Release

Do More, to get More, to give More.

Fabian Taylor — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:15:39 +0000

“Become” at your own pace, don’t try to keep up with the Joneses

Fabian Taylor — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:15:43 +0000

“Become” at your own pace, don’t try to keep up with the Joneses

Bake and Shark – one of the best fish sandwich in to world via Andrew Zimmern!

Fabian Taylor — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:01:13 +0000

For those of you that keep asking me about Bake and Shark here is a good source for reference. As some of you may know i am from Trinidad and Tobago and it so happens that Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel Network did an episode on Trinidad and had a great...

New Music Mondays now open on Soundcloud.com

Fabian Taylor — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:16:20 +0000

Sometime in September a couple of friends of mine, Indar Chanica (Uber Producer and Mashup Specialist @ichanic and Vernil Rogers (NYC Producer and Live Sound Guru at the world famous jazz club – Birdland and owner of Brooklyn Beat Bureau), started sharing and collaborating on new music every Monday. Vernil and Indar are also know...

YouTube Play – Guggenheim, YouTube, HP and Intel

Fabian Taylor — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:20 +0000

In June, the Guggenheim Museum announced a collaborative video contest with YouTube in collaboration with HP and Intel. YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. —————————————————————————————————————- Some images I took on October 22nd from outside the Guggenheim —————————————————————————————————————-...

The Death of LimeWire

Fabian Taylor — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:47:14 +0000

Yup…it’s official….At the end of this year, the embattled LimeWire service will be shutdown completely. The company issued a statement today confirming that it will cease all business operations as of 2011: “Given our current situation, plans to bring our separate, legal music service to market, have been canceled. The beginning of 2011 will mark...

Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Copyright

Fabian Taylor — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:13:25 +0000

Viacom appealed Friday its unsuccessful $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google’s YouTube in a case testing the depths of copyright-infringement protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Viacom, on behalf of its MTV, Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon units, is seeking to overturn a June ruling that, if it...

Verizon LTE Speed Test: Insanely Fast via Gizmodo

Fabian Taylor — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:40:27 +0000

Verizon’s first LTE dongle is startlingly large. But not as startling as the speed. These results are spot tests from all across the country: New York (Gizmodo & Engadget), Seattle (MSNBC.com), Philadelphia (GigaOM), Arizona (SlashGear) and Boston (NetworkWorld). And they paint a pretty remarkable picture. Most of the “slow” results—around 7-9Mbps downstream—are with a mere...

TED Talks: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey – Releasing the music in your head

Fabian Taylor — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:11:26 +0000

Tod Machover of MIT’s Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression for everyone — from virtuosi to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms — from opera to videogames (Guitar Hero grew out of his group). At TED2008 he talks about what’s coming next, from new tools for music creativity to the world’s first...

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know

Fabian Taylor — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:04:01 +0000

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know

I already am…it’s now my task to convince the rest of the world.

Fabian Taylor — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:00:41 +0000

I already am…it’s now my task to convince the rest of the world.

Pamelia Kurstin: Theremin, the untouchable music

Fabian Taylor — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:22:35 +0000

Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin plays and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. Songs include the classic “Autumn Leaves,” Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” and a composition by David Mash, “Listen: the Words Are Gone.” Piano: Makoto Ozone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ywH1Vj8_U See more videos at TED.com »

Sometime you have to take two steps backward before you can take the running leap forward.

Fabian Taylor — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:13:47 +0000

Sometime you have to take two steps backward before you can take the running leap forward.

Fail, fail, success, fail, success, fail, fail, success…two thumbs up to the hustle.

Fabian Taylor — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:50:34 +0000

Fail, fail, success, fail, success, fail, fail, success…two thumbs up to the hustle.

Comics of the Week #36

Fabian Taylor — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:29:03 +0000

Nervous Energy

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Fabian Taylor — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:08:22 +0000

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Now I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams

Fabian Taylor — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:32 +0000

Now I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Fabian Taylor — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:36:11 +0000

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold…

Fabian Taylor — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:30:22 +0000

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold…

TED Talks: Robert Gupta-Music is medicine, music is sanity

Fabian Taylor — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:21 +0000

Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician — and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SBGTJgBGo