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World class choreography.

from the 1987 movie “Dance Raja Dance”, whose musical director Viyanand was the subject of the Luaka Bop cd “Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music of Vijaya Anand.” I’ve been looking for these films for years but films in the Kannada language are not as well-distributed as Hindi product.
http://www.TotalKannada.com (more) [...]

The most touching part of this Prose-amatic email is at the end

Music Technology is going places. The ‘reacTable‘ is a touch-sensitive
The reactable is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, [...]

Just spotted this unofficial poster for a movie I’m personally excited about: Grindhouse by Quentin Tarentino [imdb]. It was designed by Yoshiki Takahashi who also made a couple late 70s throwback posters for Kill Bill 1 and 2 (pop-up here and here)

And here are a couple of original posters

At 8am, I’m just barely sharp enough to realize that the new feature advertised on my Gmail account, Gmail Paper, is the first of many April Foolios I’m likely to be tested by today. Here’s to not being disturbed by a barrage of inaccuracies, mental trials, and practical jokes.