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YouTube Video of the Day: Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi (live) April 22, 2007

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Don’t it always seem to go
that you don’t know what you’ve got
till it’s gone…

Give me spots on my apples,
but leave me the birds and the bees.

***

live performance in 1970 of a song from the album
Ladies of the Canyon

Wikipedia: Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi | Earth Day

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Song of the Day: The Beatles - Rain April 14, 2007

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because if silence is golden,
then music must be made of diamonds.

***

R a i n . . .
i don’t mind.

S h i n e —
the weather’s fine.

The Beatles - Rain (3.5MB mp3)

Can you hear me,
that when it rains and shines,
it’s just a state of mind?

Can you hear me,
can you hear me?

Wikipedia: The Beatles | Rain

Flickr photos from
*GaryP*, janoid, and Pink Sherbet

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Song of the Day: Elliott Smith - Because April 10, 2007

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Because the world is round,
it turns me on.

Because the world is round…

Elliott Smith - Because (2.7MB mp3)

from the American Beauty soundtrack

Because the wind is high,
it blows my mind.
Because the wind is high…

Love is old, love is new.
Love is all, love is you.

Because the sky is blue,
it makes me cry.
Because the sky is blue…

Words and music by Lennon/McCartney.

Sung and played by Elliott Smith (1969-2003).

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YouTube Video of the Day: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black April 6, 2007

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And i tread a troubled track.
My odds are stacked —
i go back to black.

And life is like a pipe.
And i’m a tiny penny rollin’ up the walls inside.

We only said goodbye with words…

° ° °

from the album Back to Black

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Quote(s) of the Day: from Martin Luther King, Jr. April 5, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

I’m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.

Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence.

. The hope of a secure and livable
. world lies with disciplined
. nonconformists who are dedicated
. to justice, peace and brotherhood.
.
. Peace is not merely a distant goal
. that we seek, but a means by which
. we arrive at that goal.
.

One has not only a legal, but
a moral responsibility to obey
just laws. Conversely, one has
a moral responsibility to disobey
unjust laws.

. Power properly understood
. is nothing but the ability
. to achieve purpose.
.
. It is the strength required
. to bring about social, political
. and economic change.

What is needed is a realization
that power without love is
reckless and abusive, and
love without power is
sentimental and anemic.

Power at its best is love
implementing the demands of
justice, and justice at its best
is power correcting everything
that stands against love.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)

more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.: Wikiquote | Zaadz | ThinkExist

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YouTube Video of the Day: U2 - Pride April 4, 2007

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One man come, he to justify.
One man to overthrow…

Early morning, April 4.
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky.
Free at last; they took your life,
but they could not take your pride.

***

from the album The Unforgettable Fire

Wikipedia: U2 | MLK

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Picture(s) of the Day: from Katinka Matson April 3, 2007

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

(click on any image to see a larger photo)

.
. New technologies equal
. new perceptions.
.
. We create tools and then mould
. ourselves through our use of them.
.

In 1975, when the inventor
Ray Kurzweil created the CCD
(or “Charge Coupled Device”)
flatbed scanner, no one imagined
that this device, with a pixel-sensor
that moved slowly back and forth
across the page, would bring into
question our established notions
about seeing, vision, and perspective.

. For the past several years
. I have experimented with a
. non-photographic technique for
. creating images by utilizing input
. through the flatbed CCD scanner.
. No camera or lenses are used…
. This technique allows for unusual
. opportunities to explore new ideas
. involving light, time, and rhythm.

It is a radically new digital aesthetic involving both new hardware (the scanner and the inkjet printer), and software (Adobe Photoshop), that allows for a new naturalism fusing nature and technology.

Without the distortion of the lens,
highly detailed resolution is uniform
throughout the image, regardless of
the size of the printable media…
Images created by scanning
direct-to-CCD cut away layers,
and go to a deeper place in us than
our ordinary seeing and vision.

Katinka Matson - artist’s statement