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Browsing Archives

• Todd Dominey finds that a Dwell Magazine featured house isn't all it's cracked up to be
• Three masters at work | Vinny is all coolness in that suit, but the other two guys need to ditch the tuxedo
• Masters of Fine Art Photography
• The New Yorker has a newly redesigned website
• NPR: Discoveries at Disney Hall
• Three photography blogs I like | Photostream | Paul Butzi's Musings on Photography | Behind The Lens
• Rachmaninoff's Big Hands
• The complete digital Mozart
• A little late in the season, but a heartwarming performance nevertheless
• More online photography magazines: SeeSaw and MagnaChrom | MagnaChrom is my favorite new online mag about medium and large format shooting
• Focus Magazine back issues are now available online in PDFs
• Wolfgang's Vault | Internet radio station featuring 1960s-70s live concerts from the legendary Fillmore Auditorium!
• Adobe Labs unveils a beta version of Soundbooth, their new audio editor
• Carnegie Hall's companion site celebrating Steve Reich's 70th birthday
• There's a new version of Google Reader | Just when I was getting used to the old one...
• Paul Madonna draws Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic masterpiece
• Oh, Don't Forget... lets you send text messages at a specific date and time | Great for reminders and to-do lists
• CommunityWalk is a new mapping service that uses Google's API to make shareable maps that allow you to map multiple points, add photos, video, comments and more
• Bill Evans Trio plays Autumn Leaves | Email me if you know who the drummer is. Is it Larry Bunker?
• Extreme origami and incredible paper sculptures by Peter Callesen
• A tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater created entirely using the game Half Life 2
• An inflation-adjusted housing price chart by Robert Schiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, in which he described and explained the stock market mania and ensuing crash of the last decade. Pretty scary stuff, huh?
• Lego hits a home run with this new ad campaign
• Van Gogh's Starry Night in Lego
• The Wall St Journal spanks Chris Anderson's new book, The Long Tail
• Sony GPS-CS1 | A GPS device that matches time/location data to your photos and plots them on a map
• Picking a name for a band has never been more easy...or geeky! From MIT: Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names
• Paris Breakfasts is a blog that focuses on...well, exactly that and all things Paris. Great photos and watercolors, too!
• Keep the music playing! How to fix an iPod with the sad iPod icon | The iPod battery unplugged
• Penguin Classics is re-releasing some of literature's timeless classics in new editions with covers by some of today's top illustrator/artists
• Sting's guitarist, Dominic Miller, has a cool website with videos
• Great photography from Jeff Curto | His podcast, Camera Position, is well worth a listen
• Videos at YouTube | From the sublime to the ridiculous
• The Manoni Brothers have sent you an E-Threat!
• A comprehensive collection of Grendel opera links, reviews, photos and other assorted trivia | from the culture blog of a Pasadena attorney
• Four more photographers I admire | David Heald, Steven Scardina, Michael Kenna and Huntington Witherill
• Roman Loranc | Incredibly moving landscape photographs
• Simulating classic film effects in Photoshop
• Sketches of Frank Gehry | New documentary by Sydney Pollack
• Check out Tommy Kane's sketchbooks and blog
• Condoleeza Rice on piano | from the NY Times
• After yuppies and Gen X/Yers, here come the Grups
• Apple introduces Boot Camp | Now Macs do Windows!
• Real-life video version of the opening of The Simpson's
• Six breakfast cereals argue why they should replace Cheerios as the preferred finger food of babies
• Resignation letter of a ringtone designer
• Ambient video for your plasma TV
• Do iPods help Olympic athletes perform better?
• The ELP Laser Turntable | Plays vinyl records without a needle
• Malcolm Gladwell has a blog!
• A complete archive of Witold Rybczynski's architecture essays at Slate
• Why I passed up the chance to work for Apple by designer Cameron Moll
• A new blog devoted to browsing The Complete New Yorker DVD collection
• The music notation of composer George Crumb
• Cell phone symphony
• Paul Graham on How To Do What You Love
• I'm a French horn | What are you?
• The London Tube Music Map | Be sure to check out the PDF
• Cool! | Printable paper rulers
• Would you buy a used car from this man? | Hurry...link expires in a few days
• Playing iTunes to multiple speakers
• Morph The Cat | Donald Fagen's new CD is due out March 7 | Wow!
• New Honda Civic commercial scored only with human voices and sounds | Click on "Watch"
• Fascinating article about abstract expressionist painter, Mark Rothko
• Garrison Keillor blasts new book by French writer/philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy
• Pandora lets you input a favorite artist or song and creates a streaming radio station of similar music on your desktop
• Paul Graham on good and bad procrastination
• one-minute vacation | A site devoted to field recordings from around the world | A great minidisc info resource
• The banjo gets some respect at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
• RIAA bans telling friends about songs | from the Onion
• Turn your iPod into a video recorder
• iTunes, liner notes and jazz preservation
• An astounding recording of a Chopin scherzo | Don't say I didn't warn you!
• The Hammer Museum and MOCA are presenting joint exhibitions celebrating Masters of American Comics now through March 12. Works by R Crumb and Chris Ware along with 13 others span the exhibitions. Events include lectures and conversations with artists
• Pasadena artist R. Kenton Nelson is having his first retrospective show at PMCA now through March 2006
• The players of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have a blog!
• The strangest news item of 2005
• Yale School of Music wil waive tuition for all students starting next year thanks to an anonymous donor
• ImproViz: Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvisations | Cool info-graphic comparison of solos by Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane
• Book jacket designer, Chip Kidd interviews legendary graphic designer, Milton Glaser | from The Believer magazine | A video of Milton Glaser's work narrated by himself | from Hillman Curtis
• OK, I'm all for new ideas when it comes to restaurants but read this article and look at these photos (about 4 posts down) and will somebody tell me what the hell is going on here? | From Grant Achatz's Alinea in Chicago
• A very useful link that lets you create and print PDFs of blank music manuscript paper for those quick and dirty ideas floating around in your head
• A Font Called Frank | A sample of the font designed for Walt Disney Concert Hall by Bruce Mau and Greg Van Alstyne
• All Over Coffee | Paul Madonna's serious comic strip for SFGate.com features beautiful ink and wash drawings of San Francisco | Check out his archives
• John Adams fans are in luck! Alex Ross goes behind-the-scenes at Doctor Atomic in the Oct 3 issue of The New Yorker | Alex also pays a visit to the Trinity bomb test site and posts some final links and comments on the opera
• Steve Mumford is an artist who was embedded with a military unit in Iraq. His words and pictures tell an amazing story and will be released in a new book soon. Can you imagine being an artist in a war zone?
• Doctor Atomic, John Adams' new opera about Oppenheimer and the making of the atomic bomb, premieres Oct 1 in San Francisco
• An awesome collection of vintage and contemporary gig posters | You could spend hours here!
• The Virtual Drummer
• Amazon is collecting donations to the American Red Cross for the victims of Hurricane Katrina | Also, many companies are matching employee donations, so be sure to check with yours
• Everyday Matters | An artist blog with a deep archive of essays on creativity and inspiration.
• An appreciation of Saul Bass film titles
• How to access iTunes using your cell phone | Really geeky Mac stuff
• Garrison Keillor blasts Clear Channel and embraces the quirky world of eclectic radio
• Sasha Frere-Jones on new D.J. styles | I'd love to check some of this stuff out
• A Zen guide to guitar shredding
• How to learn from your mistakes
• A collection of Sandra Tsing Loh's hilarious radio essays on life in 21st century Los Angeles
• Composer John Williams on the importance of working with live musicians
• Sabadabada | MP3s of out-of-print 60s Bossa Nova records
• The Virtual Guitarist
• iTunes 4.9 | Now with Podcasting
• Film scoring and Philip Glass
• Online seminar with Pat Metheny
• John Cage's XBox
• QuickTime 7 for Windows Preview
• The sad story of Dodger Stadium's site - Chavez Ravine | 9:30pm June 8 and 9pm June 11 on KCET | Check your local PBS listings
• The bassoon gets some R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Sock it to me!
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House re-opens in Barnsdall Park, Hollywood
• Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic, on how the technology of recording has changed music | June 6 issue
• Move over Jack Black: Here's the real School of Rock!
• Stanley Crouch profiles Sonny Rollins in the May 9 New Yorker | Read an online Q & A with Crouch about the article and a 1961 piece about Rollins' sabbatical from playing
• Mark Ryden's Wondertoonel at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
• Alex Ross, New Yorker music critic, on the survival of classical music
• The Cheapening of Music
• The Anti-Music: Be Very Afraid
• Creatives vs. the wanna-bes
• Live musicians & television scoring
• Walt Disney Concert Hall

