What’s on iTunes today – War Requiem, Op.66 by Benjamin Britten, based on the Latin mass intermixed with poems of Wilfred Owen. Listening to the reissued 1963 Decca recording.
Pay close attention to the when/where this work was performed. Needless to say, there were lots of layers of symbolism.
Just re-entered the country, after a week in London for the last FOWA (Future of Web Apps) conference for 2010. Take a while to settle down (not to mention get back to a regular sleep schedule). Spending a week going through all the notes and ideas from the conference. However, all this information will be slowly integrated for the remainder of this year. I was able to get some sightseeing, as well as going to The National Theatre (Hamlet) and a concert (BBC Symphony @ Barbican).
Now, going home to DC to a stack full of work at CDG.
Later.
Currently attending the Future of Web Apps conference here in London, UK. The first time that I have gone outside the Americas in my life. Got off to a bad start by missing the first day due to the Tube strike (thanks for a memorable start, guys…) and mobile phone problems.
Hopefully, things will get better. Even as a write this, planning to do a few new things and the next two days will still hold some importance with regard to the work that I will be doing for the rest of the year.
And then, two free days in the city…yes!
Later.
At the Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum
(Talking about knowing your audience…)
Currently on my yearly pilgrimage to the Pacific Northwest (Seattle/Vancouver, Canada). Doing some serious ideating (and having some fun as well).
Back in the country on Memorial Day.
Later.
After three weeks of work and vacation (which was almost like work), I got a free weekend.
One in which I got to do nothing.
Now this week, a hopefully(?) slow work will allow me to do the following:
I have a number of things to do before things speed up again at work. There is also the next two trips in May, which I need to get ready for.
First, NYC again for another Met performance – instead the Russian satire of The Nose, it will be the dark, German expressionism of Lulu.
Then this will be followed by my yearly pilgrimage to the Pacific Northwest again (Seattle, WA/Vancouver, Canada).
Lots to do, lots to see. Just need to do more than one blog entry per month.
Later.
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