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Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
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Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
Olmstead Studios, New York Studio Recording 1) Bleeding Heart 2) Guitar Idea 3) Ezy Ryder 4) Midnight 5) Bleeding Heart 6) Villanova Junction Blues 7) Jam Following a difficult and unproductive series of sessions at Olympic Studios in February 1969, the Experience did not return to the recording studio as a unit until April, when they gathered with engineer Eddie Kramer at New York's Olmstead Studios to try and recapture their momentum.
Olmstead Studios, New York Studio Recording 1) Jam 2) Hear My Train A' Comin' 3) Ezy Ryder
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Olmstead Studios, New York Studio Recording 1)Midnight 2)Trash Man Takes of the extended instrumental workouts "Midnight" and "Trash Man" were the most promising songs to emerge from these early April 1969 Olmstead sessions. "Midnight" had begun to take form two months earlier at the February 1969 sessions at Olympic Studios. The song was originally titled "Midnight Lightning" before Jimi shortened it simply to "Midnight". "Midnight" is now available as part of the 1998 album South Saturn Delta. A heavily truncated version of "Trash Man", filled out with posthumously recorded overdubs, was issued part of the controversial [and long since deleted] 1975 album Midnight Lightning.
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April 4, 1969 Olmstead Studios, New York Studio Recording 1)Trash Man
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Record Plant Studios, New York Studio Recording 1) Jam With Electric Sitar 2) Ships Passing In The Night 3) Ezy Ryder Working without Mitch and Noel, Jimi enjoyed a night of jamming and experimentation. The evening's highlight came when Jimi recorded an extended, untitled jam session playing an electric sitar, an instrument given to him by its inventor, Vinnie Bell.
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Record Plant Studios, New York Studio Recording 1) Stone Free 2) Hear My Train A Comin' 3) Lullaby For The Summer Jimi revisited "Stone Free", his first ever Experience composition. This new rendition showcased a more sophisticated arrangement than that of the November 1966 recording which had served as the b-side for "Hey Joe". Pleased with the group's progress, Hendrix recorded lead guitar and vocal overdubs during two subsequent sessions on April 9 and 14. While not released during Jimi's lifetime, this version of "Stone Free" was issued as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience box set. Work was also completed on "Hear My Train A Comin" although no final masters were achieved. Jimi also attempted to further develop "Lullaby For The Summer", which would later evolve as "Ezy Ryder".
Record Plant Studios, New York Studio Recording 1)Hear My Train A Comin' 2)Stone Free New attempts were made at "Hear My Train A Comin'" while Jimi added overdubs to the "Stone Free" master begun on April 7.
Spectrum, Philadelphia With Fat Mattress Set List: Fire Red House Foxey Lady I Don't Live Today Hear My Train A Comin' Stone Free Star Spangled Banner Purple Haze Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Jimi Hendrix leads The Experience through a rousing performance at the Philadelphia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 12, 1969. Photo: Chris Jones / © Authentic Hendrix, LLC
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Record Plant Studios, New York Studio Recording 1 ) Solo Guitar 2 ) Jam With Unknown Bass & Drummer 3 ) Jam With Mitch & Noel 4 ) Jam With Percussion 5 ) Bass Jam 6 ) Sunshine Of Your Love 7 ) Ships Passing Through The Night 8 ) Jams With Larry Young and Buddy Miles A night filled with spirited jam sessions. The evening was capped off with a superb, jazz tinged workout with Buddy Miles and organist Larry Young. A portion of this jam was later issued as part of the [now deleted] 1980 compilation Nine To The Universe.
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The Scene, New York Jam Session According to Noel Redding, Hendrix and Mitchell joined him for an evening of jamming at the Scene nightclub, a favorite spot of the group.
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Record Plant Studios, New York Studio Recording 1) Keep On Groovin'
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Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee [Two Shows] With Fat Mattress Set List: [Second Show] Fire I Don't Live Today Hear My Train A Comin' Sunshine Of Your Love Stone Free Foxey Lady Star Spangled Banner Purple Haze Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Burdened with an exhaustive schedule of personal appearances, the tense relationship between Hendrix and bassist Noel Redding further deteriorated. Frustrated, Hendrix reached out to old friend Billy Cox, with whom he had served in the US Army and performed on the famed R&B 'chitlin' circuit' prior to leaving for New York. The bassist reunited with Hendrix backstage at this Experience concert in Memphis. "We met when the Experience played in Memphis," Cox explains. "He told me that he wanted me to be his bass player. He said that things weren't in the order the way he wanted them and would I come as a friend and help him out. He said he'd take care of me and everything would be okay and so I gladly accepted. I went back to Nashville, closed my publishing company, dropped everything else and left for New York." Three days after the backstage meeting in Memphis, Cox joined Hendrix at the Record Plant recording studio in New York.
