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The Buffalo and Native Americans

July 26, 2010

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The Buffalo and Native Americans Video Clip (1:52) The buffalo was an essential part of Native American life, used in everything from religious rituals to teepee construction.

Doug Aitken - Migration

May 18, 2010

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is showing the movie ‘Migration’ as part of an interesting themed show called, UNTIL NOW. Migration gives us these unsettling juxtapositions of animals in the human environment. The image of this buffalo in a hotel room falls into the category of things you thought you’d never see…The show runs through [...]

Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

February 27, 2009

Now that I’ve opened the pandora’s box of music, it’s going to be hard to stop. All of the Miles Davis fans know of this one, but if you haven’t discovered this yet…here you go. In this promo to the film, listen to the background music, that’s Miles. The soundtrack is fabulous, that is, if [...]

Emerson String Quartet

February 21, 2009

I saw the Emerson String Quartet perform this Shostakovich piece in St. Paul, MN. The music is about war and conflict, and we were in throes of the bad period of the Iraqi war, so it was a powerful and moving experience. And, it made me want to go out and buy everything Shostakovich had [...]