Marcus Glitteris on Curating “Home Grown” at Village Works with: Optimo NYC, Marina Reiter, BC1, Nora Timbila, A. Candela & More

 

“Lower East Side native Marcus Glitteris is not only an intriguing self-taught artist but a passionate curator, as well.  Largely influenced by New York City’s Downtown club scene, he teems with the energy that permeated it. Earlier this week, I stopped by Home Grown, an exhibit he curated at Village Works in the East Village, and posed a few questions to him. Can you tell us something about your vision in curating this exhibit? Its main focus is to showcase the varied works of a wide range of artists who live or have lived on Manhattan’s Lower East Side or East Village. And what about this wonderful space? Village Works is the name of this new gallery. Designated specifically as a space to showcase NYC artists, it sells rare art books, as well as art. My friend, Joe Sheridan, is the creative director here. We know each other from the night life scene, but since, Joe has since ventured into the the artist community and invited me to curate here. This space used to be an architectural firm. ...”

Street Art NYC

​Dubcast Vol.14 (Blind Prophet Returns)

 

“Dub-Stuy’s Dubcast returns! To celebrate the release of his first full length EP ‘Clash’, Portland producer Blind Prophet brings us a fresh mix of roots favorites and exclusive dubs, combining sound system heat with bass music from around the globe. ...”

Brooklyn Radio (Audio)

Mixcloud (Audio)

Lost Generation

 

“The Lost Generation was the social generational cohort that came of age during World War I. ‘Lost’ in this context refers to the ‘disoriented, wandering, directionless’ spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early postwar period. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s. Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: ‘You are all a lost generation’. ... One of the themes that commonly appears in the authors' works is decadence and the frivolous lifestyle of the wealthy. Both Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald touched on this theme throughout the novels The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby. Another theme commonly found in the works of these authors was the death of the American dream, which is exhibited throughout many of their novels. ... Notable figures of the Lost Generation include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys and Sylvia Beach. ...”

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FINDING THE LOST GENERATION

looking for hemingway’s paris and the génération perdue, part 1, part 2

 

Sylvia Beach, James Joyce

The Lost Generation and the Writers Who Described Their World

A Rare Film of Paris in the 1920s – Then vs. Now! (Video)

The Lost Generation’s Women: Writers, Muses, and Supporters

YouTube: The Lost Generation AE Biography  1:13:14

The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box

 

“City simulators like SimCity are serious games — the kind that gets coverage well beyond the video game press. The kind of game that appears in school curriculums. The kind of game your non-gaming uncle has probably spent hundreds of hours in. On the surface, they appear to be exactly what they say: a simulation of a city. But any simulation is only as good as the model it’s built on, and the model underpinning SimCity has quite the history. In the video above, I unboxed the secret ideology hiding in the formula that built SimCity, and how that’s reflected in one of the most popular gaming series of all time. ...”

Polygon (Video)

2010 April: SimCity

A Walking Tour In Southern France - Literature by Ezra Pound

 

“Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval Provence since his college days. His experiments with the complex lyric forms of Amaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, and others were included in his earliest books of poems; his scholarly pursuits in the field found their way into The Spirit of Romance (1910); and the troubadour mystique was to become a resonant motif of the Cantos. In the course of transcribing and emending the text of ‘Walking Tour 1912,’ editor Richard Sieburth retraced Pound’s footsteps along the roads to the troubadour castles. ...”

