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Ludovico Einaudi for Greenpeace
We’ve all heard of the horrors of global warming, and the dangers it brings. Acclaimed pianist Ludovico Einaudi, in this video, plays one of his own compositions as a sort of eulogy to the Arctic. He is seated on a floating platform in the middle of the ocean, with the Wahlenbergbreen glacier — in Svalbard, Norway — in the background. The haunting notes, accentuated by pieces of the glacier falling into the ocean, make for a compelling watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHpHxA-9CVM
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The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones– Rich Cohen
As a young journalist, Rich Cohen got to do something that many of his contemporaries might have given anything for — he got to trail the Rolling Stones. From the founding of the band, the drugs, girlfriends, and, most important of all, the music, the author covers everything and makes a case for why they will always be a relevant band.
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‘Like a Sufi’ – MC Kash and Alif
Sufi — soulful and poetic. Rap — rhythmic and rhyming. Put them both together and you get “Sufi-ethnic rock meets hip-hop”. In the YouTube description, they say, “(The song) aims to capture... the feeling of being lost in the search for truth. Sung in Kashmiri (or Koshur), a language spoken primarily in the valley of Kashmir and Chenab, the song is an attempt to save this dying language.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS971lu-bcc
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Look up ‘Being Censitive’
Akshita Chandra’s seventh semester project at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology is, as she describes, “An art project on censorship on the grounds of obscenity.” She takes images from the temple art of Khajuraho to “juxtapose them with a few recent examples of censorship to create a dialogue between the past and the present”. She makes valid observations on the inanity of modern-day censorship.
http://being-censitive.tumblr.com/
