Clifford Beese – The Valley of Romance
Crocodiles – “She Splits Me Up”
Crimes of Passion
It’s really hard to find anything at all wrong with this song. The bass line is strong and gives tone to the beat, the vocals are pleasantly and fuzzily multitracked, the glittery guitar has the deft precision of a harpsichord. Even the initially atonal opening riff falls exactly into place. True, it doesn’t change much, but neither does it overstay its welcome. A summer jam I’ll be inserting into many a playlist. (insound)
High-altitude sprites captured by photographer Jason Ahrns
Excellent vintage type and design being captured in situ at Typehunting
Gauntlet Hair – “Human Nature”
Stills
Dark electro with a No Age-esque edge. Deserves to be played at high volume, so you get the power of both the dubby backbeat and the noise-rock counterpoint. (insound)
Arnold Böcklin – Spring in a Narrow Gorge
Mars rover Curiosity watches the orbits of Phobos and Deimos intersect
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Shotgun pellets captured at 354 m/s by a “streak camera”
All the elements that make what I write recognizable as mine seem to me a cage that restricts my possibilities. If I were only a hand, a severed hand that grasps a pen and writes… Who would move this hand? The anonymous throng? The spirit of the times? The collective unconscious? I do not know. It is not in order to be the spokesman for something definable that I would like to erase myself. Only to transmit the writable that waits to be written, the tellable that nobody tells.
Italo Calvino – If on a winter’s night a traveler
Carl Gustav Carus – Clouds of Fog in Saxon Switzerland