1001 Reasons

Posted on Tuesday 31 January with 7 notes. Via Musings - (berlin457).

Happy birthday, Philip Glass!

Posted on Monday 30 January with 34 notes. Via New Speedway Boogie - (newspeedwayboogie).

I remember when that Napster guy came up across, it was like, ‘Everybody’s gettin’ music for free.’ I was like, ‘Well, why not? It ain’t worth nothing anyway.’…

Bob Dylan, on Napster (via newspeedwayboogie)

being interviewed by Jonathan Lethem in Rolling Stone, the whole thing’s really a great read.

Posted on Monday 30 January with 95 notes. Via Blogthoven - (blogthoven).

Beethoven Mozart

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Mozart & Beethoven on the National Opera House, Andrássy út, Budapest, Hungary

Posted on Sunday 29 January with 4 notes. Via some things for you to look at - (somethingsforyoutolookat).

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somethingsforyoutolookat:

Prototype, Build the Town building block set, 1943 by oliver.tomas on Flickr.

Too many toys yesterday. 90% are not as fun as just playing with LOTS of cardboard boxes. It’s partly why I look forward to Thursday.

[that second one is from last year, before I added the Italian quote and monstrous detailing; it was 7pm with two hours to go. I promise not to do a gate this year, but they are always the most compelling shape because passerbys are forced to interact, even barely, with them. Also, it tends to be slightly against rules.]

Posted on Tuesday 24 January.

small personal victories books

As of today, finished two books equaling nearly 500 pages of non-academic paper text in my newfound free time. This would be more impressive if one wasn’t a book of quite funny extra-short stories and the another a lesser-known spy drama from a first rate mid-century mystery writer. Both equal light reading of the highest order. Someone is encouraging me to begin Moby Dick, but I’m not sure how well that will go on the subway, so I might continue with some tech-business non-fiction.

Any other recommendations?

Posted on Monday 23 January with 9 notes. Via ihatemusic1943 - (ihatemusic1943).

ezra keats the snowy day winter childhood nostaliga collage

ihatemusic1943:

Daniel Lachenmeier

Does anyone else remember The Snowy Day from when they were growing up?
It was always a favorite of mine. For some reason, thought at first that this image was from it. (it ain’t, but seems to use a bit of the same collage techniques of EJK)

Posted on Monday 23 January with 54 notes. Via Utne Reader - (utnereader).

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utnereader:

(via Designboom)

Under the artistic direction of David Pountney, stage designer David Fielding brings the opera “André Chénier” to life for the “Opera on the Lake” floating stage (‘Seebühne’) of the 2011 Bregenz Opera Festival in Bregenz, Austria.

The waterproofed set is built directly into Lake Constance, mounted upon a concrete core anchored into the base of the lake, while wooden poles support accessory structures of the stage. Fielding’s design for “André Chénier” is dominated by an oversized face and torso—modeled after the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat—from whose left eye streams a series of stairways. An open book to stage right of the figure is frequently highlighted throughout the performance with special lighting effects, ranging from sculptural installations to elaborate gobos that cast shadow scenes along its pages. At water level, a floating platform, “carried” by what appears to be the hand of the statue, moves in response to plot action. Other mobile set pieces rise in and out of the water over the course of the performance.

This is excellent.

Posted on Monday 23 January with 11 notes. Via Blogthoven - (blogthoven). Played 53 times.

piano music

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