Above is a YouTube playlist of me playing the following pieces on the piano:

I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz (sheet music)

Wedding March from “Midsummer Night’s Dream” by F. Mendelssohn (sheet music)

Clocks by Coldplay, arrangement by David Sides

Amazing Grace, arrangement by Sasan Rahmatian (sheet music)

Recorded April 2, 2013, these are my first piano videos since June 1, 2012. I will start posting videos more often!

These photos are mostly from San Francisco and the Montery Bay Aquarium from my trip to California in July, 2012. There are some from May and June, also.

I need to find a WordPress plugin or code one to make it easier to post photos here. I might not get to it until the end of the year, and I might just start posting photos without bothering to tag them, describe them, and upload stock versions.

Abridged version of the 3rd movement of Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K 331 by Mozart: Alla Turca: Allegretto. I am still working on the minor section.

Me playing “Rustles of Spring” (Frühlingsrauschen, Op. 32, No. 3) by Christian Sinding (1856-1941) on piano, June 1, 2012.

Practicing the Hyrule Field theme from A Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the piano, June 1, 2012. Having trouble with the triplets on this piece…

Me playing “He’s a Pirate” from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on the piano. June 1, 2012 version.

Practicing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (op. 27, no. 2) 3rd movement at tempo (mostly), June 1, 2012.

Me playing “River Flows in You” by Yiruma on the piano, June 1, 2012.

Getting better at this piece, only about 5 mistakes.

Me playing “He’s a Pirate” from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on the piano, April 26, 2012 version.

These photos also appear on richardxthripp.thripp.com (my old site) since I am posting them there and pulling the data to display descriptions and titles here, but when you click the post titles on the old site they redirect here. Though the gallery is one page, photos have virtual pages like thripp.com/photo/the-golden-gate-bridge through some WordPress modifications I found here. I edited the comments section to allow comments on individual photos and redirect to the correct one after posting a comment, and I edited the comments RSS feeds to include the title of the photos commented on and have the correct links. I also imported all 724 comments on photos from the old site, and edited the home page to display the last five photos below my most recent post. Finally, I moved all the stock files and source files to MediaFire and added redirects for all the files there with the Redirection plugin.

I changed the theme header to show the twenty photos from my 2011 portfolio on all my websites. I was using 000webhost to host thripp.com, but my site was disabled with the message “Suspended (Suspended for violating 20%+ CPU usage limit for more than 1000 times. Please upgrade to our premium UNLIMITED hosting at www.hosting24.com to get your account reactivated.)” two weeks ago, so I moved to SYN Hosting, a host I used several years ago based in Canada. I’ve left the other sites on 000webhost, but will be careful to make frequent backups because they delete all your files and databases when they suspend an account. My first three months with SYN Hosting are free and then it will be $9.95 per month.

Since SYN Hosting supports virtual subdomains, I moved Th8.us (a URL shortener) there and restored all 25 million short URLs, most of which are spam unfortunately. I disabled adding new short URLs on May 17, 2011 and am not planning to change this, but at least there will no longer be dead links floating around on Twitter. The database takes up 3.2 GB of space, using up over half of the 6 GB that SYN Hosting provides, so I will be hosting most large files on MediaFire instead of here.

My next steps will be taking new photos and making modifications to the theme.