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April 20, 1969 Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, Texas With Fat Mattress, Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys Set List: Stone Free Hear My Train A Comin' Foxey Lady I Don't Live Today Fire Red House Star Spangled Banner Purple Haze Voodoo Child (Slight Return) The Experience always seemed to rise to the occasion in their performances in Texas. This superb Dallas 1969 performance was no exception. Jimi Hendrix is photographed during The Experience's April 20, 1969 performance at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas. Photo: Chesna Deyoe / © Authentic Hendrix, LLC
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Record Plant, New York Studio Recording 1) Room Full Of Mirrors 2) Crash Landing 3) Bleeding Heart These recordings represent Billy Cox's first studio session with Jimi. For their explorations of "Room Full Of Mirrors", "Crash Landing" and "Bleeding Heart", Hendrix and Cox were joined by drummer Rocky Isaac and percussionist Al Marks. Take thirty-one of "Room Full Of Mirrors" from this session is featured as part of the box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience. At the time of the box set's release, it was not known that Issac and Marks had been the musicians backing Jimi on that evening. More than three decades later, Al Marks, now a successful music executive for MCA Records, fills in the details about meeting Jimi and how the session came together EH: How did you first meet Jimi? AM: I met Jimi at the Monterey Pop Festival. I was in a band in New York called the Down Five. My guitar player wanted to go to Monterey. I said, 'For what? I don't want to go to Mexico.' He said, 'No, Monterey, California for the Pop Festival'. I agreed, so we got into a VW bus and drove across the country. He knew someone who was working at the festival and we got a crew pass. We spent a lot of time wandering around the backstage and all of the artists back there were really cool. You could walk up to people like Brian Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Mama Cass and just talk to them. We watched Jimi's performance and were just blown away. I didn't even want to pick up my guitar again after watching him play. He blew me away. Sometime after his set, we went backstage and saw him having a conversation with Mitch Mitchell. When he finished, I walked over and said, 'I also play guitar, but as of today I am putting it down.' He laughed in that cool way he had and said, 'Don't put it down. Just practice.' We spoke for about fifteen minutes, talking about guitars and amplifiers. I asked him about Stratocasters and why he played them upside down. He showed me his hands and they were twice my size. I told him that I played Gibson's and he wanted to know which models I liked. I preferred the 335 which he had never played. He spoke of a Gibson Firebird which I had never heard of. He mentioned that one of the Kinks also played that guitar. He was very friendly and easy to talk with. He was just really cool. EH: How did you get involved with the Cherry People? AM: I moved from New York down to Washington in January 1969. I hooked up with this band known as the Cherry People. I was living in the basement of the guitar player's house. Chris Grimes and I were good friends and I was working as their manager. Punky Meadows, later of Angel, was the lead guitarist. Rocky Isaac was their drummer and Jan Zechowski, later of the Nighthawks played bass. Doug Grimes was the lead singer. The band told me that everybody would be going up to New York in April. They were going to try and get out of their record deal with Heritage Records to whom they had signed in 1968. The group had a hit with the song "And Suddenly", but they were not a bubble gum band and that's what the album was. Jerry Ross owned Heritage Records and when they recorded the Cherry People album, they had used a lot of session players. The band didn't have a lot of input into how it was made. The guys really resented that. We had a meeting scheduled with Jerry Ross, but he didn't show. We left a note with his secretary asking to be released from the label. She laughed at us, but agreed to give it to Jerry. After that, we went out for pizza and heard that there was going to be a jam for guitar players at Steve Paul's Scene Club that night. We didn't have a hotel because we had originally thought we were just going to turn around and drive back home after the meeting with Jerry Ross. We decided instead to go check what was happening there. We got there at 9:00 and there were all kinds of people around like Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer. All of a sudden Jimi Hendrix walked in with two people. He sat down in the corner and no one was bothering him. Everybody at my table was going, 'Wow! That's Jimi Hendrix!' I was excited. I told the guys that I had met Jimi at Monterey Pop and wanted to see if he had remembered our conversation backstage. The guys didn't believe me and I sat there for a few minutes trying to get up the nerve to go talk to him. I got up the courage and introduced myself. I didn't want to bother him, but I asked if he remembered meeting at Monterey. He did not, but told me it was cool to sit and talk with him. He asked what I was doing in New York and I told him that our band was trying to get out of its contract with the record company. He laughed and said, 'Yeah, record companies…' Then he said, 'So you got a band here? Do you have a drummer?' I said 'Yes. He is sitting right over there.' He then asked if we were doing anything at 3 or 4 o'clock that morning. I said no and asked him why. He was going to cut some things in the studio