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Thanks to FlowingData for highlighting this link by Albert Cairo to the article by David Rothenberg and Mike Deal " Whale Song Explained". The largest single pressing of any album of recorded music was not made by Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey, but by an animal the size of a city bus. Ten million copies of Songs of the Humpback Whale were inserted into…
A truly fine example of what Australian publishing can produce, saw first-light in the last few weeks. Our copy of Great Ocean Quarterly was awaited with considerable anticipation [caveat - we know some of those involved]. It arrived recently. Members of my family have that close, often jealousy-viewed-by-others connection with the sea. The Great Ocean Quarterly promised... a collection of…
Google Earth's Virtual Prado Museum. Madrid's Prado Museum has long been a destination for art lovers. In the company of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Louvre Museum in France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Prado is home to countless masterpieces of western art. Unfortunately, the options for viewing its contents have always been either…
Alan Brody, Evan Ziporyn, Jay Scheib, Krzysztof Wodiczko High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing. Evan Ziporyn describes the evolution of his musical composition... Link: Art and Technology.