High Resolution Life

Kevo Can't Dance comes back on to the podcast today (our first podcast of the year)! Kevin Quinn and I talk about open mics of Central PA, particularly. Should you do them? What would you expect at an open mic? How important are open mics for musicians and comedians? And we also fill you in on the upcoming music happenings in the area. Hope you enjoy! Keep up with Kevo's music endeavors at:

http://www.facebook.com/kevocantdance

In this episode, Doug Tussey, an accomplished professor of physics and a practitioner of multiple martial arts, takes time to discuss his journey in martial arts and particularly Brazilian Jiu Jitsu with us. Take a listen for a fantastic and in depth perspective on martial arts, from Doug's perspective!

Today we welcome Josefina Hunter, accomplished photographer, Penn State graduate and also a fiber artist! Josefina was gracious enough to share her crocheting journey with us and show us her adorable and awesome creations. Follow Josefina on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sweetieknots/ And be sure to check out her website at: https://www.sweetieknots.com/ Also mentioned: https://www.instagram.com/ayinmaiden/ - Guild Wars 2 Streamer + charity streamer https://www.instagram.com/grimgrinninggoats/ - Creator of the Gus Fun-Guy Pattern https://www.instagram.com/crochetedbyel/ - Strawberry Bulbasaur pattern creator https://www.instagram.com/shoppurplepear/ - Crocheter mentioned https://www.instagram.com/crochetgrove/ - Creator of the elf patterns https://www.instagram.com/fionadolls/ - Creator of the reindeer pattern https://www.instagram.com/premieryarns/ - Makers of the plushie yarn

In this episode of High Resolution Life, Josh Rultenberg and Aaron Barthold join us on the podcast to have a conversation about our individual and collective experiences as attendees during the historic March for Israel rally, held in Washington DC on Tuesday November 14, 2023.

Today (or this week, rather) Annette is sharing her current focus for pipe organ: preparing three months in advance for a wedding! (Yep, they come that quickly!) enjoy some music from Handel and selections for sacred music services as well, along with some funny anecdotes about weirdos who make things way stranger than they have to be. Also a few quippy jokes and reflections on the smoke that descended upon Pennsylvania, thanks to Canada.

I decided to do a quick podcast since I had an extra half hour (I didn't really have one, I just made it), and decided to share how work with Arabic, Hebrew, German and Mandarin is progressing! Here are some podcasts that I highly recommend to listen to Egyptian Arabic: (Thanks to my friend, Noureddine, for the suggestion!)

إذًا أعزائي

https://open.spotify.com/show/5ve9gh9BPjCT0PVvUaX5Ww?si=40da20c4ecb24a7c

And Modern Hebrew:

אלטרנטיבה || פודקאסט הקיימות של ישראל https://open.spotify.com/show/33AhPonhEdgEiLQuAEHZXG?si=849e3d5e26914c49

ישראליז https://open.spotify.com/show/5yUZPLOc8OtlT7P0rTLssV?si=aa2412f1a1554260

Annette returns to the pipe organ at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hollidaysburg, PA! She has currently endeavored to work on 8 Kleine Präludien und Fugen, BWV 553-56 by (allegedly) J. S. Bach... Why do we say allegedly? You'll have to tune in and listen to hear why it is alleged and also hear the progress for this week!

Some of my friends think I'm funny like a clown, and I make them laugh - and on Sunday, I realized I could go on a 30 minute tirade about an eyebrow. You're invited to take a listen and see if my friends are right about the funny thing, or if I just need to stick the nerdy topics. I hope you enjoy!

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love a good challenge, and I am rather competitive, and I love languages - so I have chosen for the past year and a half to challenge myself with learning a few difficult languages all at once. Why? Because I want to! If you are also an aspiring polyglot or simply curious about what goes into learning multiple languages at once, take a listen! I've made a personal challenge for myself to speak about various things in my daily life for a period of 30 seconds, and I want to treat these language focused episodes as a time that I get to excitedly babble about languages and the cultural and historical insights they provide as I'm learning.