and wondered whether our drummer would like to sit in. I immediately said he would. Jimi then said, 'Well, you didn't ask him.' I didn't have to ask him. He's gonna do it. He wanted to know if the guy was any good and I told him that Rocky was a great drummer. We'll do it, I told him. He introduced me to Billy Cox who was sitting with him. Billy mentioned that he was a bass player. I asked about Noel Redding, but Jimi told me that Noel would not be sitting in. He described Billy as his buddy and said that the session would be with him. We agreed to meet later at the Record Plant. I walked to my table and told the band, 'You are not going to believe this but Jimi Hendrix just asked Rocky to sit in'. Everybody at the table told me I was full of shit. I asked the guys to trust me and waved over to Jimi's table. Jimi waved back and gave us the peace sign. Chris, Rocky, and I made plans to go while the other guys went back to this hostel we were staying at. At the Record Plant we told the receptionist that we were here to do a session with Jimi Hendrix. He asked who we were and I told him the Cherry People. We were not listed on the sheet. I told him about meeting Jimi at the Scene Club and he said, 'Oh, you are the guys he called over about'. We were alone in the studio for about forty-five minutes before Gary Kellgren showed up with an assistant engineer and a tall, beautiful black woman [Devon Wilson] whom we were told was Jimi's girlfriend. Gary reassured us that while Jimi was always late, he had phoned about the session and was on his way over. Twenty minutes later, Jimi and Billy Cox walked in with a friend who was a photographer [Willis Hogans Jr.]. Jimi was really cool and wanted to know if we were OK. Rocky saw him and said, 'You're Jimi Hendrix'. Jimi laughed and said 'Man, I know who I am. Don't you think I know who I am?' We all just about fell on the floor laughing. Rocky admitted to him that he was really nervous. Jimi laughed and said, 'Just relax. It will all be cool.' Jimi was playing through an old Acoustic amplifier and not a Marshall. One big cabinet with a small head. Billy was playing through an Ampeg rig and a set of drums had been set up for Rocky. Jimi then started to move his amp and I told that I would do that for him. He said that if I really wanted to move something for him, his car was out front and if he didn't move it across the street it was going to be towed. I asked for the keys and told him I would do it. He owned a silver Corvette and by the time I was outside I thought, 'Shit, I don't know how to drive a stick shift. I am going to ruin Jimi's Corvette'. I opened the door and it was automatic. I thought, my God everything is working for me tonight! I got in the car and there were all of these tapes on the passenger seat. His car had a cassette player built in to the dashboard and I had never seen anything like that before. Sitting on the seat were these tapes which were marked, 'Me, Steve Winwood' and 'Me, Buddy Miles'. I parked the car, came back in and he told me that he wanted a percussion section. Jimi asked me to play maracas—which I had never played before in my life—and Chris Grimes to play tambourine. We recorded "Room Full Of Mirrors" and it took forever because Rocky couldn't keep the beat on drums. Midway through the session, Jimi turned to him and said something to the effect of, 'Man, do you know how to play drums? What's going on?' I had been banging one of the maracas against my leg for three and a half hours and my leg was black and blue. I told Rocky quietly that he better get things right because I couldn't walk! I had a knot on my leg that seemed four inches big. I was afraid that we were going to screw up the chance of a lifetime. At one point in the session, the photographer [Willis Hogans Jr.] got underfoot of Jimi. He had been laying on the ground taking pictures of Jimi and he got in the way. Jimi kicked the camera out of his hands, saying to get out of the way [Ed. These may be the few color shots Hogans took of Jimi from that angle]. We thought he was joking at first but he was actually really pissed. His kick broke the camera and the photographer started crying. Jimi gave him money to get it fixed but that was the end of photos that night. By eight that morning, Jimi said that we were going to give it one last try and if we didn't get it we would have to come back the next morning. Jimi then just started wailing on the guitar and singing live on top of it. Rocky finally delivered what he believed was a good take and Gary Kellgren yelled 'Yeah' over the talkback microphone when we had finished. Jimi let us know that we were done for the night. Before we left, he told us that he had a couple more tracks that he wanted to cut on Thursday at the same time. We thought he meant after midnight Wednesday evening. As he was walking out, he gave each of us $100.00 cash and said to Rocky, 'Man, I would practice a bit if I was you.' Billy laughed and shook his head and they walked out together. Gary Kellgren then came over and asked us our names and if we were in the Musicians Union. We were, but Gary told us not to declare the work because Jimi had paid us more than union scale for the session. Union scale at that time for a session was $35.00. We were strutting. Jimi Hendrix had paid us $100.00 to play with him. We told the guys back at the hostel about the session and they didn't believe us until we showed them the $100.00 bill Jimi had given each of us. We then drove back to Washington and made a plan to bring Mike Burke and Richard Harrington, a critic for the Washington Post who also wrote for a paper called the Unicorn Times to prove that we actually were going to record again with Jimi Hendrix.
