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  • Artist Melanie Capel working on a piece at the 2024 Benalla Street Art Festival @melanie_capel

  • Street Art

    REKA street art abstract

    Artwork from REKA on the side of Hides Bakery, Benalla. Painted during the 2024 Benalla Street Art Festival #streetart @rekaone
    March 30, 2024 at 01:11PM via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/C5H3GtoPrcw/

  • Use ffmpeg to measure loudness of audio file

    From the directory containing ffmpeg.exe run:

    ffmpeg -i /path/to/inputfile.mp3 -af loudnorm=I=-16:dual_mono=true:TP=-1.5:LRA=11:print_format=summary -f null -

    Result should look like:

    Input Integrated:    -18.4 LUFS
    Input True Peak:      -0.0 dBTP
    Input LRA:             7.4 LU
    Input Threshold:     -28.6 LUFS   Output Integrated:   -16.8 LUFS

    Output True Peak:     -1.5 dBTP
    Output LRA:            6.7 LU
    Output Threshold:    -27.0 LUFS   Normalization Type:   Dynamic
    Target Offset:        +0.8 LU

    @rae@bne.social

  • Descale Coffee machine

    1. Dissolve 10g of citric acid in a cup of hot water
    2. Add cold water to make the quantity up to a litre.
    3. Replace any water in the tank with the citric acid solution,
    4. Run tank of water through the machine.
    5. Empty any remaining solution from the tank,
    6. flush with clean water, refill and run about a litre of clean water through the machine,

  • On finding out you are not Australian

    https://www.raeallen.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/rae-interview-2017-08-15-16-09-29.mp3?_=1

    With discussion about dual citizenship, Fred Hooper used my experiences as an example in an interview on Drive, broadcast on ABC Northern Tasmania on Tuesday 15 August 2017

  • Central atrium Berggruen Museum

    Central atrium Berggruen Museum

    Terrific day at Berggruen Museum and the associated gallery at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. Berggruen has the annex under renovation at the moment so the Paul Klee part of the exhibition is housed across the road at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. .
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    This view is looking up into the Museum dome with a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti (http://bit.ly/1oAgz0l ).
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    The museum has three floors of Picasso’s arranged in chronological order and a fabulous audio tour. ( http://bit.ly/1oAgz0o… ) ?

    http://flic.kr/p/nyn1YX

    from Tumblr http://bit.ly/RIfMQm
    via IFTTT

  • Alois Senefelder, founder of lithography

    The next closest U-bahn stop to where we are staying is Senefelderplatz. Named after the inventor of lithography, nearby is a marble statue of him. I thought naming it with the sort of mirror reversed lettering lithography uses, and having one of the putti looking at it with a mirror a nice touch. #sculpture
    Alois Senefelder

    http://bit.ly/R3HpCY

  • Finches

    This finch was sitting on the back of the chair across from me – they are quite common in this area and there were a couple having a dust bath where some of the cobbles had come adrift outside our front door.

    http://flic.kr/p/nmQ2kT

  • White asparagus

    I didn’t realise it at the time, but this white asparagus soup is something of a seasonal dish in Berlin. Apparently just during April and May, the season delivers the white asparagus and the Berlin restaraunters make the most of it.

    I had seen it in the markets, and checked them out as they do look very odd compared to the normal green asparagus.


  • Looking down Rykestrasse to Wasserturm

    One of the most noticeable thing about Prenzlauer is the children. On the way from the airport the taxi driver said the berg had the highest proportion of children in Germany.

    After a couple of days I can believe this. We’ve seen at least a dozen kindergartens, including one on the ground floor of the apartment, and the suburb swarms with children clothes and toy shops..

    Photo taken April 19, 2014 at 06:25PM

    http://flic.kr/p/nc8Xpf