Bach On A Steinway marks the first release on the new- Steinway & Sons Record label. This all-new recording of keyboard masterpieces features pianist Jeffrey Biegel playing on another kind of keyboard masterpiece: a Steinway Model D, handcrafted and specially selected for this project. Biegel brings his own considered ornamentation to these Baroque gems, offering [...]
Photography Entropy | 24 Oct 2010
Essentially, video has been at the fingertips of photographers for years, but it’s only in the past few years, that full frame, HD video has made its way into the D-SLR camera after Nikon D90. The significance is less that photographers can be videographers, as much as it allows low-light, shallow depth-of-field videography that simply [...]
The Two Cultures is the title of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that the breakdown of communication between the Two Cultures of modern society — The Sciences and the Humanities — was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. As a trained scientist [...]
Photography Entropy | 13 Oct 2010
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality… – Susan Sontag Every image tells a story, but it’s rather special to hear it from the photographer. The legendary photo-journalist and Magnum Photographer Steve McCurry spoke to Phaidon about the stories behind some of his iconic photographs taken from around the world. Explore Steve [...]
Life &Thought Provoking Entropy | 05 Oct 2010
A lament for the Life we lost and admission that it had to go … may be irrevocably.. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another- Anatole France Pl read this [...]