Fabian Taylor

Bake and Shark - one of the best fish sandwich in to world via Andrew Zimmern!

For those of you that keep asking me about Bake and Shark here is a good source for reference. As some of you may know i am from Trinidad and Tobago and it so happens that Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel Network did an episode on Trinidad and had a great segment on Bake and Shark from Richard's on Maracus Bay.

Here is the clip from Bizarre Foods let me know what you think.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDhfDuAN5M&start=158

New Music Mondays now open on Soundcloud.com

Sometime in September a couple of friends of mine, Indar Chanica (Uber Producer and Mashup Specialist @ichanic and Vernil Rogers (NYC Producer and Live Sound Guru at the world famous jazz club - Birdland and owner of Brooklyn Beat Bureau), started sharing and collaborating on new music every Monday. Vernil and Indar are also know as Sewer District, where they produce some great mashups and are also on the cloud - Sewer District on Soundcloud.com

Since then I have connected with a lot of you who also wanted to send me new music and also wanted to collaborate on projects. Now I am opening up New Music Mondays to everyone.

While i have had a Soundcloud.com account for a while, I never really used it...but I will now. So starting today I am going to place all my past song, remixes and collaboration on the cloud and also open up my drop box for anyone to drop new music. On Mondays (New Music Mondays) I'll check my drop and take a listen.

As you know sometimes it get crazy busy and I may not get back to you right away but please keep sending and i'll connect as soon as I can. Connect at the drop below.

Send me your sounds

YouTube Play - Guggenheim, YouTube, HP and Intel

In June, the Guggenheim Museum announced a collaborative video contest with YouTube in collaboration with HP and Intel.

YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video.

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Some images I took on October 22nd from outside the Guggenheim

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For those of you who missed it. Here are some videos and links.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4JPtbZGuU&feature=player_embedded

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcw4uZZgWWM

go to YouTube Play »

The Death of LimeWire

Yup...it's official....At the end of this year, the embattled LimeWire service will be shutdown completely.

The company issued a statement today confirming that it will cease all business operations as of 2011: “Given our current situation, plans to bring our separate, legal music service to market, have been canceled. The beginning of 2011 will mark the closing of LimeWire’s New York office and cessation of business by LimeWire. 

The end of LimeWire was perhaps inevitable ever since a federal judge ruled in favor of the RIAA’s lawsuit against it. Despite the May ruling, LimeWire contended it would continue to develop what it called an “unmatched” unlimited music download service, and that it was negotiating with major labels to bring that service to reality.

But the legal woes just kept mounting. In June, a group of publishers filed their own suit against the company. And In October, the judge presiding over the RIAA case slapped a permanent injunction against the company forcing it to shut down its P2P operations.

read more from Billboard.com »

Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Copyright

Viacom appealed Friday its unsuccessful $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google’s YouTube in a case testing the depths of copyright-infringement protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

Viacom, on behalf of its MTV, Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon units, is seeking to overturn a June ruling that, if it survives, is a boon for internet freedom — and a decision that would make it more difficult for rights holders to protect their works.

read more at Wired.com »

Verizon LTE Speed Test: Insanely Fast via Gizmodo

Verizon's first LTE dongle is startlingly large. But not as startling as the speed.

These results are spot tests from all across the country: New York (Gizmodo & Engadget), Seattle (MSNBC.com), Philadelphia (GigaOM), Arizona (SlashGear) and Boston (NetworkWorld). And they paint a pretty remarkable picture. Most of the "slow" results—around 7-9Mbps downstream—are with a mere two bars of signal.

read more at Gizmodo.com »

TED Talks: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey - Releasing the music in your head

Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression for everyone -- from virtuosi to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms -- from opera to videogames (Guitar Hero grew out of his group). At TED2008 he talks about what's coming next, from new tools for music creativity to the world's first robotic opera. Machover then introduces Dan Ellsey, a young man with cerebral palsy who has found his voice through music created and performed using Media Lab technologies. Ellsey plays his "My Eagle Song" in a soaring rendition that underscores music's power to heal, to communicate, and to inspire.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj2QoLhfwew

See more videos at TED.com »

Pamelia Kurstin: Theremin, the untouchable music

Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin plays and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. Songs include the classic "Autumn Leaves," Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" and a composition by David Mash, "Listen: the Words Are Gone." Piano: Makoto Ozone.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ywH1Vj8_U

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Comics of the Week #36

Nervous Energy

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TED Talks: Robert Gupta-Music is medicine, music is sanity

Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician -- and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SBGTJgBGo