Fan Michael Pollack stood up to ask his childhood idol a question during the Piano Man's recent Q&A at Vanderbilt University.
He asked to play with him. Joel answered.
"...and that's how you get to be a horn player in NYC... take a chance" Joel after the song.
If you don't ask, you don't get.
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From the mountains of Wyoming to the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, photographers and adventurers Will Stauffer-Norris and Zak Podmore travelled more than 1,700 miles along the Green and Colorado Rivers. Leaving in October of 2011 and arriving in the Sea of Cortez in January of 2012, the two journeyed for 113 days.
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Designer Daniel Nyari has created this playful set of Football Playmakers.
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The beautiful Neruda poem, "The Me Bird" inspired this truly awesome stencil cut animation, created by 18bis.
The making-of video is pretty awesome too.
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Six of my favorites from this great set (47 photos in total) over at the Big Picture.
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Photographer Kevin Cooley's series called “Lights Edge”: long-exposure photographs of military-grade emergency flares into the night sky.
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On the whole, my adventure index is fairly low. Certainly in comparison with these CRAZIES!
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Olivier Valsecchi's series, “Klecksography”, builds symmetrical sculptures out of bodies, in a way that evokes the famous inklot tests of times past.
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Guerlain Chicherit does a backflip in a John Cooper Works MINI as a promo for Monster Energy Drink. Crazy.
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The world will be our User Interface soon. Here is the first look at how Google Glass will feel.
If you want to get your hands on a pair, there is a way.
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Via the San Diego Zoo:
The sociable weaver’s nest sees plenty of guests—a regular Kalahari Desert inn! The South African pygmy falcon Polihierax semitorquatus relies completely on the sociable weavers’ nest for its own home, often nesting side by side with the sociable weavers. The pied barbet, familiar chat, red-headed finch, ashy tit, and rosy-faced lovebird often find comfort in the cozy nesting chambers, too. Vultures, owls, and eagles will roost on the nests’ broad roof. Why are weavers willing to share the huge nest they worked so hard to make? More residents mean more eyes keeping a watch for danger. And the weavers often learn from the other birds where new sources of food can be found.
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To paraphrase Steven Pinker, "stories are empathy technology." And this is a good story for putting the impact of bullying squarely in the mind.
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“Near the Egress”was made by photographer Antonio Martinez and depicts a circus show.
It is eeriy and gorgeous and full of images that feel like memory (at least to me).
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Timothy Corbin captured these stunning images of trees and their roots layered with ice and icicles on the edge of Lake Ontario.
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Polish photographer Jakub Polomski was inspired by the Misty Mountains of J.R.R. Tolkien in his series "Mountains of Mist."
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New York-based photographer Brian Maffitt created these stunning long-exposure light painting photos by projecting a movie onto the falling snow of the storm that hit the Northeast in order to light up the snowflakes.
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Reminds me a lot of the animals made of shattered CDs (to the right), that we covered last year, only much sharper.
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In 2012, director and photographer Jess Dunlap capture over 17k photos in such gorgeous spots as Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Convict Lake, June Lake, Mono Lake, Simi Valley, and Owens Valley to create this 4-minute time-lapse video titled Monolation.
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Semenov says about his underwater photography:
When I first began to experiment with sea life photography I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with my own old DSLR camera and without any professional lights or lenses. I collected the invertebrates under water and then I’ve shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure I ended up with a few good pictures, which I’ve showed to the crew. It has inspired us to buy a semi-professional camera complete with underwater housing and strobes. Thus I’ve spent the following field season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their environment. It was much more difficult, and I spent another two months without any significant results. But when you’re working at something every day, you inevitably get a lot of experience. Eventually I began to get interesting photos — one or two from each dive. Now after four years of practice I get a few good shots almost every time I dive but I still have a lot of things that need to be mastered in underwater photography.
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Amazing short film titled "Choros":
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike "pas de trente-deux."
"Choros" premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012 and has gone on to play dozens of festivals worldwide. The film is currently broadcast in Europe by Canal+.
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