NDBooks

THE WORLD IN EZRA POUND’S WORK by Eloisa Bressan

2020 April: The Cantos

David Johansen - David Johansen (1978)

“David Johansen's self-titled solo debut bears a closer resemblance to his work with the New York Dolls than any of his subsequent recordings, but the former Dolls singer cleverly crafted an album that played to his former band's strengths while establishing an identity of his own and delivering a set of tight but powerful hard rock. ... Johansen's songs are more straightforward and less campy than his Dolls tunes; while ‘Funky But Chic’ would have done his old glam buddies proud (’Mama says I look fruity, but in jeans I feel rotten’), the celebration of the fair sex in ‘Girls’ and ‘I'm a Lover’ cuts his former sexual ambiguity to the quick, and the tough rock & roll good times of ‘Cool Metro’ and the girl-trouble commiseration of ‘Pain In My Heart’ show Johansen could move into more conventional lyrical territory without losing his swagger or street smarts along the way. And while the Dolls didn't leave Johansen much room for slow songs where he could wear his heart on his sleeve, ‘Donna’ and ‘Frenchette’ allow him to do just that, and remarkably well. ...”

allmusic (Audio)

W - David Johansen (album), W - The David Johansen Group Live

amazon: David Johansen, Live 1977

YouTube: David Johansen Group - Musikladen 1980 (Live)

YouTube: David Johansen  1 / 9, YouTube: The David Johansen Group  1 / 18  (Live)

2015 June: New York Dolls (1973), 2016 September: Too Much Too Soon - New York Dolls (1973), 2017 April: From Paris With Love (L.U.V.), 2020 July: Valley of the New York Dolls

How to Make Stunning Croissants at Home

 

“Does anything in the baking realm rival a fresh croissant, the way its burnished shell shatters, then yields to the silky, bready, layered interior? Simply, the answer is no. A pastry as miraculous as a croissant is, predictably, tricky to make at home. There is the lamination — the process of rolling and flattening butter into thin sheets between layers of dough — and the rolling and folding of that butter-layered dough, a technique called a ‘turn.’ In professional settings, machines called slab rollers in temperature-controlled rooms laminate the dough quickly and effectively, producing light, flaky, uniform croissants. Home bakers, however, must complete these tasks by hand, making it harder, slower and much more variable. ...”

NY Times

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Seine - Île de la Cité

 

“The Seine is a 775-kilometre-long (482 mi) river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank). ... Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by large barges and most tour boats, and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the river banks in the capital city, Paris. ...”

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“The Île de la Cité is one of two remaining natural river islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being the Île Saint-Louis). It is the center of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded. The western end of the islet has held a palace since Merovingian times, and its eastern end since the same period has been consecrated to religion, especially after the 10th-century construction of a cathedral preceding today's Notre-Dame. ...”

W - Île de la Cité

The River Seine

Discover the Night: International Dark Sky Week is Here!

 

“If you live in the United States or Europe, chances are you’re among 99% of the population that experiences skyglow, the brightening of the night sky due to street and house lights. Skyglow — and other detrimental effects of light pollution — hides the Milky Way from 60% of Europeans and a whopping 80% of Americans.This state of affairs concerns the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), an organization with a mission to excite us about all things astronomical, and in so doing raise our awareness of the detriments of light pollution. Light pollution doesn’t only impede our enjoyment of the night skies — its effects are widespread, impacting humans’ circadian rhythms and sleeping patterns, the habits of nocturnal creatures, even the growth patterns of trees. ...”

Sky and Telescope

Discover the Night by Playing International Dark Sky Week Bingo!

YouTube: DISCOVER THE NIGHT: International Dark Sky Week 2021

Live from Studio S2 - Hania Rani (2021)

 

“Hania Rani is an award-winning pianist, composer and musician who, was born in Gdansk and splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. The motivation to make the recording of the live performances which became the release ‘Live from Studio S2’ came from the invitation from the Berlinale Film Festival. Rani confirms: ‘In the beginning of February 2021, I was asked to record a live set as a part of EFM sessions, which are the part of the Festival. I thought that bringing back my piano and equipment to the hall where I recorded my live session videos for my debut album 'Esja' would be a nice idea and the right cinematic choice. This time, I wanted to use not only an upright piano, but also a grand piano and some other keyboards including a Prophet 08 synthesizer and a Roland stage piano.’ ...”

