Jon Rawlinson captured this beautiful high def recording of the Kuroshio Sea tank, one of the largest in the world, located at Okinawa’s Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. This impressive environment contains eighty different aquatic species including four whale shark (the largest living fish species) in a tank that is “ten metres deep, 35 metres wide and 27 metres long” and “holds 7,500 tonnes of water” (I’ll let you do the metric conversion). Set to the Barcelona’s “Please Don’t Go,” definitely watch this video in full screen for the completely mesmerizing and calming effect.
Earlier this year, street artist Blu, whose must watchshort film starring an animated creature painstakingly painted on public walls virally caught fire last year on the Internet, created this shark mural earlier this year in Barcelona for the 2009 Influencers festival.
This past week we found ourself unable to stop listening to “Antillas,” a five-minute bundle of clattering loops and sunny harmonies, from Barcelona-via-Canary Islands one-man band El Guincho, aka Pablo Diaz-Reixa, and his entirely addictive self-released Alegranza, so we contacted the man himself and asked if we could post it. When he wrote back, he mentioned it was his favorite jam off the record, too. Besides that, and that he’s also in an Animal Collective-y band called Coconot [www.myspace.com], we don’t know all that much about the guy (except that a few of his songs really do nail a Person Pitch). And not all of us know our Spanish, which adds to the appealing mystery. Click Here [stereogum.com] to watch and listen to the bright, airy, encircling Tropicalia.
