RemoteScan Party, Oct 16 2009
RemoteScan had a party upstairs at the Silk Road, and downstairs in the Crystal Theater. Kiera Means, John Floridis, Andrea Harsell , Eric Hutchins and Steve Saroff played. About 200 people where there. Here a few photos….
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- Erich Hutchins, Steve Saroff, Andrea Harsell, John Floridis
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- Andrea Harsell
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- Sam Risho, owner of the Silk Road
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- Eric Hutchins
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- Erich Hutchins, Steve Saroff, Andrea Harsell, John Floridis
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- Irene
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- Me
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- Liza and Jesica
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- John Floridis
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- Kira Means
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- Karen and Silas
Earlier Parties…
Some older photos of Steve, Glenn and friends, while working away on some company or plan or whatever… (thanks to J.Qualban for catching these embarrassing moments….
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- At Sawwade
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- When steve suggests raising prices
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- Glenn is considering…
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- Steve and William at steve’s desk
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- Vodka Mariniiii with lots of olives
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- steve and gary longsine
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- I kept my pants on
Wolf Redboy’s Music CD Release
Over at RemoteScan one of the employees (he handles technical software sales to medical and financial corporations around the world) is my long time friend, Wolf Redboy, who is a movie maker, novelist, and musician. He just released a brand new CD, and is having a CD release party this friday night (right after the RemoteScan party). I think his party will get going by 11pm. Here is what Wolf facebooked about it: “Wolf Redboy CD Release Party at the Badlander this Friday night with Secret Powers, Karl Blau, and Lake.”
In addition, I have just stumbled on the first review of his album, over at
Nickell’s Bag,
Music, art, and life in Missoula
Wolf Redboy, in the company of literate oddballs
October 15th, 2009, by Joe Nickell
“With a voice so pinched he sounds like he’s being strangled after inhaling a helium balloon, Wolf Redboy will never count among history’s great smooth crooners. Rather, his voice – both lyrically and musically – falls in the long line of earnestly oddball singers who’ve given grain to the glow of American popular music over the past half century: the Dylans and Reeds, Byrnes and Youngs.
Maddening men all, with their squeaking voices pronouncing profound thoughts, sometimes only barely keeping a tune, always commanding attention. Redboy, a Missoula-raised musician who has played his original music around town for the past several years, may not yet stand shoulder to shoulder among those greats. But he undoubtedly walks in their footsteps, as made evident on a new, three-song demo CD that he and his new band will release this Friday night, Oct. 16, at the Badlander….”
Read the full review on Joe’s blog here
Fire Juggling on Higgins Bridge
Glennn and Zandy juggling in the middle of Higgins Bridge
Reltated news:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1219634/Why-juggling-just-party-trick-grey-matter.html#
Why juggling is more than just a party trick for your grey matter
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:37 AM on 12th October 2009
Learning to juggle is good for the brain, say scientists.
The popular party trick boosts connectivity in matter which is responsible for communication between cells that trigger our movements.
The findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, follows a previous study into the old circus act which established it also increases our amount of grey matter – and underlines that the skills we learn actually shape our brain.
Researcher Dr Heidi Johansen-Berg said: ‘The adult brain’s structure is ripe for change. It conditions its own wiring system to operate more efficiently.’
White matter is the name given to parts of the brain and spinal cord that are responsible for communication between the various grey matter regions and between the grey matter and the rest of the body.
Grey matter, so named because it looks grey to the naked eye, refers to the areas of the brain that are mainly composed of the heads of nerve cells.
Although earlier work had reported changes in the grey matter in brains of people learning to juggle, the latest study is the first demonstration of comparable changes in white matter connections.
The Oxford University researchers scanned the brains of 24 adults before and after juggling training and compared the images with those from a control group of 24 other subjects.
After the six week course they could all perform at least two continuous cycles of the traditional three-ball cascade routine.
This sparked changes in an area of the brain known as the parietal lobe – which has previously been linked to visual and movement functions.
The researchers also found similar differences in grey matter, some of which were localised to the same area as the white matter changes.
And the changes in both types of brain matter were still apparent when subjects were scanned again four weeks after they had last juggled, showing they are quite long lasting.
But there was no correlation between their magnitude, suggesting these may be relatively independent processes.
Dr Johansen-Berg and colleagues said: ‘Juggling is a complex motor skill that requires accurate bimanual arm movements, grasping and visual tracking in the periphery, precisely those functions in which the apparently structurally altered brain regions specialise.
‘This provides, to the best of our knowledge, the first evidence for training-related changes in white-matter structure in the healthy human adult brain.’