@seanibanez.bsky.social

Taiko artist, maker, drumbuilder, dad, art-handler. Founder of Goisagi daiko in Fort Worth, TX. Creating a new group in upstate Canandaigua, NY area. Linktr.ee/seanibanez

173 Followers 194 Following 504 Posts Joined Jan 2025
1 week ago

Damn, that's nice.

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1 week ago
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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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1 week ago

Absolutely tired of the american administtation and its lies and warmongering.

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2 weeks ago
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U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..."

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

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2 weeks ago

Oldie but goodie

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1 month ago
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Some pics of loved ones. I had the excellent opportunity to once again share the stage with Genbu Daiko in San Diego.

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1 month ago

Thanks! Its hard to tell if the phone does a decent job of recording.

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1 month ago
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Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️

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1 month ago

I have a 36" ojime (hiradou flat body, rope tied. 17" deep). I've also played large deeper taiko in various classes and events. The deeper the body, the jarder it is to activate the opposite head. It's a workout.

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1 month ago
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Recent builds. Taiko stands and a tool holder.

#redoak #wood #drum #taiko #percussion #stands

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1 month ago

Larger diameter and/or depth determine pitch range. The simplest is diameter of the head. And yeah, a bigger drum is always more expensive. Tension on the head, regardless of size, will determine the attack and initial pitch of the sound, though again diameter plays the largest impact on the pitch.

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1 month ago

Tight form!

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1 month ago
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Some people really fucking need this.

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1 month ago

"Love that Joker!"

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2 months ago
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik 

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
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2 months ago

Beautiful grain! And solid work. Every day is a lesson in woodworking.

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2 months ago
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🚨BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS AND KILL WOMAN in Minneapolis YouTube video by Status Coup News

Please share.. ICE THUGS shot & killed a woman in Minneapolis. Then attack citizens point blank with teargas grenades, pepper ball guns & chemical spray in the faces. Of course, Greg Bovino was in the mix. He needs to be brought up for murder charges.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
youtu.be/LnfiWmX_mTE?...

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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Our latest:

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2 months ago
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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2 months ago
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Christmas gift build.

Cherry, white oak, poplar, blavk walnut, paduak, red jasper stone.

#design #build #create #art #craft #woodworking #wood #box

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2 months ago

Never in the history of mankind have we run out of good ideas. What kind of moron would even write such a sentence?

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2 months ago

Hahahahj!

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2 months ago

This is what I want my comic to look like.

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2 months ago
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

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2 months ago

But you're not wrong. He's unfathomably, grotesquely, terrible.

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3 months ago

I love exploring characters. Its seems harder to do that with a single short story. Matbe i just need more practice.

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3 months ago

Koenig was hilarious in this role.

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3 months ago

Seems about right. It's difficult for me to bring an idea down to short story length. I feel the need to round everything out, to fill in the visuals.

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3 months ago
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Finished several caligraphy pens today. The purple heart and red heart pens are kinda honkin.' I like making thicker pens because they're easy to grip and easier on the hands.

#custom #design #calligraphy #pen #draw #write #build #create #art #craft

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3 months ago

Oh damn that sounds awesome.

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