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April 22, 1969 Record Plant, New York Studio Recording 1) Mannish Boy Jimi, Buddy Miles, and Billy Cox dedicate this evening to recording an uptempo remake of Muddy Waters' classic "Mannish Boy". The song was later issued as part of the popular album Jimi Hendrix :Blues. This multi-exposed image of Jimi Hendrix recording at Record Plant Studios in New York, New York was taken on April 22, 1969. Photo: Willis Hogan Jr. / © Authentic Hendrix, LLC
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April 24, 1969 Record Plant, New York Studio Recording 1) Crash Landing 2) Bleeding Heart 3) Hey Gypsy Boy On this evening, Jimi and Billy Cox were again joined by percussionist Al Marks and drummer Rocky Isaac from the Washington D.C. based group The Cherry People. Al Marks details the events of that memorable evening. EH: What happened at the April 24, 1969 session? AM: We drove back Wednesday [April 23, 1969] and went to the Record Plant. We spoke to the receptionist and told him we were here to record with Jimi. He remembered us from the other night but informed us Jimi had not booked a session for that night. All of a sudden our jaws dropped. Mike Burke and [Washington Post critic] Richard Harrington looked at us and were complaining that we had driven all this way for nothing. Mike Burke agreed to stay, but Harrington left to take a train back to D.C. We had no place to stay so we asked if we could hang out at the studio. They let us in and we crashed on the floor of the studio. In the morning, we were awoken by Vinnie Bell and Tony Mottola from the Tonight Show band. Vinnie was the guy who invented the electric sitar. [Ed. Marks may have also solved another puzzling Hendrix historical question. On April 6, 1969 Jimi was recorded playing a Coral electric sitar at the Record Plant. It now seems apparent that he was given the instrument by Bell]. They were arriving to do session work for a movie soundtrack. These guys were in suits and we were a bunch of scraggly hippies in buckskin jackets. Before we left that morning, Jimi called the studio to set up the session for that night. The studio told him we were there and he asked us to return that night at 9. Somehow we then lost Rocky. We couldn't locate him, so we ended up spending the day walking around the city. He showed up back at the studio around 7 p.m. looking refreshed. He asked us where we had been because Jimi had reserved a hotel room for us. We were stunned. Rocky had left a note for us but the guy at the Record Plant had forgotten to tell us. We all ran over to the hotel room Jimi had reserved for us and took quick showers. When we returned to the studio, Jimi and Rocky were going over the new songs he wanted to play. The first number we did was "Bleeding Heart". We did about fifteen or sixteen takes and it seemed to work out fairly well. It was the same line-up as the previous session. Jimi then wanted to try another song so Chris and I took the opportunity to switch instruments. My leg was so damn sore that I couldn't keep doing it anymore so I took over tambourine and Chris picked up the maracas. [Ed. Jimi made several attempts at "Hey Gypsy Boy", an uptempo new original song whose lyrics bore close similarity to what would later develop as "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)"]. Jimi then started to play "Crash Landing". There were no vocals at first. He was focusing on the track itself. This went really well and after ten or fifteen takes he asked everybody to leave the studio. I asked him if we were being thrown out and he explained that he would not allow anybody to be in the studio while he recorded vocals on a track. In the control room, Gary Kellgren told us that it was just an idiosyncrasy that Jimi had. Gary went out and constructed a booth around him. Jimi had a sheet with lyrics and he stood behind there and sang beautifully. We were bug eyed in the control room. Then, all of sudden, Punky Meadows, who had been sleeping in the back of the studio, woke up and started walking across the room. Jimi saw him and literally flipped out. He threw down the papers in his hand and yelled, 'What the fuck are you doing in the studio when I am doing vocals?' In the control room, Gary Kellgren put his hands to his head. Apparently, that was the worst thing anyone could do on a Hendrix session. He yelled to us, 'Get him out of there!' We hustled Punky out to the bathroom and Jimi regained his composure and started doing vocals again. When he finished, he walked in to the control room and said, 'Man, no one walks through that studio when I am doing vocals. Didn't Gary tell you that?' We explained that Punky had been asleep and we didn't know where he was. Jimi laughed. 'Punky? What kind of name is Punky?' Punky came out from hiding and they met. All Jimi kept asking him was what kind of name was Punky? It was funny. At the end of the session, he thanked us and hoped that we would run into each other. We drove back to D.C. after that. EH: Did you ever imagine that any of the music to which you contributed would be released? AM: Years later I bought the Crash Landing album thinking it was us on the track but they had erased everything. I have been looking for some validation of this session for thirty years. Every time I would see "Room Full Of Mirrors" on a Jimi Hendrix album I would look to see if my name was on it. Then this year I got an advance of the new box set. I heard "Room Full Of Mirrors" and lo and behold it was it us. This is the song I played on! When I saw the credits, I was disappointed that no one seemed to know who the hell I was! It was great to talk to you about it. I am so grateful to know that this track is on the box set. I love Jimi and its an honor to be a part of something like this. I've been on a high since!
