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video tuesday : Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

On a Friday afternoon in February, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals spent time outside of San Diego recording stripped down versions of songs from their new album. “Paris” is the second in a series of them.

New GPN Album Available for pre-order here: http://amzn.to/gpnamazonpre)

Vocals, Guitar:Grace Potter
Guitar: Benny Yurco
Guitar: Scott Tournet
Knife: Catherine Popper
Ice Bucket and Hair Dryer: Matthew Burr

Directed by: Mason Poole.
Location: Rancho Bernardo, CA

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The Voice Project, Peter Gabriel sings Tom Waits

Peter Gabriel » Tom Waits from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

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happy birthday dear orchid

birthday orchid

My birthday orchid seems very happy in it’s new home. It had bloomed twice in our old place in South Philadelphia where I was happy to keep it alive. It was hard work for some reason.

Now in Old City it is thriving.

I don’t think it is just the light and the water. I really think the energy here is so different. It seems to love Old City and the people that come and go in the gallery. It is joyful.

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you don’t have to buy one or just bring it back

No need to say anything more.

ps Apple showed this at their press conference today.

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Post-it notes an amazing invention

Post it notes continue to work their way into different parts of our lives. Their not so stickiness encourages us to use them in all kinds of unexpected ways. Their uniformity is another excellent attribute. Even the straight-lined challenged can line post-its up in a grid. Now that we aren’t confined to the Post-it yellow the possibilities are multiplied — by the number of new colors added.

So, what have you done with Post-it notes lately?

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singing girls to girls

This is just a fabulous moment.

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lipstick trees in Montréal

pink trees

I was working on an ad for the segd conference + expo which will be in Montréal in 2011. It made me think of this wonderful public art. On our visit there a few years back we discovered the lipstick forest. Both Margaret and I wandered through the trees and played a bit of hide and seek. It is brilliant!

more about the lipstick forest >

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Reprise: It’s too hot, too hot. Just too darn HOT.

It has become a science fiction dream to me. I cannot say I ever thought I would see and feel these temperatures. These temperatures are those of my visits to the desert and hiking the canyons of New Mexico. I imagine the scrub bushes and the dry runoff streams. I taste the red dust on my lips. Then I am jolted back to reality. My sense of place is askew. Our planet is so confused. It’s 104°.

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poem today : Native Trees, W. S. Merwin

Neither my father nor my mother knew

the names of the trees
where I was born
what is that
I asked and my
father and mother did not
hear they did not look where I pointed
surfaces of furniture held
the attention of their fingers
and across the room they could watch
walls they had forgotten
where there were no questions
no voices and no shade
Were there trees
where they were children
where I had not been
I asked
were there trees in those places
where my father and my mother were born
and in that time did
my father and my mother see them
and when they said yes it meant
they did not remember
What were they I asked what were they
but both my father and my mother
said they never knew

W. S. Merwin, “Native Trees” from The Rain in the Trees (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988). Copyright © 1988 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Source: The Rain in the Trees (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988)

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patti smith on her book tour

Patti plays a tune on her book tour. Always good to see the famous in small moments like this. Enjoy.

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It’s too hot, too hot. Just too darn HOT.

now.

Low tonight 78°, whaaa… This is the current temperature. 94° at 7:45 pm. The low is going to be a chilly 78 degrees. At least in the desert it gets cool at night. An air-conditioned bunker sounds like a good idea. Rain in the forcast doesn’t seem to be poised to give much relief. A good time to hunker down and work or see movies. I’m so confused.

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memory = truth

paris30.png

It was an incredibly hot day.The sky was flat, almost white.

We had been waliking and walking, and walking now we were at the top. It was time to look for a glass of wine and a comfortable place in the shade. (This is when I was still shooting film on a regular basis.) I can replay this day so that my memory equals truth.

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Time lapse NASA images of the Gulf Coast oil disaster.

A view that gives scope to this ongoing disaster. There’s nothing I can say.

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