Bandcamp (Audio)

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YouTube: Live from Studio S2 (Video)

A Cyclist on the English Landscape

 

Sluice Lane

“A year ago, as a travel photographer grounded by the pandemic, I started bringing a camera and tripod with me on my morning bicycle rides, shooting them as though they were magazine assignments. It started out as just something to do — a challenge to try to see the familiar through fresh eyes. Soon it blossomed into a celebration of traveling at home. I live in a faded seaside town called St. Leonards-on-Sea, in Sussex, on the south coast of England. If you’ve not heard of it, you’re in good company. It’s not on anybody’s list of celebrated English beauty spots. Indeed, most of my riding is across flat coastal marsh or down-at-the-heel seafront promenades. ...”

NY Times

 

A crescent moon and a flock of sheep, along a country lane near the village of Brede.

The Moment of Impressionism

 Camille Pissarro, The River Oise near Pointoise (1873)

“Théodore Duret, one of Impressionism’s most impassioned champions, wrote in his famous brochure of 1878, Les Peintres impressionnistes: The impressionists didn’t come into being by themselves, they didn’t shoot up like mushrooms. They are the product of a regular evolution of the modern French school. Natura non facit saltus any more in painting than in other things. The impressionist descend from the naturalist painters, their fathers are Corot, Courbet, and Manet. It’s to these three masters that the art of painting owes the simplest procedures of facture and that spontaneous touch, proceeding by large lines and by the mass, which alone brave the passage of time. ...”

non:site

  

Claude Monet, Parc Monceau (1876)

John Ashbery’s Music Library: A Playlist

 

“During the more than thirty years that the American poet John Ashbery (1927-2017) served as an art critic for New York Herald Tribune, Art News, Newsweek, New York and other publications, the highest compliment he gave to a work of art was that it achieved ‘the condition of music.’ ...  Ashbery was not a trained musician, but he had a musician’s ear, which he developed further by listening.  He first heard songs on Sundays, accompanying his grandparents to the famous St. Paul’s Church in Rochester (which had a great organ) or the more modest St. John’s in nearby Sodus where the Ashbery family lived on a fruit farm.  His first exposure to classical music was through movies. ...”

Evergreen Review (Video)

A Study of New York City’s Belgian Block Heritage

 

“Belgian block streets are still found in every corner of New York, sometimes paving an entire street or other times, only being revealed by some pavement which has worn off, revealing the roadbeds of the past. These streets are found both inside and outside of designated historic districts. In historic districts, these historic pavers are protected as part of the sense of place just as much as the architecture. Historic neighborhoods like SoHo, TriBeCa, the Gansevoort Market and DUMBO are just a few places around town where these types of streets characterize the look and feel of the place. Although protected features in historic districts, many of these stones are being eroded from the streets. ...”

Historic Districts Council

Ephemeral New York: A downtown alley’s Belgian block paving stones

When Pavement Was Pretty: New York’s Cobblestone Streets

Nicola Cruz

 “An interest in ancestral Latin American cosmology has always run right through the music of Ecuadorian music producer Nicola Cruz. His creative process involves an attentive, careful search for the living roots and rituals that are part of South American identity—its Andean and African origins in particular—valuing its rhythms, its oral traditions, its instruments and the energy they transmit. His first record, Prender el Alma (2015) explored the development of the consciousness and spirituality, and how they connect with music. In Siku, his most recent production, Cruz continues this exploration, expanding his vision towards new stories and other cultures as sources of inspiration. A crucial aspect on this journey is his collaboration with other artists from around the world. ...”

Nicola Cruz

YouTube: Nicola Cruz & FE (Live A/V Show) | Boiler Room: Streaming From Isolati 44:34, Nicola Cruz & Fidel Eljuri • DJ Set • Le Mellotron 1:11:03

Soundcloud (Audio)

'A parallel universe': the rickety pleasures of America's backroads - in pictures

 

“From rundown churches to shuttered stores, this road trip across America offered up countless visual gems – as long as you opened your eyes to them. ... Gas station, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 2013. Ruins often provide an uncanny meditation on time and the ephemeral nature of life. ... Shingle clad, double-wing house, West Fulton, NY, 2016. There’s a bittersweet ambiance to rounding a bend and suddenly coming upon a tilting old wooden church or shuttered general store on a lonely stretch of road. ...”

