Drink Local – #DCBrau
Posted: April 30, 2011 Filed under: Washington Leave a comment »I picked up my first six of DC Brau last night. Pretty good! The Public is a little stronger than the beers I usually keep in the fridge, but it’s a nice drink. I recommend.
Geddy
Posted: April 29, 2011 Filed under: Artists, Deep Leave a comment »Geddy, in the Irish Times via Rush is a Band:
I don’t listen to bands that are just like us. I listen to all kinds of music. Most musicians are like that. They keep an open mind when they hear something they think is cool, whether it’s their thing stylistically or not.
Better Place
Posted: April 28, 2011 Filed under: Environment, Transportation 2 Comments »
I’ve always thought that Better Place sounded cool, although I’m still not certain that its approach would work for those of us who are garage-challenged. From Time, via The Climate Group:
When the enterprise launches in Israel later this year, drivers should be able to travel anywhere in the country in cars with a battery range of 100 miles (160 km). If they set off from Tel Aviv to the Red Sea, a journey of 200 miles (320 km), they will be able to pull into a Better Place station along the highway and exchange their low battery for a fully charged one. The process should take about five minutes. Otherwise, the car can recharge overnight via a plug that snaps into the little door above the rear wheel where gas would go if the car burned gas.
The Show of Life, #Phish
Posted: April 27, 2011 Filed under: Concerts, Listening Leave a comment »I can feel the juices starting to flow ahead of June 11. The other day, in the car, driving to and from the Guitar Center, this tune hooked.
It Would Take Six Months to Fly Around the Sun
Posted: April 26, 2011 Filed under: Deep Leave a comment »A hat tip to Andrew Tobias for flagging Khan Academy today. I watched the video below on my bus ride home from work.
Bruce Dickinson on “No Regrets”
Posted: April 25, 2011 Filed under: Artists, Deep Leave a comment »Below is from an interview with Bruce Dickinson, posted at his website. I have no idea how old this is, but I got a kick out of it.
Does that ‘no regrets’ attitude apply to the rest of your career?
Yeah. You have to look at decisions you’ve made and learn from them. I don’t think you can go back re-vamping your past, or regretting it. Only if you’ve hurt others by what you’ve done. But as long as it’s your own career that’s been potentially damaged, it’s all a learning experience.
A Mote of Dust Suspended in a Sunbeam: Carl Sagan
Posted: April 24, 2011 Filed under: Deep Leave a comment »Holy Kaw! flagged this last week, and then it popped up again on Daily Kos. Too good not to post.
Nam June Paik: One Candle, Candle Projection
Posted: April 23, 2011 Filed under: Artists, Deep, Washington Leave a comment »
An interesting exhibition now at the National Gallery of Art:
The exhibition is centered around Paik’s video sculpture One Candle, Candle Projection (1988-2000). Each morning a candle is lit and a video camera follows its progress, casting its flickering, magnified, processed image onto the walls in myriad projections. It is a central work in Paik’s oeuvre for its simultaneous embrace of media overload and Zen simplicity, participation and contemplation. By turns steady as a rock and flickering in the air currents stirred by visitors, the flame is stillness in motion, a paradox magnified by its reproduction on the walls.
Two other “closed-circuit” works share the same dramatically darkened main gallery: Standing Buddha with Outstretched Hand (2005), and Three Eggs (1975–1982). In the former, a bronze Buddha “watches” its own image. In the latter, a video camera fixed on an egg sends the image to a portable TV while an identical TV (minus its picture tube) presents an identical but real egg: the result is both a Platonic reflection on levels of reality and a closed-circuit image of time passing, or standing still.
Earth
Posted: April 22, 2011 Filed under: Environment Leave a comment »Taken by NASA Goddard Photo and Video http://www.flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/5269062390
White House Gardening Factoid
Posted: April 21, 2011 Filed under: Environment, Washington Leave a comment »Courtesy of the White House Spring Garden Tour pamphlet:
In the 1820s, John Quincy Adams formally established a White House gardening program. It is said he liked to dig in the flowerbeds early in the morning, and claimed to have planted over a thousand plants during his tenure.
