Here she blows: Click here to view the embedded video. Man, I love suff with cogs and pulleys and gears and stuff. It’s so fascinating watching little mechanical things moving sinusoidally. I used to be fascinated by street organs as a kid (and...

Ordinarily, cellphones get shut-up before a performance, but not here: Click here to view the embedded video. And here’s the making of: Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. (via Gizmodo)

When I was about 8 years old my dad bought me a copy of Carmina Burana on cassette tape (remember them?). It turns out I didn’t really like anything except for O Fortuna!, that staple of medieval action movie trailers. I do remember being excited by...

Taken while on a three o’ clock saunter around the lake: And taken on my usually rubbish phone camera! Apparently even its paltry pixel count can’t put up a fight when faced with such a delicious increase in daily maximum temperature, and blueness of...

Here’s another young musician to bracket the weekend, with an accordion-based rendition of  the end of “Summer”, from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Click here to view the embedded video. The end of summer. How appropriate. It snowed here last Friday....