Keep Away From The Pigs
Especially when they look like this:
I have a huge crush on this style of illustration. I want to teach myself to draw like this. All Medievaly (I’m pretty sure that’s the academically established term for it, amirite?). This particularly undelicious looking hunk of pork was taken from here, through which I have spent about the last 10 years browsing.
Of course, this is all in reference to the media frenzy and general panic over the potential H1N1 flu pandemic. Something which people seem not to mention when trying to sell the fear is that ordinarily there are about 36,000 deaths in the US from regular seasonal flu, every year. So it’s a little premature to get so riled up over the 20 confirmed cases in Mexico.
Ah crap, I lost my segue. It was going to be: While on the subject of ye olde stuff, here’s the last thing I heard on NPR last night, before the 1 o’ clock news forced my remote hand into the off position:
I think I either liked the version they played on NPR more, or I liked the way it sounded through pre-sleep. The latter is kind of a recurring occurrence. I remember really liking how the, errr, violini lines wrenchingly blurred and pulsed into each other, and how that and the modality made me think of more modern pieces, in places. It’s still got some of that, but without the remembered near-violent intensity. Maybe I’ll listen to some of his other stuff while (inevitably) churning out PowerPoint slides tomorrow.