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Following up on the earlier journal, Getting Artist Images to Look Their Best, here is a short guide to explain how images (be they square, tall, or wide) that you upload to artist galleries are cropped for eventual use in the library.

I'll use these images (taken from Simone Kopmajer's gallery) as a visual guide to show how your original artist pics will end up looking as library images. It works on the idea that cropping images square or tall - if your original shots allow this - really is the safer option, as they minimize further cropping when your images are processed. Shown below are three sample images, in square, tall, and wide formats, and beside them the actual 126s images used for the library. The translucent red masking shows where image content will be lost (or hidden from view, rather), and the window is what you'll end up with in the library:

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All About World Music

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All About World Cinema

http://istanbulfilms.blogspot.com/

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TOP 23 MUSICIANS FROM INDIA

1.Ravi Shankar
2.Nitin Sawhney
3.Ustad Vilayat Khan
4.Hariprasad Chaurasia
5.Lata Mangeshkar
6.Mohammed Rafi
7.Ananda Shankar
8Sheila Chandra
9.Shakti
10.Shankar Jaikishan
11Nikhil Banerjee
12.Ali Akbar Khan
13.A.R. Rahman
14.Tabla Beat Science
15.Zakir Hussain
16.Talvin Singh
17.Kishore Kumar
18.Shivkumar Sharma
19.Ram Narayan
20.Mukesh
21.Anoushka Shankar
22.Trilok Gurtu
23.Asha Bhosle


Comment about missed names which should be in list and not deserving ones.

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07.05.08

KOKIA - Chouwa Oto ~With Reflection~
ケンイシイ - Gap Accelerator
島宮えい子 - Ai No Uto
BESPA KUMAMERO - Totem Pole
Control Freak - Red Shift
Aya Hirano & Emiri Katou & Kaori Fukuhara & Aya Endou - Motteke! Sailor Fuku (Choushi Koite Gyokusai Mix)
布袋寅泰 - Believe Me, I'm A Liar
Zunba - Ondo
The Mad Capsule Markets - Come
Maximum the Hormone - What's Up, People!
Stylus - Gone With A King's Command
DéspairsRay - Born (White Stream Mix)
DIR EN GREY - Beautiful Dirt
The Front Row Feeeders - Wrong Number
m1dy - Bled
Yousei Teikoku - Himegoroshi ~Honrou~
Ordinateur - Clipping Dark Water Surface
TellMachine - Sriks
SINO RE-BUILD PROJECTS - Drainage
Chaos Royale - Witness
Lee UHF & Invader - Angry Bitch
DJ Chucky - Is Anybody Out There


14.05.08

Geomatic - The Bliss
Gridlock - Invert
Mimetic Tale - Le Spectre (Remix by Zonk't)
Totakeke - Days Ago
Stendeck - Falling Leaves, Like Red Pillows On My Wounds
This Morn' Omina - Tsidii
Autoclav 1.1 vs. Jeye - When To Care
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Been a while since I did one of these. Fifty lines from songs, and your job is to guess what songs they are from the lyrics. The lyrics are separated into groups of ten so it's easier to read through the list.

1. I know it sounds funny, but I just can't stand the pain.
2. Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco.
3. I recommend walking around naked in your living room.
4. I walk the lonely streets, I watch the people passing by.
5. For all the joy you brought to my life.
6. I pretend that I'm glad you went away.
7. A spirit that won't let me go.
8. I get a little closer to feeling fine.
9. Me and some guys from school had a band and we tried real hard.
10. Dream on, white boy. Dream on, black girl.

11. Are you gonna take me home tonight?
12. You see I think about it all the time, I'll service the community.
13. You were the victim of your crime, I left you behind.
14. Don't be afraid to come back to me.
15. Your ocean refuses no river.
16. Am I the only one who noticed? I can't be the only one concerned.
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MAC Album of the Week Contest:

The nominees, weeks 1 -10...

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Anne Clark - Joined Up Writing
The Auteurs - New Wave
The Beatles - Revolver
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Blondie - Parallel Lines
The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
Brutal Truth - Need To Control
Canned Heat - Living the Blues
Cat Power- The Greatest
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
The Church - Starfish
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Clutch - Clutch
The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
The Cure - Mixed Up
Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - Eingang Nach Draussen
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine (Winner, Week 2)
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society
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Sheila Chandrasheila chandraAbbess Hildegard

Here's the stories behind the songs on the Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. CDs; many more and weekly updates at http://mog.com/Shinjuku_Zulu
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SINGING PI...and MASSIVE BALLERINA

So I made the mistake of mentioning the idea for a song to Sinead O'Connor, and Kate Bush ended up stealing it.

Really.

Well, maybe. A few years ago (when I was writing for the music mag, see other posts below) I was interviewing Sinead O'Connor, and we were talking about how songs originate, and I mentioned that I'd had a dream where a person was singing the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard... the song was perfect, it was mysterious, and it was endless.

It was the number pi.

But in the dream the song didn't feel dry, abstract or mathematical; it was very emotional and meaningful and passionate... and you weren't even really able to hear the numbers, it was more a connection to the energy conveyed through the syllables of the words of the numbers... …

nowadays unnatural sounds piss me off. I want to hear that real human breath while she is playing her flute. And i want to here something not perfect.

I want to hear a jam. Thats why nowadays my profile changed.

* Huum-Huur-Tu
* Boubacar Taore
* Tuvanian Singers
* Sheila Chandra
* John Zorn

I love tuvanian throat singing it makes my shaman instincts wake up