30 Second Spots - Dinkelspiel

This piece was inspired by the name of Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. I guess it means "Play a Dinkel" or maybe "Dinkel Play". But what's a dinkel? Click here for an answer.

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With a name like Dinkelspiel it just has to be music. Listen for the three-chord "Dinkelspiel Theme".



Thanks to one of these people for finding out the meaning of dinkel by using the Internet.


Dinkelspiel is (c) November 29, 2007 David Ocker 39 Seconds


Dinkel Tags: Dinkelspiel. . . David Ocker. . . 30 Second Spots

The Walls of Palo Alto

Click to enlarge. All taken within 15 minutes of my arrival. I'm here for this.

Birds Who Don't Know the Words

The addition of a hummingbird feeder in our backyard plus my new pocket point 'n shoot with video capabilities has now produced its inevitable first result: a Mixed Meters Movie Moment - one minute of hummingbirds feeding to the accompaniment of my own music.



This is the first time I've ever tried to compose music to a moving image - hard to believe for someone who has lived in Los Angeles for almost 35 years. I probably broke every rule in the book. (Actually, I hope I broke every rule in the book.)

Both video and music are (c) 2007 by David Ocker.

Here's my best Hummingbird Still Shot. Click to enlarge.


Here's another MM post with a lucky picture of a hummingbird at rest.

Our cat Spackle showed an intense interest in the hummingbird movie. So I shot this video of her trying to catch the moving image of the hummingbird.



And she seemed just as interested in the video of her watching the video of the hummingbird.


Where will it all end?

The video of Spackle is dark and hard to watch when I play it from this page. Apparently if you watch it at YouTube it'll look better. Click here.

Recursion Tags: hummingbirds. . . cats. . . Mixed Meters Movie Moment. . . David Ocker

Half Grassed

If you find a good pun you should use it a lot, I always say.
If you find a good pun someone else probably thought of it first, I always say. Click here.

















Click on a picture and it'll embiggen. None of these shots were posed. The last one is graffiti on a corner of a wall; I enhanced the right side to make it greener.

Half-Assed Tag: Half Grassed...embiggen

It's Official, Christmas Season is Open

By my own definition the Christmas season begins on the first day I notice Christmas music being played at Starbucks. So today, Thursday November 15, 2007, is the first day of the Christmas Season. Merry Christmas everyone.

Only forty days (and nights) until I can start feeling completely comfortable in Starbucks again. (If Starbucks plays just one Hannukah tune during that time all will be forgiven.)


Of course, Christmas at Starbucks also means they will probably deign to play a few tiny bits of classical music - something which the Seattle Suit who "hand picks" their tracks obstinately refuses to do during the other 46 weeks of the year.

Come on guys - I'm not expecting Cage or Mahler or Gesualdo. But how can a movement of Vivaldi or Mozart hurt us during April or July if it's okay during December? Heck, it might even make us smarter?

(Of course, I haven't actually heard any real classical music at Starbucks yet this year - although I did hear Angelique Kidjo singing Ravel's Bolero last week. That's a classic, right?)

(And they're selling little knitted Christmas Penguins at S'bucks this year too. Click here or here for that rant.)

Classic at Christmas Tags: Starbucks Music. . . Christmas Music. . . Christmas Penguins. . . Angelique Kidjo