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natgeofound: Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:20:37 -0400

Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and President of the Society, admires new globes on a conveyor belt in a Chicago plant, December 1961.
Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic

kottke.org: Too much celebrity

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:43:30 -0400

kottke.org: Too much celebrity:

jkottke:

George Packer, writing for the NY Times on the subject of modern celebrity:

Our age is lousy with celebrities. They can be found in every sector of society, including ones that seem less than glamorous. We have celebrity bankers (Jamie Dimon), computer engineers (Sergey Brin), real estate…

EFF: Who has your back?

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:06:19 -0400

EFF: Who has your back?

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Sat, 18 May 2013 10:19:48 -0400

theparisreview: In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:06:53 -0400

theparisreview:

In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:34:07 -0400

Sam Amidon, In The Studio - Soundcheck

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:17:09 -0400

Sam Amidon, In The Studio - Soundcheck

Video

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:00:38 -0400

Laptop U

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:55:40 -0400

Laptop U:

Has the future of college moved online?

theparisreview: “Tea is not a manufactured article which can be...

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:34:24 -0400

theparisreview:

“Tea is not a manufactured article which can be made, bottled up and served at will. It must be prepared every time it is acquired, and it’s success or failure depends entirely upon the attention you pay to the six golden rules.”

The ten golden rules for making the perfect cup of tea.

natgeofound: The National Symphony Orchestra performs on the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:21:13 -0400

natgeofound:

The National Symphony Orchestra performs on the Potomac River, March 1942.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

natgeofound: Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary dressed in the fur...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:17:27 -0400

natgeofound:

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary dressed in the fur clothing he wore for the Arctic expedition, September 1938.
Photograph by Robert E. Peary, National Geographic

theparisreview: A poem by Emmett Williams, via UbuWeb.

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:16:53 -0400

theparisreview:

A poem by Emmett Williams, via UbuWeb.

edwardspoonhands: tessaviolet: itseasytoremember: lizzythegrac...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:12:26 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

tessaviolet:

itseasytoremember:

lizzythegraceful:

bartybuns:

mycatsaregay:

catswithbenefits:

This is the new “MOVI” camera stabilizer that has the possibility to rapidly change the film industry

check it out

was i just turned on by a camera

OH MY GOD

Oh my FUCK.

dying.

Option 1 - Build a $5,000,000 technological marvel.

Option 2 - Strap it to a chicken

Andrew Ellis, are you seeing this?

How Not to Die

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:25:19 -0400

How Not to Die:

Young in affect and appearance, Volandes, 41, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School; Davis, also an M.D., is doing her residency in internal medicine, also at Harvard. When I heard about Volandes’s work, I suspected he would be different from other doctors. I was not disappointed. He refuses to let me call him “Dr. Volandes,” for example. Formality impedes communication, he tells me, and “there’s nothing more essential to being a good doctor than your ability to communicate.” More important, he believes that his videos can disrupt the way the medical system handles late-life care, and that the system urgently needs disrupting.

ingodwetrustnyc: retrolovings: A female Lockheed employee works...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:26:50 -0400

ingodwetrustnyc:

retrolovings:

A female Lockheed employee works on a P-38 Lighting in Burbank, CA - 1944.

KHORIKOS is releasing a CD soon! Take a listen to one of our...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:47:00 -0400

KHORIKOS is releasing a CD soon! Take a listen to one of our tracks as a ‘sneak peak’.

Description below:

Manuel de Zumaya (c. 1678–1755)

The Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
Performed Live at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Soho, New York City…

During the Baroque era, very few musical centers in the New World surpassed the sophistication of Mexico City. While composers in the British colonies often created relatively rugged, fugal music, Mexican chapel masters composed vocal music of remarkable elegance and beauty which was widely disseminated from the northern California Missions to Guatemala in the south. One composer who stands out in this history of 18th-century music is Manuel de Zumaya.

Born in Mexico City to parents of Native-American and Spanish descent, Zumaya is a perfect personification of the blend of European and New World cultures. As maestro de capilla at the Mexico City Cathedral—the most prestigious music position in the Western Hemisphere—he was a prolific composer of choral music. Zumaya was a master of the baroque Italian style, as well as the Spanish renaissance style of Victoria and Morales. His harmonic boldness, especially his use of augmented and diminished chords and secondary dominants, sets him apart from other Mexican polyphonists, and is evident in his stark Lamentations.

Although Zumaya chose a section of Lamentations that is more abstract and philosophical than mournful, the music is achingly sad. With the unaccompanied voices singing rich minor-mode harmonies, replete with the falling seconds (which William Kimmel claims have signified death throughout the history of Western music), one might imagine this piece being sung in a remote church in the desert—even though Zumaya composed it within the walls of an elegant cathedral in a large city.

"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy...."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:03:43 -0400

“I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”

- John Adams, in a letter to his wife Abigail, 1780. (via blogthoven)

Relatives- Widower —- New video from Kate and Ian!...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:07:57 -0400

Relatives- Widower

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New video from Kate and Ian! Produced by Sasha and Dan.

Featured here.

Homilius: Goethe on Beethoven

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:15:35 -0400

Homilius: Goethe on Beethoven:

homilius:

From a letter to Christiane Vulpius (Goethe), 19 July 1812:

Tell his Highness, Prince Friedrich, that I cannot be in Beethoven’s company without wishing that I might be at the goldenen Strauss. I have never seen an artist more energetic and intense. I can understand quite well that his…