I was not expecting to see Professor O’Neill at my recent Hamilton College reunion. But apparently, in his 90’s, he still made an appearance. Flashback. In 2020, I blogged about how, in my first-ever essay, as a Hamilton College pre-freshman, Professor O’Neill caught me using an incongruous grammatical error. The statement was, in effect, “Usually…
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So next week’s radio show will sound different … for all the right reasons.
About a year ago, I was recording the DJ part of my Friday night “Nightowl Radio Show” radio broadcast, when all of a sudden … the microphone shorted out. Ugh. I ordered a new microphone and headset combo, but the unit I received had a very tinny microphone. Essentially, I had to record my audio…
Read MoreThe Choirmaster and Essence
G. Roberts Kolb was the longtime choirmaster and conductor of several of Hamilton College’s vocal societies. He led the Oratorio Society every year, which was one of the few college classes that included non-students from the Clinton area. I took Oratorio for two semesters, and learned a tremendous amount from him. During one of those…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 10, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode is the first time I’ve actually broadcast on WHCL during my current college reunion. Yep, I’m taking a break from…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 3, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Release 7:01 PM Flash and the Pan Hey St. Peter Flash and the Pan 7:05 PM The Fourmyula Nature…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 27, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s broadcast memorializes and honors those who perished in senseless school shootings, from Columbine to Robb Elementary and all the ones I…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 20, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. I’ve got a couple of “sample examples” on tonight’s show, where “the original” song evolves into a resampled track that also becomes…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 13, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. In honor of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (which is taking place this week), tonight’s Nightowl Radio Show features past winners of…
Read MoreKodak Red with the backup shot
in my last blog, I mentioned how I tried to use my Krasnogorsk FT-2 “Raskolnikov” camera to create a patterned film weave with the Hamilton College Chapel. I did create that, here’s the blog that proves same. But here’s the secret. I didn’t just bring Raskolnikov to campus. I also took Kodak Red for the…
Read MoreThree Times for the Hamilton College Chapel Weave
I wouldn’t mind this project … if I didn’t have to attempt it THREE FREAKIN’ TIMES to even get a workable image. I shall explain. Off and on, I’ve been trying to create a “weave” of film strips to create a unified image. My plan was to use my super-ultra-wide Krasnogorsk FT-2 camera (“Raskolnikov”), along…
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