Early examples of Edward Steichen’s color photography discovered in Buffalo, NY.
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Playing by Heart
Thursday, May 31st • Comments (0)
This excerpt above is from the film Playing by Heart. Barenboim interprets Brahms and Maxim pumps iron and cruises around Amsterdam, hell yeah. Watch the rest of the film here.
Around Monterrey
Wednesday, May 30th • Comments (0)
Barrio Antiguo
Mascaras
Pedestrian mall
Green space downtown
Oldest church in Monterrey
Inside the Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Lucha Libre Monterrey
Sunday, May 27th • Comments (0)
We went to the Lucha Libre last night at the Plaza de Toros, and sat through four events, including a round robin every-man-for-himself match that included almost every single archetype known to wrestling. For my money, the women put on the best show by far. Here are the photos.
Open Source Cinema
Saturday, May 26th • Comments (0)
I may have linked to Open Source Cinema somewhere before; I don’t remember, and I don’t feel like checking. But the manifesto page has some interesting ideas about copyright.
Peacock
The Tec de Monterrey campus is full of fun animals like this peacock. I’ve been having a good time watching them the past few days.
FlickrTicker
Thursday, May 24th • Comments (0)
Check out the new Apple TV-like flickr eye candy at flickr ticker. For now it supports filtering by user name, ID and search query. Give my user name a try. Update: Here is a greasemonkey script to make it easier to get to a user’s ticker from their photo page.
Las Porristas Sultanes
Wednesday, May 23rd • Comments (0)
Last night we went to a Monterrey Sultans game. More photos here (view slideshow).
I Turn My Camera On
Sunday, May 20th • Comments (0)
Veronica turns her camera on, and I get lens envy.
The very modern Avenida Fenix Fire station in Mexico City has been completed.
See new photos pop up on a map as soon as they are posted at flickrvision. I could totally watch this site for hours.
Bilingual Baseball Dictionaries
Friday, May 18th • Comments (0)
The National Baseball Hall of Fame has Spanish to English and English to Spanish baseball dictionaries on their website. There are also downloadable pdf versions here.
Centro de Biotecnologia at Tec de Monterrey
“We open in 3 minutes thanks” -a sign hanging in the door of a newsstand.
Tec de Monterrey
Monterrey has H-E-B grocery stores!
Violinists With Thirteen Letter Names
Thursday, May 10th • Comments (1)
I don’t normally buy into numerology, but this thread inspired me to quickly compile a list of the great violinists whose names are spelled with thirteen letters.
- Georges Enesco
- Erick Friedman
- Jascha Heifetz
- Joseph Joachim
- Fritz Kreisler
- Yehudi Menuhin
- David Oistrakh
- Henryk Szeryng
- Joseph Szigeti
Contemporary artists of note who are endowed with 13 letter names include Itzhak Perlman, Ruggiero Ricci, Oliver Steiner and Maxim Vengerov. Introducing Brian Griffith, ladies and gentlemen. (I gathered the names of violinists from this website.)
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Zukerman Masterclasses
During the autumn of 2003, Pinchas Zuckerman gave masterclasses and workshops in ten cities across the U.S. and Mexico. The classes were streamed live across the internet and made available to schools in three countries. The videos are archived by the National Arts Center of Canada on their ArtsAlive music resource website. […]
