Pearls Before Breakfast
Submitted by nickvu2 on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 12:28am.What happens when one of the world's most accomplished violinists poses as a street musician in the DC Metro? Will people take notice?
A well crafted and insightful social experiment journalistic piece on our attention to the beautiful. From the Washington Post.
The following video is merely to give you a taste of the caliber of this musician, and is unrelated to above article.
Can't get enough
Submitted by nickvu2 on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 8:01am.Wow, I'm very impressed with these guys. Here's more Beirut, playing "In the Mausoleum". It gets a little noisy at the end.
You should probably just head over to YouTube and watch all the videos. I'll use "Cliquot" as a carrot. So beautiful!
Beirut
Submitted by nickvu2 on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 7:48am.Beirut performs "Nantes" live from a stairwell.
“Scented Time” by Sovrappensiero
Submitted by nickvu2 on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 11:25am.
“Scented Time” by Sovrappensiero
Apocalypse Lab’s Soap made from recycled falafel frying...
Submitted by nickvu2 on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 11:23am.
Apocalypse Lab’s Soap made from recycled falafel frying oil
“Inner Message” rings by Jungyun Yoon
Submitted by nickvu2 on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 11:08am.
“Inner Message” rings by Jungyun Yoon
From Sam Baron’s “Royal Actual” collection
Submitted by nickvu2 on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 11:02am.
From Sam Baron’s “Royal Actual” collection
paper-form lettering by Yulia Brodskaya
Submitted by nickvu2 on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 10:52am.
paper-form lettering by Yulia Brodskaya
“Colorcubic” by Nueva Forma
Submitted by nickvu2 on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 10:50am.
“Colorcubic” by Nueva Forma
Ant Colony
Submitted by nickvu2 on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 8:13am.Seemingly straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel, this masterpiece was created with the absence of leadership, organization or planning. Could humans ever produce such organic, emergent (even improvisational), agile, massively collaborated works? I would like to think it's in us.
