I am making a playlist of Sunday songs. Would anyone like to make a suggestion?
I am making a playlist of Sunday songs. Would anyone like to make a suggestion?
“But what happens after postmodernism? Does culture pick over the bones of those who picked over the corpse of modernism? Or does it find the courage to be uncool, to come down from its mountain of superior disinterest and engage with a crisis that doesn’t feel particularly ironic? Could we be due a new Romantic age of passionate expression and social engagement?”
Susana Soares’s design work is as fascinating as the science behind it:
Scientific research has demonstrated that bees have an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and can be trained to perform health checks by detecting a specific odour in peoples’ breath.
The project consists in a series of alternative diagnostic tools that use bees to diagnose accurately at an early stage of a vast variety of diseases.
Could this revolutionise medicine as we know it?
More reasons to save the bees?
Study of Scotch & In the Rocks. Tucked in a box filled with fragrant pine boughs and herbs, a trio of Scotch cocktails that riffed on three classics: the cobbler, the sour, and the Sazerac. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to watch the box being assembled, craning my neck to see what was going in there — and then watching it delivered to our table.
And for the lady, an Old Fashioned suspended in an ice sphere. Pull the slingshot and ping! a perfectly chilled cocktail in your glass. (Somehow Craig knew to always give me the interactive ones.)
Oh my god. Where is this place and when are we going?
(via crookedindifference)
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
Albert Camus - L’Envers et l’Endroit (1937)
(Source: seblicious)
Mandala (A Musical Palindrome), by Daniel Starr-Tambor
With more than 62 vigintillion individual notes, “Mandala” is the longest palindrome in existence. Composed using the first nine partials of the Natural Harmonic Series repeating at the accelerated tempos of our solar system, Mandala would continue without repetition for over 532.25 septendecillion years. In homage to “Art of the Fugue” by J.S. Bach, “Mandala” has been crafted to include the “musical signature” of it’s author: the stereo imaging is arranged to reflect the exact position of the solar system at the moment of his birth, from the perspective of the Sun as it faces the constellation Libra, so that each note chronicles his birthday on every planet.
Cool.