Welcome to my online journal. Here I share my findings on the WWW as well as from the real world. The topics displayed are unrelated and mostly random things that interest me, that I find inspiring or worth mentioning. I hope you find the entries fascinating and insightful too.
Nadia Boulanger
This is a great video by Inside the Score about Nadia Boulanger, a remarkable French music teacher and conductor who raised a generation of composers in the 20th century. She came from a musical family and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she won many prizes and awards for her compositions. However, she decided to [...]
STAY – Quarantine Short Film
STAY – Quarantine Short Film is a four-minute animated film by Kevin Lau, a designer and animator based in New York. The film tells the story of a man who is isolated in a hotel room during the COVID-19 pandemic and receives a mysterious package that changes his perspective. The film was created by Lau in [...]
Berliner Philharmoniker – Abenteuer Klassik
I was looking for some information on another topic related to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra when I came across some stunning images. STUDIO314 Berliner Philharmoniker
Beauty and potential in everyday objects
Erika Iris Simmons is a Princeton-based artist who creates stunning collages from reconfigured sheet music. She transforms musical notes into faces, figures and patterns that seem to spring to life from the pages. Her work is inspired by her fascination with perception, cognition and optical illusions. She started her artistic career as a face-painter and makeup designer, and later [...]