A great find, via the ever-essential Open Culture: For those who think 50 minutes is too short and those piano notes too recognizable, may we suggest this 6-hour, time-stretched version of the album [Brian Eno’s Music for Airports], created by YouTube user “Slow Motion TV.”
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iPad Pro Observations
Observations from a computer science professor on working with an iPad Pro every day for two years.
“Dearest Liz”
Here, I am shamelessly aping Michael Leddy’s post, which should come as no surprise as I shamelessly steal many ideas and techniques from his blog. What makes this video from Field Notes particularly dear to me is that 1) my wife’s name is Liz, 2) she is an editor, and 3) she is equally precise, …
Jeanette Winterson on broken hearts and time
Jeanette Winterson: My heart was broken recently and I keep the pieces on the back step in a bucket. A heart can mend but unlike the liver it cannot regenerate. A heart mends but the break line is always visible. Humans are not axolotels; axolotels grow new limbs. A broken heart will mend in time, …
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Do I Need to Digitize This Album? Or Can I Download it Instead?
Is there an easier way?
Is This an Album Worth Keeping?
Well, is it?
Lovers of Art?
From The Decatur Review, February 24, 1961:
Fasting February
Search this blog for “diet” and you’ll find many posts on various strategies I’ve tried.
Art is What Gets Away With You
Jeanette Winterson, one of my favorite writers on the meaning, experience, and vitalness of art: Art isn’t what you can get away with … The work tells a different story. Art is what gets away with you. Every encounter with a work of art is an elopement. The seduction of the self, the abandonment of …
The Tomb and the Telephone Box
From The Public Domain Review: Though Nikolaus Pevsner wrote that the nineteenth century “forgot about Soane”, it was ironically through his funereal-architecture that his spirit was revived. The ruined classical architecture of death had become one of the utilitarian icons of the twentieth century. These boxes are now relics on the streets, preserved by English …
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