Grab bag: Beethoven 9 blues

Explains a lot about how I work.

I like this — looks nice and background-tasky, which is how I like my vegetables. Plus: rosemary.

Photoshop techniques for taking isolated elements out of composite illustrations.

Shades of Nouveau Vague.

Wu-Tang Clan album covers in the style of Blue Note. Nice.

“… the Tanglewood Festival Chorus delivered a rousing and focused performance, with less visceral intensity than Michael Tilson Thomas requested from them at Tanglewood in August, but with all the control and dexterity Maazel required. At certain climaxes, they positively saturated the hall with sound.”