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Posted Mar. 28, 2008,
T Magazine's Trophy Trips: Talk About Pulling a Geographic!
By Ann Magnuson
During my morning internet surf I happily discovered that the New York Times' T Magazine has a new travel issue. Always curious to know what the next Patagonia is I took a looky-loo inside. Voila! A story devoted to the new "Trophy Trips" of the rich and restless. As much as I'd love to ride on the forthcoming Virgin Galactic space jet (gotta wait until I find an extra $200,000 lurking in my portfolio) or go on an Antarctic safari, I'm not sure I want to share the adventure with a bevy of jet-setting braggarts.
To quote T:
Posted Jan. 14, 2008,
DJ Spooky's Antarctica Project
By David Hershkovits
Running into Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky usually leads to hearing about his globe-trotting itinerary. Which is just what happened recently when I saw him at breakfast at the Noho Star in Nolita. Before flying off to wherever, he filled me in on his recent trip to Antarctica where he was recording the sound of the glaciers melting for a film he's working on. So when the Washington Post reported melting in an area once thought unaffected by global warming, I thought about Spooky's project Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite. He explains it like this:
DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s next large scale multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller’s field recordings from a portable studio, set up to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress. Coupled with visual material from Getty Images’ vast collection, The Antarctic Suite is a seventy minute performance, creating a unique and powerful moment around man’s relationship with nature.