August 22, 2006
Around the web #17
- Here's the video of a great version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," played on a ukelele in Central Park. No kidding.
- The New Yorker's Nick Paumgarten follows Sonnabend Gallery artist Clifford Ross around Central Park while he tests out his new super-high-res digital camera.
- Mazen Kerbaj, a Lebanese trumpeter, improvised live alongside Israel bombs on the night of July 15. Click here to listen to the haunting result. (Thanks, Anthony.)
- Jason Kottke used Photoshop to color-correct several World War II–era photographs included in "Bound for Glory," a Library of Congress exhibition. (Via blog.
- Images from the Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement that I can't help but imagine with Martha Rosler–like interventions. (Via The Morning News)
- An article in Der Spiegel about a band of "adbusters" in Berlin who cut people out of billboard- and mural-size advertisements. (Via PoliticalTheory.info)
- A post on Momus's blog with links to videos of Look Around You, a series of funny, short mockumentaries, and to "Birds of Britain," perhaps an even funnier video short (imagine Jack Handey narrating an after-school special about birding).
- Make it past the gratuitous, self-congratulatory introduction (start at paragraph ten and you'll be OK), and this goodbye letter from Deyan Sudic, written as he surrenders his column at The Observer in order to become director of the Design Museum in London, is a fairly interesting essay on contemporary architecture.
- Also in The Observer, a long profile of Joan Didion and a shorter one of Claire Messud, whose new novel The Emperor's Children I'm quite eager to read.
Lastly, will someone from London please explain to me the relationship between The Guardian and The Observer? Is the latter the former's weekly magazine (à la the New York Times Sunday Magazine)? If so, why isn't it just named The Guardian Magazine? Because I read both online, where occasionally the same article will pop up under both the Guardian and Observer headings, I have never been able to figure this out . . .