Guardian

Parting Shot By Mikhail Horowitz

 

“... For well over a century now, baseball and the month of April have been happily intertwined. After a punishing winter, in which we paid court to cardiac arrest by shoveling immovable mounds of snow, or slogged through slush to free a Civic entombed in a dolmen of ice, we suddenly joy, one day, to the Eternal Return of Spring: a vee of Canadian geese heading north and a flock of Baltimore Orioles heading south. Yes, in this fourth month, which brings to mind the timeless cycles of the natural world—the budding of trees, the melting of streams—it is well to consider the timelessness of baseball, too. ...”

Chronogram

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”Black Stars Fell on Alabama” by Mikhail Horowitz

Saved at Home: Case Studies of Play on the Praying Fields By Mikhail Horowitz

Chronogram Article

2015 October: Big League Poets (1978)

Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta ‎– Messages & Portraits (1990)

 

“In the late 80s these globetrotting Milanese composers joined forces to produce two acclaimed & prescient records made in equal parts from their own performances and ethnic field recordings, a little in the manner of Eno/Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts -but rather more evolved. Messages & Portraits combines the vinyl albums on one CD. GIOVANNI VENOSTA. Born Udine, Italy, 1961. ... He also plays electric piano with the afro-beat group Mamud Band and teaches a 3-year degree course of Music for Images at the Civic School in Milan. He has made numerous solo recordings, film soundtrack & band recordings on a variety of labels. ...”

Forced Exposure

Bandcamp: Messages & Portraits (Audio)

Discogs (Video)

amazon

YouTube: The Ups & Downs of a Chewing Gum, Technowaltz, Empty boulevard, Lullabies: mother sings, father plays...

2012 April: Roberto Musci, 2016 December: Tower Of Silence (1983-87)

The Wizard of Lies - Barry Levinson (2017)

 “Over and over again in The Wizard of Lies, the director Barry Levinson pushes his camera as close as he can to Bernie Madoff’s face, searching for flickers of emotion. As played by Robert De Niro, Madoff is taciturn and even-tempered—at least, after he reveals his part in the largest financial fraud in American history. It’s this devastating sense of calm and acceptance that fascinates Levinson most in his exploration of Madoff’s life, which almost entirely focuses on his experiences after he admitted to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme in 2008 and was turned over to the police by his children. Surely, there has to be remorse or, at the very least, anger about how things fell apart? ...”

The Atlantic: The Wizard of Lies’s Brutal Portrait of Bernie Madoff

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amazon

YouTube: The Wizard of Lies Trailer #1

Remembering the Commune

 

“From the very first days of its short-lived existence in 1871, exactly 150 years ago today, the revolutionary Commune of Paris has occupied a central place in the radical imagination of the international left. For the Communards themselves, the revolution did not end, but rather began at the city’s limits. In their perception, the founding of the Commune in Paris was but a first step towards the building of the Universal Republic: a Commune of Communes encompassing the entire globe and uniting all peoples in a confederacy of liberatory democracies. ROAR places itself firmly in this tradition. Our first print issue, ‘Revive la Commune!‘, was entirely dedicated to the revival of the commune in the 21st century, both in spirit and in practice. ...”

ROAR: The Commune at 150

2017 March: Paris Commune 1871

 

French troops assaulting a barricade during the Paris Commune.

How Bob Marley Came to Make Exodus, His Transcendent Album, After Surviving an Assassination Attempt in 1976

 

“’The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?,’ said Bob Marley after a 1976 assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica in which Marley, his wife Rita, manager Don Taylor, and employee Louis Griffiths were all shot and, incredibly, all survived. Which people, exactly, did he mean? Was it Edward Seaga’s Jamaican Labour Party, whose hired gunmen supposedly carried out the attack? Was it, as some even conspiratorially alleged, Michael Manley’s People’s National Party, attempting to turn Marley into a martyr?Marley had, despite his efforts to the contrary, been closely identified with the PNP, and his performance at the Smile Jamaica Concert, scheduled for two days later, was widely seen as an endorsement of Manley’s politics. ...”

