Radiohead & music videos
I am a big fan of Radiohead. I don’t know all their songs, however, and I used to not “get” their music until I listened more carefully. Both my husband and my son Jackson turned me on to them. I like them because they are innovative — not only in their art but also in their marketing. They recently posted “stems” of their music on iTunes to be used creatively and rearranged into other music by the purchaser. Because they still maintain the copyright or ownership (as artists do of their original artwork), they prohibit the reselling of their music. Instead, they are offering a remix contest for the new…
Antique Books
The annual Book Festival is coming to Washington, DC this weekend on the Mall and I thought this photo was very appealing. I’ve always like the look of worn, antique books, as well as reading them. Their covers and colors remind me of certain decorative finishes, like faux rust or copper. Yeah, the weekend is here, but more work to do is ahead. Have a great one!
It’s all in a Dream
I was fascinated by The Writing Life story in the Washington Post Book World regarding Robert Olen Butler’s account of how a dream changed his life because it changed his creative process for his writing. He describes how his dream of Richard Nixon made him reflect differently on the man, who he detested. It’s actually an interesting dream — similar to weird, funny but inexplicably, unsettling dreams we all might have and not think too much about, but they still bother us. Upon trying to understand his dream, Butler came to recognize that the “sensuous details…[were] probably the most important” and were the ones that could be easily overlooked. In…
