Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was born this day 132 years ago. Give an ear to a performance of his Piano Sonata (published in 1926) performed by Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
What’s wrong with this picture?
This is Kirk Alyn, the first actor to portray Superman (appearing in two 15 episode serials from 1948 & 1950). I just love the weirdness of this photo, it sort of grows on you if you look at it long enough.
Eye Candy of the day
This is a sample taken from Space, a new short “music video” by a certain Dave Berry. Built from still images of streaks and textures, rendered into 3D cubes and layered in After Effects. Click here to see the full video on Vimeo. Because of the image complexity, compression renders the original video somewhat chunky & pixellated, alas! Here is an uncompressed still from the video:
Lapsed Time Images 