9.26.2009
9.25.2009
Damion Aigbekaen - one big family
A photo of some of my students from Rustic Pathways, India 2009. Taken by Damion Aigbekaen.
James Reynolds - The Last Suppers
A series of photographs documenting former Death Row prisoners’ last meal requests before execution.
James Reynolds. More here
9.24.2009
I Dare You:
L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio
The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio is made up mostly of immigrants living in Rome. It includes Arabs, Latin Americans, Africans, Europeans, an American and musicians from the Indian subcontinent. Its 15 players between them hold 11 nationalities and speak eight languages.
Houcine Ataa (Tunisia - vocals)
Peppe D’Argenzio (Italy - baritone sax, bass clarinet)
Evandro Cesar Dos Reis ( Brazil - vocals, classical guitar, cavaquinho)
Omar Lopez Valle (Cuba- trumpet, flugelhorn)
Awalys Ernesto “El Kiri” Lopez Maturell (Cuba - drums, congas, background vocal)
John Maida (United States - violin)
Eszter Nagypal (Hungary - cello)
Gaia Orsoni (Italy- viola)
Carlos Paz (Ecuador - vocals, Andean flutes)
Pino Pecorelli (Italy- double bass, electric bass)
Raul “Cuervo” Scebba (Argentina - marimba, congas)
El Hadji “Pap” Yeri Samb (Senegal - vocals, djembe, dumdum, sabar)
“Kaw” Dialy Mady Sissoko (Senegal - vocals, kora)
Giuseppe Smaldino (Italy - French horn)
Ziad Trabelsi (Tunisia - vocals, oud)
Mario Tronco (Italy - artistic director, Fender Rhodes)
The idea of creating an orchestra of musicians from different countries and cultures grew out of a larger ambition: to prevent the early twentieth-century theatre, the Apollo Cinema, in Rome from becoming a Bingo hall and create an international laboratory of cinema, music and writing. Each musician brought to the orchestra their instrument and personal background of popular music, creating a fusion of cultures and traditions, old and new sounds, unknown instruments, memories, distant yet universal melodies, and voices from around the world. [Mario Tronco] Check out their website for more info.
The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio is made up mostly of immigrants living in Rome. It includes Arabs, Latin Americans, Africans, Europeans, an American and musicians from the Indian subcontinent. Its 15 players between them hold 11 nationalities and speak eight languages.
Houcine Ataa (Tunisia - vocals)
Peppe D’Argenzio (Italy - baritone sax, bass clarinet)
Evandro Cesar Dos Reis ( Brazil - vocals, classical guitar, cavaquinho)
Omar Lopez Valle (Cuba- trumpet, flugelhorn)
Awalys Ernesto “El Kiri” Lopez Maturell (Cuba - drums, congas, background vocal)
John Maida (United States - violin)
Eszter Nagypal (Hungary - cello)
Gaia Orsoni (Italy- viola)
Carlos Paz (Ecuador - vocals, Andean flutes)
Pino Pecorelli (Italy- double bass, electric bass)
Raul “Cuervo” Scebba (Argentina - marimba, congas)
El Hadji “Pap” Yeri Samb (Senegal - vocals, djembe, dumdum, sabar)
“Kaw” Dialy Mady Sissoko (Senegal - vocals, kora)
Giuseppe Smaldino (Italy - French horn)
Ziad Trabelsi (Tunisia - vocals, oud)
Mario Tronco (Italy - artistic director, Fender Rhodes)
The idea of creating an orchestra of musicians from different countries and cultures grew out of a larger ambition: to prevent the early twentieth-century theatre, the Apollo Cinema, in Rome from becoming a Bingo hall and create an international laboratory of cinema, music and writing. Each musician brought to the orchestra their instrument and personal background of popular music, creating a fusion of cultures and traditions, old and new sounds, unknown instruments, memories, distant yet universal melodies, and voices from around the world. [Mario Tronco] Check out their website for more info.
Yoskay Yamamoto
Born and raised in Toba, Japan. Yoskay moved to the United States at the age of 15. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto's artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the urban culture of the West Coast. Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian hertitage with urban pop art. [Artnet]
Yoskay Yamamoto Interview from Scion ART on Vimeo.
Alex Goose's The Outtakes
Going insane over the new Alex Goose's album, The Outtakes. It's album of rejected instrumentals for Hova's latest project, The Blueprint 3. You can download the album here for free.
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