Electronica on the Nile, the 35mm faces extinction and summer celebrity death #2...

Electronica on the Nile, the 35mm faces extinction and summer celebrity death #2...

Last night at the El-Sawy Cultural Center, I went to see the band, Bikya, perform...they're three young guys who I might describe as young Egyptian Massive Attack with a dash of early Groove Armada. The concert was held in one of Cairo's many fantastic outdoor performance spaces, this one located under the 26th of July bridge in Zamalek, literally on the banks of the Nile. As I explained to my Egyptian-British friend, Adam, I don't know what I was expecting culturally of Cairo before I arrived, but I certainly haven't bee disappointed. Even if an electronica group like Bikya has a very small local following, just the fact that tons of young artists and musicians are out and performing in great spaces all over the city every night, is truly fantastic.

It's the definitive beginning of the end for the 35mm camera...Dixons, one of the largest electronics store chains in the UK, has announced that they will stop selling analog cameras once stocks run out. Following Kodak's announcement last month that they will stop producing professional black-and-white photo paper due to dropping demand, it seems like 35mm photography is truly on the verge of extinction at last.

Peter Jennings passed away on Sunday at the age of 67 after a difficult battle with lung cancer. These things always seems to come in three's every summer...who's next? Rehnquist? Carter?