My thanks to Jen for sharing this article on the amazing work of Li Wei. It’s performance art meets photography and I love it. Excerpt from the article:
After dropping out of art school and dabbling in oil painting, Li decided to focus on action art because, as he puts it, only it “offers a chance to experience an action’s message through one’s own body.”
A random exchange on Twitter sparked by a mention of Coldplay’s “Don’t Panic” got me thinking about where I first heard that song. It’s one of those songs that had such an impact on me for whatever reason – beauty, emotional significance, lyrics, whatever – that I can pinpoint with photographic memory exactly where I was when I first heard it.
In this case it was a summers’ evening some time after 9pm. Myself and my siblings had been rounded up as we often were to move some cattle from one field to another with my dad. I remember sitting in the car afterwards while dad closed up gates etc & the radio was on in the car. That song came on & I remember gasping & telling the others in the back to shut up & listen. Beautiful piece of music. I own 2 Coldplay albums, haven’t listened to them in years but still love that song. Here’s the Google Mappage of where exactly I was for anyone nosey enough.
On Saturday night during the Eurovision I was singing the praises of the lovely work my friend Kev did creating a visualisation of the 2008 Eurovision voting. As luck would have it, he’s posted it on his website for all to play with.
Michael (aka Alexander) is a student in the Cork School of Music and until tonight I believed him to be part of the brass section of the Cork Symphony Orchestra. I guess he was keeping a low profile around Cork what with being the favourite for Eurovision. Congrats Michael!
Up until Monday I was using an N95 while my faulty iPhone was being dealt with. I had many fat-fingered typo moments while using it for the past few weeks but none so bizarre as when I was trying to hit Facebook in my mobile browser and I arrived at www.facebok.com and found this random image.
I haven’t yet kit the ‘skip’ link that’s up top right of the screen as I fear it will bring me into a world of pain/spam/awfulness but as landing pages go, this gets points for WTF quality.