Open Culture (Video)

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2010 November: Bob Marley and the Wailers, 2011 May: Bob Marley & the Wailers Live 1973 - 1975, 2011 July: Tuff Gong Studios 1980, 2012 March: Bob Marley: Live in Santa Barbara, 2012 August: Marley, 2013 March: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016 February: "I Shot the Sheriff" / "Stir It Up" - Bob Marley and the Wailers (1973), 2020 February: Best Bob Marley Songs: 20 Essential Legend-Defining Tracks

A blue morning in front of the new Penn Station

 

“George Bellows clearly had a fascination with the construction of Penn Station. Blue Morning, from 1909, is the last of four paintings Bellow completed from 1907 to 1909 chronicling the development of this stunning transportation hub. ‘Undertaken by the Pennsylvania Railroad and designed by architectural firm McKim, Mead, & White, Pennsylvania Station (more commonly known as Penn Station) was an enormously ambitious project that helped transform New York into a thriving, modern, commuter metropolis,’ states the National Gallery of Art. ...”

Ephemeral New York

Ten Months After George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Residents Are at War Over Policing

 

“The sacred intersection where George Floyd died beneath the knee of a police officer has seen such an increase in violence that food delivery drivers are afraid to venture there. There have been gun battles, with bloodied shooting victims dragged to ambulances because of barricades keeping the police and emergency vehicles away. ... Residents all over town still complain of officers using excessive force, like during a recent confrontation in which a white officer appeared to wind up and punch a Black teenager. And officers accuse some community members of antagonizing them, like in a recent dispute over a homeless encampment that erupted into a melee with punches and pepper spray. ...”

NY Times (Video)

Sonny Rollins - Our Man In Jazz (1962)

 

“... Sonny Rollins has never seemed to attach the same weight to his albums as Davis or, say, John Coltrane did. Since the beginning of his career, Rollins’ albums have frequently had a tossed-off quality, like they were made as obligations, because that’s what you do—you make records, then go out on the road to support them. This doesn’t make them disposable, by any means. ... Our Man in Jazz, originally released in 1963, is one of those live albums. Recorded in late July 1962 at the Village Gate, it finds Rollins joined by Don Cherry, who had recently left Ornette Coleman’s quartet, on pocket trumpet; they’re backed by the saxophonist’s bassist of choice, Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Billy Higgins, also a veteran of the Coleman band as well as about a million hard bop sessions for Blue Note and other labels. ...”

burning ambulance

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Discogs (Video)

YouTube: Oleo, Doxy, Dearly Beloved

2012 September: The Singular Sound of Sonny Rollins, 2012 December: Village Vanguard, 2015 September: Rollins Plays for Bird (1957), 2016 February: Saxophone Colossus (1956), 2016 May: Plus 4 (1956), 2017 June: Inside Sonny Rollins’s Jazz Archive, Headed Home to Harlem, 2018 April: Tenor Madness (1956), 2017 May: Moving Out (1954), 2018 November: The Bridge (1962), 2019 March: Newk's Time (1959), May 2019: Freedom Suite (1958)

Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’: A Game-Changing Science-Fiction Classic

 

“Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner’s path to stardom and cultism has hardly been a bump-free ride. Heavily disputed upon its release, often criticized as an occasionally senseless portrayal of a future with a shallow storyline and abundance of plot holes semi-efficiently covered up by admittedly wonderful visuals, this science-fiction masterpiece is still regarded as a strong polarizing factor in discussions among filmlovers, but its status has quite immeasurably improved since its debut in North American theaters back in 1982. Many people had a change of heart regarding its value. ... But the bottom line is this: whatever a person’s opinion on the qualities or inadequacies of Blade Runner might be—and there are solid arguments convincingly stated from both camps—it’s impossible for a reasonable, art-loving individual not to appreciate Ridley Scott’s movie’s originality, vision and gigantic influence it wielded on films made in the years after the iconic Rick Deckard returned to his retirement. ...”

