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Twenty years tomorrow!
(Edited because Wife and I both just realised it is not the 14th 😅 )
Celebrating our 25th #anniversary, we are meeting up in #Montreal, #Canada 26-JUL-2025 and will have multiple photowalks through the charming historical heart of it.
We are #photographing stunning #architecture, cobblestone streets, small chapels, markets and more, all capped off with a spectacular #fireworks #show.
More information and how to register at #Nikonians
https://www.nikonians.org/about/meetup-montreal/
Image by Frederic Hore (voyageurfred)
Next November Marx Brothers' timeless classic 'A Night at the Opera' will turn 90 and also Queen's album of the same title will turn 50.... I mean, 90 fucking years and still rocks (Queen's album too).
Time goes by but classics remain.
Here you can watch it online for free thanks to Internet Archive:
A Night at the Opera restoration scan in full 1080p, somewhat compressed to achieve a balance of picture quality/file size.
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10-Year Anniversary
A Good-Bye
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It’s been a full decade ago that I started working on new songs which later became the 12-track album ‘Make Me Do’.
Said album, three EPs, and several singles later I just now closed my Bandcamp account. What was once a great tool for artists to release and sell their music, suffered from being sold twice (to the gaming giant Epic and, a year later, to Songtradr, ‘the largest music licensing platform in the world’ (Wikipedia)¹. In the process, half of the staff were laid off².
Luckily there are successors, some of which even follow a cooperative business model: Mirlo, Bandwagon, and jam.coop.
It was a somewhat sad moment to close Bandcamp still — leaving Facebook®, Instagram®, Twitter®, Bluesky®, and YouTube® were solely happy moments in contrast — but at the same time, new and promising doors opened.
So — here’s to looking forward (and looking back to ten years I wouldn’t have wanted to miss nonetheless)!
If you’re interested:
https://mirlo.space/babumenos
https://bandwagon.fm/@babumenos (a tad incomplete³)
https://jam.coop/artists/babu-menos (very incomplete³)
https://makertube.net/a/babumenos (videos)
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songtradr
² https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/17/bandcamp-lays-off-half-its-staff-after-buyout-by-songtradr
³ I will complete them both in the coming weeks.
#Anniversary #Bandcamp #Music #Mirlo #Bandwagon #JamCoop #Release
Movies released on May 11:
M (1931)
Bride of the Monster (1955)
A Knight’s Tale (2001)
Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2427715865/
MST3K: https://www.gizmoplex.com/videos/mst3k-094-brideofthemonster
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