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Richard Barnes - Museum of Comparative Anatomy, Paris, 2005

my favorite place in the whole world. im going back.

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What is synesthesia?

Thomas J. Palmeri, Randolph B. Blake and René Marois of the psychology department and the Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University study synesthesia. They provide the following explanation:

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Off Book: Illustration

Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And as their tasks over the years have become less informational and more expressive, their individual voice as artists becomes all the more critical and beautiful, revealing an exciting and awe-inspiring age of illustration.

Featuring:
Steven Guarnaccia, Professor, Illustration Program at The New School
Yuko Shimisu, http://yukoart.com/
Sean Murphy, http://seangordonmurphy.com/
Molly Crabapple, http://mollycrabapple.com/

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Strumming Along With Musician Andrew Bird 

Once upon a time (the mid 90s) in a gloriously music-laden land (Chicago), a lanky, sharp-witted, sharp-featured tenderfoot (Andrew Bird) graduated from Northwestern’s acclaimed music conservatory and dove into the sea of indie rock. Inhabited by hard-edged musicians who took pride in their lack of skill and almost-affected amateurishness, it was about passion — forget technique. Live shows were supposed to be truly live, and in-concert mistakes were nothing less than standard. “Experience the sound in its raw, unadulterated form,” they’d say. And Bird — despite his “super-trained” background — fit right in, rolling with the sonic tides to the eventual mid-ocean calm of celebrated musician status. 

Almost two decades, ten albums, and one metamorphosed genre later, Bird’s mélange of instruments — his tailor-made violin almost always playing musical protagonist — and unfussy, unpolished ways have continued to dilate the canyon-sized rift between his contemporaries and himself. “There’s this professionalism in the scene that’s emerged, and I think it really isn’t a good thing,” Bird reflects. These days, acts no doubt rehearse before taking the stage — but so much that even at concerts involving mudslides and hallucinogens and tents, the magic’s been extracted. 

Bird chuckles. “I feel like I’m preserving some sense — some spirit — of amateurishness, which is so hilarious because I went to conservatory and everything,” he says. “Our stuff, especially at big festivals, is full of mistakes … we fail all the time.” What’s succeeding, then? He pauses, furrowing his already creased brow into deeper thought. It’s when — post-mistake — they’ve not only corrected it, but used the mishap as fuel to bring the whole performance to even greater heights.

— Sky Dylan-Robbins

Sounds like he has synesthesia like me! woot

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Son of a bitch I had to publicize this somehow and I can’t do it on facebook from my phone. Best. Day. Ever. And check out that dapper gent to my right. Bitches be jealous.

I could drink costa rican mojitos forever…

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mmhh colourful beard

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