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Dave has a presentation to give today to his Italian Renaissance Prose class. He's presenting on music, and his chosen persona is Orlando di Lasso, who revolutionized a great deal of things about music-- but most of them, you must understand period music to see what the big deal is.
So, Dave made a PowerPoint presentation that is cooler (and witter) than any other PowerPoint presentation I have ever seen.
It includes the only known PowerPoint-based music video for a madrigal, featuring the illustration of a couple in bed from a Department of Health brochure about sexually-transmitted diseases. The animation is word-bubbles of the madrigal. The song is called Chi Chilichi, and is quite obscene.
Dave couldn't stop laughing at his own brilliance as he constructed the music video, and while I was going to describe it, he may figure out how to put a video online, so I suppose I'll wait.
In other news, I've set up the old shared journal![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
treigylgweith and I'm thinking I'll post my NaNo in it as I go along. This seems to be a good way to put it online without really publishing it online. If you are at all interested in reading it, friend treigylgweith, and I'll friend you back and then you can see the entries. (Shared journals are no longer supported on Livejournal. I made that one over two years ago now. But I don't want to change it into a community.)
As of now, there are only the weird old entries from its past life in it. At the moment, I'm leaving them up as a testament to how lame unfinished projects are if you never make them into anything. I may put up a banner or something as well, but we'll see.
In other news, I finally paid for this account. i had let the paid account lapse because I had "switched" to Movable Type, but at the moment my website is down and I really am making use of Livejournal, so I thought I'd best do the right thing and pay for it. Also, when I was futzing around managing various accounts, Livejournal noticed that I wasn't really entitled to the ten usericons I had, so it randomly picked the seven I use the most often and deactivated them, which was annoying. And I thought, well, I've had all these all this time without paying for them, so...
Funny how the conscience works. But anyhow. I would love it if people were interested in the NaNo novel, as it's a project I'm really excited about. I don't require that readers be fantastically interested, don't require that you pledge to help me with inspiration and editing, I'm not restricting the numbers of people who can read it. I would love readers who are interested in giving helpful feedback. I will even post about what kind of feedback I would find most useful. But it's not required at all. If you just think it might be a story worth reading...
I'm not posting it publicly because I'm holding out hope to publish it on paper, and having already published it in its entirety on the Internet is probably not the best approach toward that.
Dave has a presentation to give today to his Italian Renaissance Prose class. He's presenting on music, and his chosen persona is Orlando di Lasso, who revolutionized a great deal of things about music-- but most of them, you must understand period music to see what the big deal is.
So, Dave made a PowerPoint presentation that is cooler (and witter) than any other PowerPoint presentation I have ever seen.
It includes the only known PowerPoint-based music video for a madrigal, featuring the illustration of a couple in bed from a Department of Health brochure about sexually-transmitted diseases. The animation is word-bubbles of the madrigal. The song is called Chi Chilichi, and is quite obscene.
Dave couldn't stop laughing at his own brilliance as he constructed the music video, and while I was going to describe it, he may figure out how to put a video online, so I suppose I'll wait.
In other news, I've set up the old shared journal
treigylgweith and I'm thinking I'll post my NaNo in it as I go along. This seems to be a good way to put it online without really publishing it online. If you are at all interested in reading it, friend treigylgweith, and I'll friend you back and then you can see the entries. (Shared journals are no longer supported on Livejournal. I made that one over two years ago now. But I don't want to change it into a community.) As of now, there are only the weird old entries from its past life in it. At the moment, I'm leaving them up as a testament to how lame unfinished projects are if you never make them into anything. I may put up a banner or something as well, but we'll see.
In other news, I finally paid for this account. i had let the paid account lapse because I had "switched" to Movable Type, but at the moment my website is down and I really am making use of Livejournal, so I thought I'd best do the right thing and pay for it. Also, when I was futzing around managing various accounts, Livejournal noticed that I wasn't really entitled to the ten usericons I had, so it randomly picked the seven I use the most often and deactivated them, which was annoying. And I thought, well, I've had all these all this time without paying for them, so...
Funny how the conscience works. But anyhow. I would love it if people were interested in the NaNo novel, as it's a project I'm really excited about. I don't require that readers be fantastically interested, don't require that you pledge to help me with inspiration and editing, I'm not restricting the numbers of people who can read it. I would love readers who are interested in giving helpful feedback. I will even post about what kind of feedback I would find most useful. But it's not required at all. If you just think it might be a story worth reading...
I'm not posting it publicly because I'm holding out hope to publish it on paper, and having already published it in its entirety on the Internet is probably not the best approach toward that.
