Filed Under One Nice Thing | Comments Off on The Songs of the Stars
NASA has created a page on their site dedicated to astral sounds, taking the images capture by the Hubble Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and others, and turning them into sound. “Through data sonification, the same digital data that gets translated into images is transformed into sound. Elements of the image, like brightness and position, […]
Filed Under One Nice Thing | Comments Off on One Nice Thing: Sonnets for Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” Concertos
Thanks to this article from Alan Chapman at Classical KDFC (the classical music station in San Francisco, California), I learned that there are four sonnets to accompany each of the concertos in Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” suite—possibly written by the composer himself. I did a bit of searching, and found the wonderfully informative Baroque Music […]
Filed Under One Nice Thing | Comments Off on One Nice Thing: 16 Beautiful Trees
Today’s Nice Thing: A photo essay of 16 of the most beautiful trees in the world. While the list is rather North America-centric, it’s still a lovely visual break in the middle of the day. My personal favorite: [Image description: A photo of a man standing in filtered sunlight between two rows of tall, dark […]
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All shall be well, And all shall be well, And all manner of things shall be well. —Julian of Norwich Two-and-a-half minutes of beauty and peace for your day.
Filed Under One Nice Thing | Comments Off on One Nice Thing: “Contact Call – A Mini Dance Film” by Sarah Bush Dance Project
From our friends at The Audubon Society: “This beautiful short dance film by Sarah Bush Dance Project, artist in residence with Richardson Bay Audubon Center, in partnership with sound designer and composer Miles Lassi. A contact call is a type of call used by birds for the purpose of letting other birds know their location. […]