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Mikes MSN blogI fell off the Pod into the Blogosphere June 17 ATIR - free public lecture Dr Genevieve BellUnfortunately I will be be away when this excellent event is on in Adelaide. (Will be relying on y'all twittering, blogging, flickring with #sastories tag). Let me know if you spot a podcast or .mp3 download.
From the AdelaideThinkers website:
http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/invitation/images/GB_invitation_02.gif June 15 My LetterBox - a DSLR TimeLapse Video mungemy LetterBox - saturday morning
This series of images were taken on my Nikon D80 DSLR using a remote time borrowed from Wayne. I set the camera to shoot basic JPG and copied each set of images to a folder on my Mac. I then used a little automator script to work thru selected items in Finder and resize images to 1920x1080 (HD frame size). I then opened image sequence in QuickTime player and saved as 24fps .mov using Apple Jpeg codec. I then did the tricky edits of still frames using FinalCut Express (a sequence of 1080i50). Teaching myself how to navigate individual frames (arrow keys) Ctrl+V to cut at a frame, Apple-J to set speed (1% or so on an individual frame with frame smoothing creates the ghostly fade). Then I pressed my son jamie to the task of recording the acoustic guitar (after replacing strings he broke) using RodeNT2 and Shure SM57 in Logic Express. Additional sound effects courtesy of iLife 09 Garage Band Sound Effects folder on my mac (spotlight for sound effects and there they were). Enjoy.
Flickr Tags: LetterBox IceRocket Tags: letterBox June 05 Posting from Windoes LiveWriter on VistaYep, my work computer now has vista AND I have elevated rights to install such devious software as liveWriter. Once I figured out the proxy address it was all systems go. Note to self - it is: www-proxy.adelaide.edu.au port number 8080 Fang - Mike Seyfang May 18 if you would like to laugh at my misfortune Check out this post on my main blog about the long string of tech failures I endured on a recent trip to Sydney. I kinda deserved it because I deliberately did not take my trusty MacBookPro with me. Fang - Mike Seyfang May 04 Geezers rock Clos Clare gourmet weekend In the words of the inimitable Dave (Slong) Sly: Clare Gourmet Weekend 2009 had many highlights, especially lazy lunch at Clos Clare winery just south of Watervale, a precious riesling and shiraz vineyard that the Barry family purchased 18 months ago. Tom and Sam Barry – sons of Sue and Peter Barry (managing director of Jim Barry Wines and a dynamic force behind the inaugural Clare Gourmet Weekend 25 years ago) – have made a strong showing with their first commercial release of Clos Clare wines from the 2008 vintage, and also made a fist of the hospitality they offered crowds at Clos Clare winery. With hand-made pizza being cooked in the winery’s grand new outdoor brick oven, relaxed revellers languished in the fine autumn sunshine – initially listing to the members of Geezers perform an impromptu acoustic unplugged session from the rickety balcony of the beautiful old Florita farmhouse (all rather tidy, considering the marathon 6-hour concert Geezers had turned on at the Clare Showgrounds the previous night), then to the sweet sounds of Ben Kilsby and Luke Nitschke from Adelaide band The Happy Leonards. Good wine, good food and good music shared among good people – no wonder Clare Gourmet Weekend continues to be an event that sharply defines the region as charming and irresistible. Fang - Mike Seyfang April 20 Pay yr Anzac respects with Geezers on Saturday Music Lovers Geezers play classic Old School Rock’n’Roll on Anzac Day at the the Hilton RSL, 147 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Hilton (no it’s not the Hilton Hotel – the RSL club is next to the Star Theatre!!!) on SATURDAY APRIL 25, from 2pm to 5.30pm. FREE ADMISSION, drinks specials, fun galore, rock’n’roll played with sweat and purpose. More info: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/tag/adelaidegeezers Spend Anzac Day with some RSL Diggers – and US. We expect to see you there – with a crowd of friends. April 03 free Geezers gig tonight - Seaton RSL Sorry for the late notice but my band, the Geezers is playing a free gig tonight for a mates birthday at the Seaton RSL club.
