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Leah Witthuhn is on a mission to get instruments into the hands of students who want to play one.
“Music has always been a really, really big part of my life,” said the 18-year-old Witthuhn, who has been playing guitar since she was 3 years old. “I can’t imagine my life without it. I just want to help shape kids the way it shaped me.”
Full Story: On a mission to make music
This is super cool!
Step into the darkened Baucus Gallery and you are greeted by five enchanting sculptural forms — neuro-caves — seemingly constructed of light and suspended from the ceiling.As you don a headset, the neuro-cave links to your brainwaves and sends out music, digital sounds and colors of light — white, blue, green, violet, red and peach.
Source: Make art with your brainwaves at new Holter exhibit | Entertainment | helenair.com
Artists are even starting to pull apart the album format and create evolving playlists in their place. Drake’s much-vaunted “playlist”, More Life, was essentially an album given a zeitgeisty rebrand, but in 2016, David Gray released a “dynamic” greatest hits on Spotify where tracks were switched around depending on how popular they were. There were also industry rumours, subsequently scotched, that Calvin Harris was going to abandon the album entirely and instead release singles and EPs on a rolling basis.
Full Story: ‘They could destroy the album’: how Spotify’s playlists have changed music for ever | Music | The Guardian
Ronald Dantowitz has been looking forward to Monday’s solar eclipse for nearly 40 years.
An astronomer who specializes in solar imaging, he’s been photographing eclipses for more than three decades, and will be using 14 cameras to capture the Aug. 21 celestial event. The cameras have solar filters to capture the eclipse in its partial phases, along with custom modifications that can photograph the corona and light wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye, allowing scientists to view and study the sun’s temperature and composition in a way only possible during a total eclipse, he said.
Full Story: Can’t see the solar eclipse? Tune in online or on TV – ABC News
Tucked away in a warehouse in midtown Cleveland, you will find thousands upon thousands of books.
They’re brand-new, slightly used, and there’s every single genre you can imagine.
It is the Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank, a program with the goal of putting books in the hands of every child in Cuyahoga County.
Full Story: Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank gives hundreds of thousands of free books to kids in need – News 5 Cleveland
Swedish organisation Fotografiska is to open a new centre for photography in London’s Whitechapel. The 89,000 sq ft lower ground space plus office, which is located near Whitechapel Gallery, is due to be completed in the second half of 2018, and has been rented by Fotografiska for 15 years (with a break option at 12 years).
Full article: Fotografiska to open a London Museum of Photography – British Journal of Photography
An insider’s guide to the Top Design Hotels in London, featuring the best for eclectic interiors, striking artwork, luxurious rooms, and spectacular lobbies, in locations including Soho, Kensington, and Shoreditch perfect to stay and visit London Design Festival.
Full Story & More Photos at: Top 10 Design Hotels in London
It all started with a tweet. Last week, after seeing a couple of other such tweets catch fire amidst the madness of real-world news, I posed a question to the denizens of Twitter. “What are your five favorite Disney animated films?” I thought it would be fun to tally up some of the responses, and see what film takes the day in an unscientific survey. Maybe I could even pit the top few vote-getters in an actual Twitter poll. Would The Lion King be the big favorite? Maybe the first Disney feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, would take the day. Alternatively, a dark-horse contender could surprise everyone and reach the top.
Full Story: What Your Favorite Disney Movies Say About Nostalgia
The first-ever European Animation Awards (EAA), set to take place on December 8 in Lille, France, have opened their call for entries.
Full Story: ‘Song of the Sea’ Director Tomm Moore Announces European Animation Awards Call For Entries
Remember the days when collages of photos chaotically strewn across bedroom walls were a common fixture in teenage bedrooms? And that sense of excitement of taking a long-lost film into Boots, wondering what snaps were lurking in the dark room, debating internally at the checkout whether or not they’d be worth a few extra pounds for same day delivery? And lest not forget the disappointments… opening a package, only to find out that half of the photographs were overexposed, out of focus, or worst of all, obscured by the dreaded thumb. Those were the days!
Full Story: Photography: A Dying Art Form That’s Getting More Popular | HuffPost UK
