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strange|beautiful

http://www.strangebeautiful.net

plumbing the depths of distraction since 2007™

strange|beautiful is an archive of the wonderings, wanderings and beloved distractions of one rodger bridges, a professional tinkerer residing in portland, oregon.

• Added on: Jul 19th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: rodger bridges
• Listed in: Music Visual Arts
• Tags: MP3 design sound strange beautiful obscure

Recent Posts

• colour of music

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 16:42 in art, Photography, strange, Vision, beautiful, all posts, george benson, strangebeautiful, "strange beautiful", colour of music, gwbenson

  Colour of Music by George Benson, via Colt+Rane. ↪S ...

• Katie Paterson: Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 00:28 in art, sound, strange, Nature, Vision, research, beautiful, word, theory, ice, all posts, turntables

  The thread of glacial field recordings continues from the Eldfjall recordings of Jacob Kirkegard, to temporally manipulated Ekstroem Ice Shelf byChristian Müller, Vera Schlindwein, Alfons Eckstaller and Heinrich Miller, to Katie Paterson’s 20...

• thanksgiving prayer

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 03:59 in art, Film, video, download, prayer, strange, Vision, beautiful, word, short, thanksgiving, portland

  Thanksgiving Re-up 2009 (via08): Hope is the result of staring deep into the eyes of despair. Gus Van Sant’s 1991 Short Film, Thanksgiving Prayer. Written and performed by William S. Burroughs. via: WFMU see also: UBU: WSB Films ↪S ...

• the frightening beauty of bunkers

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 13:45 in art, Photography, beauty, strange, Nature, Vision, beautiful, all posts, frightening, decay, the morning news, bunkers

  The Morning News has a well put together photo essay by Paul Virilio surrounding the impact and meaning of these structures from past to present, solidity to decay. Approximately 1,500 bunkers were built during World War II along the French shores t...

• 20,000 leagues of nostalgia

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 02:23 in word

  I’m no fan of Disney. I opted for Ghibli films as the primary source of animated programming for my offspring post Lion King/Little Mermaid era, on. Generally sticking with the subtitles, rather than watching the abortive attempts John Lasset...

• the flat topography of amusement

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 18:08 in art, design, illustration, retro, maps, all posts, amusement park, topography

  Found this amazing archive of amusement park maps while digging for job-specific inspiration a couple weeks ago. This post will also serve as a great segue for the next one, which is also about something pretty great from an equally enthused (obsess...

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