Summer’s usually a bit slow here at the ARC, but not this year. The above is a pile of recently donated LPs by North Carolina horn player and jazz professor George Broussard. Mostly jazz and very nice. Thanks to appraiser Scott Neuman (and his lovely daughter) for making this donation possible

The picture above reminds me that about ten of us here have been busy prepping for the great Chinese adventure. What’s that? Well, its a shipload of CDs off to Shenzhen to be digitized. More next week as too busy to give you the whole story now.

Think your images, audio and oh-so-interesting-life is preserved for keeps? Well entropy is long and tech is fleeting, as the trash in Tribeca revealed yesterday…

Another street showstopper is this larger-than-life dancing in the street photomural that appeared, unannounced last week on Franklin St. It’s by French artist JR + featuring NY City Ballet principal dancer, Lauren Lovette.

One nice thing encountered at the budget burning man-ish fest in Wassaic, NY last week is this sync/sink mixer – a play on the dual turntables giving everyone a chance to create some drip-hop.

Finally, to commemorate the opening of the US Embassy in Cuba, Open (Studio) finished up the wallpaper for our Cuba Music Week. Stay tuned, and join us in Havana next July 14-22, 2016.