Last.fm is a service that you can use to collect all the music you listen in order to generate a profile about your tastes, if you add a subscription of 3€/month you can also listening radio based on general recommended music, an artist and so on. I find also very useful to look for festival or concerts, in particular to discover new bands that you might like because close to your music tastes.
After some time I renewed the last.fm subscription for additional 3 months and I discover a set of nice reports on my music tastes:
Baloon race: summarize my listening in 2010 compared to 2009
Clock map: summarize what time I was listening music
Trend map: shows my listening trends over 2010
There are plenty, most of them are accessible also from the free subscribers, few of them are reserved only to paid accounts. To be tried
Stranded in this spooky town
Stoplights are swaying and the phone lines are down
This floor is crackling cold
She took my heart, I think she took my soul
With the moon I run
Far from the carnage of the fiery sun
Driven by the strangled vein
Showing no mercy I do it again
Open up your eye
You keep on crying, baby
I’ll bleed you dry
The skies are blinking at me
I see a storm bubbling up from the sea
And it’s coming closer
And it’s coming closer
You, shimmy shook my bone
Leaving me stranded all in love on my own
What do you think of me
Where am I now? Baby where do I sleep
Feel so good but I’m old,
2000 years of chasing taking its toll
Oh, it’s a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all you won’t be free
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
When you want more than you have
You think you need…
And when you think more than you want
Your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Because when you have more than you think
You need more space
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
There’s those thinking, more-or-less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make, your level drops
Kinda like you’re starting from the top
You can’t do that…
Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
Society, have mercy on me
Hope you’re not angry if I disagree…
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
The thing I like about you
Is the way you
The way that you do
The thing I like about you
God and the devil alone
Could not have made you up
The two must have worked
As one together
So good just wanna eat you up
Nothing like the real thing
Lick your sticky fingers boy
And sing for your dinner sing
Come on pretty baby
Make me lose my mind
Everybody get together
Gonna make love shine
Do you know what it is
To feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel
Then believe we have the answer
I’ve been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby
Shake me like a monkey baby
Forever I’m yours yours yours
Yeah forever I’m
I, I, I
Can’t stop thinking about you
Yeah yeah yeah
Why would I want to
I like my coffee with toast and jelly
But I’d rather be licking
From your back to your belly
I, I, I
Think I’m going to
Do you know what it is
To feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel
Then believe we have the answer
I’ve been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby
Shake me like a monkey baby
Forever I’m yours yours yours
Yeah forever I’m
Cigarettes and coffee
Broken hearts and being lonely
Little girls and ponies
Things that go together
Yes and no
You have to choose
Romeo and Juliet
The hang man and his noose
You and me we go good together
Kiss kiss make a wish
Hope that it comes true
I ain’t waiting for the world to change
Gonna change the world for you
Come on pretty baby
Make you lose your mind
Everybody get together
Gonna make love shine
Do you know what it is
To feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel
Then believe we have the answer
I’ve been searching for tonight
Love me baby love me baby
Shake me like a monkey baby
Forever I’m yours yours yours
Yeah forever I’m
Come on everybody
Make me lose my mind
Everybody get together
Gonna make love shine
As promise to Venkat Subramaniam, here the photo of our groovy manifest outside our office (unfortunately our colleague Davide wasn’t present that day), here the same photo with some notes.
Rotterdam is nice, but looks like a non-Dutch city. Seems more like a German city. Big, large, modern.
It was completely rebuilt after the second world war. For people used to Dutch cities, like Utrecht or Amsterdam, Rotterdam might be ugly: big and sometimes empty streets, skyscrapers, seems oversized… and living there might be difficult…
But at the end I believe Rotterdam is like modern art: cube house, skyscrapers, towers…
I saw Rotterdam in a sunny Sunday and I can say that probably is not a people city like, for example, Delft or Utrecht but is nice and photographically speaking give you a lot of inspiration.
The harbour is amazing! The weather was perfect…during the sunset the harbour creates a gorgeous combination of shadows and shapes.
This set is an experiment of RAW development using Bibble, you can find it here. i have a laptop with a screen not really luminous, sometimes I might use too much saturation and contrasts…
This afternoon I was bored in my room so I decided to start to learn how to create high dynamic range photos.
What is high dynamic range photos?
“The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.” (from wikipedia)
The main task is to take (at least three) equals pictures (better if raw, but it works also with jpeg) with only different exposure levels ( usually +3 EV, 0 EV and -3 EV, but you can choose your own settings) and combine it with particular software.
I started to use qtpfsgui that help you to align photos, combine with various techniques and obtain your HDR result. To be sure today I used it like monkey user: I got all default settings. After alignment I adjusted Tonemapping and I chose only mantiuk algorithm by trying to change saturation.
