Polite elephant crosses multiple farms on her voyage without damaging a single fence
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The Talented And Busy Street Artists Of Dakar
Their canvases are houses, specifically the canvases of one working-class neighborhood called the Médina. “The neighborhood has welcomed street artists from all over the world to practice their craft in what the founder of the project calls the open sky museum. Dozens of wall paintings dot the neighborhood, bringing color to usually drab cement walls, and adding to the flourishing international art scene in Dakar.” – The New York Times
GRANTED: 107-year-old woman’s only birthday wish was to hold a baby. Movingly, a (female) Facebook friend comments: “I can see this. I never wanted children. Then I agreed to have one. Then I wanted more and now I have three. When I am 100, I won’t want to hold a book I’ve written, however useful it might be, but I could see holding a baby.”
Clive James, 80 – Invented a Genre Of Modern TV Criticism
From the 1980s, beginning with the classicUnreliable Memoirs, he published a series of uproarious biographies that charted his journey from dustyAustralia to windy Cambridge to grubby Fleet Street and on to eventual success with TV shows such as Clive James on Television. James may, however, be best remembered for inventing modern television criticism. – Irish Times
For his Ornitographies project,
Xavi Bou takes photographs of birds and stitches them together into
single images so that you can see their flight paths through the sky.
Noah Kalina is publishing a book of his photographs of bedmounds
33 Ways to Remember the 2010s. Unsurprising but still incredible how the internet enabled and infused everything on this list.
Noah Kalina is publishing a book of his photographs of bedmounds
33 Ways to Remember the 2010s. Unsurprising but still incredible how the internet enabled and infused everything on this list.
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Turkey’s ancient tradition of ‘paying it forward’ BBC
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A Tale of Two Princes Counterpunch. Patrick Cockburn
ANDREW McMILLEN
Singer-songwriter Tones and I stole the ARIAs show One year ago, few people other than those wandering the streets of Byron Bay in northern NSW had heard the music of a singer-songwriter named Toni Watson, who performs as Tones and I.
Today, the accolades for the former busker are flowing just as fast as global plays of her signature song, which recently passed one billion streams.
At the 2019 ARIA Awards on Wednesday, Watson walked away with four wins from eight nominations, including best female artist, best pop release and best independent artist. As well, she was named breakthrough artist. No surprise there; the adjective is entirely apt for what Watson has achieved.
Put simply, no other Australian artist in pop music history has had a debut year like hers. She has broken through in such a manner that lends itself to superlatives. Nobody saw her coming and, now that she's here, Watson has established herself as an artist of extraordinary power in a remarkably short time.