The Faces
A miscellany of portraits taken during recent travels.
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A miscellany of portraits taken during recent travels.
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This year marks the centenary of the birth of French composer and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen, whom we’ll discuss more in an upcoming post. This odd but nifty hand painting video is set to a section from Quatuor pour le fin du temps that best embodies his fascination with birdsong.
BoingBoingtv interviews David Byrne on his Playing the Building installation, in which he transformed New York’s Battery Maritime Building into a mighty oscillating, resonating and vibrating edifice of sound.
Digital Artist Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns.
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MUSIC
The track “Mu Oyun Havasi” from Istanbul friends Baba Zula, off their most recent album Kökler.
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READINGS, etc
Donald Weber’s photographic essay/project White Nights: Russia After the Gulag. In “Separation Anxiety”, published in The Walrus, Tyler Stiem writes about caring for civil war survivors in Somaliland’s only mental hospital. Almost finished Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis.
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