Kimbra. I’m just digging everything about her: her voice, her style, her unfettered assuredness that could come unhinged but doesn’t, the way she moves. There’s a lot of soul not stuck in another performer’s era.
My colleague Chris Heagle turned me on to this powerful voice. Kimbra: what a singer, what a lady. Yowza. Time to buy her album.
Zoe Keating talks about her visual life. A profoundly interesting perspective on this cellist’s musical world and how she has to escape the forest where she lives because it gets too tight sometimes. I can relate and really need to return to North Dakota every so often to regain that sense of expanse and openness, to be vulnerable and relevant in only a way a prairie frame can provide.
I was so glad to see this on Brian Newhouse’s FB feed. From beingblog:
Friday Video Snack: Will You Be the English National Opera’s Friend?
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Well, today’s feature is so darned clever and funny and, of course, British. The video works — and on so many levels: part promotion, part comedy, part social commentary, part man-on-the-street-doing-ridiculous-things. I won’t give away the ending but…
(Big thanks to Brian Newhouse for the heads-up!)
Source: beingblog
Kendra Wilkinson is the spokesperson for the Clinton Global Initiative channel on Livestream?
Grab a smile for yourself and inspect this image. Take a look, a really close look. Yes, it is the Playboy centerfold of The Girls Next Door fame. Whoever created this page might want to rethink these associations. But, I thank them for the good chuckle on this stressful day.
Source: livestream.com
Um, yes. After watching this short from Go Do, I’ll be buying the special edition of Jónsi’s new set.
The song itself isn’t too bad, but the story is even better! From my SOF Observed post:
“A Minor American Miracle”: Orrin Hatch’s Rockin’ Hanukkah Song
Trent Gilliss, online editorA quick scan of this morning’s edition of the Tablet Daily Digest e-mail prompted me to read the lead article, “Hanukkah: A Guide for the Perplexed,” which was fun and quite helpful. And then I moved on.
It wasn’t until I was checking my inbox this afternoon that I saw what should have been at the top of the page: a video by songwriter and senior senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch. How the song came into being is actually a rather heart-warming story, as Jeffrey Goldberg tells it. I had no idea the Sen. Hatch liked to write spirituals.
But, it is a wonderful testament to the spirit of the season that such things can happen so freely and spread a little joy during an afternoon at work. Also, the idea that an Arab singer backed by the vocals of a the Jewish magazine staff sings a song written by a Mormon politician who “possesses a heartfelt desire to reach out to Jews” gives one hope that year-end holidays can bring out the best in people — and a will to understand one’s own traditions and the rituals of others:
“I know a lot of Jewish people that don’t know what Hanukkah means,” he [Hatch] said. Jewish people, he said, should “take a look at it and realize the miracle that’s being commemorated here. It’s more than a miracle; it’s the solidification of the Jewish people.”
And, yes, I do consider this another one of my Friday “video snacks.” *grin*
Source: beingblog
I absolutely love Zuckerman’s work and this video is strong. I do wish he would’ve searched for perhaps more esoteric voices, but the endeavor is admirable nonetheless. My post for SOF Observed:
Wisdom Comes at 65
Trent Gilliss, online editorLast winter I paid a hefty fine to the Minneapolis Public Library. I couldn’t let go of several photography books, including a pair by Andrew Zuckerman: portraits of beautiful animals — two- and four-legged forms — supple and lithe in their stillness, majestic in simplicity, unpretentious and vulnerable.
I intended to share some of these images then; I’m glad I waited. This video from Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another shares the ideas and profundity of those who have lived a life worthy of furrows and ridges. A few of my favorites touching on themes of work and love, conflict and resolution:
You can’t get to wonderful without passin’ through all right.
—Bill Withers, musicianLove something. I think we’ve got to learn love something deeply.
—Andrew Wyeth, artistThe human being has a need for dignity just as — like water, like air.
—Wole Soyinka, writerIf you’re willing to offer your life for it, you might actually get something done.
—Bernice Johnson Reagon, activistIf everyone takes care of their own area, then we won’t have any problems.
—Willie Nelson, musicianYou don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things.
—Rosamunde Pilcher, writerI get sillier as I get older. I don’t know what wisdom means.
—Judi Dench, actor…who I am, and what I need, these are things I have to find out myself.
—Chinua Achebe, writer(photo: Andrew Zuckerman)
Source: beingblog
"Noontime Web Video Revitalizes Lunch at Desk"
As soon as I saw this, I thought of my wife and her John Stewart consumption addiction. What the article states is so obvious, yet where are the common sense online editors making this a priority?
senior editor of a national public radio program called Being; public radio fan; media junkie; family man who longs for subtle glimpses of beauty in the ordinary
