Nutcracker Suite Played Exclusively on Bicycle Parts

This is definitely worth checking out. Flip Baber (johnnyrandom) did an arrangement of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker using only parts from his bikes:I was recently approached by award winning advertising agency, Goodby,Silverstein...

Extreme Firefox Extensions

Those of you who use Firefox as your internet browser know that you can add as many extensions as you want to the browser. I use all sorts of fun extensions like StumbleUpon, Performancing, Greasemonkey, and the del.icio.us extension.Here’s a great screen shot I...
Grant Park Symphony Audition Story

Grant Park Symphony Audition Story

I heard this great audition story a few years ago firsthand from the people who were involved. This was one of the rare times where I actually knew both the committee members and the audition candidate in this story. Auditioning for the Grant Park Symphony The Grant...

Speed Talking

Check out this cool speed talking video. In under 2 minutes, he names the books of the Bible (Old and New Testaments) the Book of Mormon, the 50 US States, the alphabet backwards, the U. S. Presidents and the Academy Award winners for Best Picture.Here is a list of...

Don’t Stop Believin’ (a brief history of pop music)

This is a really worthwhile video to check out. It isn’t on YouTube or Google Video, so I can’t embed it here, but follow the link. This guy plays a chord sequence from “Don’t Stop Believin'” by the band Journey and sings about 20...