January 2010
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WatchRecent WNYC interview and acoustic set by Jonsi (Sigur Ros singer), a stripped-down preview of solo material due out in April. The man arguably has the best high male voice in pop music since Art Garfunkel, in addition to creating a kind of new musical vocabulary - no, not the ‘Hopelandic’ thing, that’s apparently just the gibberish he sings when working out a song’s melody...
WatchBackstage at the Thievery Corporation concert last night, the final show of their five-night homestand at DC’s 930 Club. Full-screen it!
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A Sad End
From Spiegel Online:
The Sad End of the Orange Revolution
Ukraine will elect its new president on Jan. 17, for the first time since the Orange Revolution. […] The images [then] were reminiscent of Prague in 1968, Gdansk in 1980 and Leipzig in 1989. Russia, which had never overcome the loss of Ukraine, a country of 46 million people, was in shock. Europe, on the other hand, was filled...
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I’ll be part of an art exhibition/installation in NYC called Never Records, opening this Friday 1/15 in the former Tower Records space. The concept is art and photography presented in the form of mock album covers, music posters, etc (I did a 3x3 foot ‘album cover’ for my Eastern Europe project). Great to share space with work by, among others, X frontwoman Exene Cervenka and the...
Could be worse. A little. →
According to the WSJ ‘Best and Worst Jobs’ (go to the last page), being a photojournalist ranks a few steps above garbage collector in terms of pay, conditions, future prospects, etc. 189th out of 200. (Of course if newspapers keep dumping all their photographers, it may skew the results just a bit…)
