New Greensboro film festival calls for submissions, volunteers

GREENSBORO, NC -- There is a new film festival coming to Greensboro this summer. It's the Barefoot Bijou Summer Film Festival and they are calling for submissions.

From the press release:

The inaugural Barefoot Bijou Summer Film Festival invites North Carolina filmmakers to submit their short films. The fest is seeking short films produced in the last ten years, either: 1) films made by a North Carolina resident, or 2) films made within the state. There is no submission fee. Selected films will be screened at the 2015 festival, running June 3-28, 2015. To submit your film, email a link to your screener to submit@barefootbijou.com.

There is also a planning meeting next week for people interested in chipping in and helping out:

Barefoot Bijou Planning Meeting
Thursday April 30
6-7pm
The Forge, 115 West Lewis Street

For more information, contact April Harris: aharris@newcityventures.net

Wired in with some Argentinian new new age

One of my favorite scenes from The Social Network is when screwed over co-founder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) storms into the office looking for Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) who is working on his laptop with headphones on, oblivious to outside distraction, and Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) tries to wave off the charging Saverin with "He's wired in. He's wired in."

I find that certain aspects of web development take enormous amounts of concentration for me. Coding doesn't come easy or naturally. It helps to get wired in -- headphones on with the right kind of music: no words, nothing too sleepy or frenetic. I like psy trance, down tempo, classical and new age.

I've found a great streaming new age station out of Argentina: Cienradios.com, which you can listen to here. It stretches the boundaries of traditional new age, yet retains that meditative and spiritual essence that is the hallmark of new age. It's not predominately South American, as far as I can tell, but it offers a broader mix than I'm familiar with from U.S. new age stations. Flavors of jazz, spacey and the occasional electric guitar join the familiar lush hypnotics. I find it great for getting wired in.

Here's the scene from The Social Network: