In the 1950s in eastern Europe nightclubs made pirate copies of western records which were cut onto recycled x-ray films, digibodies has a gallery of them.
via Kevin Kelly
A dazzling display by Oficina da Capoeira at the Festival of World Cultures, more at my Flickr page
Ferris wheel going up for the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures which is on this weekend . There’s so much going on it’s practically impossible to give recommendations but check out the schedule here. That said Trans-Global Underground & Trio Bulgarka on Sunday look particularly good.
MP3s of a rare live performance by Stina Nordenstam in Fasching, Stockholm – January 1991.
via desire avenue
A collection of over 100 placemarks for Google Earth showing locations mentioned in Joyce’s A portrait of the Artist
via Google Earth community
Turn me on dead man an exhibition by Paul Murnaghan at the Basement Gallery Dundalk open this Friday the 18th 7.30 pm
The title of Paul Murnaghan
via chamorro bible, thanks for the tip!
A great quote from composer Morton Feldman
My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue. . . . He was on the second floor and we were looking out the window, and he said,
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