Cinephilia & Beyond (Video)

2017 November: Blade Runner (1982)

Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)

 

“... A year after Arts and Crafts movement magazine The Craftsman published illustrator Pamela Colman-Smith’s essay excerpted above, she spent six months creating what would become the world’s most popular tarot deck. Her graphic interpretations of such cards as The Magician, The Tower, and The Hanged Man helped readers to get a handle on the story of every newly dealt spread.Colman-Smith—known to friends as ‘Pixie’—was commissioned by occult scholar and author Arthur E. Waite, a fellow member of the British occult society the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, to illustrate a pack of tarot cards. ...”

Open Culture

JAZZ ON FILM … The Films of Marcello Mastroianni

 

“Music from Italian Icons classic films… This celebration of one of Italy's greatest actors, .features 12 amazing scores, written by some of the greatest Italian composers of all time - Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, Carlo Rustichelli, Giovanni Fusco , Nino Rota, Giorgio Gaslini.. This stunning LP collection features a tailored made, stand-alone jazz compilation by Moochin' About label owner Jason Lee lazell, with downloads for all the complete scores featured and has exclusive sleeve notes by author of Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema. ...”

moochin’ about (Audio)

Discogs (Video)

Wanderer In The Colorful Fields - Jeannine Schulz (2021)

 

“Another beautiful album by Jeannine Schulz, Wanderer in the Colorful Fields is six tracks of music that feels a split second shy of being entirely on pause. Quite frequently the emphasis is on slight sounds played in reverse, time slipping backward, in which case it’s still a split second shy of pause, just from the other side of the divide. It’s hard to say if the sounds — which seem to include electric guitar and bells, but could be other things entirely — are treated here like objects under glass, carefully presented, or like natural occurences, chance moments happened upon. Either way, the results are delicate, elegant, and richly reflective. ...”

disquiet: A New Album from Jeannine Schulz (Audio)

Bandcamp (Audio)

2021 February: Jeannine Schulz’s “Rooms and Surfaces I”

The Water on Mars Vanished. This Might Be Where It Went.

 

“Mars was once wet, with an ocean’s worth of water on its surface. Today, most of Mars is as dry as a desert except for ice deposits in its polar regions. Where did the rest of the water go? Some of it disappeared into space. Water molecules, pummeled by particles of solar wind, broke apart into hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and those, especially the lighter hydrogen atoms, sped out of the atmosphere, lost to outer space. But most of the water, a new study concludes, went down, sucked into the red planet’s rocks. And there it remains, trapped within minerals and salts. Indeed, as much as 99 percent of the water that once flowed on Mars could still be there, the researchers estimated in a paper published this week in the journal Science. ...”

NY Times

NY Times: Highlights From NASA’s Successful Landing on Mars (Feb. 19 - Video)

 

Inside Jezero Crater: NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Thursday in Jezero Crater, an ancient Martian lake roughly the size of Lake Tahoe. The rover will spend years exploring the river delta and making its way to the crater rim.

Krish Raghav - Redemption Songs

 

“... While most people associate reggae music with Bob Marley and other native Jamaican artists smoking marijuana, the truth is that the genre itself is a little more complicated than it seems. As a matter of fact, did you know that both Chinese and Jamaican producers were responsible for the creation and popularity of reggae music?To illustrate this point, here’s Krish Raghav’s ‘Redemption Songs!’ In the meantime, once you’ve finished, let me know in the comments below what you think about either the comic or on reggae music in general!I didn’t know that reggae music was extremely influential in Chinese culture prior to reading it and I’m half Chinese myself! ...”

Coffee and Comics #1

Redemption Songs (comic)

Bandcamp: How the Chinese-Jamaican Community Influenced the Development of Classic Reggae (Audio)

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