Take It All Away

The Strauss-man used to live in this wedding cake.  I mean: house!  He used to live in this house.  ("Villa" if we're being pedantic.)

A wonderful flickr stream with pictures of the inside.

For The Record

I adore this photo-essay by Dangerous Minds: Famous People Hanging Out With Their Vinyl

Do you know what you get when you type "famous people hanging out with their cd collection" or "famous people hanging out with their victrola" into google? (Actually, you get that photo-essay.) Point being: there's something about a record.

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And Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect

David Leventi's latest project is entitled "Bjoerling’s Larynx: World Famous Opera Houses": a photo series documenting famous and not-so-famous (but always opulent) theaters. The Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans will display the photos August 7 - September 11, 2010, but you can see them online at the artist's website here.

(via neatorama and pdn)

Just Repeat History

Shorpy specializes in historical photos. This one is of a high school orchestra, Washington D.C. 1905. (Those are bowlback mandolins.)

Baby / I'm Hot Just Like An Oven

Marvin Gaye, oh Marvin Gaye.



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Get Into The Groove / Boy You've Got To Prove Your Love To Me

This is...groovy. By which I mean: this is a photo of a vinyl record as seen under an electron microscope. Check out the whole gallery.



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It's A Good Time For A Photo

The Jazz Loft Project:

"From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith [that's him in the photo] made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan's wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day gathered and played their music. Smith's work has remained in archives until now. The Jazz Loft Project is dedicated to uncovering the stories behind this legendary moment in American cultural history."

Put On A Happy Face

Tee hee! Tee hee hee!
Browse: Sleeveface.






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As I'm Swimming Through The Stereo / I Conduct A Symphony Of Sound

I don't know why I love this picture so much...maybe it's because he looks so earnest. Keine Sorge, Herr Strauss - you're famous now!



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P-P-P-Pokerface

Mitsuko Uchida: In Action.



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Come Fly With Me

Passport photos of the Roaring Twenties' talented and famous! - uploaded to Flickr by puzzlemaster. I culled the composers, but there are so many others. These are neato.

Aaron Copland, 1925


Charles Ives, 1924


Irving Berlin, 1922


Cole Porter, 1919

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Can You Picture That?

The most popular tags on Flickr are "wedding" and "california."
I say: what have cakes and beaches got on "experimental music"?

Exhibit A:

(Dear Air Fresheners with Jennifer Robin, photo by Dead Air)


(Il Rottomaio del Suono, photo by RWW)


More photos at Flickr's Experimental Music Photo Pool.