오늘은 피아노 연주곡 ! 꽤 유명한 곡이지요. 역시 질리지 않아서 좋은 것이 연주곡 입니다.
곡이 알려진 것에 반해 많은 사람들이 By Jun의 얼굴은 모르는 것이 사실입니다. 저 역시도 모릅니다. 하하

 1집 발매 후, 굉장히 좋은 반응을 얻었지만, 갑작스레 찾아온 손의 통증으로 피아노 뿐만 아니라
일상생활에서도 손의 사용이 힘들었다고 해요.
무대에서도 음악을 함께 나누고 싶었던 그에게 큰 시련이었겠죠. 이러한 슬픈 사정이 있었다는...

 1년이 넘는 시간 동안 힘겨운 치료는 계속 되었으며, 그 시간 동안 그는 조급했던 마음을 가다듬으며
음악을 여러 시각에서 바라보게 되고, 음악에 대한 깊은 사랑을 앨범에 가득 담아냈다고 합니다. 
 현재 정규앨범 총 5장으로 아픔을 딛고 일어나 성숙해진 그의 음악도 만나보실 수 있습니다 ! 

 이곡은 2005년 1집 '지금 아무도 사랑하지 않는다' 앨범에 수록된 '당신의 사랑이 늘 행복하기를...' 입니다.
피아노 중심으로 연주되는 By Jun의 감성적인 멜로디는 간결하지만 깊은 여운을 남겨줍니다. 

 By Jun의 영상은 찾을 수가 없어서 윗 분의 훌륭한 연주 영상으로 대신합니다 !

 날씨가 좀 풀린다는데 춥기는 마찬가지인 요즘입니다. 줠~~~망 
 모두 모두 건강관리 잘 하시길!

 


Bugs Bunny로 유명한 미국 Warner Brothers의 만화시리즈 Looney Tunes! ♥♥♥
You tube에 Christmas songs을 보다가 보물을 찾았습니다. (득템이라고 하죠.!!!)
가사를 잘 보면서 따라 불러봅시다. 푸하하

이제 정말 Christmas 얼마남지 않았네요, Christmas는 그 어감만으로도 뭔가 설레입니다.^_^
하지만 작년 Christmas Eve만 생각하면 좀 슬퍼진다는... 암튼 이번 Christmas는 기필코 멋지게 보내고 말겠어요!
여러분도 곧 다가올 Christmas 계획을 슬~슬 세워보는게 어떨까요?
아 참, 시험 공부부터 합시다...

 상업성에 치우치는 것을 피하면서도, 대중적으로 약간은 취약한 힙합이란 장르의 한계를 뛰어넘는 리쌍의 여섯 번째 앨범 [HEXAGONAL]이 나왔습니다!
HEXAGONAL은 육각형 프리즘에서 나오는 화려한 색채보다 빛나는 '진짜 음악'으로 가득 채워졌다는 뜻이라네요.

  M/V는 류승완 감독과 류승범 형제의 환상적인 호흡을 '발레리노'에 이어 또 한번 볼 수 있으며, 여기에 이 시대의 아이콘인 이효리가 평소와는 다른 감성 연기를 보여주고 있습니다. (no guarantee로 출연했다는 효리언니)

'내가 웃는 게 아니야', '발레리노' 등 그들의 hit song처럼 무엇보다 리쌍의 음악은 식상하지 않으면서 큰 공감을 이끌어내는 힘이 있는 것 같습니다.
가사도 참 좋네요. 여러stress에 지친 여러분들에게 바치지요. 즐감^^

~고재린

지난 4월에 발매된 박지윤의 [꽃, 다시 첫 번째] 앨범에 수록된 곡 입니다.
긴 공백 기간 동안 당당히 그 화려함을 벗고, 진정한 artist로써, singer-songwriter로서 첫 앨범이었습니다.

'바래진 기억에' 는 시간이 흐른 뒤엔 아무것도 아닌 오해들로 서로에게 상처를 남기고
그 상처가 아물어 갈 시간쯤엔 소중했던 기억마저 함께 사라져 간다는
안타까운 마음을 노래하고 있는 곡 이라고 합니다. 

앞으로도 박지윤만의 독특한 색깔을 살린 음악을 했으면 좋겠다는!

오랜만에 글을 쓰려니 어색하네요.. 저는 약 한달간 광주에 다녀왔습니다!
바쁘게 지내다 보니, 제 할 일을 잊고 지냈다지요 흑흑 ...(반성중) 
다들 어떤 시간을 보내고 있을지 궁금해지네요~
 
 
오늘은 규금언니의 favorite singer ! Michael Bolton의 노래를 들고 왔습니다!
Michael Bolton은 1975년에 데뷔하여 1990년도에 Grammy Awards 최우수 팝 보컬을 수상했습니다.
전 아직 한 곡 밖에 들어보지 못했지만, 한국의 임재범과 비슷한 매력적인 짙은 voice!

짙은 음색이 부담스러운 분들은 Brown Eyed Soul이 remake한 곡으로 감상하세요! (화질이 영...)

