Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
The National Tree Movie Artist and sculptor Colleen Rochette prepares caricatures of “Saturday Night Live” characters performed by female actors for Barneys’ SNL theme holiday windows display, New York. This photo taken Oct. 27, 2009 shows artist Ryan Piguet creating … see more. See also: the national tree hallmark | andrew mccarthy | the national tree...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Christopher Irwin Smith describes research on Joshua trees, yucca moths and the question of whether coevolution between plants and their insect pollinators produced the spectacular diversity of plants and insectsCoevolution--mutual adaptation of two or more species to one another--shapes much of the natural world and produces some of the most remarkable biological phenomena, from...
Coyote Crossing (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Forgive the crass commercialism, and I won’t even mention that thing that happens toward the end of the year with the orgy of consumption and the stress and the Carol of the Bells driving you into a tightly choreographed stabbing frenzy, but 2010 is coming up. You’ll need a calendar. Other people you know will as well. I have one for sale with my Joshua tree photos on each...
Compass Points (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... Let’s say you wanted to test the Hypothesis: “Increased temperature will cause Joshua trees to grow more robustly as measured by the thickness of the rings in the trunk at chest height.” First you must control for all the things that might affect the growth of the tree: water, amount of sunlight, gases in the air, nutrients in the ground, organisms...
Lend Me Your Ears (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... air condition systems and turbines in Las Vegas, Frankfurt and Tokyo, walking on rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, wind from the Grand Canyon, a friends answering machine, a printer, conversations via mobile phones, typing on an old Macintosh keyboard and recordings from tunnel works in Switzerland") into a spare, vital whole - in which whirring zither & click-drum make...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Wrestling with post-millennial tension, Kid A was a musical meditation on paranoia, premonitions and profound beauty More top 10 albums of the decade If Achtung Baby was the sound of U2 chopping down The Joshua Tree, Kid A saw Radiohead ripping the wires from OK Computer, setting fire to the motherboard and throwing the wreckage from a tenth floor window. The sound of a stadium-rock...
Tom Rowsell (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Wendy, who has worked with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, at Rancho de la Luna studios in Joshua Tree California, home of the fabled desert sessions. The desolate desert landscape is said to have been an influence on the cosmic Teutonic synth sound of We Fell to Earth, although the pair are now based in East London. “It’d be nice to go to the desert someday and...