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Los Angeles Forum, Los Angeles, Ca. With Chicago, Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys Set List: Tax Free Foxey Lady Red House Spanish Castle Magic Star Spangled Banner Purple Haze I Don't Live Today Voodoo Child Sunshine Of Your Love An inspired set performed before a raucous, sold out house. "I Don't Live Today", originally mixed by Eddie Kramer in June of 1969 for a proposed live album, was issued as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience box set.
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Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, Ca. With Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys Set List: Fire Hey Joe Spanish Castle Magic Hear My Train A Comin' Sunshine Of Your Love Red House Foxey Lady Star Spangled Banner Purple Haze Voodoo Child This inspired performance served as the debut release for Dagger Records The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Oakland marks the debut release of Dagger Records, a unique label established by Experience Hendrix to bring Jimi's fans inspired performances which don't meet the technical criteria and sonic standards Hendrix himself established over the course of his short, but spectacular career. Spread over two discs, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Oakland was made from an amateur audience recording made by Ken Koga using a single microphone onto a portable Sony reel to reel deck. The concert was not professionally recorded, so Ken's amatuer tapes represent the only known documentation of this performance. The monophonic sound is unobtrusive and clear, but far from industry [as well as Jimi's own] standards. Fans of the Experience will recognize the set list, as songs such as "Fire", "Purple Haze", and "Spanish Castle Magic" were staples of the 1969 US tour repertoire. The evening was capped off with an eighteen minute, extended jam of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Joining the group onstage for this final number was Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady. The Jimi Hendrix Experience are photographed on stage during their April 27, 1969 performance at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. The concert was recorded and is the subject of the debut Dagger Records CD release "Live At The Oakland Coliseum." Photo: Darrell Miles / © Authentic Hendrix, LLC
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Step-By-Step: A Guide to Starting an Urban Garden
This is a guest post by Mike Lieberman of the Urban Organic Gardener for networx.com.
Are you looking to start an urban garden this spring and not sure where to start? I hear you on that. That's exactly where I was back in the spring of 2009 when I first started urban gardening. I'm now a successful urban gardener in Los Angeles, and I'll help you to grow your own food.
At the time, I was living in one of the least garden-friendly environments in the world -- New York City. I had barely enough room for my bed, let alone a garden. After spending weeks researching and not coming up with anything at the library that spoke to me and my needs, I decided to just get started and figure it out.
I want to share what I've learned with you. This isn't a magical formula that is going to allow you to grow 25 lbs of tomatoes or 300 cucumbers. It's practical advice that will help you to utilize and maximize your limited space (not everyone is privileged to have flat roofing or a yard. Don't worry! You'll still be able to grow food in the city.)
Step One: Deciding On a Location for Your Urban Garden
There are plenty of options in and around your apartment for you have your garden. You just need to be creative with the space.
Some options include:
● Fire escape (don't block egress!)
● Balcony
● Deck
● Windowsill
● Closet
● Bookshelf
● Patio
● Railing
Step Two: Determine the Amount of Sunlight that Hits Your Urban Garden Spot
This is a critical and often overlooked step that will help to ensure your success. It's important to understand what is sun and what is shade when it comes to gardening.
For whatever reason when people talk about urban agriculture, they immediately think about tomatoes. However, in order to grow most varieties of tomatoes, you'll need at least 8 hours of direct sunlight. Most urban gardens are shaded not only by trees and nature, but by other things as well such as awnings, fences and other buildings.
If you only get 3 hours of sunlight, you'll have to grow what does well in 3 hours of sunlight.
Step Three: Questions to Ask Yourself Before Planting an Urban Garden
Now that you have the space decided and figured out how much sunlight it gets, you'll want to figure out what to grow. There are a few questions you'll want to ask yourself such as:
- What do you eat most?
- What makes the most financial sense?
- What are the best plants to grow in pots, if you don't have access to a patch of soil?
Step Four: Buying Seeds for Your Urban Garden
There are a lot of seed companies out there. When you buy seeds, you want to support a company that shares the same values as you do.
The next steps are choosing containers for your urban garden, starting seeds and planting the seeds. In my next post for Networx.com, I walk you through building a self-watering container system.
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Farming technology has come a long way since the Old Farmer's Almanac. Farm machinery has improved in leaps and bounds over the last century, but agriculture apps are where the really exciting advances are being made.
