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...instability ensues and, at some point, the center ceases to hold. "Before we reached a climate tipping point we'd expect to see lots of record heat and record cold," says Carpenter. "Every example of sudden climate change we've seen in the historical record was preceded by this sort of squealing...
...ease with which Wilkinson creates slower, warmer melodies is impressive. While the found sound production aesthetic of his past work is still noticeable, the increased presence of electric guitar allows the structure of each track to catch hold. Filtered through a resonating old gramophone-type effect, the guitar acts sort of like sun glare, transfiguring the simple chord progressions and also making them perfect sleep music. “Lovers Carvings,” in particular, features ideally lustrous guitar work that gets along well with a late afternoon outdoor nap. Wilkinson’s real skill, though, is crafting...
...showing at the MFA through Oct. 18—possesses a subtlety, a freshness, and a combination of handcrafted simplicity and technical complexity. The pieces in the collection gather influence from the natural settings of their creations and the organic condition of their materials. However, an exhibit of this sort can only focus on one of these aspects—either internal or external—and the pistachio green walls of the furniture-store showroom set-up lack the ability to portray context. The emphasis on the natural attributes of the raw materials comes through, but it also shortchanges...
...much emphasis was placed on the event’s packaging, in the end, it was all about the music. Frustrated by the seemingly random choice of acts at many of the venues she had played, Furst tried to build a cohesive lineup of artists who had seen some sort of success. “Each band was handpicked to represent the next generation of hits of rock and roll,” she says. FROM HARVARD TO RAMENNew York is famous for its struggling musicians, and those with Harvard diplomas are no exception. For Snyder, this meant the need...
...that shuffle in the streets of Stockton, CA are the orphans of generations prior, generations with some war or famine or calling to give them purpose. So they fight.The fighting never finds purpose, and the fighting never becomes a purpose in and of itself. Nor does boxing become some sort of metaphor for life or pseudo-fascist cathartic experience. Gardener’s no fool. If anything, boxing becomes a symbol for the sort of self-flagellation these men undergo in their blind need for a spiritual home. Far from heroic, or even sympathetic, Gardener renders them as drifters, dangerous...