Just found her today and immediately fell in love with her style, lyrics and sound.  Her music is as unique as the video is, such a wonderful style in the face of commercial mainstream.  Just watching it makes me smile, but then I started paying attention to the lyrics and it got that much better.  The same is true for the rest of her album.

I heard her on Q yesterday, and her voice just took me away.. She had this amazing song that was unbelievably haunting.

Béatrice Martin (b. 1989) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter from Quebec, who performs under the stage name Cœur de pirate.

After a brief stint as keyboardist for Bonjour Brumaire , she released her debut album Cœur de pirate in 2008 on Grosse Boîte. The album was subsequently nominated for Francophone Album of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards. The single “Comme des enfants” reached #1 on CBC Radio 3’s R3-30 charts the week of February 19, 2009; it was only the second French language song, following Les Breastfeeders‘ “Pas sans saveur” in 2006, ever to top that chart. She started playing the piano when she was only three years old. After five years of education in art, letters and communications in Montreal she started creating songs in 2007 and putting them on MySpace which is how the band Bonjour Brumaire first got an interest in her. She released her first album, Coeur de pirate, on September 16, 2008.

She attracted wider media attention in February 2009 when François Vachon, a photographer from Quebec City, used her song “Ensemble” as the soundtrack to a popular YouTube video depicting his baby son playing with toys, leading to coverage on Good Morning America and a favourable review from blogger Perez Hilton

I haven’t been able to find it to embed in this post but you can go to http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20090619_17230.mp3 and download the episode of Q that she was in

I was watching a performance on TED today of a young woman playing the Yamaha Electone Stagea.  Truly a remarkable piece of technology that allows the player to perform pieces that would normally take an entire orchestra.  The horns are always an instrument that I find electric keyboards don’t do justice but give it time and it’ll soon be indistinguishable from the real thing.  Either way I am inspired at how technology is allowing these gifted humans to truly achieve musical potential and greatness that had never been dreamt of until very recently.  One person composing and playing the entire role of an orchestra.  Truly amazing.

A presentation of the Stagea

Just watched the latest Battle Report for Starcraft 2 and man this game is looking impressive. I can see the hours of my life already being sucked away

Two totally different and unrelated topics but both so true, and so funny to watch in this satiracle light.

Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny’s

Volatile India-Pakistan Standoff Enters 11,680th Day

http://www.maxgames.com/game/the-horde-2.html

Without a doubt the best Tower Defense game I have played, and I’ve played a lot of them There is a ton of rethinking your strategy as you go throughout, just the right amoutn of challenge where youcan adopt new strategies, test and refine before getting too frustrated and giving up.

The complexity of the game is also amazing, my only complaint is that the levels weren’t long enuogh to allow me to experiment more with my workshops and such.

The tracking on this thing looks really impressive(“Sub-milimeter accuracy”).  To take the Wii Experience, but better, and put it on the power of the PS3 is enticing to say the least.

And M$ wouldn’t be outdone by Sony and is also jumping on the Nintendo Bandwagon.  Now what we really should be excited is to see, maybe not this year, what Nintendo is doing to improve it’s system so that it can stay ahead of the competition as they look to enter into a domain and market created by Nintendo.

Or the Re-Rise I should say as that is how we started.  This one looks very pretty and has a lot going for it that Darkfall does, except hopefully they won’t botch the launch as completely as that one.  Full PVP, full loot drop, real time first person combat, and this is one hell of a pretty game

http://www.mortalonline.com