No matter what kind of operation you have, there are agriculture apps that will help simplify your life. Farming and ranching will always be hard work, but with the right tools things can be a bit more efficient. Try these six agriculture apps to help simplify your operation.
Dairy Farmer Apps
You don't want to have to dig for basic information, so the Daily Dairy Report aggregates essentials like price reports, futures markets, the latest statistics and daily news into one central hub. The Daily Dairy Report seeks to connect the dots in the dairy industry, providing analysis by experienced dairy farmers of government prices, production and supply reports.
It gets good reviews among dairy farmer apps, with users calling it "Awesome!" and "A Virtual One Stop Shop." Instead of visiting a half dozen bookmarks every day, the Daily Dairy Report has you covered. The app is always available for both Apple and Android devices.
Penn State developed DairyCents, a dairy farmer app that calculates income over feed costs and offers price comparisons on various grains and commodities based on the Penn State Feed Price List and what other users of the app are paying. DairyCents is simple to use, displaying an easy to understand breakdown of feed cost per cow, gross milk price, milk margin and more, along with historic data. DairyCents also makes it easy to graph your own data or compare your data to that of other users. DairyCents is available on Apple and on Android.
Cattle Apps
Get info on the nutritional requirements of your stock and more with Grazing Calculator, a cattle app developed by sibling dairy farmers Robert and Louise Hathaway. Grazing Calculator lets you work out the approximate area of crop to allocate for your herd and the number of days to leave cattle in a paddock based on yield. You can send results from the app in an email, as an SMS or copy it to the clipboard. Grazing Cattle lets cattle farmers play with the numbers of their farm and herd to maximize results. Grazing Calculator can be used on Apple or Android devices.
Beef Cow BCS lets you track and organize body condition scores for your herd. You can track cattle based on individual pastures and snap your own photos to see how they measure up to reference images in the app or keep records based on ear tag number.
Beef Cow BCS has stellar reviews in the iTunes store, with users calling it "yet another great innovation for the beef industry." It's also available for both Apple and Android.
Tractor GPS Apps
Keep track of your position in the field with Farm Sprayer GPS. This simple app helps you be sure of where you've sprayed or spread fertilizer, but you can also use it for tracking planting and tillage. Farm Sprayer GPS also keeps count of how many acres you've been over and apprises you of your tractor's speed. Farm Sprayer GPS can also be purchased for Apple or Android.
Seed Management Apps
AG PhD's Planting Population Calculator app helps determine the optimum in-row spacing between both soybean and corn seeds, based on the width of your rows and the planting population you want per acre. The seed management app is a good way to get a handle on the seeds per acre you'll need for your farm. After crops have emerged, Planting Population Calculator helps determine a stand count for your crops, allowing you to compare what you planted to your actual yield. It can be used by Apple devices and is being developed for Android devices.
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Did you ever wonder how animators got this good in such a short time? This is 1942. only a few years later than rubber hose animation. Who wouldn't love to be able to do this?
Coal Black, Bicycle
40s animators were so great because they learned to animate like this below. They started with really simple character designs and animated to musical beats.
Bosko Dance
Early sound cartoons moved to musical beats. Here Bosko is bouncing up and down on a 12X beat.
Early sound cartoons moved to musical beats. Here Bosko is bouncing up and down on a 12X beat.
Every 12 x, he squashes down. The lowest position - with his knees bent- happening on the beats. That means he bounces twice every second. A second is 24 film frames.
This is a 24x cycle. He is waving his arms left and right. Each wave is 12x to go with the beat.
I'm convinced that the quickest way to learn the basics of animation is to start by animating fundamental animation techniques using rubber hose designs. I mean Hell, it worked for all the greatest animators in our history. It could work for you too and you the advantage because you have their stuff to study. They didn't have any reference. They were making it up from scratch through trial and error.
But they were very logical and methodical about it too.
1) Animate Simple Characters - why?
If you are teaching yourself to animate and you start with hard to draw characters, you are obviously going to slow your learning curve.
The more details your characters have the longer it takes to draw them, and the harder it is to control the details in motion.
Tall characters with long legs are much harder to animate than short characters with small proportions.
You want to learn basic motion when you are starting out, so keep your characters very simple (and rounded) and you will learn much faster and better.
2) Animate to beats
Animating to a regular beat teaches you:
Rhythmic timing: it feels better- imagine a song with no beat, it wouldn't be much fun. It would meander.
General timing - you get used to what different amounts of frames feel like - what 12x feels like as opposed to 8x.
Classic animators and directors were like drummers. They automatically thought of their scenes as rhythms and that helped make their timing so crisp.
