What's Happening in the Mind's of Little Babies

Since this has been the year of the baby for my family, I offer up a recent Radiolab podcast about how babies might experience the world.

Creative Coincidences

After Merce Cunningman's recent passing, Fresh Air re-aired an enlightening interview with Cunningham's partner, the experimental composer, John Cage. It's not only really interesting to hear Cage's ideas in 1982, but also so cool to hear a much younger, and more wordy Terry Gross navigate the discussion.

Check it.

While My Guitar Gently Bleeps

Skeptical about the "Beatles: Rock Band" video game? Have a look at this past Sunday's feature about the game, and the making of it, and that skepticism will likely turn into sheer excitement.

McCartney said he believed this larger- and neater-than-life portrayal is the appropriate one. “I think it reflects where the Beatles are at,” he said. “We are halfway between reality and mythology.”

"Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff"

Here's a piece from Vice Magazine about the cavalcade of journalists descending upon Detroit, looking for things falling, or fallen apart.

"If you live on a block near one of the city’s tens of thousands of abandoned buildings, you can’t toss a chunk of Fordite without hitting some schmuck with a camera worth more than your house."

"not a huge, tragic collapse, but a transition"

Detroit Wildlife from florent tillon on Vimeo.