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Isn’t music very similar?

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:36:07 +0000

One thing that both annoys and amazes me is the limited number of chord combinations in most songs. It’s extremely frequent to hear a musical composition and get that feeling that you heard it before. And we are probably right most of the times.

In the last AC/DC album there is a song entitled “Big Jack”. As soon as i heard it i immediately recalled another song by a very polemic Portuguese singer from the the 80s: António Variações (look up his songs, they were pretty innovative back then, actually).

I still trying to think why i am writing this but guess that i can’t help wondering, first, why aren’t there any more musical notes (i guess i should look that up) and, second, why most bands don’t explore more and keep falling to the same chord combinations all the time. The easy explanation is the amount of money that you can make with little work on a catchy pop song, but i feel sad if that’s the only one.

The quest for a simple music player on mac OSX

Zen garden

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:52:47 +0000

My mother just offered me a mini zen garden. How cool is that?

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Twitter shoes

Pedro Assuncao — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:30:19 +0000

Would you wear them?

You can find more interesting designs here.

Twitter stats and more

Just found out John Cleese has a video podcast

Pedro Assuncao — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:35:25 +0000

Check it out here: http://headcast.co.uk/

It looks cool, judging by the trailer/sample

Btw, it’s his birthday today. He turns 70 but he shows the mental youth of a 30 yo.

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Found the coolest Japanese shop…

Pedro Assuncao — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:46:31 +0000

…right around the corner from the place where I’m staying now.

And as proper Japanese culture fan-boy I could not resist the temptation of buying a new kimono. Boy, does this bring back memories from when I practiced Karate and Tai Chi

Sayonara

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Insane time-lapse post-it video

Pedro Assuncao — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:07:04 +0000

Respect to all people that do these amazing time-lapse videos. It takes a lot of time and especially dedication to do something really simple, and a whole lot more to do one like this:

One million giraffes

Pedro Assuncao — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:51:51 +0000

I always like giraffes, but this guy really loves them. His objective is to have people send him 1 million drawings/pictures of giraffes created by hand (i.e. not with a computer) until 2011.

Check it out and upload your original giraffe creations

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Interesting piece of interactive art

Pedro Assuncao — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:32:03 +0000

http://www.aec.at/center_exhibitions_project_en.php?id=62