HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL

HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL BRINGS 120 BANDS TO DOWNTOWN RALEIGH SEPT. 9-11, 2010
Headlining bands include Public Enemy, Panda Bear, and Broken Social Scene!!!!!
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Big Ears Festival

Knoxville Tennessee was the happening place to be this weekend, with the second annual Big Ears Music Festival. Truly, this was an amazing festival with an awesome lineup. My favorites include the poetic Joanna Newsom, the elegant DJ rupture, the drunken Matt Berninger (The National), the motherly Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamonds), and the stunning XX.

Grayson Currin and Tim Kiernan, with Pitchfork, do a great job documenting this festival (link).

Radical Cartography

AGRICULTURE
Bill Rankin, 2005, 2009

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The geography of U.S. agriculture is not a smooth space of overlapping local conditions; it is instead a disjointed and lumpy space of specialization. With the exception of some crops in the Midwest, there are few areas where different commodities are grown side by side, and while cattle are distributed relatively evenly throughout the country, the production of all other animals is quite concentrated.

These maps suggest that we need to rethink our commonplace ideas of localism and the virtues of local farming. While local food is often more healthful or sustainable, the idea that the US could become a nation of locavores is absurd. No major city could ever source all of its food from local farms – not even those close to major agricultural areas.

Data source: Agricultural Census of the US.

These maps are version 2.0, revised and updated to 2007 data.


Check out Radicalcartography, for more awesome Maps and Graphs from an arrange of Genres and Problematic.

/AN APOLOGY/ from 521studies on Vimeo.
Future Islands at Nightlight on 03/06/2010, Playing a song called, "An Apology" off their new record which comes out soon. Tim Kiernan filmed this video with a Canon 7D, Nikon 50mm1.2
To see more work by Artist Tim Kiernan, please check out his website http://521studies.blogspot.com/
Future Islands can be found at http://www.myspace.com/futureislands

Artist Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. I think Koblin has taken art, statistics and geography to a whole new level. Check out his website for his work: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/