Reading Archives

• The Year of Magical Thinking
• Vertigo
• Michael Kenna: A 20 Year Retrospective
• Michael Kenna: Retrospective Two
• Saturday
• The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
• The Best American Essays 2006
• A Notebook At Random
• Jean Loup Sieff: 40 Years of Photography
• Guitar: An American Life
• Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
• On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
• Large Format Nature Photography
• Freakonomics
• Paul Auster | Collected Prose : Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists
• John Blakemores Black & White Photography Workshop
• Elements of Black and White Photography: The Making of Twenty Images
• Edge of Darkness: The Art, Craft, and Power of the High-Definition Monochrome Photograph
• Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings
• Creating Short Films for the Web
• B+W Photo Processing and Printing
• The Practical Zone System
• The Undressed Art: Why We Draw
• Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
• More...
• The Recording Angel
• Introducing Kafka
• To A Young Jazz Musician | Letters From The Road
• LensWork | The absolute best photography magazine I've ever read!
• How To Be Alone
• Everyday Matters
• The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
• Broken Music
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Atonement
• Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
• American Mutt Barks In The Yard
• Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
• iCon | Steve Jobs
• Never Eat Alone
• Dog Is My Co-Pilot
• BARk - it's been called The New Yorker for dog lovers
• Dwell - great design & architecture
• I.D. - eye-popping industrial design
• The Zen of CSS Design
• Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
• v. Goliath - The Trials of David Boies
• Disney War
• The Future of Music
• Blink
• The World Is Flat
• The Wisdom of Crowds

Listening Archives

• Diana Krall - Christmas Songs
• Keith Jarrett - Tribute
• Boulez Conducts Boulez - Le Marteau Sans Maitre
• Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
• Charles Lazarus - Solo Settings
• CD from the Believer July 2005 Music Issue
• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Bach Cantatas
• Luciana Souza - Brazilian Duos
• Mark Knopfler - Golden Heart
• Sting - Mercury Falling
• Sting - Sacred Love
• Esa-Pekka Salonen - Wing on Wing
• Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
• John Adams - On The Transmigration Of Souls
• Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here & Gone
• Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live

about

Paul Viapiano is a guitarist working in film, television and live performance based in sunny Pasadena, California.

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This page contains the archives of all items appearing in the Browsing, Reading and Listening sections of my home page, all accessible in one place for easy reference. Some links, such as those to newspaper articles, may be broken, but most of them are still valid. Have fun!