COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092 - jo

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knotyouraveragejo
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That was me :wink:
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Well, I guess I need to give thanks to TWO guardian angels looking after the coding for bold type in my posts! Thank you Availle and Jo! :)
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Post by amulli09 »

Hi Sue

Please find below my short contribution to the collection. I found it fascinating that the points in this essay are still being discussed today...

Title: Literature and the Stage from Nine Short Essays
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Link to recording: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_litstage_warner_am_128kb.mp3
URL of source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3108/pg3108.html
Length: 7:5.04

Let me know if ok? Best, Ahana
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amulli09 wrote: May 22nd, 2022, 11:08 am Hi Sue

Please find below my short contribution to the collection. I found it fascinating that the points in this essay are still being discussed today...

Title: Literature and the Stage from Nine Short Essays
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Link to recording: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_litstage_warner_am_128kb.mp3
URL of source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3108/pg3108.html
Length: 7:5.04

Let me know if ok? Best, Ahana
Hi Ahana, Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection! :D

Yes, the issues Warner is writing about sound like they could have been written today, and yet he was a contemporary of Mark Twain!

PL OK! :thumbs:
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Post by Sue Anderson »

Here's one from me:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_lineandform_crane_sa_128kb.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25290/25290-h/25290-h.htm#Page_1


Of Line and Form

Chapter 1, from Line and Form

by Walter Crane
1900
23:35

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist and book designer in the "Arts and Crafts" style. His book Line and Form is a compilation of lectures he gave on the mechanics of drawing. One discussion I found of particular interest concerns handwriting, given that nowadays some people think it's more important to learn coding than how to write longhand.

"Writing, after all, is but a simpler form of drawing... The practice of forming letters with the pen or brush, from good types, Roman and Gothic, however, would afford very good preliminary practice to a student of line and form. The hand would acquire directness of stroke and touch, while the eye would grow accustomed to good lines of composition and simple constructive form. The progressive nature of writing--the gradual building up of the forms of the letters--and the necessity of dealing with recurring forms and lines, also, would bear usefully upon after work in actual design." Walter Crane

~~~ ~~~I'm looking for someone to PL this for me, since as DPL of the SNF Collection, I can't very well PL my own work.
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Here's one from me:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_lineandform_crane_sa.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25290/25290-h/25290-h.htm#Page_1


Of Line and Form

Chapter 1, from Line and Form

by Walter Crane
1900
23:35
Last edited by Sue Anderson on June 22nd, 2022, 11:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I can PL this for you, Sue.
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Thanks, Jo! :) I'm recording another short one today. (I started to put together a list of possible SNF reads on climate change, and in the process discovered a really poignant first hand account about the flooding of Valmeyer, Illinois in 1993 and decided to record it myself!)

If you have time, could you please do me a favor and take a look at the specs for Josh Mittledorf's Human Immortality? The recording is PL OK, but the specs are off. I tried to figure out what was needed for a fix, but I'm not sure what to do. Josh was in a serious bike accident recently (per his posts elsewhere on the web), so I want to fix this one on our end.
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I'll take a look.
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Post by Sue Anderson »

Here's another contribution from me.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_pianouphill_knobloch_sa_128kb.mp3

The Day the Piano Went up the Hill
by Dennis M. Knobloch, Former Mayor, Valmeyer, Illinois

https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_building-alliances-climate-action.pdf
11:02

This is a selection from
Building Alliances for Climate Action
published by the U.S.Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
2021

Valmeyer is a small town in Illinois, which was underwater for two months in 1993, after being flooded by the Mississippi River, which broke over the levee constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1950. The residents finally, reluctantly, made the decision to move the town to higher ground. For anyone not familiar with FEMA, this U.S. agency (among other things) publishes flood maps for communities in the U.S.

In the publication "Building Alliances for Climate Change," there are other personal essays about climate change in Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Great Plains.

~~~ ~~~I'm looking for someone to PL this for me, since as DPL of the SNF Collection, I can't very well PL my own work.
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Sue Anderson wrote: June 22nd, 2022, 7:51 am Here's one from me:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_lineandform_crane_sa.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25290/25290-h/25290-h.htm#Page_1


Of Line and Form

Chapter 1, from Line and Form

by Walter Crane
1900
23:35
Sue - This is PL OK. Two minor optional fixes at your discretion where I noticed changes to the text -

@3:31 Text is "line and mass" - you said "lines and mass"
@9:29 Text is "poise" - you said "pose"
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Sue Anderson wrote: June 22nd, 2022, 9:45 am
If you have time, could you please do me a favor and take a look at the specs for Josh Mittledorf's Human Immortality? The recording is PL OK, but the specs are off. I tried to figure out what was needed for a fix, but I'm not sure what to do. Josh was in a serious bike accident recently (per his posts elsewhere on the web), so I want to fix this one on our end.
I've fixed the mp3 settings and adjusted the volume since it was at the bottom of the acceptable range. It should be good to go now

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_humanimmortality_james_jjm_128kb.mp3

(Please change the link in the MW - I didn't. :))
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knotyouraveragejo wrote: June 22nd, 2022, 12:18 pm
Sue Anderson wrote: June 22nd, 2022, 9:45 am
If you have time, could you please do me a favor and take a look at the specs for Josh Mittledorf's Human Immortality? The recording is PL OK, but the specs are off. I tried to figure out what was needed for a fix, but I'm not sure what to do. Josh was in a serious bike accident recently (per his posts elsewhere on the web), so I want to fix this one on our end.
I've fixed the mp3 settings and adjusted the volume since it was at the bottom of the acceptable range. It should be good to go now

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_humanimmortality_james_jjm_128kb.mp3

(Please change the link in the MW - I didn't. :))
Thanks, Jo; MW changed. :)
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knotyouraveragejo wrote: June 22nd, 2022, 12:04 pm
Sue Anderson wrote: June 22nd, 2022, 7:51 am Here's one from me:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_lineandform_crane_sa.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25290/25290-h/25290-h.htm#Page_1


Of Line and Form

Chapter 1, from Line and Form

by Walter Crane
1900
23:35
Sue - This is PL OK. Two minor optional fixes at your discretion where I noticed changes to the text -

@3:31 Text is "line and mass" - you said "lines and mass"
@9:29 Text is "poise" - you said "pose"
Thanks for the listen, Jo! :D
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Post by mitteldorf »

I have reposted William James Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality, recorded at 128/44.1 instead of 192/48.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf092_humanimmortality_james_jjm_128kb.mp3
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