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POPSEnergy at your feet Finally, unlike roof-top solar arrays, which some find unattractive, the solar collectors in roads and parking lots would be invisible.” In the lab, small slabs were exposed to halogen lamps, simulating sunlight. Larger slabs were set up outdoors and exposed to more realistic environmental conditions, including direct sunlight and wind. The tests showed that asphalt absorbs a considerable amount of heat and that the highest temperatures are found a few centimeters below the surface. This is where a heat exchanger would be located to extract the maximum amount of energy. Experimenting with various asphalt compositions, they found that the addition of highly conductive aggregates, like quartzite, can significantly increase heat absorption, as can the application of a special paint that reduces reflection.
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POPSMinimalist Art
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Richard Serra. It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism and a bridge to Postmodern art practices. The term has expanded to encompass a movement in music which features repetition and iteration, as in the compositions of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Terry Riley. (See also Postminimalism). The term "minimalist" is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials. It has also been used to describe the plays of Samuel Beckett
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POPSThe Shape of Music The shapes of the space of chords we have described also reveal deep connections between a wide range of musical genres. It turns out that superficially different styles--Renaissance music, classical and Romantic music, jazz, rock, and other popular forms--all make remarkably similar use of the geometry of chord space. Traditional techniques for manipulating musical scales turn out to be closely analogous to those used to connect individual chords. And some composers have displayed a profound understanding of the higher-dimensional geometry of musical chords. In fact, one can argue that Romantic composers such as Chopin had an intuitive feel for non-Euclidean higher-dimensional spaces that exceeded the explicit understanding of their mathematical contemporaries.
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POPSNew Power Source Looks Promising Dr. Randell Mills is a very smart man with a big research facility in Cranbury, NJ, and many millions in invested dollars. He's apparently found a way to move the electron in the H atom to move closer to the nucleus, = great energy output.
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POPSSydney Town Hall Grand Organ The world's largest, entirely mechanical pipe organ. There is a video link a to rendition of Toccata and fugue in D minor by J.S.Bach - one of the best compositions for a grand organ there is. Just the sort of thing you would expect Igor to play. The title above the top thumbnail, is a link to the Video The title may be unfamiliar, but the music has been used in any number of film and T.V. productions,(and ads) so it should be familiar.
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POPSMp3 Ringtones There is no wonder about why it is so hard to discover some of free mp3 ringtones. Mp3 ringtones are that latest mobile phone ringtones that could perform not only the feature of a ring for your cell phone, but also they could be used as audio track in order to listen your favorite audio compositions.
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POPSFrederick Brown Portrait Art Prints A prolific artist, Frederick Brown painted a series of Portraits dedicated to musicians he admired including: Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Johnny Hodges, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson and Sarah Vaughan - follow the links to see this inspirational portraits
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POPSJohn Stewart 1939-2008 In the still and quiet darkness of one's own space artists such as John Stewart helped to keep the candle burning.
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POPSClyde Otis, Songwriter and A+R Man Among the countless artists who have recorded his compositions are Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis and Natalie Cole, whose recording of his “Take a Look” won a Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance in 1994. (NYT)
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POPSSound Art Concert in Second Life That concept is anathema to the listening rules of classical music, where the music is understood as the sum of its movements. The audience at a traditional concert has a static relationship to sound. They quietly sit for a discrete amount of time, immersed in a bath of sound waves, as physically passive receivers of music. Sound art is not quite so static, and this is why the Philharmonic’s performance was more installation than classical performance. During the Second Life concert, avatars listened while removing their clothing, gyrating in the aisles, conversing with other concert-goers, or reading newspapers. As in all installation art, part of the point for the Second Life show was that the audience and its antics were an integral part of the performance, changing the way that the music was heard and experienced.
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