static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo
remanence : variance from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo
Tokyo timelapse by Samuel Cockedey
static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo
remanence : variance from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo
Paula Seling in concert, Medias
Paula Seling, a very well-known Romanian pop star, gave a Christmas concert yesterday evening, December 14, at Sala Traube, a venue in Medias, Romania. We were in attendance, and I recorded most of the songs she sang on my cameraphone. You can watch the video below.
Paula is my wife’s favorite singer. Ligia has followed her progress from the start of her solo career, and has always told me that Paula is the most talented singer in Romania. After tonight’s performance, I agree.
The concert began with a few Christmas carols, after which Paula launched into a great mix of new and old music, including a few songs from her newest album, “Believe“, which came out earlier this year. The show was great. Paula’s performance was consistent, and she established a wonderful rapport with the audience. She got a standing ovation at the end, and she sang a beautiful song for an encore — I’ll let you watch it for yourselves in the videos.
Watch the videos on YouTube in five parts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)
If you’d like more information about Paula Seling, then her website is definitely the place to go. She has both English and Romanian versions of her site, each loaded with tons of goodies. In a move I found unusual but very welcome, she has posted her entire discography online, and each song is recorded in both English and Romanian. In other words, you can listen to samples from each of her songs in both languages. That must have taken a significant, sustained long-term effort, and I applaud her for that.
Paula also deserves applause for being so gracious and welcoming after the show. My wife wanted to meet her and give her one of her quilling pieces, as a way of saying thank you for her wonderful music. Adrian Matei facilitated the meeting, and we are very grateful to him for doing so. Paula agreed, and was thrilled when she saw what Ligia had prepared for her. I took this photo of the two of them together as we said our goodbyes and wished her the best for the future.
- Ligia and Paula Seling, on December 14, 2009, Sala Traube, Medias, Romania.
Summer scenes from Grosvenor Park
For the past several years, we’ve lived in a beautiful community in North Bethesda, MD, called Grosvenor Park. The community was built inside a forest that stretches from Bethesda to Rockville. This is a video recorded in that forest, on the shore of a brook that makes its way through the community, in the summer of 2008.
The nature that surrounded us while we lived there was a constant source of inspiration and relaxation for us. I wrote and posted photos taken in Grosvenor Park in the past, too. If you’d like to see more, here’s where you can start:
- June rainstorm
- January snowfall
- 2008 Community Challenge
- Walking at dusk
- EF 100-400mm lens review (all of the photos in that review were taken in Grosvenor Park)
You can also see several hundred photos from Grosvenor Park and from North Bethesda in my photo catalog.
Condensed Knowledge – December 13, 2009
This is a summary of articles I read and found interesting during this past week. The list is shared from among my feed subscriptions. I only share a certain number of articles in each of these posts, so if you'd like to see more, visit my full Google Shared Items list.
- Irina Loghin si Catalin Maruta – jogging in parcul Herastrau (VIDEO) – Stiri Vedete Vip Online pe Vedeta.ro
- EVZ.ro — Ion Bîrlădeanu: „Băi, eu din cerşetor am ajuns prinţ”
- What The Duck?
- Kung Fu Monks
- EFF Outlines “Terms of (Ab)Use”
- How I Accidentally Agreed to Pay $300 a Year to a Company I’d Never Heard of, for a Service I Didn’t Want
- Time-Lapse of the Sky over Puglia, Italy
- Amusing Ourselves Out of Our Manhood
- Microsoft Should Continue Windows 7 Family Pack Licensing
- Incredible Beard
- Ambassade de France: 1927
- Snowflake USB Microphone
- D’oh! TSA Posts Airport Screening Procedures Online
- Eko Stoplight by Damjan Stankovic
- Amazon Disc+ on Demand: The Best of Both Worlds
- Cybercrooks use Amazon to Run Botnet
- Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going – Yahoo! News
- Doormat Scale
- Cei 9 mari judecători de la Curtea Constituţională :: Alegeri Prezidentiale
- EVZ.ro — Vlad Ţepeş, între domn drept şi monstru sadic
Acapella at Margarethenkirche, Medias
Acapella, a Romanian choral group, gave a Christmas concert at Margarethenkirche (St. Margaret’s Church) in Medias, Romania, on December 12, 2009. They were accompanied on the organ by Remus Henning, an organist of international renown.
I recorded most of the songs on my cameraphone and embedded the video below.
You can also watch this video on YouTube in three parts (part 1, part 2, part 3).
The songs/carol selections were as follows:
- Ave Maria
- Vestea Nasterii
- O, Ce Veste Minunata
- Stille Nacht
- Joy to the World
- Steaua Sus Rasare
- Noi in Seara de Craciun
- Mos Craciun
- Panis Angelicus
- Trei Crai de la Rasarit
- Sus Boieri
- O, Tannenbaum
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Cantec Bavarez
- Colo-n Susu
- Deck the Halls
- O, Du Froliche
- Adeste Fideles
Other concerts I attended at St. Margaret’s church this year were:
Raoul Pop 