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Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: A saucerful of Secrets, by Pink Floyd: 1 of 2
A Saucerful of Secrets was the first album after Syd Barrett was phased out of the group. It was also the first album in which David Gilmore was brought in as the new lead guitarist. Although the album is a little less concise as many of their others it really seems to be just a reflection of the state of the band itself. The... More..
Computers & Technology > Graphic Software Autocad 2008 layer control: 1 of 1
AutoCAD 2008 layer control and production methodologyThe upgrades To AutoCAD 2008 are mainly focused on 2D drafting practices. They have added many new layer tools, redesigned others and changed the roles that some have traditionally played. If the new tools are evaluated based on former layering practices they may be confusi... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Umma Gumma, by Pink Floyd: 1 of 1
Ummagumma was a two disc album featuring a live album and an experimental studio piece. The live album tends to disappoint, the recording is not as clear as it could be especially on the vocals. It does give a glimpse into the experience of seeing Pink Floyd live, but I think you lose quite a bit when you don't get the lighti... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Obscured by Clouds, by Pink Floyd: 1 of 1
Obscured by clouds was another soundtrack for Pink Floyd. To me this is the best soundtrack of them all. One the movie itself really seemed to be well suited for the Pink Floyd sound. The movie was the French film La Vallee. The main character is Viviane who is the wife of the French consol in Melbourne. She joins a group of ... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Piper at the Gates of Dawn, by Pink Floyd: 1 of 1
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn has always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. I think it is a combination of the simple melodies that envelope childlike rhymes and raw imagination. These pair nicely with the more experimentally music driven pieces which draw inspiration from sources that can bring the adult mind to the... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Atom Heart Mother, by Pink Floyd: 1 of 1
This album is probably my least favorite. There are some redeeming qualities but it ventures to far out into pure sound experiments with out achieving some kind of synthesis with the music that they achieved in their later albums. The albums title track was originally titled "The Amazing Pudding". It was changed when the band... More..
Arts & Humanities > 19th Century US History Battles of the Civil War: 4 of 6
date: April 13, 1861:At 4:30am the cannon boom was heard that would begin the American civil war. Soon after all of the other southern batteries were firing on the fort. Thirty cannons and seventeen mortars pounded the fort thru the night. During this time the fort did not fire back as their guns lacked breech sights and they... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd: 9 of 12
This personally is my second favorite Pink Floyd album, my first being the wall. This having been said, across the board this is in all likelihood the greatest album ever. It was on Billboards 200 album chart for fifteen years! And it was on for another two when it was re-mastered in 1994. one in every twenty people under the... More..
Arts & Humanities > Making Art The importance of keeping an art journal: 16 of 17
An art journal has one main advantage over a traditional journal, it reaches beyond words. Of course it can also visually enhance text to present a much bolder interpretation. An art journal lets you record those ideas that do not transfer easily to text. Some ideas just do not transfer, writing them down seems to dilute them... More..
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd: 3 of 3
This album had my favorite art work of all time. The first band t-shirt I ever bought was a t-shirt with the man shaking hands with the burning man on it. This album is unique to me due to the long periods of instrumental only segments with very few lyrics. Shine on you crazy diamond pays tribute to Syd Barrett, who had burne... More..