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Westbrook Music Building | University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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I was thinking about what Glenn Gould said about the purpose of art when walking around the sturdy structure of the Westbrook Music Building in a sunny afternoon. The Westbrook Music Building, home to the School of Music and Dance of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, seemed to hum a quiet consonant interval to counterpoint sunshiny May afternoon’s slow breezing overtones. I...

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International Quilt Study Center & Museum

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International Quilt Study Center & Museum | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang There’s of course no factual connection whatsoever between Cameron Crowe’s 1996 film Jerry Maquire and the International Quilt Study Center & Museum’s current exhibition “Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design, and the Studio Quilt.” But, for about four minutes and thirty-three seconds, this exhibition, curated by Michael James and Sandra Sider, really forced me to rethink about a scene...

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Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum

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Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum helloed me with an unadorned “Tractor Museum” sign and its unfussy and non-nonsense vibe. Walking through museum’s massive collection of old tractors, I was suddenly tingled with a lovely feeling. I was honored with a once-in-a-life-time invitation to visit a distinguished club house of retired happy...

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Feeling grumpy like an unhuggable teddy bear after waking up from a dreamless cold winter night was a little bit of déjà vu these days due to my neonatal love for Béla Tarr’s black-and-white film Sátántangó. I needily sipped my espresso cortado and put on Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants album, gradually allowing the warm musical thoughts sunbathing...

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus

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The Don L. Love Memorial Library at UNL | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Waking up around 5 a.m. on Black Friday to visit major retailers with my handheld field-recording devices has developed into an annual ritualistic comportment over the past few years. The massive sonic scenery of the crowd swarming toward doorbusters was extraordinary, and to me, this was the sound symbolizing the love, adoration, and the...

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