I return to Wislawa Szymborska’s seemingly simple verses which deal with the profoundness in life through small details of daily existence… ABC I’ll never find out now What A. thought of me. If B. ever forgave me in the end. Why C. pretended everything was fine. What part D. played in E.’s silence. What F. [...]
Music is the poetry of the air. Humanity’s musical treasures — Beethoven piano sonatas, Schubert songs, Mozart symphonies and the like — come to life in performance. But they truly survive as black marks on a page, otherwise known as scores. Now a Web site founded five years ago by a conservatory student, then 19 [...]
“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .” -Derek Walcott Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, recently named winner of the TS Eliot prize for the best new collection of poems published in the UK or Ireland.The [...]
Art & Design Entropy | 08 Feb 2011
“I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing.” – Louis Armstrong The U.S. Postal Service is paying tribute to Jazz, America’s musical gift to the world, and to the musicians who play it.. The stamp will be issued in March 2011with the official ceremony in the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans. Jazz developed [...]
Art & Design &Gourmet Entropy | 04 Feb 2011
A visual map of Culinary Tools Here is a mapping of over 100 tools used in the preparation of delicious food. Printed with real copper ink, the same substance you might find in a fine piece of cookware © Via Pop Chart Lab
Books &Thought Provoking Entropy | 01 Feb 2011
I am and will remain a bibliophile, for me the books are living and tactile.. For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives. -Amy Lowell Wish to share this [...]