What is sleep when there is Bon Iver? Justin Vernon, Sean Carey, two grand pianos and a room of sonic magic.

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Josh Ritter – Thin Blue Flame (4 plays)

Heaven is just a thin blue line

Chances are, [I] suck


So how do you become a better photographer when you’re reinforced with so much unearned praise from your internet buddies? What’s your motivation, to get a hundred likes instead of just ten? There’s an easy recipe for that. Start making pictures of cats. Better yet, kittens… kittens and children. You’ll soon be more awesome then you could possible imagine.

via @deabee

We Are Augustines perform Bob Dylan’s “Mama, You Been On My Mind” for Amnesty International’s Chimes of Freedom

A Groundswell of Interest in the Great Bear Rain Forest

Beautiful/timely/important piece of work from Patagonia and team: http://video.patagonia.com/video/Ground-Swell-Trailer. Hat tip to Jeremy Koreski for pointing it out: http://www.jeremykoreski.com/blog/2012/1/27/ground_swell. And, should the topic (Gateway/petroleum economics) be of further interest, here’s an (as typically) excellent article from Terry Glavin: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/01/17/terry-glavin-china-has-our-forests-now-were-sending-our-oilfields-too/.

Out.

I don’t ever have to recharge my device. It recharges me.

I don’t ever have to recharge my device. It recharges me.

Scala and Kolacny Bros Perform U2’s With or Without You

Wil - 15 Years

"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur (via I. Leslie, “In Search of Serendipity,” Intelligent Life Magazine (Jan/Feb 2012))

Fink - This Is The Thing (Live from Haldern 08)