Abby Enters a New Realm of Mobility
If you don’t play with me I’m gonna go back to eating twigs and grass!
An old, near indestructible Easter balloon lounging in our living room earlier this evening.
The Milk and I Are Not Cut From The Same Cloth!
Out our bedroom window, sometime last week. Springtime is love time, and viva sweet love.
Dear Chris B!
This manifesto for visual culture from Rencontres d’Arles is a fine addition to these 5 manifestos for the creative life.
I need this one, too.
(via theatlantic)
Valentine Sugar Continuum
This is awesome and needs to be framed and hanging from a wall of my house no later than the beginning of this summer! If it’s not, I’m going to be really disappointed.
Main Hall by Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
(via npr)
This Song Changed My Life Part 1: Aguas de Marco: Elis Regina and Tom Jobim
Roughly a dozen years ago I fell in love with the voice of the Brazilian singer Elis Regina (something a better part of Brazil had seen fit to do 30-years prior), claiming several of her albums as my own from the always dangerous, ever alluring bins of Dusty Groove’s amazing Brazilian section. This cut, and the absolutely stunning session video featured above, are from the warm and beautiful album Regina cut with Tom Jobim in 1974, Elis & Tom. Back when most of us bought our music in CD format (over 15-years for me: 1990 to 2006 with over 3000 CD to show for it), this was one of the few Brazilian albums you could count on most record stores to carry in their otherwise glaringly prosaic “World Music” sections and it’s easier than ever to find and procure digitally today, with both iTunes and Amazon offering high-quality MP3 version’s of the album for under $10.
Jobim originally wrote the song in 1972, though this version owns it like no other. Regina was 29, gorgeous and feisty, her luminously soulful vocals playfully sparing with Jobim’s (then 47) warm sand-papery slur. Totally changed my life.
