links for 2009-07-19

July 19th, 2009 by Steve Curati

The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull – The Morning News

Personally, I'd put photos against them. In fact, personally, I think they're absolutely gagging for photos against them. via phil gifford.

(tags: london sound audio)
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Econophysicist Predicts Date of Chinese Stock Market Collapse

"Can we spot bubbles when they occur and predict when they are about to burst? One group of theorists say that they can and have used their techniques to make an extraordinary prediction."via @oliverpayne

(tags: economics physics prediction theory finance econophysics)
Paul Morley's showing off … Classical | Music | guardian.co.uk

(tags: music classical paulmorley guardian therestisnoise interactive)
Paul Morley on how a year studying at the Royal Academy of Music changed him | Music | The Observer

"The journalist, especially the rock journalist, displaced by the millions who can now re-create for free the duties of the rock critic, is facing up to seeing his role slip towards something approaching the relevance of a blacksmith. Oddly enough, the role of contemporary composer, writing the type of music that most people will never hear but adding to the continuity of thinking and exploring that stretches back centuries, may yet outlast the conventional role of the print journalist."

(tags: music classical therestisnoise guardian paulmorley media newspapers)

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Dave Brubeck with young Russian violinist

“During a visit to Moscow in the 80’s, Dave Brubeck met the faculty and students in Moscow Conservatory. While he was improvising on a “Ei, uhnem”, a Russian folk song, a young man downstage stood up to play Stéphane Grappelli-style violin jazz with him.”

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via @openculture

(via Ai Weiwei Piles 1,200 Bikes On Top Of Each Other, For Dazzling Effect | Co.Design)

Infographic: The Changing TV Landscape

(via Iconic Photographs With Their Subjects Removed)

“I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.”

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Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication.

When asked about the drawings, Searle said, “I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.” Here’s a little more about them:

Prior to the cancer shock the couple had bought a decrepit house in the south of France and, despite her illness, Monica continued to devote her time making this house a home.

Devastated with his wife’s diagnosis Ronald did the only thing he knew how to do to cheer her up. .. draw.

Before every chemotherapy session he gave his wife a painting. Monica was depicted as a mole, a very happy mole celebrating life in their new home. (The Mole idea came after their discovery of a large celler that they made into a cosy room)

‘Everything about them had to be romantic and perfect,’ says Ronald. ‘I drew them originally for no one’s eyes except Mo’s, so she would look at them propped up against her bedside lamp and think: “When I’m better, everything will be beautiful.”

Searle died last week at 91.

(Images via bluedoorbooks)