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Mike's Second Birthday Party

Mike likes drum music, so we decided to have a drum party. Here is a track from one of his earliest favorite CD's, "Drums of Passion: The Invocation" by Babatunde Olatunji. Listen to "Ajaja."

April 13, 2003: Cathy Kielar from Music Explorium presented a puppet show and led the kids in rhythm games. The kids loved the instruments but didn't have the attention span for the entire puppet show.


Here are jpeg, bitmap, and gif versions of the same photo. I used Microsoft Paint to save the jpeg in different formats. The jpeg and 24-bit bitmap photos (1st and 2nd, respectively) are similar in quality, but the 256-color bitmap (3rd) and gif (4th) versions look terrible.

Mike drumming jpeg 24-bit bitmap 256 color bitmap Mike drumming gif

Here are four different versions of the same photo (ranging from low to maximum quality) saved using Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.0.1. I think the 3rd photo (high quality) is clearly better than the 1st and 2nd, but the 4th isn't clearly superior to the 3rd.


low quality jpeg 106 KB medium quality jpeg 159 KB
high quality jpeg 306 KB maximum quality jpeg 489 KB

Click here to download the latest version of QuickTime. Here is a video clip. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with this web site, but I don't have any videos of my own to play with and it was free. try me

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