CULTURE BUZZ: Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has extended his resume of ambitious artistic endeavors with this new interactive installation in which he essentially transforms a massive, empty ferry terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan into an interactive instrument. All the music is manipulated by a single church organ that connects to the sprawling architecture through endlessly long cables, all of which basically equates to how church would look if it were awesome.

The Best Links:

1. See David Play [The Building] On BoingBoing TV
2. The Cool Kids Are Down With Byrne
3. “Anyone Can Sound Good—whether They Are an Amateur, Or an Accomplished Musician.”
4. “A Marriage of the Industrial and the Sublime.”
5. David Byrne’s Self-Penned Reaction to Opening Night
6. How “Playing the Building” Makes the Record Industry Look Bad
7. “You Have the Power,” Says Byrne

CULTURE BUZZ: A series of photographs of terminally ill subjects taken shortly before and after their death are being exhibited in London. The photos depict 24 subjects ranging from a 17-month-old baby to an 83-year-old man. Like a much creepier version of Young Me/Now Me, the exhibit is challenging Western taboos about death and dying.

The Best Links:

1. Portraits of the Dying by Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta
2. Before and After Death Now Touring Europe
3. “This is the End - a German Photographer Captures the Dying “
4. Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta in Conversation
5. Wrenching and Beautiful Before-and-after-death Photos
6. Pictures of Ill Before and After Death