Waves crashing on the shore, footsteps crunching on the forest floor. Stress levels plummet when we immerse ourselves in nature. Nick Luscombe meets the Japanese scientists working to bring the healing power of nature into the heart of the city. Nature’s secret, they believe, isn’t the sound you can hear, it’s the high frequencies you
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The high-wire artist who traversed the National Building Museum Thursday, became a legend for walking between the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 1974. Source: Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, tackles the National Building Museum at 73 – The Washington Post
Tucson abstract artist Carlos Ramirez had always admired the renowned Gebert Contemporary Art Gallery in Old Town and dreamed of showing his art there someday. Source: Abstract artist journeys into Gebert Gallery | Arts & Entertainment | scottsdale.org
Go on a virtual hunt in Arlington, VA for hidden gems during National Walking Day. Join the extreme cleanup team in Rock Creek. Learn the intersection of history and segregation in Northern Virginia, and more during this week’s urbanist events.
driftsinging
Drawing with (vocal) sound in response to place while passing through place. Driftsinging borrows from the Situationist Drift, and Baudelaire’s flâneur. Driftsinging also relates to the process of ‘sounding,’ the sonic measuring of distance and depth that locates position in place and ‘echo location’, the examination of place through sonic reflection and refraction, resonance and echo.
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