Category Archives: Other-Links-Etc.

A Return to Work (plus some family fun)

By Sam L. Richards | Published: June 15, 2010
Considering that my last post was in April, I feel I have a bit of explaining to do. The composition of my graduate thesis at the University of Oregon, a large work for orchestra entitled Suite of Roads, absolutely consumed all of my time until about May 25th. Since then I have been working at [...]
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Trees, Glorious Trees—Arbor Week Is Upon Us In Oregon

By Sam L. Richards | Published: April 5, 2010
“Well, in Oregon we like to be different, so we set aside an entire week to honor trees. The Oregon State Legislature has decreed that the first full week of April shall be designated as Arbor Week.” Click repeatedly in the box below to generate some random arbor beauty.
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ECCE: New Website

By Sam L. Richards | Published: February 11, 2010
Although it has been in use for over a month now, I have failed to mention it here on my own blog: ECCE (the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble), the new music ensemble which I currently direct and conduct, has a newly refurbished website that is so hot I think my own servers will fry if I [...]
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June 19, 1995 — Untitled

By Sam L. Richards | Published: February 1, 2010
This is worth reiterating: Beach rocks jutting up from liquid churn          pebbles in the sea Cheek bones beneath my lover’s face          What are they to me? Hard things shape and hold in place          The softness of the earth. Bones and stones support the shape          That rends all beauty’s birth. — John H. Richards, June 19, 1995
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Family Feud, Google Style

By Sam L. Richards | Published: January 16, 2010
This morning, sitting around the breakfast table sucking down homemade blueberry-strawberry-banana-cranberry all fruit smoothies (is there anything better?) my family discovered a fun new pastime. It is a version of family feud, reincarnated as a lens into contemporary culture and its uses of search engines. Most web browsers come with a built-in search bar that defaults [...]
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Natzke: Music to My Eyes

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 31, 2009
One of the first artists I discovered when I ventured into the realm of computational and generational art was Erik Natzke. I have since been following his blog and eagerly awaiting the arrival of some recent work. Summer dreams do come true. In his recent post about Color Mining he also pointed to a flickr gallery [...]
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Civilization — Marco Brambilla

By Sam L. Richards | Published: June 4, 2009
I’m usually not too keen on simply referencing work posted on other sites and linking to it from my own blog, but a recent installation I’ve come across is just too good to pass up. Meet Marco Brambilla: a video artist and filmmaker who was noticed by the owner of the Standard Hotel in New York [...]
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Scrabble — Kickin' it when it comes to advertising

By Sam L. Richards | Published: April 24, 2009
Mattel has gone all out on their new commercials for Scrabble. It seems they’ve made a departure from the layman’s opinion of Scrabble being an outdated, esoteric board-game for middle-aged frumps, to be played post America’s Funniest Home Videos. Considering I’m such a sucker for good advertising (my wife makes fun of me for having [...]
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