Originals and Covers!

Once again it has been my brother who has thought about the paraphrase I posted last time, and this time he was absolutely right with the answer.

It is The Beatles and the album is Abby Road and was released in 1971.

So thank you to him for participating and congratulation, he has won!

But what is it that he has won?

What can you in fact win in this online competition?

To be completely frank with you, then it was never my intention to promise any prices in this competition, but he gave me an idea himself in a e-mail he send me recently.

So here it is; the “Prize” you can be rewarded to, if someone (other than my brother) ever is going to reply to this competition, then you can win the right to suggest a cover song, and I will post it as part of the cover song series on this blog. Because this was what Henrik did in his e-mail. He suggested that I should put up Kate Bush “Running up that Hill” and compare it with a cover by the Dutch Gothic Band “Within Temptation”.

Yeah, and why not?

Kate Bush:

Within Temptation:

Then it is that I want to add another cover of this song, and this one is my personal favourite.

Placebo:

Paraphrase of the day #2

Wow how great it is to be back, not!

I have had a kind digital recreation in Yangshou China after the Apple Education Summit in Singapore.

After being some kind of connected to the world wide web nearly every day since Christmas, it was good again to be disconnected that and instead connected to the nature and the environment around.

But now it has to do with the "Paraphrase of the day" question I posted a while ago. Not that I have forgot all about it, no I just let it take some time and hoped that somebody would try it out. But not really, again it was only my brother who noticed and gave it a go. Good on you Henrik, but you are wrong, it is not a painting by Rembrandt.

The Painting I had in mind is painted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and is a portrait of the artists mother and called: "Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother" and is painted in 1871.

I know it is a very paraphrased paraphrase and that it is lacking many of the details, but on the other hand it is a paraphrase.

And so is the new task for you guys out there, or maybe mainly to my brother again. Today I am not trying to do a paraphrase of a more or less famous painting. Today I've decided to do a paraphrase to a more or less famous Album Cover!

So here it is, who made the Cover you can find paraphrased at the top of this post, what is the Album called and when is it released.

Out of the office!

Came home from Singapore at 1 in the morning, and now I am going to the airport once again for another business travel -if you can say that when it is an educational travel.
I am heading north to Yangshou in China, where I am going to spend a week doing some education outside the classroom. 47 students will join me and two of my colleagues for this week of hiking and other stuf you can do up there.
I was there in October with Cat, Hazel and Rickey, but what ever; it is always a nice place to go.
Two worlds in 24 hours.

Singapore Sling!

When Ngiam Tong Boon felt bored one day in 1915 and invented the cocktail now known as "The Singapore Sling", he probably didn't know what it really was, he had invented and how this would be the kind of attraction it actually turned out to be for the "Long Bar" at famous "Raffles" Hotel in Singapore.
For me this story, and the Singapore Sling it self, was one of the only things I knew about Singapore -apart from the fact that it should be one of the worlds cleanest Cities, with a harsh policy towards littering and chewing gum- and to go to Raffles Hotel and enjoy one of those drinks was "the" thing, I wanted to do when visiting Singapore.
As I got there I realized that I was not the only one with that idea, and here we are coming to what I said at the beginning, that Ngiam Tong Boon didn't know what it was he invented back in 1915.
The bar at this old and well established Hotel was absolutely packed with visitors, and in front of ALL of them on the tables were; Yes right, a tall Poco Grande cocktail glass containing some red fluid; "The Singapore Sling".
So imagine this; this bar is open 7 days a week, it might not be packed to all times, but in the evening I guess that it is packed for the most of the time, and all of these people come there to drink at least one Sling at a price -yes picture this- 20 Euros, for one drink.
It is not that big, it taste amazingly good and is easy to sling down, just as a tasty fruit juice, so the turn over is huge in that place as well. So once again; imagine that there is about 200 people in that bar, all of them having a Sling, take the photo, down it and out they go checking the "done that list", and the new visitor takes over the table and the whole thing repeat it self again.
I were there with 4 friends and we spent maybe 25 minutes in there and then we were out again.
So the turn over could be about 400 people an hour, so 400 red drinks goes over the bar every hour and the 20 euros times 400 goes the other way to the cashier, that is amazingly 8000 euros an hour.
What a money machine, and that is what I think he didn't know, that guy who was a bit bored back in 1915.

Singapore Online!

Good morning Singapore.
I am at School Of Arts Singapore at an Apple Educator conference. It is early in the morning and there is a lot of networking going on around me at the moment. Networking in double meaning. There is a wireless network here so all Apple Educators can be online, and there is the "other network" going on as well; people walk around and actually talk to each other -well some of them, not me at the moment, as I am reporting to you guys.
There will come a better and longer report from Singapore later when this conference is over, and you will see Singapore sling at Raffles Hotel, and maybe get a sight of an old friend I haven't seen for a long time.

Of to the keynote.

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