Hello everyone! Annette made some time to update you on her music endeavors - one of them being starting to perform at local open mics in the central Pennsylvania area and building connections with other musicians in the area. In this episode, she shares with you some insights, discoveries and also things she finds particularly endearing about specific songs she chose to perform at open mics. Bonus: Listen to some meager progress on a prelude by Scriabin!

Feel free to listen to the original artist rendition of these songs:

"My Life" - Billy Joel

https://youtu.be/h3JFEfdK_Ls

"הזמן עושה את שלו" (HaZman Ose et Shelo) by Avraham Tal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBMvy1M8-I

"Be Good to Yourself" by Journey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PZxhOtO01g

Bonus: My parents from their rockband era also singing Journey!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUO1UdgOg1Q

Another facet of my work involves playing the pipe organ, and I had the pleasant fortune of having time to share an introduction to the instrument, some basic mechanisms involved in playing the pipe organ and pieces I've been assigned to play today. Come on over, take a listen, learn about a few hymns, and chill with me at the pipe organ - you know, "chill" like the '90s kids say. Enjoy!

Did I, perhaps, abandon Mendelssohn (Songs without Words, Hunting Song, Op. 19 No. 3) for a short time because I had to, as the kids say, “adult?” You bet I did. However, I decided to record and show you which parts of the Mendelssohn pieces came together, and which parts, inevitably, fell apart. We (Jeff and I) will be back in business on Sunday and show you our next endeavor!

One of my best friends, Chris, was very kind to come to my house and record it with me, and share his adventures to Germany with me.

He shares his observations about Germany with me and all that his trip entails; we talk about the locations he visited, including Dresden and Berlin - we also talk about the weather, food, and cultural differences between the United States and Germany. Spoiler alert: Pennsylvania and Germany are actually not quite that different?

Und für eine kleine Zeit haben wir in Deutsch gesprochen! (Excuse the poor grammar, my German grammar is a work in progress.)

In this episode, we welcome Amy Podoletz to the podcast to share her expertise on the animation genre known as anime! Amy is a graduate of Seton Hill University, majoring in Information and Library Sciences.  I decided to delve into a little bit more of what narratives anime focuses on and some of the anime series that Amy recommends to check out... If you don't know anything about anime or want to delve a little bit more into what it's all about, this is the podcast for you! Follow Amy on Twitter at @janedoetheghost

On this episode of High Resolution Life, we welcome Jeffrey Hampton back to the podcast! This time we talk about atonal music, locusts and telemarketers. How do they all relate to this episode? Well, this episode evolved from a phone call rant that was paused so the conversation could be shared with you all! Atonal music is a type of music that moves away from a typical tonal center (think of your scales and your arpeggios), and how this atonal movement set the stage for different types of music and performance styles in the 20th century; which leads to the whole locust thing. As for the telemarketers? Well, you'll have to listen and find out for yourself on that one. Enjoy!

Today we welcome John Moist to High Resolution Life! John Moist is a doctoral student studying communication at University of Illinois, and his studies focus on rhetoric, technology and economic topics. Annette and John were both born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania and are both former homeschoolers. John Moist has joined Annette on the podcast to talk about being raised as homeschoolers, how they feel it impacted their personal "success," common stereotypes they often dealt with due to their education, and pragmatic perspectives for parents now homeschooling their parents due to the pandemic.

What would you do if you woke up one day and found you would have to relearn everything you thought you knew how to do? Walk, talk, eat... Even breathe? A long time friend of Annette's, Jess Stellabotte, discusses how she has spent the past few years recovering from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM).

Meet Annette - or, re-meet Annette in Podcast form. Here I explain that I'm starting a podcast, what I'm starting it for and what I hope to get out of it, and what I hope you also get out of it. It's essentially a kind of journal podcast, I suppose, since I'm examining a lot of different sides of life that are interesting and exciting to me, and they are different situations, thoughts and people that I've encountered that I find interesting, and I hope they are just as interesting and exciting to you as well. Let's go!