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You ever notice how a pair of shoes can know more about a day than the person wearing them? They don't ask where you're headed. They just keep a tally in dust, in scratches, in the little pebbles they carry home like souvenirs. Rocks have long memories, but shoes... shoes remember the journey.

These black lace-ups are standing on stone that's probably older than every argument ever had about where the road goes next. The sunlight's got that late-afternoon honesty to it. Doesn't flatter anything. It lays itself across the stockings in neat shadows, drawing lines like an old railroad map nobody uses anymore but nobody throws away. Funny thing about stone. Folks think it's permanent. It isn't. Water has a conversation with rock that lasts a few million years, and somehow the water gets the last word. Makes you wonder what patience really looks like.

Sometimes the smallest voyage is just sitting still for a minute, looking down, realizing your feet have carried you farther than your plans ever did. And if you're lucky, they'll carry you a little farther before the sun changes its mind.

IMG_2733.jpg by Stephanie Smith

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polly_en by dot-art

New artists added to the dot-art Website Winter 2011-12

Joanne Thompson

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La Soga by Mariana Del Gener

Obra: La Soga.

Autor: Patrick Hamilton.

Dirección: Matías Gandolfo – Sebastián Blanco Leiss.

Labor: Diseño de Escenografía y Vestuario.

(Junto a Florencia Del Gener).

Teatro: Actors Studio Complex.

Temporada: 2003.

Fotos: Mariana Del Gener.

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- entre la espada y la pared - by Loana Ibarra

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Historic downtown Frederick by BAR Photography

Historic downtown Frederick

Rapunzel Hair Dress By HAUS OF YBA by Nana Yaa Serwaah Akuoku

Rapunzel Dress

Myself working by Jaakko Kahilaniemi

Jaakko Kahilaniemi Photography

Käkronkâlonč by Krystal Pavlović

🎂 Femi Kuti 🎂 by Loana Ibarra

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Some music comes at you like a telegram. A few words, a sharp knock on the door, and then it's gone. Other music rolls in like weather. It gathers on the horizon, changes the color of the sky, and before you know it you're standing in the middle of it. Femi Kuti belongs to that second category.

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he inherited one of the biggest shadows in modern music. His father was Fela Kuti, the architect of Afrobeat, a musician who built songs the way some people build cities, you know, street by street, horn by horn, drum by drum. But inheritance in music isn't like inheriting a house. You don't get the keys. You have to build your own rooms. Femi did exactly that.

The sound starts with rhythm, but rhythm is only the beginning. The drums move like traffic. The bass lays down a road. Horns arrive in bright clusters, like birds crossing a hot afternoon sky. Then Femi's saxophone cuts through it all, speaking a language that seems to know where jazz has been and where Africa is headed.

Afrobeat has always had one foot on the dance floor and the other on the courthouse steps. It celebrates and accuses at the same time. It can make you move your body while asking uncomfortable questions. That's a difficult balancing act. Big fan. Most musicians lean one way or the other. Femi Kuti walks the tightrope.

Listening to him, you hear echoes of James Brown's discipline, the exploratory spirit of John Coltrane, the communal pulse of highlife, and something else that's impossible to borrow from anybody: the sound of Lagos itself. Millions of voices, countless stories, endless motion. His songs don't hurry. They unfold. They stretch out and take their time, like a conversation that starts at sunset and doesn't end until morning. The groove keeps circling back on itself, each pass revealing another detail you missed the first time around.

Some musicians write songs. Others create environments. Femi Kuti creates environments. Put on one of his records late at night and you'll hear more than a band. You'll hear a city breathing. You'll hear history arguing with the present. You'll hear celebration standing shoulder to shoulder with protest. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you'll hear a saxophone reminding you that music isn't just entertainment. Sometimes it's testimony.

And that's Femi Kuti: not merely carrying a tradition, but keeping it alive by pushing it forward. The best traditions don't sit still. They dance. So if you've got somewhere to be, you might want to postpone it for a while. A Femi Kuti groove isn't interested in your schedule. It's got its own clock, and once you're inside it, you're running on Afrobeat time.

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A Glitch “Heliogabalus(catalogus perversa) ~ Ètude II” by Louis Montiel

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A Glitch “Heliogabalus(catalogus perversa) ~ Ètude II”

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A Glitch "Naorismo’s(ναορισμός) ~ Ètude V” by Louis Montiel

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A Glitch "Naorismo’s(ναορισμός) ~ Ètude V”

This art piece were created for my PhD and based on a Digital and Analog Aesthetic Research on "Artistic Practices, Digital Art in Social Networks and Net Art", some digital techniques used of artistic diversity, such as the re-mixed appropriation of image or video, also work conceived as original data work called creative altered binary code, datamoshing, generative art and glitch art worked in all its forms and expressions; works of art with a strong focus decoding the i-frames of images and videos (also known as key frames and altered or distorted creative binary code) mixed with seductive techniques of Pixelsorting Art; making it seem extremely sensitive and abstract; created exclusively for the virtual gallery on-line.

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NFT Crypto Digital Art

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- still-life - by Loana Ibarra

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