Bandwagon

February 20th, 2007 by Steve Curati

Yes, I like the sound of backing up my iTunes online.

Yes, I like the buzz idea.

Yes, I’d like a year’s free subscription for putting up the logo and linking to http://ridethebandwagon.com/

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1 arseblogger Feb 20, 2007 at 2:43 pm

First melt!

Won’t it take ages to upload a large library?
2 Steve Feb 20, 2007 at 2:51 pm

You’re good…

Yes, yes it will, but once it’s all up it’ll be lovely.

Won’t it?
3 arseblogger Feb 22, 2007 at 9:05 pm

Yeah, I suppose. The other thing to think of is to buy an external drive and back up to that. Although that’s not much good if your house goes on fire. Unless it’s fireproof. Which it probably won’t be.

I need to think about this some more.

There’s a nice function in iTunes which backs up your library onto DVDs. I must do that and give them to someone to guard ‘off site’.
4 Steve Feb 26, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Someone with a ferocious dog, or a bear. A bear who can put out fires.

My Tumblr

Briliant!

Dave Brubeck with young Russian violinist

“During a visit to Moscow in the 80’s, Dave Brubeck met the faculty and students in Moscow Conservatory. While he was improvising on a “Ei, uhnem”, a Russian folk song, a young man downstage stood up to play Stéphane Grappelli-style violin jazz with him.”

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“I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.”

austinkleon:

Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication.

When asked about the drawings, Searle said, “I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.” Here’s a little more about them:

Prior to the cancer shock the couple had bought a decrepit house in the south of France and, despite her illness, Monica continued to devote her time making this house a home.

Devastated with his wife’s diagnosis Ronald did the only thing he knew how to do to cheer her up. .. draw.

Before every chemotherapy session he gave his wife a painting. Monica was depicted as a mole, a very happy mole celebrating life in their new home. (The Mole idea came after their discovery of a large celler that they made into a cosy room)

‘Everything about them had to be romantic and perfect,’ says Ronald. ‘I drew them originally for no one’s eyes except Mo’s, so she would look at them propped up against her bedside lamp and think: “When I’m better, everything will be beautiful.”

Searle died last week at 91.

(Images via bluedoorbooks)