Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

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Lapland

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So important.

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Follow the Yellow Fabric Road at Christo’s ‘Floating Piers’

To see more images of Christo’s installation at Lake Iseo, check out the location page @The Floating Piers on Instagram.

(This interview was conducted in Italian.)

Lake Iseo, near Brescia, Italy, is glowing gold. “The Floating Piers,” a project from Bulgarian-American artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (known as Christo), opened one week ago. Marco Giovannelli (@marcogio59) was one of the first of 350,000 visitors to experience the yellow fabric road. “It’s a unique experience that allows people to travel a route that didn’t exist before,” Marco says. “There isn’t quite anything like it.”

The two-mile-long pathway was conceived by Christo and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, in 1970. The original plan fell through and the project was set aside, until it became possible for Christo to build the Piers and honor the love and partnership he had with Jeanne-Claude.

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The artist Christo joined us on yesterday’s show to talk about his latest project, “The Floating Piers.” The project is open to the public for just 16 days, from June 18 to July 3, then it will be dismantled and recycled.

Christo told Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that, as is the case with all of his pieces, “The Floating Piers” are designed to be temporary, and fit in with the seasons.

“All the journey is the work of art. And the most beautiful part of the floating pier is to see the entire project is about the people walking nowhere. About the feeling of the surface of the land or the water. And your feet actually, many people walk barefoot. And they walk, they walk. It’s not like going to shop, not going to see your friends. It’s going really nowhere.”

Have you ever seen one of Christo’s projects in person? If so, where, when and what was it like? Let us know here, or listen to the full segment and join the conversation at hereandnow.org.

-JM/Digital Producer

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What the Queen of the Reach in the time before the Conquest would have worn

Hamda Al Fahim, Spring 2015

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A BONE TO PICK; or, HOW TO MAKE NEW OPERA GREAT

Although I already briefly posted on the subject, further conversation and further connections warranted further analysis – the subject of new opera being held to a lesser standard of excellence, as prompted by Anne Midgette’s recent article.

To be fair, this subject has very few clean answers – too many parties tied up in too many aspects of this process means that no suggestions, no matter how clear-cut, can produce an idyllic version of the new opera process.  That being said, many of the improvements must occur, and they must occur soon; if not, the current iterations of new opera will continue to limp (and possibly fall.)

What’s holding us back?  What will bring us forward?  Who’s doing it right?

Keep reading

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Not Everybody Likes Kissing

A passionate kiss may make you swoon, but many cultures don't do it, anthropologists say. And some cultures find such lip locks downright disgusting.

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doin' it. #teamwilderness2014 #seaglemusiccolony

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Normandy landing that you didnt see. 1944

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Red Cross workers.

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That is seriously the most badass thing I’ve ever seen.

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… i hate to feel like asking: this is for real right?

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From the Red Cross page.

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Yupp

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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you as no strings attached. I love you for free.

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Cara, ti stringo al seno

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Ngh. 

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Hoooboy....

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Ziad Nakad Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014

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Feels.

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When I found out that the entire Act I of Maria Stuarda at the Met on New Years Eve is on YouTube...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nnKhpHJJ8   DiDonato, van den Heever, Polenzani - Maria Stuarda - 1 Act- Full (by carlotta9992)

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WHEN I'M AT THE TOP OF THE ESCALATOR AND THEY ANNOUNCE THAT MY TRAIN IS ARRIVING