The popularity of Fix You is somewhat surprising considering how independent our culture has become. How does a song, based on the idea that we need someone else to be fixed, move so many people? Maybe it's because we all get to a point in our life where we know ours and the world’s needs are deeper than our abilities to attend to them.

Within the music world, it seems that something mysterious happens when soul meets folk. At least this is the case with singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne. In fact, I think it would be rather difficult to attend a Ray LaMontagne show and leave without describing both his music and personality as "mysterious".

While most live performers attempt to strike a balance between music performance and audience interaction, LaMontagne is becoming known for leaving the latter on the shelf and placing complete confidence in allowing his music to speak for itself.

There are quite a few poems of Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate, on YouTube that have been animated. I wonder about making these videos to go along with poems. Do you think these images are helpful for your understanding of the poem, or do these images take away your ability to create your own images from these words? Do you like these specific images that were chosen to represent this poem? Is something lost not being able to see where the poet breaks the line?

Below, Billy Collins reads his poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan.

This is a series of digital media, drawings and photographs in which Luke Wassink deals with the nature of representation in a simple yet profound way. Below Wassink discusses some of the ideas behind this series.

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