music clip of the day

Mahogani Music Promotional Video, Detroit (2010)

Yeah, the interplay between these two is awfully cliche.

But there’s a lot to like here: the sounds,* the colors, the composition, the sense of place.

I dig the camera-shy dog, too.

*Joe Simon, “Theme from Cleopatra Jones” (1973)

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lagniappe

art beat

Yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after an oral argument in the nearby federal court of appeals, in a drug case involving 20 kilos of cocaine—from the sordid to the sublime):

Vasily (AKA Wassily) Kandinsky

Painting with Green Center, 1913

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Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913