Félicitations!

Happy birthday Katherine.

Muses

This is another one from Embankment, slightly more impressionistic than the last...

Main reason I wanted to post today is to draw attention to the new free release by Kristin Hersh's band 50 Foot Wave - the new EP is available both as MP3s and lossless FLACs via Throwing Music, and also various bittorrent sites such as the formidable Dimeadozen.

Kristin's music - in Throwing Muses, solo, and now as 50 Foot Wave - has meant a huge amount to me for many years, and I'm totally in agreement with her aims of circumventing traditional music marketing approaches - as the EP says, Free Music!

Embankment

This is from Rachel Whiteread's installation Embankment - not entirely sure I know what it means, but it was genuinely fun to walk around and through.

The new issue of Shots is out - as good as ever. There's a good feature on Susan Burnstine in the new Black & White Photography too (the UK one, not the US B&W mag).