WELCOME TO THE FINAL WEEK OF DAYBREAK DIVERSIONS, UPPER VALLEY!
Oh, the things we leave inside our library books. Page through enough borrowed books, and eventually something falls out: a postcard, grocery list, photograph—any odd thing one might use to mark their place. These ephemera can offer a sweet glimpse into a stranger’s life, and the Oakland (CA) Public Library has scrupulously cataloged and posted online the items that have been stashed inside their books over the years. WaPo’s Sydney Page has the full story (gift, no paywall) and a handful of the unexpected treasures…or check out OPL’s site for all the little lists, drawings, and love notes they found.It’s like Titans vs. Olympians in this crazy lightning-storm photo. If you saw this scene with your own eyes, you’d swear the gods were locking horns. An amazing image though it is, according to My Modern Met’s Jessica Stewart, much of its otherworldly effect comes from the fact that it’s a composite of 400 photographs taken over a six-minute period. One evening while a storm raged, Spanish photographer Marc Sellés Llimós climbed a hill beyond his village overlooking the Pyrenees. By using long exposure speed, he was able to capture both the lightning show and a whooshing illusion called star trails.SPONSORED: You’re invited to a behind-the-scenes look at the Farmacy Garden! Join Willing Hands on Wednesday for a tour of this remarkable garden. In collaboration with Dartmouth Health, it brings nourishing food and community health together! Attend for a tour of the garden and orchard and a talk about how it supports DH programs, Food is Medicine initiatives, and the whole community. You’re invited to stay for a volunteer session afterward. Learn more and sign up at our Events page. Sponsored by Willing Hands.Guy doodles over every square inch of his house. Like, literally every surface, inside and out, is covered in squiggles, smiles, and googly eyes. Sam Cox of Kent, England, spent two years—and hundreds of liters of paint—creating the ultimate immersive art installation, a display of unraveling madness that he brilliantly documented in this stop-motion video. Room after room is consumed by doodles, like an invasive Keith Haring-esque weed. It’s spectacular, really. According to the Guardian, Cox’s neighbors haven’t complained, though the last owner’s only request was: “Please don’t doodle.”Today's Wordbreak. With a word from the regional news.
When he was 11, the German pianist and composer Luca Sestak discovered jazz. Which, after a couple of years of classical piano lessons, suddenly gave him some musical direction. He began playing publicly at 14 and these days, at 29, he's got an international following for his classically inflected jazz, blues, boogie woogie, and hip hop pieces—which are really, as he put it recently, "a collision between genres and sound worlds." Here, for instance,
, which includes Alexander Broschek on bass guitar and Nicholas Stampf on drums. Impossible to sit still once they get in the groove.
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