Brand From Home
You are not alone in this. The Brand Library & Art Center team is working together to bring you interesting content while Brand is temporarily closed to the public. Every day, we'll share a selection of historic and current images from Brand Library & Art Center, photos and videos of programs and exhibitions, and library resources to provide entertainment and enrich your day. Follow us on social media @brandlibrary or search #BrandFromHome
In addition, Brand From Home is a new email newsletter featuring curated content that supports learning and engagement with art, music and culture. We included a few of our favorites below. Sign up for twice-weekly emails at https://bit.ly/2L35Dvg or visit https://www.brandlibrary.org/blog to see past issues. We welcome your thoughts and feedback at info@brandlibrary.org.
Selections from Brand From Home email newsletters:
Music Playlists
What's Cooking: A Culinary Playlist
A playlist from Freegal you can cook to, featuring superb songs that involve food and cooking!
Streaming Music
The Cool Quarantine, Henry Rollins' long format online radio show from KCRW! Long-form digital-only music show hosted by Henry Rollins featuring personal stories, deep cuts, rarities, bootlegs, full albums, EPs, and much more.
Art Online
The John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive is one of the most comprehensive documentary studies of vernacular commercial structures along main streets, byways, and highways throughout the United States in the twentieth century. Subjects include restaurants, gas stations, movie theaters, motels, signage, miniature golf courses, and beach and mountain vacation resorts. In many instances, the only remaining record of these buildings.
Studio Ghibli, the award-winning Japanese animation house, is offering free wallpapers for video call backgrounds featuring scenes from their animated films Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Spirited Away.
Art Inspiration - Try It at Home
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a great STEM activity page for children. The activities are interactive and include downloads, quizzes and more. Make a moon phase calendar or an origami starshade.