I went to see Mute Math (with As Tall As Lions opening) at the Nokia Theater last night and as always they gave a great show. Since this was the last night of their Armistice album tour, they played a lot of songs from their new album but also mixed in a lot of older songs.
I was super excited when they started playing “Peculiar People” because that was the song that made me love them when I heard them play it a few years back at a show at Irving Plaza (where THEY were the opening act and nobody knew who they were). Overall, this show was spectacular and I still hold to the belief that if you haven’t seen Mute Math live, then you haven’t truly seen a great live show.
Click on the thumbnails below to check out some photos I took (thanks Flo for letting me use your camera!).
PDN has a great look at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of oil being harvested from the earth. If you haven’t heard, Burtynsky just recently released a new book entitled Oil that showcases over 12 years of photographic work in this area. His photos are now being exhibited at 3 simultaneous galleries: Hasted Hunt Kraeutler in NYC, Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto, and The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
If you’ve never been introduced to Burtynsky’s large-format works of art, then this is a subject matter to start your explorations in.
Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary project that aims to document the more than 10,000 Main Streets in the entire USA. It’s very interesting to see the differences between all of the Main Streets — some look pretty normal and average while others look completely abandoned. Maybe Main Street is an appropriate metaphor for politicians to use when describing the US.
The project is just getting underway and currently they seem to only have photos of Main Streets in the Midwest, so if you’d like to help them out, submit your own Main Street photos (I know some readers here have photos of Main Street in Flushing, NY) and see if it makes it into the project map.
Tom Coates has put together this gallery of incredible dust storm photos from Sydney. The city was covered by an orange glow caused by a rare dust storm on the morning of September 23, 2009. There are still many photos going up on Flickr, but for now, you can check out this gallery.
that showcases over 12 years of photographic work in this area. His photos are now being exhibited at 3 simultaneous galleries: Hasted Hunt Kraeutler in NYC, Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto, and The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
