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Intangible Cultural Heritage

01.18.2010 by Mark Forman

The Intangible Cultural Heritage exhibition is a Cross-Straits(of Taiwan) venture with museum quality pieces from both southern Fujian, China and Taiwan. I was really impressed by the beauty and quality of most of the exhibits on display. Many(in fact most) of the exhibits permitted photographs to be taken. The quality of the Taiwanese aboriginal pieces was [...]

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Haitian Fight Song

01.15.2010 by Mark Forman

My heart goes out to the people of Haiti right now I know that God loves them and is moving on the hearts of many to provide help. Please pray or send warm thoughts and if able to please consider helping with a contribution. Here is a link to Doctors Without Borders if you're interested. Music-Charles Mingus:Haitian [...]

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SunCake Lounge-Images

08.31.2009 by Mark Forman

A few months back Jean Marais known more commonly as MoShang the Sound Jeweler mentioned to me that he had a new musical project going with guitarist Chris Baily. That got me very excited because I knew and liked Chris' work. Jean had already used one of my images for another EP he did called [...]

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Rock On

06.11.2009 by Mark Forman

Picked up a copy of Adam Freeland: COPE yesterday. It was recommended by Ooah, one of the members of the Glitch Mob. The record really rocks and the original stuff is great and edgy in a lind of NIN meets the Cars, Devo and the Glitch Mob kind of way. The one song that stuck [...]

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M. Nahadr:EclecticIsM

06.08.2009 by Mark Forman

Well M.,you had me at eclectic... This is one of the most unusual musical works I've heard in quite some time. Not to say it is weird-it is anything but. What makes it so odd is it's free-spiritedness but while being very musical and enjoyable the whole time. It is obvious M. could easily make [...]

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Burnt Sugar

05.23.2009 by Mark Forman

Burnt Sugar is an evocative name. I live near a coffee roaster and can tell you with the limited sugar content of the coffee beans it is already quite intoxicating when they're being roasted. The Burnt Sugar in question here is a different kind all together. It is the musical collective organized by Greg Tate-Village [...]

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Sharing some link love…

05.06.2009 by Mark Forman

In photography the higher you move up the food chain the more you'll encounter snobbery and camera/lens nazis... However you also encounter some really cool talented photographers that have a sense of community. Damien Franco of Your Photo Tips is just such an individual. The post where I was mentioned included the work of 69 [...]

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Locally-based musician with financial need!

04.17.2009 by Mark Forman

I found out from Craig Ferguson today that Patrick Byrne a Taichung based musician and music promoter has a large financial debt due to the birth of his prematurely born son. The baby Fionn Byrne accumulated medical expenses of over US$ 30,000. There will be benefits here to help allay the expenses. If you would [...]

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Elevated Entity-Ancients Speak

03.17.2009 by Mark Forman

Recently on Twitter I met Melvin Gibbs a journeyman bassman who has played for a variety of talented and edgy musicians ranging from Rollins and James White to Ronald Shannon Jackson and Defunkt. Melvin has been focusing more and more on his own musical vision lately which he channels via Elevated Entity. One of the thoughts I [...]

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