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February 2015

Nameless (a playlist)

Nameless Cover

There’s not a lot of description for this playlist (much like there’s no name) that’s not going to take this post into “dear diary” territory. What you can have, though, are thirteen sometimes dark, sometimes moody but ultimately ineffably beautiful tracks that I’ve been enjoying over the last few (sometimes sleepless) months.

  1. For Now I Am Winter – Ólafur Arnalds & Arnor Dan
  2. Miasma Sky – Baths
  3. Digital Lion – James Blake
  4. Song For Five & Six – Owen Pallett
  5. Romantic Streams – Sleep ∞ Over
  6. You Are You Are – Le Cassette
  7. This Is What It Feels Like – BANKS
  8. Wanderlust – Wild Beasts
  9. An Hour – Forest Swords
  10. Lessons – SOHN
  11. Begin Again – Purity Ring
  12. Hollow – Zola Jesus
  13. Confusing Happiness – Lo-Fang

Download all the lucky thirteen for a limited time here.

A Gulf Tower beacon I’ll be able to read

Gulf Tower Project

So, part of the Pittsburgh skyline that I’ve not really learned how to interpret is the Gulf Tower and its weather beacon lights.  I guess I’ve never bothered with learning their language because I just view them as “pretty” – and then check the weather app on my phone.

Anyway, the very same lights are about to get a whole lot more art-y – and a lot more phone-y – as Antoine Catala kicks off his Gulf Tower Project on February 11th. The installation will transform the building’s beacon into an Instagram-based mood analysis tool for the entire city, lighting up with progressively more red or green as software decides whether posts to the photo sharing channel are negative or positive in tone.

The final results will be part of Antoine Catala: Distant Feel at the Carnegie Museum of Art and is another part of the same Hillman Photography Initiative programming that brought the live premiere of the lost Warhol Amiga experiments documentary I attended back in May.  Should be cool stuff!

(via Engadget)