Since I am, in fact, just that geeky, this blog now has a mobile version.  courtesy of WPtouch, a plug-in for WordPress, now if you visit this site from your iPhone, iPod Touch, Android device or Blackberry, you will see a special version of the blog designed to be easy to navigate, and very fast on mobile phones and other small screen devices.

Photo by Edans

When @ScottBourne mentioned mobile WordPress and WPtouch I just had to try it!  (BTW Scott Bourne is also an AMAZING photographer specializing in birds – Check out Scott’s PhotoDiary )

I am very pleased with how well it works, and how easy it is to use on the phone. You can even bookmark, tweet about and comment on posts from your phone.

This works great on my iPhone, which is the only device I have to test it on. If you have one of the other supported smartphones, give it a try and let me know how it works. I’d love to know.

And just in case this isn’t geeky enough, I’m hoping (fingers crossed) to have an iPhone app that will let you read my blog directly in the next month or so. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, let me know what you think of the new mobile version of The Journey of Story.

A few days ago someone on Twitter (I wish I could remember who) mentioned cellist, Zoe Keating. I was not at all familiar with her or her music, though I’m a great fan of the cello ever since a college friend asking to be the test audience for a piece she was working on for her recital. Sitting in a little tiny practice room, maybe 3 feet from her instrument, was an incredibly powerful, visceral experience, that left me with a great love of this instrument.

Zoe takes an extremely unusual approach to the cello, or rather to what can be done with the sounds that the cello makes. She creates her music by playing segments, and using electronics to record them and loop them so they play over and over again. By doing this, she creates amazing layers of sound, and creates an entire orchestra from her cello alone.

Listen to this:

Now here’s a short interview with Zoe where she talks about how she makes this amazing stuff:

If you like this music, check out her website at http://www.zoekeating.com.

So of course when I discovered how cool Zoe’s music is a naturally followed her on Twitter. She is @Zoecello.

Then today she tweeted about a new band that she just found out about called The Finches.

You’ve got to see this:

Pretty amazing, isn’t it. And by the way, if you’re thinking that this is faked, I’m quite confident that it isn’t.

This was done as a part of an art installation called “Rhythms of Life,” at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. It’s an installation piece done by the French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.

I know these are far from the typical music most of us listen to on a daily basis (me included.) I’ll be interested to hear what you think of them.