Get along if U can. Fang - Mike Seyfang March 27 Cancer - relay for life saturday night My band 'the geezers' is playing a public charity gig at Santos Stadium late on Saturday night. Come along and support a great cause any time after about 10pm - then you can head off to the crown and anchor afterwards. (Jamie is launching a new band at the crown and anchor at midnight ). From the cancersa website: An unforgettable experience
Be part of a fantastic, carnival-style team event, complete with live entertainment, camping out, free breakfast, spot prizes, free massages and more! Teams will begin arriving from 12 noon on the Saturday complete with tent, bedding, chairs, food and whatever they need for the Relay. Then it is last minute roster planning and checking out the track. At approximately, 1.45pm the opening ceremony commences with the Survivors' lap, a celebration of the courage and determination of those people living with cancer, as they start Relay for Life off with a ceremonial lap of honour. They are joined by their carers in this moving tribute. From this point on, team members take turns to keep their baton moving to a background of music and activities in a carnival atmosphere, non-stop for 20 hours. Witness the moving Candlelight Memorial Ceremony on the first night. This is where you can place your own candle tribute around the track in support of those living with cancer, survivors or in memory of loved ones. Help make a difference in the fight against cancer by raising money for a really worthwhile cause whilst having fun and completing your own team challenges. Fang - Mike Seyfang March 16 Good monday Morning folks. Its a wet and gloomy Monday morning here and I'm not feeling terribly motivated with regard to work. So here I am, logged in to my old 'MSN blog' and banging out a little personal message to you all. It seems that the immediacy of twitter has taken some of the shine off the blogging experience - which is a pity methinks. Looking back thru this blog, it seems to have degenerated to a promotional tool for my band 'the Geezers' with an update frequency of about one per month. As I type this 'thinking out loud' post I am reminded that this practice has been replaced by the rapid fire of tweets, 140 characters at a time, or on a good day, a little photo essay in flickr. So there you have it, my Monday morning thoughts on this 16th day in March, two thousand and nine. Fang - Mike Seyfang March 12 Gig Guide for my band updated - AdelaideGeezers http://upcoming.yahoo.com/tag/adelaidegeezers/ In case you didn't know, I play guitar in a band we call 'the Geezers' (search for adelaidegeezers online). We have a bunch of gigs coming up and would love to see you at one!  Fang - Mike Seyfang January 09 Geezers gig Sunday arvoMusic lovers - Geezers continue their World Tour with a visit to the magnificent Victory Hotel atop Sellicks Hill on Sunday, Jan 11, playing on the beer garden lawns from 3pm to 6pm. No cost. Bring dancing shoes and a thirst. – spread the word Sunday January 11, 2009 at 3:00pm December 31 So that was 2008 A funny year here at the Seyfang household. Hopefully, looking back, it will have been a pivotal year in my shift from ICT related work toward more geeky, exciting, scientific research. While I'm glad to have a long-ish contract at the University, tis not quite a real job and the financial side of things hasn't really worked out. That said, I have taken some amazing opportunities and who knows what fruit they will bear in the year(s) to come. This here little blog has kinda fallen off the perch - from taking me to #1 in google for 'seyfang' within a few weeks of starting tis sliding down the results page. My 'hand-crafted website' at mikeseyfang.com is currently at the #1 position but some pesky relatives are catching up. Such be the fickle mistress of Google-juice. Thanks to all of you for your kind thoughts, comments, links and deeds in 2008. Seizure next year! Fang - Mike Seyfang December 24 End of year wrap up http://extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/12/18/extraordinary-everyday-lives-show-058-2008-christmas-special/ Dave, Kent and I had a long chat with a bunch of people who have been guests on our Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast over the past year. Twas great to hook up, catch up and reflect on things at the intersection of technology and human desire - both past and present. Thanks to all of you who have supported our little show over the years. Fang - Mike Seyfang December 10 Another extraordinary podcast is upDecember 06 Connecting via wine and musicIt was an absolute treat to hook up with Matt from Kirrihill wines at our Geezers band practice on Thursday night. It shows there can be a 'social' side to 'social media' and that there are authentic human stories which run deeper than you might imagine. Turns out that Matt is one of the people behind Kirrihill's 'Bloggers Dozen' marketing campaign I participated in a few weeks back - and that he is a frustrated drummer, somewhat bereft of musical outlets since being deported from the old country. Not only did Matt listen to our little 'wine tasting podcast' from a few weeks back, but he made contact via e/mail and offered to bring a few more wines to our next practice. Not only did he do that, but he threw in an array of 'hitting stuff' and really turned up the heat in an already hot -n- sweaty practice session.
