sonia | Links: Art and music and miscellaneous

Project 562. "Created by Matika Wilbur, Project 562 is a multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized Tribes, urban Native communities, Tribes fighting for federal recognition and Indigenous role models in what is currently-known-as the United States, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery and oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans."

Yixing Pottery from the Irving Collection. A gorgeous variety of hand-shaped teapots made of yixing clay. via

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What Happens When You Speak by Dr. Geoff Lindsey. MRI video of the mouth and throat of a person speaking, and then Dr. Lindsey explaining how the different parts work together to produce speech.

Neli Andreeva singing Ne Hodi Momne Le. The community choir I'm participating in is learning a version of this song with harmonies by Sestri Kušlevi, and this solo version is also amazing. Neli Andreeva is justly famous for her ornaments in Rhodope Bulgarian singing.

Dreaming in Welsh by Pamela Petro.

Hiraeth. It’s pronounced “here-eyeth” (roll the “r”) and it’s a Welsh word. It has no exact cognate in English. The best we can do is “homesickness,” but that’s like the difference between hardwood and laminate. Homesickness is hiraeth-lite.

Love and Justice in the Streets. A local organization helping homeless folks.

A list of books to learn Ruby and Rails by Akshay Khot. These aren't the books I used, but it looks like a useful list for recommending books to others.