Lady GaGa ! 미국의 여성 Singer-songwriter이자, 행위예술가, 가수입니다.
GaGa는 Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears 등 유명 가수들의 노래를 쓰면서 활동을 시작했습니다.
그녀의 첫번째 싱글 'Just Dance'와 두번째 싱글 'Poker Face'는 모두 빌보드 팝 정상을 차지하였습니다.  
연속해서 두 싱글 모두 1위를 차지한 기록은 Christina Aguilera 이후 10년만에 처음이라고 하는군요 !
현재 'Love Game'역시 빌보드 차트 10위를 기록하면서 끊이지 않는 인기를 증명하고 있습니다.

이렇게 잘 나가는 그녀 Lady GaGa가 지난 16일부터 18일까지 2박 3일간 한국을 방문했습니다.
일정을 마치고 귀국한 그녀는 자신의 홈페이지를 통해 "I Love Korea!! XoXo" 라고 남기는 등 
뜨거운 호응을 보내준 한국 팬들에게 감사의 말을 아끼지 않았습니다. 
'벼는 익을수록 고개를 숙인다' 라는 말이 떠오르는군요 ! 겸손함까지 갖추다니...(질투)  

~고재린

Using online videos is one of the easiest ways to study English, especially if you want to improve your listening skill. The New York Times has a growing collection of videos called "Vows," featuring stories of how couples met and eventually wed. They're especially suited for students of English because they deals with storytelling, describing people, and expressing emotions - things people do all the time. And the people in the videos speak with natural intonation and use real-life expressions, unlike those fashionable slang often used in sit-coms like Friends that now seem contrived and dated.

Just in terms of entertainment value, these videos are interesting. They are real people talking about real relationships: how they met, what their first impressions were, how they fell in love and ended up getting married. It's a video archive of love, sort of reminiscent of the snippets at the beginning of the movie, When Harry Met Sally. Also, you get to see all sorts of couples: young and old couples, inter-racial couples, even gay and lesbian couples. And the circumstances in which they met are just as varied.

Click here to see the video of one such couple, Elina and Jay: Elina Furman attempted to ignore Jay Landauer, but his persistence eventually won her over.

I transcribed about a third of the audio below.

Elina: My name is Elina and this is the story of how I met Jay.

Jay: Elina and I met at a book party. I think it's about 4 years ago.

Elina: He wasn't my type. He was wearing a suit, he was kind of serious and very forthright about everything he said.

Jay: And she accused me of being, what do you call it, one of those MBA's, which I was at the time.

Elina: And he kept talking to me and talking to me, and trying to, you know, charm me, I guess. And I was just not having any of it.

Jay: Eventually, I convinced her to give me her telephone number.

Elina: So I said, fine. You know, he's trying hard. I'm gonna throw him a bone. Of course, I wasn't planning to necessarily answer the phone when he called.

Jay: I was quite happy with myself, having been the one who got her telephone number that evening.

[...]

According to sources, The New York Times will soon allow their videos to be embedded. Too bad they don't provide a transcript.

UCC is all the rage these days. In Korea, 37% of college students watch more than 30 minutes of UCC videos daily and half of Internet users have said they've made UCC (UCC is almost synonymous with online video in Korea, but I guess in this case it also includes blog posts).

The UCC craze is also spreading to electronic hardware. Last week, Samsung released a new cell phone dubbed "UCC폰" (제품명 SCH-B750). In addition to being able to record videos in a slightly higher resolution (CIF 352x288) than most other cell phones, it features a basic onboard video editor. Users can shoot, edit and upload in three easy steps. It's supposedly tightly integrated with PandoraTV, Korea's number one video sharing site, making it easy for people on the move to bypass the computer altogether.

Nokia popularized this technology a while back with their N93 line of camcorder-equipped cell phones. And they're making a comeback in this area by having recently purchased a good media storing and sharing site called Twango. (Why can't we have more of these sites that combine diverse media storage with social networking? Even if you use only one company like Google, you still have to keep your photos in PicasaWeb, your videos in YouTube, and your writings in Blogger.)

I think we will see more video phones like these connected to web services in the future. Soon, instead of teenagers taking photos of their favorite singer at a concert and then coming home to upload to their homepage, they'll be able to broadcast a live concert for their friends at home using nothing but their cell phones.

Advances in video technology are nothing short of amazing. There are now hard disk camcorders than can record over 40 hours of video and HD (hi definition) camcorders that cost only a fraction of what they used to cost just a few years ago. To show just how far and fast we've come, here's a look back at a Kodak video projector ad from the days of black & white TV - this is how people used to watch home videos before VCRs and DVDs, and now Web video.

[video from Stage6.com]

Daum is trying to create a stir these days by prominently featuring the term UCC all over the front page of their portal. There are links to 유쾌한 UCC 검색! (their search engine),  와우! 동영상 UCC (their TVpot video site) and UCC 투데이 (a new service dedicated to all things UCC called Daum UCC세상). They also overhauled their blog and cafe platform not so long ago by introducing the UCC Edition emphasizing photos and videos. Naver, too, introduced Season 2, Episode 2 of their popular blogging service, finally introducing the long overdue html editor and enabling better photo and video blogging.