It was an absolute pleasure to get together, punch out some tunes, drink some wine, shoot the shit and hatch plans for a music and wine fuelled assault on the Clare valley. The 06 Cab-Sav from the aforementioned valley was magnificent - the high water mark to date in my limited Kirrihill experience. We still have quite a selection to try from both the clare and langhorne creek - will make sure we feature them at our next parties so you guys can get in on the action. One day I might try to document the fascinating path that began with a cheeky suggestion at a talk to the wine industry + a tweet from @joolliee . Some more pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kirrihill/
Fang - Mike Seyfang November 21 Pledge me this - latest extraordinary podcastDave has just uploaded the special 'Pledge -r- ism' episode of our extraordinary everyday lives podcast that we recorded yesterday. While I'm normally reluctant to engage in too much self cross-promotion and even more reluctant to ask for money I'm gunna do both for two very important reasons: UPDATE: Target reached by 25th Nov- excellent!! Here is the LifeKludger open spreadsheet. Now what? - Lets think about how we scale this to the next 10 then 100 then 1000 projects. So, If you gave, or even thought about giving how about telling two friends who might be interested in the next projects. You get the idea - networking, social, microfinance. 1. The LifeKludger project has 10days to go in an important micro-financing proof of concept [$10 or more toward a grand total of $120 will be significant] 2. TPN - the podcastnetwork that has long supported our grass-roots media experiments needs significant ongoing funding to keep the doors open So, please support Dave and I as we try to figure out how to leverage long-tail micro-finance mechanisms to build a sustainable, scaleable business model for the globally significant work of LifeKludger. And, if you care about independent media then take a look at TPN and if you like what you see, get involved through financial support. Ta muchly Fang - Mike Seyfang http://tinyurl.com/lkp001 October 22 AdelaideGeezers - Christmas gigHo Ho Ho – Geezer Christmas Fat jolly fellows will be spreading Christmas cheer No – not Santa, but Geezers instead. The corpulent vanguards of Old School Rock’n’Roll – Mike Seyfang, Steve Hitchcock, Rob Strong, Dave Sly – will be performing a free Christmas concert as a special thank you to all our friends and music-loving supporters who have made the past year such a great success for the band. So we’ll celebrate the old way we know how – with yet another marathon gig. You know the drill, probably five sets of glorious noise, from sweet acoustic sing and strumalongs by the likes of The Beatles and Pete Murray, through the irresistible pop melodies of Mental as Anything, The Monkees and Dragon, to blazing rock’n’roll from the Stones, Daddy Cool, Van Morrison, Deep Purple and too many more to mention. At the Hilton RSL 147 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Hilton. From 2pm Saturday December 20 Admission is free – a family friendly day designed for all to have fun Drinks at cheap bar prices; wine specials Bring a plate of nibbles to share; Hilton RSL will be hosting a barbecue at very cheap prices. Give us an indication if you’re a likely starter; slywords@bigpond.net.au Latest extraordinary podcast posted - depressionThe latest “Extraordinary Everyday Lives” Podcast, #055, is up over here at the TPN blog. On it Dave and I are joined by Michael Specht to discuss the activities that were undertaken by those people in and around in our social network space to bring awareness of anxiety and depression for the month of October and in particular Oct 10, World Mental Health day. Michael setup BlueDay2008.org to aggregate activities and we talk about how that went. We then talk about fish bowls, trading freedoms - locally / globally - and what we do to stay sane. Check it out. via: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blob/~3/425211841/ October 02 Yesterday's Radio InterviewYesterday I was interviewed by Ewart Shaw from Radio Adelaide about New Media and my talk at monday's Wine2030 conference. The interview might go to air on Sunday morning as part of his 'On Campus' show. Ewart kindly sent me an .mp3 file of the interview and gave me permission to use it in a 'New Media' kind of way. So I thought I would share what twitter had to say about the whole thing:
