György Ligeti’s etudes are a bit more compelling than most piano exercises…and what an ending!
Bonus: Here’s Ligeti’s Etude No. 2:
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From the category archives:
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That’s how long it took the Hubble Space Telescope — pointed towards “absolutely nothing” — to capture the 10,000 galaxies visible in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image:
via gizmodo
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Bugs in lights, filmed with long exposures, reveal their true nature as abstract expressionists:
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.
via Andrew Sullivan
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I’d love to hear (and see) a gaggle of these moving through a crowded space:
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I feel ambivalent about Banksy. I find some of his work really impressive, while other pieces are either a yawn, or overdone, or a yawn because they’re overdone.
But taking over your hometown’s main museum for the summer, with only a handful of people knowing about it until the day before it opens?
Not bad…
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David Lynch, on wee media formats:
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Wait for it: the galaxy doesn’t show up until about twenty-three seconds into the clip.
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
(For best viewing, watch the HD version on Vimeo, or download even higher-quality versions directly from William’s video page.)
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Ken Robinson, in his TED Talk Do schools kill creativity?:
“I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity. Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we’ve strip-mined the earth, for a particular commodity, and for the future, it won’t serve us. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children.”
via Zoë Westhof
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Lev Yilmaz on procrastination:
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“We’re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. The journey for each of us begins here. [He points to his head.] We’re going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination…”
I’ve been watching episodes of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos: A Personal Journey”, now available on Hulu:
The next time you hear someone claim that humanists and freethinkers don’t believe in anything, point them to Cosmos — a rationalists’ Credo, a celebration of human curiousity and invention, and an inspiring summary of what Sagan called “the searching of 40,000 generations of our ancestors.”
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The interview with Arvo Pärt starts at 4:25, after a quick listen to an installation by Tommi Grönlund and a snippet of Pärt’s “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten”.
via Tim Bray
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