Music from the new album Water Night, featuring the Eric Whitacre Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber and Hila Plitmann, conducted by Eric Whitacre.
Eric Whitacre: Water Night
iTunes (deluxe): http://bit.ly/WNiTunes
Amazon (UK): http://amzn.to/yT3oHw
Amazon (US): http://amzn.to/xEL0oL
Amazon (Germany): http://amzn.to/xV6APo
Listen to extended clips of every track from the album: http://bit.ly/wPF6oO
Official site: http://ericwhitacre.com/waternight
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An unabashed fan of artist/illustrator/writer Maira Kalman (I have a copy of “My Mother’s Beautiful Map” hanging in my cubicle here at work), I offer you this pre-assignment Kalman has given illustration students in a class she is teaching this summer.
… take a half hour walk every day for ten days. Without cell phones, just walk and observe what’s around you for half an hour. And I am sure—I’m very sure—that asking them to spend half an hour without a cell phone is like asking them to take their clothes off. No cell phones, no cup of coffee—just take a solitary walk. If you want to be pretentious about it, Immanuel Kant is famous for taking his walk everyday at 3:30 P.M., so I suggested that time to them. It’s a good time of day; it’s a little bit tired, a little bit sleepy time of day.
It’s good advice.
A baby has haircut at a barber shop in Beijing on the occasion of the second day of the second lunar month, a time for the dragon to raise its head, as a Chinese saying goes.
From picture desk: live, our team’s pick of the day’s newsworthy images.
Photograph: Zhang Chuandong/Xinhua Press/Corbis
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(Reblogged from centaurismymentaur)
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. Buckminster Fuller in “The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In” by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine (30 March 1970), p. 30 (via centaurismymentaur)
Spring in England (by algo)
(Reblogged from inothernews)
(Source: perpetually-karen)