Kali's First Bosko StudyIf you wanna learn animation fundamentals, you can copy these animated cycles and shoot them, like Kali is doing.
As you copy them, analyze what you are doing, so that you can apply general techniques to other scenes. Count how many frames it takes to do each action.Note the wave action that the arms are doing. This concept can be used in infinite variety.
Note in these bounces, that there are less drawings going down into the accent, and more coming up. That is what gives the beats a noticeable accent. If the timing was even, it would just seem to float up and down. It would be mushy.
Kali animating:
Compare the Bosko animation to the McKimson animation from Coal Black. The fundamentals are the same.This is animated on an 8x beat-the music is faster than the Bosko scene. The accents are stronger too.
Every second beat is accented stronger. 8,8,8,8 etc.
Her right foot moves down faster than her left foot (the one closest to us). That foot moves at a more evenly spaced timing as it circles the pedals.
This scene is way more layered than the Bosko animation, but it's based on the exact same concepts. Learn your fundamentals and soon you will be able to apply them to more complex scenes.
Learn to animate to beats using simple cycles and simple circular characters. This is a good first step towards understanding motion and rhythms.
Scenes like this are the foundations of the American style of animation. Snow White, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Gerald McBoingBoing... all these different styles are built upon the same foundations.
There are 3 cycles in the Bosko clip we put up. Copy them all and stick with this free course and you will see yourself advance past your more stubborn peers in no time.
If you post your tests on your sites, I'll link to them in another post.
Once I have 20 people who have copied this Bosko animation, I will post lesson 2. Rubber Hose Walks.
What basic concepts you learned from this lesson:
Wave actions
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On this, the second anniversary of the disappearance and murder of independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, we pay tribute to this brave journalist and to all of the other Ukrainian journalists and political activists who have perished. In the last five years 11 journalists are known to have been killed in Ukraine for their professional activities, and a number of political activists and opposition figures have died under questionable circumstances. We should never lose sight of the fact that each of these deaths is not just a political matter, but a human and personal tragedy, as each of these people left behind family, friends and others whose lives they touched.
Unfortunately, investigations into most of these cases have gone nowhere, and this has only served to fuel speculation about official involvement. Repeated expressions of concern and efforts about the Gongadze murder case directed at Ukrainian authorities over the last two years by the Helsinki Commission, Members of Congress, the State Department, the OSCE, Council of Europe and other international bodies have been met with stonewalling and obfuscation. The lack of a resolution of this case has tarnished the credibility of the Ukrainian authorities' in dealing with fundamental human rights. I look forward to the new Prosecutor General conducting a full investigation into the deaths of journalists and politicians such as Heorhiy Gongadze, Ihor Alexandrov, Vadym Hetman and others and bringing to justice those responsible — no matter who they are.
In paying tribute to those courageous individuals who perished because of their commitment to the truth, we also pay tribute to all people in Ukraine committed to achieving greater democracy and freedom.
Those of us who have been staunch supporters of independent Ukraine for many years have become increasingly troubled by developments over the last few years, including the curtailing of media and other freedoms, the debilitating problem of high-level, pervasive corruption, and the lack of rule of law. Recently, former Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko publicized an open letter to President Kuchma calling upon him to make a choice between "democracy and dictatorship." President Kuchma, make the clear choice for democracy! I am encouraged that the Ukrainian people are increasingly demanding change – calling to live in a country where intimidation and violence against journalists and opposition politicians is a receding memory; a country where democracy and human rights are respected and the rule of law becomes triumphant. The people of Ukraine should be able to realize their dream to live in an economically vibrant, independent country in which respect for democratic values is the guiding principle.


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When I was a young girl I would obsess over my mother's magazine collection. I loved the fashion magazines but I loved the interiors magazines more. I must admit that my all-time favourite magazine was and always will be Australian Vogue Living. I would admire the beautiful homes and clever creative people featured in Vogue Living every month and I would dream {like many young girls} of the possibility one day, of my own appearance in my much-adored magazine.
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A flood of 5-star ratings in the app store is what every developer hopes to see when they check in on their apps every morning. Positive word of mouth is the primary way great apps climb and sustain themselves at the top of the charts. Of course, feature placement from Apple (if you're lucky) doesn't hurt either.
As it turns out, you only have to do one thing well to get those 5-star ratings: delight your users. And how do you do that? You have to work harder than your competitors and stay singularly focused on that mission to delight. This is, of course, not so easy to pull off. You have to dig pretty deep in your smartphone's app store to find any 5-star apps. When you stumble across one, you'll notice that the app has very few downloads and reviews. Chances are it wouldn't be a 5-star app if more people were using it. Most apps at the top are 4 and 4½ stars. The vast majority, however, fall at the 3-star level or below.