Daum's TVpot is also attracting a lot of users these days, perhaps even overtaking PandoraTV in visitors numbers/video plays according to some statistics. It might partly have to do with the numerous UCC contests they're rolling out. Major portal sites are not alone in sponsoring UCC contests. The Ministry of Culture recently had a UCC contest. And right now (July 25-26), an institute called 국가기록원 (in conjunction with Cyworld) is having a contest called 기록 愛 UCC 공모전. I'm embedding their promotional video below because the topic seems interesting. (I hope they don't mind my "borrowing" their video - it's for educational purposes and I'm giving them free promotion)

I found it odd that the contest categories are digital videos and images relating to the theme of 기록 and yet the people featured in the video all use analog formats of recording: letters, diaries and newspaper clippings. I was also reminded that log in the word "blog" (web + log) means record or 기록 in Korean, and that a blog can encompass diverse text records such as diary entries and news clippings, as well as multimedia recordings such as audio lectures, vacation photos and home videos. There will always be people who cherish the analog world, but the human passion to create and collect that also drives our digital life doesn't seem all that different.

That's the title of one of YTN's reports earlier today.

Not all foreigners in Korea are bad, but these have to be some of the stupidest. They make total asses of themselves in public and then have the gall to post their videos on YouTube for everyone to see. They've since removed the original videos, but not before Korean "netizens" saw them, became enraged, and thus got the attention of the Korean media.

I'm sure the six foreigners will lose whatever jobs they have in Korea and possibly even be expelled from the country - there's already evidence of sexual harassment and public disturbance in the videos, so says YTN. A more severe punishment would be to re-upload the original videos with their names writ large, making it hard for them to get future jobs, in Korea or elsewhere.

They may have gotten away with their drunken racism in the subway where not everyone knew what they were saying/singing about in English, but they couldn't escape the scrutiny of Korean netizens. Never mess with Korean netizens; they're the national watchdogs - bigger than Big Brother and just as fearful and unforgiving.

Update: You can see from the above video that the person who uploaded the YouTube videos used the ID jon88aconda. A little googling shows that the foreigners are somehow connected with the American Air Force in Osan. You can read some of the reactions of expats and other military people in the bulletin boards here and here.

The year 2006 began to see an enormous growth in the popularity of online videos. Even Time Magazine chimed in by putting "You," their Person of the Year, inside a YouTube video player on their cover.

"You control the Information Age," Time says. And it's true. In an age when Information is nearly synonymous with Internet, we have the power to control its "traffic" by using tags, social bookmarking, syndication, trackbacks, digs, hyperlinks, and other forms of filtering and rechanneling.

But more than just controlling information, we create information. As so happens in the English language, "You" is also homophonous with the "U" in "UCC," a buzzword in Korea meaning "user-created content" (better known as "user-generated content" to the rest of the world).

What we call Web 2.0 or second-generation web would be a desolate place indeed, if it were not for the creative contributions of millions of users - people like you and me who make (and make up) the web with blogs and wikis, with photos and podcasts, and with videos. Using new technology and new tools at our disposal, it's easier than ever to collaborate with our peers, publish our thoughts, share our lives and broadcast our world.

The most prominent feature of the new web is undoubtedly video. It’s a medium not even mainstream media networks can ignore. It’s not just a novel alternative anymore. Because CNN dominates cable news, you would think they wouldn't bother putting up short videos in tiny little boxes on the web, but they do. The New York Times may well be the last print media that survives but they now have a reputable collection of web-only videos, even goofy, geeky ones.

Journalism itself is no longer reserved for big media corporations. We often see videos of police brutality that would not have seen the light of day had it not been for vacationers taking home videos nearby. Anyone with a camcorder or a webcam or even a cell phone with video capability can shoot video, upload to a free video-sharing site like YouTube, and instantly share what they see with the rest of the world. The technology and the power once available only to large broadcasting companies are now available to each and every one of us. We are our own TV stations. In fact, CNN's I-Report invites users to submit reports ("citizen journalism") and that's how they got their hands on the Virginia Tech cell phone video.

Of course, no one will mistake the Virginia Tech cell phone video as professional journalism - camera shake is bad, resolution worse. But it’s a rare, on-the-scene video footage and people watched in record-breaking numbers - over 11 million views in one day. People initially objected to the shooter's video manifestos being aired on TV (it was all the news there was for two weeks), saying the media is irresponsibly giving a killer an undeserved mass audience and possibly even encouraging future copycat killers. But then later, people privately searched for it online and saw it again and again, trying to figure out why it all had to happen.

And if that doesn’t show the massive influence of online video on our digital culture, we now see American presidential hopefuls joining the bandwagon by uploading candid, personal videos. If the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates marked a first in televised presidential debates, this year marks the beginning of online video campaigns. Here's Hillary Clinton on YouTube (May 16, 2007), trying her hand at humor by inviting viewers to pick her campaign song:

Rather than ramble on like I've been doing, maybe it's better to talk specifically about some of the more important or interesting video-related sites and services... in another post.