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Check out this sweet video of Real Estate playing "Green Aisles" live in the Mill's backyard!  Made by our friends over at Idlewilde Creations

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The Mill's own John Moran plays live for Idlewilde Creations, featuring art at the newly renovated Mill venue space

Check out more from Idlewilde Creations here: http://www.youtube.com/user/IdleWildeCreations?feature=watch

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Tiny Switch Box Show- Angela Miskis

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Head over to Uncle Thrasher’s blog to check out miniature art works and general store objects from a mail-art project created by artist Nina Franzen

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A selection of images from a book project I worked on last year, based on the Russian folktale Little Snow Girl, as told by Vladimir Dal.

(Part One)

Jensine Eckwall

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At the Pool EP, by Messy

A new record and product of the Mill by the band Messy.

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NPR just posted the Sound City soundtrack, Dave Grohl's new movie about the recording studio where so many iconic records were recorded.  The soundtrack features appearances by Paul Mccartney, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, and several other legendary musicians.  Stream it in its entirety here

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Coming soon to The Mill!!!

Jensine Eckwall's "Wolf Stories: An Exhibition of Prints"

Opening March 28th @ 8 pm, The Mill Gallery (79 Vernon Street, Hartford)

Head to www.jensineeckwall.com to check out Jensine's work!

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Dawn - Paul Laurence Dunbar

The most beautiful four lines:

An Angel, robed in spotless white,

Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.

Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.

Men saw the blush and called it Dawn

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Some sweet street art from Pobel, a Norweigan artist that specializes in painting abandoned buildings.  Hit the link for more pictures and an interview:

http://www.streetartnews.net/2013/02/streetartnewsjapan-x-pbel-interview.html

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those drums are real assets

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Marta Penter. On The Road. Oil on canvas, 43 x 71”.

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Well this music is kinda mind-blowing...  Buena Vista Social Club and Arctic Monkeys.  Watch this video.  Listen to more "Rhythms del Mundo" for awesome covers of Coldplay, Counting Crows, Gorillaz, the Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, and I don't feel like this list even needs to be any longer... But it is.

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A little inspiration for all the poets and painters from famed philosopher and writer Alan Watts

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Some beautiful excerpts from Thoreau.  Definitely worth checking out

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God is an American - Terrance Hayes

I still love words. When we make love in the morning, 

your skin damp from a shower, the day calms. Shadenfreude may be the best way to name the covering  of adulthood, the powdered sugar on a black shirt. I am

alone now on the top floor pulled by obsession, the ink on my fingers. And sometimes it is a difficult name. Sometimes it is like the world before America, the kin- ship of fools and hunters, the children, the dazed dream

of mothers with no style. A word can be the boot print in a square of fresh cement and the glaze of morning. Your response to my kiss is I have a cavity. I am in  love with incompletion. I am clinging to your moorings.

Yes, I have a pretty good idea what beauty is. It survives alright. It aches like an open book. It makes it difficult to live.

-Terrance Hayes

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Another awesome second skin piece by Zed1

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Street art in Varese, Italy, by Kraser Tres