Project Rebirth chronicles the transformation of the site of the World Trade Center. Using 6 timelapse cameras, they are documenting the reconstruction efforts. Includes updated film trailers and details of what is to come.

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You’ve no doubt noticed a new image at the top of this here page. It comes from a 1962 album from Bill Evans and Jim Hall called “Undercurrent”. I’ve never heard the music but I’ve always loved the graphic. The photo was taken by Toni Frissell and the design is by Frank Guana and Alan Douglas.

I know this because I have a book called “Album Cover Album” by Storm Thorgerson and Roger Dean. Roger Dean is best known for his Yes covers and Thorgerson is better known as Hipgnosis.

The new scanner will get a workout and you’ll see some other classics show up over the next few weeks.

Kevin Toolis, a british writer and terrorism expert pens a searing condemnation of George W Bush in the Mirror. He doesn’t pull many punches when it comes to describing the President as:
>” the worst president the United States has ever had. What’s more, he’s a danger to the rest of the planet as well.”

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>“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”