The Life of a Teen Beauty Pageant Host Has Zak Slemmer found his calling? He’s not sure. He loves Korea and politics, teaching and comedy—but he’s really, really good at hosting Miss Teen pageant contests. Laura Shin shadowed Slemmer for Narratively. It’s the rehearsal for the New York City Miss Teen pageant. Read the story Like this: Like Loading...
Rubik’s Cube Explorer Home | Harbor Suites compliments are good New Logo and Identity for Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra by Bond before after Established in 1882, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri in Finnish) is a 102-musician orchestra based in Helsinki, Finland, playing most of its concerts at Helsinki Music Centre. In a series of workshops the new positioning and identity was crystallized; the power and energy of the music is the orchestra’s driving force. Bond project page The previous logo was pretty much what you would expect from a philharmonic, with a swooping script monogram and pretty serif. Kidding aside, it’s a wonderfully inclusive gesture for the musicians that also serves as a metaphor for how each person, each sound, contributes to create something bigger with its own rhythm as the logo generates a sound wave shape when reproduced smaller. The identity also relies on time-lapse photos that, while cool on their own, take away some of the bad-assed-ness of the identity. Thanks to Brandemia for the tip.
James “Blood” Ulmer, Guitar Activist James “Blood” Ulmer is one of the most distinctive and important guitarists of the past 50 years. His music highlights the through line from traditional blues to free jazz. In this episode of Expandable Sound, the singer and guitarist discusses his approach to the unwritten law of guitar harmolodics, Jimi Hendrix, and what it means to be a guitar activist. Born in St. Matthews, South Carolina in 1940, Ulmer got his start in music singing in a spiritual group led by his father. Ulmer has released numerous recordings that range from explorative free improvisation to unadorned traditional blues.
Why Time Flies Have you ever noticed how older people keep mentioning that time keeps moving faster and faster? It's because we perceive time relative to the 'absolute' time we can compare it to... When you are 4 weeks old, a week is a quarter of your life. By the end of your first year, a week is just a fiftieth of your life. By the time you turn 50, a whole year will be a fiftieth of your life. This theory was first put forward by Paul Janet in 1897. Like many things, this will require some patience to get through. But in the end it'll be over faster than you thought or hoped it would be. Albert Einstein said about the perception of time, that 'an hour spent in the company of pretty girls passes more quickly than an hour spent in a dentist chair'. Waiting 24 days for Christmas at age 5 feels like waiting a year at age 54. According to this theory, assuming you'll become 100 years old, half of your perceived life is over at age 7. Did you notice how much faster the 10th year scrolled by than the first?
KUROKAWA WONDERLAND Roscoe Mitchell Live at Pioneer Works In October 2015, Pioneer Works presented legendary saxophonist, composer, educator, and founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Roscoe Mitchell, in a unique quintet with Scott Robinson (woodwinds), Thomas Buckner (baritone), Tani Tabbal (drums), and Gerald Cleaver (marimba and drums). The concert is one of many special events marking the 50th anniversary of the AACM, a music collective that for the past 50 years that continues to be a standard-bearer of innovation, self-determination, and creativity’s power to transcend social and political barriers. At Pioneer Works, the group’s legacy has also served as a unique model in its approach to community based, creative education. Mitchell, an uncanny improvisor and composer of granite conviction, and has been making music since the 60s that defies genre and consistently expands the potentials of the form.
Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Editors note:On Nov. 29, 2016, Google released a major update expanding the data from 2012 to 2016. Read about the update here. Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger It’s a safe bet that few people who have grown up in the Google era have ever heard of Stewart Udall. 1 of 20 1 of 14 Full Screen 1 of 13
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