Game design power-quartet RUST, LTD. may appear to be just four guys with great beards. However, the group is starting to gain national recognition for its award-winning ideas.
Love. Placing this as the first word of my column will take each reader to a different conjecture. When you read "love," you're brought to a place - an abstract environment where your memories, your personality, even your current state of mind construct the term's definition. When we spread love, we concentrate our minds on devotion, positive energy and harmony.
Those pesky musicians are always the hardest people to shop for. Music gear is so expensive and precise that it makes loved ones afraid to buy anything other than a Guitar Center gift card.
Product: Battery-powered amplifier Company: Rocktron/Vox/Peavey/Fender/Roland/homemade Price Tag: $20-$400 Use: Playing in the street or when quality isn't a primary concern Every musician comes to a point in his or her career where something terrible happens. Your gear gets busted. If you've never suffered more than a few broken strings, let me tell you:you're one of the lucky ones. It may not be your fault; it may not even be gravity's fault.
Mike Donohue suspends himself a few inches off of a white carpet while he holds on rigorously. His shoulder is in excruciating pain, still pulsing from the surgery, but he works through it. As he hangs inverted from gymnastics rings in his home in Lockport, he meditates, using the force of his breath to distinguish between his pain and the noise of his thoughts. "Most weeks, I only meditate this way once or twice, but it helps to concentrate on the body and push everything else out of my mind," Donohue said. Using gymnastics rings is just a part of being a "fitness nut," according to Donohue.
Screenwriter Richard Linklater's (Bernie) animated film Waking Life depicts the ideas of dreams and consciousness, opening the screen to debate the act of being a proactive human in society.
Artist: Papadosio Album: To End the Illusion of Separation Release Date: Oct. 16 Label: Rootwire Records Grade: A Familiar electronic groups agitate the senses into experiencing joy through repetition.
Barista Cecilia Pershyn, 21, fires up the cappuccino machine and turns on the European-style lights hanging over the marble counter. With each slight action - warming up the grill, picking a playlist on the stereo - she slowly awakens the caf?(c). As she looks up through her rectangular frames, she knows it's 7:30 a.m. - not by the hands on the clock, but by the group of men standing outside.
Product: SM58 Company: Shure Price: $100 or less Use: Vocal/multi-purpose microphone
The ring of the subway and roar of sirens cast over the fluttering lights of Buffalo's entertainment district.
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