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Pickin’ & Trimmin’ from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo.
Off the main highway between Greensboro and Asheville is the little town of Drexel, North Carolina. There’s a barbershop there. The freight trains rumble slowly right through town, right next to it. In the back room, old guys come from all over to tell stories and play music.
Really good music.
Datura Inoxia time lapse
One night, about 30 years ago, I was walking down a sidewalk in an old neighborhood in Richmond, on the way home from a social engagement. It was very late, the streets were empty. I was tired and pleasantly overstimulated – much scintillating conversation, coupled with subtle inebriants consumed on a visit with some very creative friends.
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh
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When my daughters were young we spent a lot of time looking at the sky. Comets, meteor showers, constellations, satellites, planets. On camping trips, especially; but sometimes we juat went out into the country to find dark places so we could see better.
Laying in the dew-wet grass, or bundled in winter coats on the still-warm hood of the car, we’d listen to the whippoorwills, the crickets and katydids, the owls, and distant trains, and look up into the big dark and empty that seems so full when the sky is clear.
In elementary school they made models for science projects, and posters. We used flashlights for the sun, and basketballs and baseballs for planets, and we tried to get our heads around the scale of things.
We are not alone, it seems. These guys did that, too, and tried to make it real on a much bigger scale. It’s beautiful on many levels.
Vector Trio Live
Here is video from the live performance of Vector Trio on August 15, 2015. This is 24 minutes of improvisational Jazz, from musicians who have played together for 3 decades. Performed at The Auxiliary, the basement of a contemporary art gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
The crowd was full of dancers, musicians, artists, who all clearly “got it.”
Awesome stuff. More of their music at Music | Vector Trio
Previous post of photos here:
Live Jazz in Richmond VA | Marginalia
This is kind of crazy. A timelapse of boats swarming into Amsterdam for a sail festival.
Billed as the largest free nautical event in the world, Sail Amsterdam is aquinquennial (every five years) gathering of 600+ boats and tall ships that sail in a circuit in the Netherland’s North Sea Canal before mooring in Amsterdam. The 2015 event was held just last week and according to the NL Times a record-breaking 2.7 million people arrived to watch the maritime spectable that included at least 50 tall ships and hundreds of smaller watercraft. This aerial photo and a timelapse filmed by Boyd Baptist really captures the enormity of the event. (via Jeroen Apers)
