Monday, November 10, 2014
Sunday, November 9, 2014
holocene
"Holocene is a bar in Portland, Ore., but it's also the name of a geologic era, an epoch if you will. It's a good example of how all the songs are all meant to come together as this idea that places are times and people are places and times are... people? [Laughs.] They can all be different and the same at the same time. Most of our lives feel like these epochs. That's kind of what that song's about. "Once I knew I was not magnificent." Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind. But I think there's a significance in that insignificance that I was trying to look at in that song."
The ultimate soundtrack song.
come together
what happens with a band such as The Beatles is that every once in a while you hear a familiar song, can't quite put your finger on it but know you've heard it before. you will likely hear this song being sung by someone else and question if it's theirs - until you realize that Lennon wrote it. and you then find yourself feeling a little guilty questioning if one one the 1,000 cover versions can ever beat the original.
(about Come Together)
the thing is, no matter what you're listening to, you will somehow always hear the Beatles - be it an obvious cover, an influence in the background, a random name-dropping.
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"I was looking at my resume feeling real fresh today // they rewrite history I don't believe in yesterday // and what's a black Beatle anyway, a f***ing roach // I guess thats why they got me sitting in fucking coach"wildlife
i recall seeing an exhibition when i was 18 years old. basic maths would tell me that was 10 years ago but surely it cannot have been that long,
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the competition and shows how far photography has evolved in the past 5 decades. the lighting is perfect in bringing out the incredible results of the photographers' impressive courage and patience.
Grand Title Winner
Michael 'Nick' Nichols, USA
"Nick set out to create an archetypal image that captured the essence of lions in a time long gone, before they were under such threat. The Vumbi pride in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park are a ‘formidable and spectacularly co-operative team,’ Nick says. Here the five females lie at rest with their cubs on a kopje (a rocky outcrop). Shortly before he took the shot, they had attacked and driven off one of the pride’s two males. Now they were lying close together, calmly sleeping. They were used to Nick’s presence as he’d been following them for nearly six months, so he could position his vehicle close to the kopje. He framed the vista with the plains beyond and the dramatic late afternoon sky above. He photographed the lions in infrared, which he says ‘cuts through the dust and haze, transforms the light and turns the moment into something primal, biblical almost’. The chosen picture of lions in Africa is part flashback, part fantasy. Nick got to know and love the Vumbi pride. A few months later, he heard they had ventured outside the park and three females had been killed."Carlos Perez Naval, Spain
"This common yellow scorpion is flourishing its sting as a warning. Carlos had found it basking on a flat stone in a rocky area near his home in Torralba de los Sisones, northeast Spain – a place he often visits to look for reptiles. The late afternoon Sun was casting such a lovely glow over the scene that Carlos decided to experiment with a double exposure for the first time so he could include it. He started with the background, using a fast speed so as not to overexpose the Sun, and then shot the scorpion using a low flash. But he had to change lenses, using his zoom for the Sun, which is when the scorpion noticed the movement and raised its tail. Carlos then had to wait for it to settle before taking his close-up, with the last of the light illuminating its body."
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