ha ha! you were laboring under the misapprehension that this is butter
more not believing butter-ish here
Yale is making high-resolution images from its cultural collections available on a free, open access basis. They’ve started by uploading 250,000 images, with lots more to follow. The collection includes “a small limestone stela with hieroglyphic inscription from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, a Mozart sonata in the composer’s own hand from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a 15th-century Javanese gold kris handle from the Indo-Pacific collection of Yale University Art Gallery and a watercolor by William Blake.”
As works in these collections become digitized, the museums and libraries will make those images that are in the public domain freely accessible. In a departure from established convention, no license will be required for the transmission of the images and no limitations will be imposed on their use. The result is that scholars, artists, students, and citizens the world over will be able to use these collections for study, publication, teaching and inspiration.
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link to current online collection here
above: bacon version of starry night that should be included if this collection were legit
james burton & ralph mooney - corn pickin’
Mr. Ralph Mooney, master of the steel guitar, died on Sunday at the age of 82. I just noticed the obituary in a friend’s Facebook post (thanks, Katie!).
Mooney was go-to guy for pedal steel guitar during the mid-20th century. He was one of those quiet professional session musicians who help to create the sound behind big name singers. You’ve probably heard his work before, and just not realized it. During the 50s, 60s and 70s, he recorded and played with probably every country singer of consequence, from Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, to Wanda Jackson—the rockabilly singer who recently recorded an album with Jack White.
I had to poke around YouTube a bit for a song clip that would highlight Mooney more than the people he played with, but this instrumental classic does the job right. Recorded with a fellow session musician, guitarist James Burton, Corn Pickin really shows off Mooney’s skills.
Bonus: This 2003 interview with Ralph Mooney is short, but also pretty damn adorable. Mooney, apparently, had a good sense of humor. Scroll down to where they start talking about his hair loss for a great, sassy one-liner.
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love, defined: soliloquy from godard’s “Alphaville”
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