Jonathan Wilson. Gentle Spirit. Play it on repeat. The whole album is a thing of beauty.
There’s a pretty good live version on YouTube.
This music video for the song “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis is a stop-motion animation done with a background composed of jelly beans. It’s a crazy project that required 22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, and 288,000 jelly beans. They could have used CGI, of course, but each frame was carefully created by hand and photographed with a still camera. It’s even more mind-blowing given this fact: none of it was done with a green screen.
Forgive me, the music is garbage, but the jelly bean stop-motion is fantastic.
(Source: youtube.com)
grain edit · Q & A with Jason Munn of the Small Stakes. Love his work.
CLICK THE SQUARES
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS
YES. YES. YES. YES….. YES.
I’M GOING TO SPEND HOURS DOING THIS
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Dear God almighty.
(Source: mandaflewaway, via backshootingford)
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
If today was not a crooked highway
If tonight I could finally stand tall
If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
Then lonesome would mean nothing to me at all
Yes, and only if my one true love was waiting
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Only if she was lying by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again
I can’t see my reflection in the waters
I can’t speak the sounds that know no pain
I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps
I can’t remember the sound of my own name
Yes, and only if my one true love was waiting
Yes, if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Only if she was lying by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again
There’s beauty in the silver-singing river
There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky
But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty
That I remember in my true love’s eyes
Yes, and only if my one true love was waiting
If I could only hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Only if she was lying by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again
Yes, and only if my one true love was waiting
If I could only hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Yes, and only if she was lying by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again
Legend.
Michael Deal ◊ Graphic Design - Absolutely stunning infographic work on The Beatles. I do wish the typography were a little clearer.
Via Jason Kottke, one of the must-read people on the Internet.
Fabulous radio program that evaluates the twenty pieces of music that changed the world—not just the music world, but the world. I listened to the programs about Elvis and Dylan and both were fantastic.
JENNIFER FURCHES “Kentucky” on Vimeo (via Vimeo) - Simple and very beautiful. Listen.
Thanks to Dallas at We Love You So for introducing me to this.
Acid Washed on Vimeo : Thanks to Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals feed for so much cool stuff.
Leo Kottke - Heard him play at the Variety Playhouse last night with Amaris and our friend, Amira. Amazing guitar player, and heck of a storyteller. Between songs he shared his experiences reading a book about ants, eating at a Thai restaurant, staying with friends in Mojave that kept two frogs in a box, and meeting Chet Atkins and Doc Watson at a photo shoot in Nashville for the cover of an American Airlines in-flight magazine. Quite funny. Quite a guy.
These guys were amazing.
Monsters of Folk concert poster by The Small Stakes : Going to see them at the Tabernacle on Wednesday. Fantastic lineup of very talented musicians. Also: love this poster.
Three Beatles tracks broken down into their amazing component parts. I wish there were more.
