Sparked from #commutermusic, a hashtag I started in order to share what was on my headphones on the bus and train in #yeg. Essentially, a soundtrack to my commute.
However, my vision is now more broad and inclusive. The soundtrack is aural, visual, and verbal--an accumulation of impressions and expressions, even interpretations. The commute and its soundtrack are still central, but there are other themes and motifs along the way...
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“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
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Stunning, artful, surprising: Vintage black-and-white photos of NASA facilities
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“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint...
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Listen to James Salter read (Booker-winning!) Lydia Davis’s “Break It Down.”
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
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A maze of parkways near Queens Boulevard, presenting a “pattern of progress.” An Aug. 8, 1955, story, with another aerial photo, described the...
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“This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.”
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A Rural Story photographed by Juergen Teller, Vogue Italia November 1998
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World’s largest bee, Falher, Alberta
