More great music from the Playing for Change project.
Playing For Change | Peace Through Music.

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Don’t know how I came across this, but here’s a link to some photos from someone who toured Chernobyl. I’m fascinated by abandoned property, especially in this case where a whole city is a ghost town.
http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?t=2217

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Yes I know that the woman in the ad is an actress and that the whole thing is probably scripted.  Nonetheless I feel the ad makes a great point about the price of Apple hardware.  I also enjoy the comment “I guess I’m not cool enough to be a Mac person,” which is a great [...]

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Made me laugh.

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Excellent video of street musicians around the world playing the classic Ben E King hit, “Stand by Me.”  The more time I spend on social media and music research, the more I am reminded of how much musical talent there is out there. A lot of these people will never see the inside of a [...]

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I know of Garth Dabrinsky through my experiences working for Ticketmaster while in University. Garth was responsible for bringing “Phantom of the Opera” to Toronto, and while I never met him, he was notorious among the people who knew him as being the classic overbearing (insert rude curse word here) producer. Think Tom Cruise in [...]

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This is a great example of how music technology can be used to create great artistry.

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I get Mike to write me the directions to his place, but when I read them I realize that I didn’t need them at all, I just needed the street address.
I’m in town because Mom is sick in the hospital.  She’s actually so sick that she’s in the ICU.  Dad’s not handling it well at [...]

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A friend of mine turned me on to this.  Kutiman creates mashups by taking slices of YouTube videos and mixing them together.  I can’t imagine the amount of work that goes into creating these, but I think it’s pure brilliance.

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I absolutely love Lenore Skenazy (in a platonic way of course).  Lenore is the author of “Free Range Kids,” and is famous for being completely demonized for allowing her nine-year-old kid ride the New York subway on his own.  She and a growing group of parents are fighting to counteract the hyper-parenting trend of fear [...]

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