Presto

Presto may refer to:

Places

  • Presto, Bolivia, a town
  • Presto, Idaho, unincorporated community named after pioneer Presto Burrell
  • Presto, Pennsylvania
  • In music

  • Presto is an Italian language tempo performance direction indicating that a passage may be played with extreme speed.
  • Characters

  • Presto the Magician, featured in the Dungeons & Dragons animated TV series
  • Presto the Tadpole, a pet featured in the game Insaniquarium Deluxe
  • In entertainment

  • Presto (company), an Australian streaming company co-owned by Foxtel and Seven West Media
  • Presto (film), a 2008 short film from Pixar
  • Presto! Recording Studios
  • Presto (album), by Canadian rock band Rush
  • Automobiles

  • Rinspeed Presto, a Swiss concept car that could stretch itself between 2-seat and 4-seat configurations
  • Hyundai Excel, a car also known as the Hyundai Presto in South Korea
  • Food

  • National Presto Industries, manufacturer of Presto pressure cookers and other small kitchen appliances
  • Presto (UK supermarket), a food store chain in the United Kingdom from the early 1960s until 1998
  • Presto (film)

    Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computer-animated short film shown in theaters before their feature-length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. Presto was directed by veteran Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, in his directorial debut.

    The original idea for the short was a magician who incorporated a rabbit into his act who suffered from stage fright. This was considered to be too long and complicated, and the idea was reworked. To design the theater featured in Presto, the filmmakers visited several opera houses and theaters for set design ideas. Problems arose when trying to animate the theater's audience of 2,500 patrons—which was deemed too expensive—and was solved by showing the back of the audience.

    Reaction to the short was positive, and reviewers of WALL-E's home media release considered it to be an enjoyable special feature. Presto was nominated for an Annie Award and Academy Award. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.

    Tempo

    In musical terminology, tempo [ˈtɛmpo] ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi [ˈtɛmpi]) is the speed or pace of a given piece or subsection thereof.

    Measuring tempo

    A piece of music's tempo is typically written at the start of the score, and in modern Western music is usually indicated in beats per minute (BPM). This means that a particular note value (for example, a quarter note, or crotchet) is specified as the beat, and that the amount of time between successive beats is a specified fraction of a minute. The greater the number of beats per minute, the smaller the amount of time between successive beats, and thus faster a piece must be played. For example, a tempo of 60 beats per minute signifies one beat per second, while a tempo of 120 beats per minute is twice as rapid, signifying one beat every 0.5 seconds. Mathematical tempo markings of this kind became increasingly popular during the first half of the 19th century, after the metronome had been invented by Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, although early metronomes were somewhat inconsistent. Beethoven was one of the first composers to use the metronome; in the 1810s he published metronomic indications for the eight symphonies he had composed up to that time. for example a minum has a 2 seconds

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    PRESTO

    by: Rush

    If I could wave my magic wand...
    I am made from the dust of the stars
    And the oceans flow in my veins
    Here I hide in the heart of the city
    Like a stranger coming out of the rain
    The evening plane rises up from the runway
    Over constellations of light
    I look down into a million houses
    And wonder what you're doing tonight
    If I could wave my magic wand
    I'd make everything all right
    I'm not one to believe in magic
    But I sometimes have a second sight
    I'm not one with a sense of proportion
    When my heart still changes overnight
    I had a dream of a winter garden
    A midnight rendezvous
    Silver, blue and frozen silence
    What a fool I was for you
    I had a dream of the open water
    I was swimming away out to sea
    So deep I could never touch bottom
    What a fool I used to be
    If I could wave my magic wand
    I'd set everybody free
    I'm not one to believe in magic
    Though my memory has a second sight
    I'm not one to go pointing my finger
    When I radiate more heat than light
    Don't ask me
    I'm just improvising
    My illusion of careless flight
    Can't you see
    My temperature's rising
    I radiate more heat than light
    Don't ask me
    I'm just sympathizing
    My illusions a harmless flight
    Can't you see
    My temperature's rising




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