For users to rate an app, they must submit their ratings with at least one star. So if you have an app in the store, congratulations, it's at least a 1-star app. The other four stars are up for grabs. Two of those stars can be picked up for simply meeting expectations; the other two come when an app exceeds the expectations of its users.
It's actually pretty easy to get three stars. All you have to do is ensure that your app does what it's advertised to do. Be honest in the store description, show your best screenshots, and deliver on your promise. That's what makes a 3-star app.
So how does an app make it to 4 and 4½ stars? The key is delight. At Intuit, we employ a set of principles called Design for Delight, which are a focus for all of our projects. I led a team as it designed and developed SnapTax, the first start-to-finish tax prep app that allows customers to use a smartphone to complete and file their taxes.
SnapTax has maintained a 4½ star rating since we launched it in January with 80% of our reviewers having rated it as 5-stars. Following on that experience, I will share my advice in this article for how to delight mobile users.
Solve Problems in New Ways
Give your users a solution they didn't think was even possible. In other words, do something that has never been done before. Utilize the capabilities of the latest mobile devices and push the limits of current technology to the extreme.
For SnapTax, most users would have never thought it possible to file their taxes on a smartphone. The concept alone of start-to-finish taxes on their smartphone already exceeded their expectations. Add to that a feature that had never been done before—optical character recognition of a complex document (a W-2) to transfer data to a form (a tax return)—and we were primed to wow our customers. Snapping a photo of your W-2 and seeing up to twenty fields filled automatically into your tax return really does feel like magic.
Stress Over Every Detail
Focus on the basics and do them amazingly well. Mobile devices force us to simplify based on screen size, interaction models, and the short attention span of our users. It's not enough to get a few things right, every bit of the experience counts. Stress over every detail. Focus on simplicity. Iterate and refine constantly. Give your customers more than they expect even in the smallest of things.
As an example, data entry was initially a concern for SnapTax. Many people have an aversion to extensive typing on a tiny keyboard. We needed to make data entry a superior experience on a mobile device. Our solution was to eliminate data entry where possible and to simplify it in all other cases. Much of the data entry required for tax prep is numeric. SnapTax presents the numeric only keypad for all such fields, which has proven to be more efficient for our users than keying in the numbers that lay across the top of a standard laptop keyboard. We adjust the keyboard for each and every data field, ensuring that the one presented is the one most optimized for the data being entered.
Build For the Platform
To approach a 5-star rating in a specific app store, you need to get the app right for that store's specific platform. Study the guidelines. Match native interaction and design patterns. Borrow from industry giants that have the biggest customer base. Steal from those apps that make it to 4½ stars. Don't be vanilla and create something generally appealing; make it an amazing experience for the device and use all the special features unique to that device. Cross-platform web UIs, while right for some, will shave development costs but cannot take advantage of the available emerging technology.
With SnapTax, we created a customized Android experience. The Android platform's interaction models are quite different from those of the iPhone. We paid careful attention to create a user interface that matched the expectations of the Android user while retaining all of the features available for the iPhone. The result? SnapTax holds a 4½ star rating in the Android Market as well as in the iPhone App Store. The SnapTax UX design for iPhone vs. Android is unique, but its overwhelmingly positive customer reviews are virtually identical.
Prototype, Build, Repeat
The benefit of prototyping is, of course, to test concepts before coding them. Prototyping also helps you move fast. You can stagger development as you learn what works and what doesn't work with users. As soon as you feel confident in a particular screen or flow, code it. Continue to prototype and iterate. Get user feedback as often as you can.
For SnapTax, we were able to iterate on, refine, test, and scrutinize every aspect of the experience by building a fully tap-able prototype of the entire workflow of the app. We didn't just prototype a few screens or a few things we wanted to experiment with, we prototyped all of the screens. We didn't just prototype sections and flows, we prototyped the end-to-end experience, which is over 200 screens. And that doesn't include the countless variations that were either tested with users or experimented with internally.
With working parts of the app implemented, we were able to get even richer feedback. We continued to iterate with both working code and the prototype, using two phones with customers; one had the working app on it and the other had the prototype. In doing so, we were careful to retain as much continuity as possible between the two.
We iterated as often as weekly and were able to get two or three times as much feedback from customers this way. By the time we released the app, we were very confident that we had eliminated problems and had found many ways to delight our customers.
Star Power
The secret to 5-star success is simple: delight your customers by finding a way to do more than even you thought was possible. In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell makes a clear argument for why opportunity followed by dedicated hard work allowed outliers like Bill Gates and The Beatles to achieve more than nearly anyone else in their field. The mobile revolution is here. We all have the opportunity to create a 5-star app for our customers. To do so we will have to work extremely hard to delight them.
To learn more about SnapTax, visit https://snaptax.com


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