More scribblings from recent trip to New York City, in part for book-related research. & in part to confirm that what happened on November 4 actually did happen. (Pics from Lisa K.) November 10, 2008 Paying sporadic attention to the news one item stands out: Gun and ammo sales are booming surging ...more
Scribblings from recent trip to New York City, in part for book-related research. & in part to confirm that what happened on November 4 actually did happen. balloon alley image by Lisa K. Thursday, November 6 Two days after Obama’s election and there remains a palpable cloud of euphoria that ...more
[caption id="attachment_162" align="alignnone" width="405" caption="(Photo: Ian Jackson, The Black Rider)"][/caption] As it’s Halloween, I thought I’d share a (true!) story: The Creepiest Thing That Happened To Me This Year. I was driving north of Toronto late on a Tuesday night, the cusp of spring. Tattered clouds, the ground still raw with patches ...more
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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.
