{"id":3545,"date":"2015-03-08T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:50:58","slug":"drones-kingfishers-and-joey-cooks-ukulele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3545","title":{"rendered":"Drones, Kingfishers, and Joey Cook’s Ukulele"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa, India’s diminutive state on the west coast, enjoys a certain reputation as a party destination, full of backpackers and bikinis, in search of yoga or outdoor sports. \u00a0But it also has its wildlife – especially birds.<\/p>\n

I wrote about our visit to Goa’s Dr. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary about a year ago<\/a> when we visited. \u00a0I went back a month later again with a camera-toting quadcopter and a digital film camera to try and capture some video from the boat and overhead. \u00a0It didn’t turn out all that spectacular – I was still learning how to fly the thing effectively – and so the footage languished on my hard drive for the next year or so.<\/p>\n

Then I was trying to put something together the other day, and my daughter shared something about a current American Idol contestant named Joey Cook<\/a>, who plays accordion and ukulele. \u00a0I checked out some of her music online<\/a> and was immediately grabbed by\u00a0track #7 as the basis for a background track for the Goa video.<\/p>\n

After paying a fair price for her song, I borrowed the ukulele intro, and used my V-accordion (“virtual” – it makes all sorts of different orchestral sounds) to layer additional music on top of the ukulele. \u00a0And that’s how drones, kingfishers, and Joey Cook’s ukulele are related.<\/p>\n

So far it seems Joey Cook doesn’t mind.\u00a0 But if she wins American Idol and gets all famous I might have to come up with something else for the video.<\/p>\n

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Watch the video in HD if you can.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1D9hf45ZJus?rel=0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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