It’s always surprising how fast the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival flies by. It seems like just yesterday we were sitting in the Bang on a Can/ MASS MoCA staff meet and greet. Over the past three weeks we have made a plethora of new friends, been stunned by the talent these musicians have to offer the world, and have throughly enjoyed every concert, recital, and community event we have had the chance to attend. Help us send these amazingly wonderful musicians off in style at the six hour Bang on a Can Marathon this Saturday.

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Video Vortex = a weekly installment of our favorite videos from MASS MoCA artists and trailers for upcoming events, plus a few random viral creations as well.

Clare and the Reasons

Need a reason to come see Clare and the Reasons next Saturday? First watch this awesome video of “That’s All” a Genesis cover C + TR recorded on their second album. Then watch this lovely interview with Clare describing how the music comes about.

Uncle Rock

Learn the Spider Man, Rock, I Love You, Llama combo from Uncle Rock

Nomadic Wax

This event is going to be one of the best this summer. The first video is a snippit from Nomadic Wax’s panel at SXSW and the second is a clip from Democracy in Dakar, the film they will be highlighting here at MASS MoCA.

Solid Sound

You didn’t forget about Solid Sound did you? Yeah, we didn’t think so.

Mavis Staples

The Books

Sir Richard Bishop

Happy Friday
Brittany

Inspired by Luisa Caldwell’s use of fruit stickers in You Art What You Eat in Kidspace, this excellent food blogger, Dinner: A Love Story,  came up with a cool idea for a way to get kids to eat more fruit.  Though we find those little stickers super  annoying, this idea almost makes us wish they came on kale and cauliflower too.

She also gives a shout out to Rural Intelligence, a blog we recommend too!

Some of my favorite photos in our Flickr Group are those of patrons looking at and contemplating the art. These pics help remind me that I come to work everyday for the love of art and to share that with other people!

Please note all photos shown in Flickr Finds blogs retain the copyright of the original photographer. To learn more about the photographer and the licensing of their images, click on the photographer’s name to visit their Flickr profile or webpage.

Mysteryship

justinhiggins

Zerohandel

Operation Iggy

Nikole Bouchard

Jesse Santana

Sasquatch Madness

Cheers,
Brittany

P.S. If you would like to see your photos featured here next month make sure you add them to our Flickr Group for consideration. I’m also looking for themes for future Flickr Finds.  If you would like to see photos based on a specific color, exhibition, idea, etc… let me know!

My awesome friend Meredith in the Performing Arts department took a few minutes to visit with designer/artist Jim Findlay while he was here working on his design and video for the Music of George Crumb concert which is the grand finale to International George Crumb Day here at MASS MoCA. Meredith put together a few clips of her time with Jim to give you idea of what he has up his sleeve for the video portion of the concert. Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Brittany

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