This year my father (a lifetime student of the scriptures) noticed for the first time how the story describes the shepherds as -living- in those fields. Reading this poem, I thought for the first time of their return to those same fields in the dark: richardbauckham.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

Twins interacting with Denver Art Museum architecture, parts one (Silvetti 2021) and two (Ponti 1971)

I do love seeing a John Ahearn reference on an album cover.

"Welcome to the NO DATA INSTITUTE — our mission is complete privacy and we are committed to creating a world in which recording is no longer permitted, and information is never stored." nostorage.land

I missed that artist Gardner Post died earlier this year. His agitational video work with EBN really got to me back in the day. I hope designer Willie Williams acknowledges some debt there as he returns to Zoo TV for the upcoming Las Vegas blitz. youtube.com/@gardnerpost65…

We partnered with SMU DataArts by providing data for research that demonstrates the multiple ways that LAA have an impact in their communities. Read more below. culturaldata.org/local-arts-age…

When President Biden visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday, the White House Military Office Space Force aide trailed him with the “Football,” about 500 meters from where “Little Boy” exploded in 1945, killing ~140,000 people (via Chugoku Shimbun).hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=132543

The track, recorded as "Man eaten by alligator; screams," has become iconic. Take #5 was first used in 1951's "Distant Drums," before sound designer Ben Burtt incorporated it into Star Wars & Indiana Jones. 2/2 archive.org/details/SSE_Li…

On Infinity 88 Listening Hour 100 you’ll be exposed to an exquisite piece from Johanna Gosse and Kevin Hamilton on spectacle, the atomic bomb, and the limits of human perception. And you will hear another deep cut from Susannah Crockford’s Conspiracy EP. machinesinbetween.com/episodes/infin…

Last summer Johanna Gosse and I finally realized a thing among many we had hopes of making together (and hopefully will return to). Grateful to have the invitation from Machines In Between as our impetus and host. You can hear it here now: machinesinbetween.com/episodes/infin…

First lightning bug of summer spotted.

Photo by one son of me and the other son watching Mars and Venus in the Arizona sky last night.

Returning today to Arney’s book on atomic scientists as “dead but real executives of the inevitable.”

Happy Birthday to Lynda Carter, Frederick Law Olmstead, Summer Glau, Oswald Chambers…and me. 50 years of cosmic travel, and blessed for every day of it. Meanwhile a painting of my best predecessor in the dean role randomly showed up in the office. Cheers!

In Fall 01968, Stewart Brand put the Whole Earth Catalog out into the world. 55 years later, our friends at @grayareaorg and the Internet Archive are launching the Whole Earth Index: a nearly complete free online archive of Whole Earth publications. wholeearth.info

I see it all the time: 18 year old performers who say they can’t compose, composers who say they can’t perform. In all of my classes, I actively break down these barriers because it’s essential for these students to have a chance to explore. (2/9)