When I Die: The Last Two Weeks of Philip Gould’s Life
This intimate portrait reveals his quest to find purpose and meaning in what he called “The Death Zone.” He had been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in 2008 and was given three months to live in the summer of 2011.
Directed and photographed by Adrian Steirn
Ed note: The story behind photographing Appalachia’s “country wakes.”
A great band from Athens, Ga - and also, this is Biscuit.
Loading the van, Biscuit desperately wanted to go with us this week. http://instagr.am/p/JX4OVzqwtH/
My friend Dan works at Goddard Space Flight Center (it actually IS rocket science to him) and this is from his first project. SO NEAT, I’d say.
“A beautiful prominence eruption shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on Monday, April 16, 2012. Such eruptions are often associated with solar flares, and in this case an M1 class (medium-sized) flare did occur at the same time, though it was not aimed toward Earth. This event, which is still in progress, was seen by NASA’s SDO satellite.”
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
*Sigh. It looks like you might have to click through to see the video, but its TOTALLY worth it.
TRUMPET SOUNDS
It’s been a little over a year since I’ve played even 5 minutes of trumpet. After 17 years of focused playing, I was silenced by serious chest pain due to inflamed cartilage brought on by who the hell knows what—most likely a combination of several factors. I still have some pain, but I believe it’s getting better as time goes on—if not just more bearable.
I hesitate to even put this up on here, due to my own standards of performance, but I wanted to share the experience. Tonight I picked up my dusty old horn and gave it a blow. By no means am I ready to start playing a lot, but here is audio evidence that folks will hear me play again. Be it another year or however long it takes, I’ll get back what I had and more—you heard it from me.
Short Film of the Day: A fascinating short film about how the now-iconic “Keep Calm and Carry On” WW2 propaganda poster went unseen by the public for decades before being discovered and distributed by a small secondhand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland, called Barter Books.
[devour.]
My friend Gabe is finishing up his record in Nashville! He’s got musicians from The Cardinals (of Ryan Adams and The Cardinals) on the record, too.
GET READY FOLKS!
I did WUOG’s Live in the Lobby with the Modern Skirts a little bit ago. The interview is pretty funny, too!
