Journal photo / Ruben W. Perez

Providence storyteller Len Cabral and his wife Judy dance last night to the music of the Cape Verdean Allstars at WaterPlace park, part of the Black Rep's Providence SoundSession '08. The fifth annual weeklong music festival ended with a parade of musicians, performers and audiences, photographed last night on Francis Street. A lot of effort goes into this carnival aspect.

Journal photo / Ruben W. Perez

Scott MacKay was there: Colorful parade snakes through downtown, capping the weeklong SoundSession

Shapes and colors:

When I first read a description of Multicolr Search Lab at metafilter, I thought, "Great... more useless metadata. ('I can tell you how many times the word "doth" appears in Shakespeare!') ":

With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 3 million of Flickr's most interesting images images, and find ones that share the same colours. Choose up to 10 colours from our palette of 120 different shades.

But I like it. Pick a color, see monochromatic images in that color. Pick two colors, it gets more interesting.

Pick different colors...

Commenters at mefi are a practical lot, immediately leaping to the purchase of art by color. But I just like seeing what pops up.

Hear now: The Shape of Music: "How do harmony and melody combine to make music? In other words, what makes music sound good?" At Seed.

This is basic info I missed because all of my musical training came young, and centered on rote, not why.