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Playing with Animoto

23 Dec

On a recent episode of This Week in Photography, one of the hosts mentioned a new Web 2.0 site called Animoto.  This site does slideshows right!.  I gave it a try today.  Within minutes, I was able to throw some photos I snapped of Stephanie Browning performing at Indy Jazz Fest this year, along with one of her tracks I bought on Amazon, to produce this:

Seriously, it took maybe two minutes total of my time, and another five for their servers to render the video. That’s just awesome. I need to play with it a bit more, to see how much customization they will allow, before I give it an unconditional thumbs up, but it is definitely worth checking out if you are into this sort of thing.

If they don’t have iPhoto or Aperture plugins in the works, I sure hope they are thinking about it. A way to post to Flickr would be nice as well.

 
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Indy Jazz Fest 2008

15 Jun

I spent yesterday afternoon the 2008 edition of the Indy Jazz Fest. This Father’s Day tradition here in Indianapolis is a concert highlight for me each year. It’s a chance to see some well known jazz greats perform as well as discover some new talent. This year was no exception.

One of the early acts yesterday afternoon was the Stephanie Browning Quartet. This talented young vocalist is one to watch. Smart, sassy, and sexy, she has a great voice and amazing control. Her repertoire consists of standards updated with quirky arrangements and originals which sound like they could be standards.  Hailing from Chicago, she brought here regular basis, Jason Ellis, and rounded out her quartet with local legend Kenny Phelps on drums and, less well known but easily as talented, local artist Hamilton Harden on keys.

Somehow over the last year, I’ve gotten out of the habit of going out the local clubs and supporting the local artists. Once again I’ve let my life get too work centric. Yesterday reminded me what you miss when you let yourself do that

 
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