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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Covers Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Space
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Covers Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Space

“Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare…”

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Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation
Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation

Is genius a mosaic of “magpielike borrowings”?

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Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block, Inspired by John Cage
Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block, Inspired by John Cage

“If a thing can be said, it can be said simply.”

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Dream of Life: The Ultimate Documentary on the Iconic Artist Patti Smith
Dream of Life: The Ultimate Documentary on the Iconic Artist Patti Smith

“Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.”

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Duke Ellington’s Diet
Duke Ellington’s Diet

What the celebrated composer’s relationship with food reveals about the inner conflicts we share.

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We Are Singing Stardust: Carl Sagan on the Story of Humanity’s Greatest Message and How the Golden Record Was Born
We Are Singing Stardust: Carl Sagan on the Story of Humanity’s Greatest Message and How the Golden Record Was Born

“We [are] a species endowed with hope and perseverance, at least a little intelligence, substantial generosity and a palpable zest to make contact with the cosmos.”

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John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with His Charming Drawings
John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with His Charming Drawings

Subtle critique of culture’s hypocrisies, wrapped in bewitching gibberish.

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Party Like It’s 1903: Virginia Woolf on the Ecstasy of Music and Dance
Party Like It’s 1903: Virginia Woolf on the Ecstasy of Music and Dance

“Dance music… stirs some barbaric instinct — lulled asleep in our sober lives — you forget centuries of civilization in a second.”

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Connected: A Charming Stop-Motion Papercraft Music Video Inspired by the Universe
Connected: A Charming Stop-Motion Papercraft Music Video Inspired by the Universe

We are all stardust.

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Lou Reed on Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Laurie Anderson, Setting Edgar Allan Poe to Music, and Why Record Labels Deserve to Die
Lou Reed on Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Laurie Anderson, Setting Edgar Allan Poe to Music, and Why Record Labels Deserve to Die

“Making things that are beautiful is real fun.”

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