Dick Gregory at the Starlight Room on Broadway in North…
Old-school travel It’s hard to leave home. I pack at the last minute. Sort of. It’s a layered affair. 1) The basic layer is a suitcase always at the ready with toiletry kit and swimsuit and such ready to go at a moment’s notice, anywhere, anytime. 2) Then, as I ready for a trip, I…