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Category Archives: Arts and entertainment
An impressive bit of puppetry: by … Continue reading
A ball rolling down a carefully constructed stair-step xylophone in a forest plays Bach’s “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring”: It turns out to be an ad for a Japanese cell phone. Would that all ads were this interesting! by … Continue reading
It’s become fairly popular to give professional and amateur artists the same basic object (or perhaps a small selection of similar ones) and invite them to transform whatever it is into a work of art. In Cincinnati this was done … Continue reading
Listen to at least the first 30 seconds or so of this theremin and piano duet. If you’re not familiar with the theremin, it’s an electronic instrument played by placing a hand near each of its two antennas, one of … Continue reading
Vietnamese-American artist Binh Danh, a graduate student at Stanford, makes photographic prints using leaves and preserves them in resin. Chlorophyll, the key chemical of photosynthesis and hence directly or indirectly vital to almost all life on Earth, is (obviously) sensitive … Continue reading
I’m a little late with this — it took place May 2 — but it’s still worth passing on. The Copenhagen Philharmonic, established in 1843, staged a flash-mob performance of Ravel’s “Bolero” — complete with kettle drums! — in Copenhagen’s … Continue reading
A Star Trek theme part is coming to a seaside resort in the Middle Eastern country of Jordon, according to this article from The National, an English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. Britain’s Daily Mail reports that the project, … Continue reading
This fountain in Irving, Texas, is nicely done. To give credit where it’s due, I saw this in the “Wins!” section of the frequently amusing Failblog.org site. by … Continue reading