Coolness, Jazz, Music

COOL DEFINED

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Don’t know who shot it, don’t know if the red is real or not, just don’t know anything except maybe it’s one of the all-time cool images.
And it makes me wonder, what’s as cool as this these days? A rocker on stage screaming and sweating? I don’t think so. It was something about those suits and those horns and those clubs… something about knowing everything about everything – Google-something about it was not manufactured it was just happenin’.
it was just cool.
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Beauty, Craftsmanship, Preservation

NO THROW AWAY

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Text by Bruce Berman, Editor

Whether you play guitar, do not play guitar, have no interest in playing guitar or don’t get enough sleep because you can’t stop playing the guitar, this is one of the most soothing videos we have ever seen.
It’s about more than the guitar.
Craftsmanship still exists. Everything is gone if it doesn’t. And there is nothing that should be thrown away except from our petroleum-based, plastic mess that our “stuff” is now mostly made of.
Watch as he repairs and brings this back to life -for another 100 years?- without ruining its acquired character.
In a throw-away world there is hope for a quality existence.

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