3:29 to 8:21 (18:53)


“Recitativo — quasi secco”

Albumleaf 73: October 2, 2011 (Farmville)

(A homo neanderthalensis weeping)

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“Invenzionina”

Albumleaf 72: September 29, 2011 (Farmville)


See also number 16.

“Space Balloon”

Albumleaf 71: September 21, 2011 (Farmville)


“Little Vanishing World 4 (Draper Plate)”

Albumleaf 70: September 15, 2011 (Farmville)

H-S might have been the site of the first photograph. But John William Draper‘s image didn’t last: only the indecipherable plates remain; one can see them in the College’s Esther Atkinson Museum. This brief piece tries to capture an image’s quick decay, attempts to reclaim it, the frustration, and the hope that the image still exists.


“Volterraio”

Albumleaf 69: September 10, 2011 (Farmville)


“Canale Inferno”

Albumleaf 68: August 15, 2011 (Bologna)

The casual visitor to Bologna will only see paved streets–wide and narrow–with the typical jumble of little hatch-back cars, public buses, Vespas, and pedestrians. But for those who explore around the Via Delle Moline and the Via Riva Reno, a few stretches of the city’s centuries-old canal system are still visible. Some are only patches of green water seen through square holes cut into the street. But at one place you can hear–if not see–a canal rapid rushing behind the edifici. Elsewhere, a portion of a canal, two blocks long, quietly flowing, is still visible. And one can even go underground and see some of the old canals and streams moving underneath the city.

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“Aldrovandi Tavoletta”

Albumleaf 67: August 12, 2011 (Bologna)

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“Dottore!”

Albumleaf 66: July 28, 2011 (Bologna)

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For an actual instance of this less-than-completely-venerable tradition among students graduating from the University of Bologna, click here.

“Linea Meridiana”

Albumleaf 65: July 25, 2011 (Bologna)

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