TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

9:35 PM
Posted by jodi rose

it's been a steep learning curve the past few days, finally getting my head around the ftp process for archive.org and doing all the boring metadata necessary to upload the pixelache conversations.

today I went down to the mayday festival in kreuzberg, checked out a few punk and hip-hop bands on various stages, but decided to leave before the riots began. these guys from the famous impromptu concert in the paris metro were singing on adalbertstrasse where i'd left my bicycle, and being filmed by a professional crew along with half the crowd on their mobile phones or digital cameras. decided to upload it too just for fun. although as you can see, video really isn't my thing!

mayday street concert

also put the process of isabel sweeping the cellar, and ping pong game between jasper and kenzee up on transitradio on the 'underscore' page.


then reading the comments in the original 'naturally 7' performance, found this Washington Post article about a world famous violinist who played for an hour at a washington DC metro station, and precisely seven people out of 1,103 stopped to pay any attention or listen to his playing.

Yes indeed there's no time for random beauty on the streets in this world. art and beauty need a context and a frame to be appreciated, is the summary of the article, which made me really sad. if you have to be told how important and valuable something is in order to appreciate it, well that leaves you wide open to all kinds of mediocrity. when heart-stopping beauty is around us every day if we only notice it.