fang: Yesterday's radio interview about Wine2030 Conference - http://tinyurl.com/3ll2qg (should air sunday) What's on at the University of
Adelaide? Courses, research, talks, visiting academics
and more, Ewart Shaw presents this half hour show, sometimes
serious, sometimes quirky. Frequently featuring a tid-bit
of perormances from the Elder Con
September 23 Gig for diaries - Sun SEPT 28Music lovers Put a note in the diary! Better still, ring the pub and book at table now for next Sunday, September 28, at the Duke of Brunswick Hotel, 207 Gilbert St, Adelaide (phone Katie on 8231 9741) as Geezers present: Fathers & Sons – The Musical Battle Royale. Featuring more talent than you can poke an electric cattle prod at, as the massed Slys, Seyfangs and Strongs take the stage in all manner of permutations, to deconstruct and rebuild the songs of Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Auge March, Jack Johnson, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath and countless others – before your very ears. Lunch can be ordered from 1pm, and the music will start soon after, with various combinations of Lefties (Lucas, Miles and Dave Sly), Twice as Strong (featuring the original songs of James Strong), The Seyfangs (guitar wizards Jamie and Lord Professor Mike), The Crew (featuring the original songs of Lucas Sly, with his school cohorts Jack Williams, Jack Troisi and Nick Travers), and the Geezers & Sons Rock’n’Roll Superband with all of the abovementioned squaring off on the one stage at the one time, playing a few epic renditions of rock classics. Should be a blast – and a great family day for everyone. It’ll go on until we run out of songs, probably about 5pm. You’d be mad to miss it. Phone 8231 9741 to book a table for lunch. See you at the gig. Dave September 11 Still alive - not blogging muchYep - I'm still alive. Regular blog posts seem to be a thing of the past. No particular reason. August 29 PhotoSynth (y) LetterBoxLook - my letterbox features in both Google maps StreetView and now on Microsoft PhotoSynth. Rated at 91% synthy - I'm taking that as teh cool.    Fang - Mike Seyfang
August 22 Geezers world tour - Wudinna Variety BASHJust got home from a HUGE night at Wudinna for the Variety Club Bash. We set up at 3.00pm and packed up at 3.00am. Twas a bloody cold night out in the blue and white tent on the oval, unfortunately many punters stayed in the footy club having eaten their manta-ray size schnitzels.  We were supported by local band 'Mother's little helper' who did a fantastic job of warming up the punters and dragging some out of the warmer clubhouse.  After some quick drum-wrangling we were off to the races and belting out our new extra long first set. The pandas helped warm up the crowd and those in the tent were getting into it and showing a lot of enthusiastic support.  Three sets and two encores later, we packed our gear, checked watches and it was 3.00am. Just got home - thats why this post is so brief! MLH - Mothers Little Helper Fang - Mike Seyfang August 18 GEEZERS WORLD TourNot quite, but sounds good eh! Enthusiastically penned e/mail from Dave our drummer: After opening proceedings in beautiful downtown Mt Barker on Saturday night, the sensational Geezers World Tour continues with a hectic week of activity. Link to our upcoming.org gigs Fang - Mike Seyfang August 05 Free public WiFi and Toilets [wot Doc said]I don't usually like to quote other people's blog posts, but if Doc feels the need to repeat himself then I feel obliged to repeat his repetition: I’ve had many fewer problems getting online over free Internet at cheap hotels than I’ve had getting online over paid Internet at expensive hotels. In fact, the costs of running a pay toilet business around Internet service are themselves pretty high, I’d reckon. You’ve got all these labor-intensive value-subtracts to maintain, starting with servers that throw login pages at users, and bump users offline if no activity is detected. These things are Murphy bait. Go read the whole post, it makes a lot of sense. I also like this paragraph: I’ve said it before and keep repeating it until it sinks in: Charging for Internet in hotels is like charging for toilets. Hotels need to get out of the pay toilet business. Fang - Mike Seyfang |
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