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twittering machine

I.

Paul Klee, "Die Zwitscher-Maschine" (1927)

Paul Klee, "Die Zwitscher-Maschine" (1927)

The scene evokes an abbreviated pastoral—but the birds are shackled to their perch, which is in turn connected to the hand crank.

Somewhere between nature and the mechanical, between the comic and the tragic, his birds “twitter” with a music that expresses how frail and vulnerable existence is, especially in the post-WWI modern world.

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II.

“Birdhouse In Your Soul” performed by They Might Be Giants and The Tonight Show’s NBC Orchestra (with Doc Severinsen):

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III.

A few of the people I follow on Twitter (the list is inexhaustive). Feel free to suggest others, or pimp your own tweets.

@barbarahui
@bone433
@canislatrans
@gnatx
@kaiserinTweet
@maddow
@nietzsche_f
@Oblique_Chirps
@orangestitch
@summersumz
@susiebright
@tinydao
@TPHD

Also relevant: “Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less”

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