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... I think he is a remarkable musician, a true innovator, a gifted individual that knows the difference between style and substance, a visionary that can push both to the limits if he so desires... if you were to just sit down and listen to his music, watch what he has to say, you'll quickly realize that his work has a mind and a will of its own...
... in case you didn't know, Brian Transeau's current work "This Binary Universe" was recently showcased in a deviantART-sponsored tour in late 2006 where he teamed up with 80's icon Thomas Dolby and performed in 24 major American cities as promoted in this major devART news article from last winter...
... in case you didn't know, he was recently robbed of his artistic belongings valued at more than $150,000...
... for over a decade, BT has been internationally recognized as a consummate composer and a leader in progressive electronica, often nicknamed "the father of trance" based upon his Wikipedia entry... he holds an incredible resume of film scores (see IMDb for a complete listing) and is recognized for his musical contributions to such films as Go (1999), Under Suspicion (2000), Driven (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), Stealth (2005), and especially the score to Monster (2003) with Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci which garnered him worldwide acclaim...
... last August, BT (best known to this community as BT011010 ) joined deviantART prior to launching his 2006 tour where more than 600 deviants had their artwork displayed at his performances... I'm a huge fan of BT's work and felt it necessary to link an entry that Brian posted on his personal website where he detailed the tragedy from last January and declared a massive amount of equipment stolen from his studio, including many instruments and the entire computer system used to store and generate the visual art for his "This Binary Universe" performances...
... if you've ever been robbed (and I certainly have) you will realize that this is a devastating blow to any artist/performer, especially if the tools of your artform that you live for have suddenly been ripped away from you... as you read his blog you can tell he has accepted it with some suggestion of grace although the word "priceless" rings with a certain pain attached to it...
... had I known about this sooner I certainly would've written this sooner, but I wasn't aware of this loss until I caught his full-page ad in the March issue of Keyboard magazine... my hope in writing this is that some of our 40+ million membership from the largest online artist community in the world could possibly offer this influential artist and composer a bit of support when he needs it most...
... he is, after all, one of us...
... in case you didn't know, Brian Transeau's current work "This Binary Universe" was recently showcased in a deviantART-sponsored tour in late 2006 where he teamed up with 80's icon Thomas Dolby and performed in 24 major American cities as promoted in this major devART news article from last winter...
... in case you didn't know, he was recently robbed of his artistic belongings valued at more than $150,000...
... for over a decade, BT has been internationally recognized as a consummate composer and a leader in progressive electronica, often nicknamed "the father of trance" based upon his Wikipedia entry... he holds an incredible resume of film scores (see IMDb for a complete listing) and is recognized for his musical contributions to such films as Go (1999), Under Suspicion (2000), Driven (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), Stealth (2005), and especially the score to Monster (2003) with Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci which garnered him worldwide acclaim...
... last August, BT (best known to this community as BT011010 ) joined deviantART prior to launching his 2006 tour where more than 600 deviants had their artwork displayed at his performances... I'm a huge fan of BT's work and felt it necessary to link an entry that Brian posted on his personal website where he detailed the tragedy from last January and declared a massive amount of equipment stolen from his studio, including many instruments and the entire computer system used to store and generate the visual art for his "This Binary Universe" performances...
... if you've ever been robbed (and I certainly have) you will realize that this is a devastating blow to any artist/performer, especially if the tools of your artform that you live for have suddenly been ripped away from you... as you read his blog you can tell he has accepted it with some suggestion of grace although the word "priceless" rings with a certain pain attached to it...
... had I known about this sooner I certainly would've written this sooner, but I wasn't aware of this loss until I caught his full-page ad in the March issue of Keyboard magazine... my hope in writing this is that some of our 40+ million membership from the largest online artist community in the world could possibly offer this influential artist and composer a bit of support when he needs it most...
... he is, after all, one of us...
an honest liar
... if you have Netflix and like magic, you really need to see the documentary "An Honest Liar" about the Amazing Randi who devoted his later years to debunking popular faithhealers and "psychic spoonbender" Uri Gellar in the 70's... I promise you will not be bored...
... so, the treadmill, the elliptical, the jump rope, bicycling to the grocery store, task upon task upstairs full of oak furniture, kill the gravity, you now dominate the bathroom scale... eye of the tiger!!
... the bathroom scale? Woo... stomp-stomp-stomp...
*cough*
... all in the name of science... I miss you too...
Your call is important to us, please hold...
"Hello, Dad?"
"Hiya kiddo, what's up?"
"I wanted to let you know I'm legally changing my last name back to yours, he was never my father...."
... and I clutched my heart...
*****
When I was 12 years old, my parents packed all of us kids in the Chevy station wagon and we took the painful trip from Seattle WA to Broken Bow OK, where Grandpa finally told me how he lost his thumb in a train accident, and Grandma asked me if I liked peanut butter on my waffles...
Decades later and every time I mix maple syrup and peanut butter in my kitchen, I get a little misty-eyed...
It was a sweltering summer 104*F day, early afternoon with the cicadas
quite possibly
I turned on the bathroom light yesterday and my mirror looked back at me like a Johnny Depp cartoon character, I wasn't sure if it was really me who was leaning in over the sink... scratched reading glasses, John Deere t-shirt, topped with a swamp hat made from Peruvian canvas... I live alone but I still found the need to whisper, "Who are you? You look like Hunter S. Thompson with a mustache..."
Thanks to a recent bid on Kickstarter.com, I'm now the proud owner of an electric Yamaha violin... you may find this funny, but honestly this weekend was the first time I had ever held a stringed instrument, thankfully my wonderful instructor lives
and how do you tie a bowtie? do that again...
I'm guessing that many of you know I like to perform magic, especially for local kids whose parents have a love/hate relationship with old white dudes like me, most consider me as the community babysitter while the rest think I'm a lurking threat to society. I live in a ground-floor unit of a 22-building apartment complex and as fortune may have it my patio faces the one and only playground in the area... so from time to time I've been inclined to test out some of my new effects on the kids that hang out in the courtyard directly across from my sliding glass door. They have since nicknamed me "Magic Man!" (always with an exclamation point).
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The Hartmann Neuron is especially expensive. 
And it's discontinued now.
Hope he gets back his gear, and more importantly his hard work.
And it's discontinued now.Hope he gets back his gear, and more importantly his hard work.