Musical instrument on the move

Learning and playing a musical instrument is one thing, having access to one or carrying one around so that you can play it anytime anywhere is another thing, especially when the instrument you learnt is a heavy/bulky one.

Once applications live in the cloud, the key to success will be harnessing network effects so that those applications literally get better the more people use them … Today we see that applications are being driven by sensors, not just by people typing on keyboards. They are becoming platforms for collective action, not just collective intelligence. — extracted from Webcast: Web Squared page

Was scanning an article “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On” written by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle for the recent web2.0 summit, and I was attracted by the Smule’s Ocarina application for iPhone. Perhaps I’m losing touch with some of the latest technological advancements without owning the phone myself, but it appears that music players can carry a synthesiser that can emulate their favourite musical instrument while moving. How conveneient (: (of cos here assumed you owned an iPhone). Check out the video below, AND do read O’Reilly and Battelle’s article to get a glimpse of the world we’re advancing into, if we are not already into it (:

Music and Life

seen this shared by dear friend tuck soon via fb, watch it first/too? (:

if one appreciates this video, it probably means one is no longer young. if one doesn’t appreciate this video, it means one is either (1) young in terms of biological age (2) not young in terms of biological age and in a state of self-denial. this animation reminds us that life’s not just abt waking up in the morning, go to work, work … work … work …, time’s up leave work go home, sleep, morning go to work again … and the cycle repeats itself and on and on …

if one lives to work, probably you should go back to this story (: