Kudos to all the diligent folks who took the time to look up the locations of the images in our Name These SoCo Landmarks from Above post last Tuesday. If you didn’t see the post and want to test your knowledge before you see the answers, click HERE before going through the slide show above, which contains the answers to our 36-point Google Maps geography quiz.

Congratulations to Big Something subscriber John Bender who identified every single location by at least one of its facets. He wins a pair of tickets to see Laura Veirs this coming Saturday at Venue 515.

The young Mexican indie-folk chanteuse Carla Morrison has been given the royal remix treatment by Los Amparito from Jalisco. Be sure to check out Morrison’s myspace page for more of her originals.

And here’s a video of the original:

Welcome to the Feb. 26 episode of Lost & Found Radio, we ransacked the web for the newest indie music and complied for this weekly 1/2 hour radio show. To listen, you can right click on the link below to download or just click the green play button on the streaming player. Enjoy!

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1) Pablo Picawesome – In the Car, At Night (Free Download)

A world premiere song.

2) Jerry Fuentes – Father’s Gun

3) Bare Handed Lee – Never Apart (that was my word) [Free Download]

This band is so new they haven’t even decided on a name. When I found them, they were called, “Certified Naked.” Two days later, they e-mailed me requesting to be called, “Bare Handed Lee.” As of this recording, this next song was called “Never Apart (that was my word).”

4) On Sparrow Hills – Thimble (Free Download)
from Sitting Choir EP (Free Download)

5) Rupert Blackman – If You Only Knew

An English singer/songwriter currently living in the Netherlands.

6) Gunsling Birds – I am Constantly Thirsty

7) The Congress – Loretta

Their self-titled debut album will hit stores on March 11. The album features keyboardist Daniel Clarke, who plays, records, writes, and-or produces for KD Lang, Mandy Moore, and Ryan Adams. He co-produced the album with Scott Lane and Jonathan Meadows (the singer and other guitarist). Also features John Macy, our engineer, on pedal steel, who has recorded or toured with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Richie Furay, Ricky Skaggs, Railbenders, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Gladys Knight.

The second track off their album, “Back Where You Are,” was donated and featured on CNN and CNN Headline news in January as music for a commercial campaign for Haiti Relief.

Kelp! is Karl Blau (who plays with Laura Veirs on July Flame) and Nate Ashley. This song is good.

Since we ran this piece last August, Ele Annand was accepted to the very prestigious 2-year core fellowship program at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Lucky for us she agreed to do this excellent design for the Spring Fund Drive t-shirts:

Congrats, again, to Ele and here’s another look at her wonderful art.

In the three years that she lived in Colorado Springs, printmaker Ele Annand didn’t show her work much, but always made an impression when she did. We’re sad, for us, that she‘s leaving left, but happy for her that she‘ll be moving moved to North Carolina to study at the renowned Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Of course, we couldn’t let her leave without asking her to share some of her seldom-seen work and her thoughts about the Colorado Springs arts community.

(Please leave us some feedback below in the comments or via email at thebigsomething@krcc.org. Thanks!)

Happy Birthday, Delaney!

Remember those “What in the world!?” aerial photos of farm irrigation patterns or rainbow colored oil spills in your 8th grade geography text book? Somehow, almost anything looks beautiful with enough distance and a different perspective.

Such views are now at anyone’s fingertips with the magic of Google Maps. Zoom in, zoom out, pretend you’re a bird or a god or a radio wave. Take a tour of the great wall of China, check out the pyramids, Eiffel Tower, etc. and you’re still at home for lunch. It’s all too easy.

While it’s easy to take such things for granted these days, it’s also easy to remember how amazing it is when you spend a little time just looking around rather than finding directions. We started poking around the Pikes Peak Region on Google Maps recently and found that it was quite a different place from space.

As such, we took this series of screen captures of somewhat recognizable places and landmarks in some of the KRCC listening area and thought we’d see if you can identify them.

As an added bonus, we thought we’d offer a pair of tickets to see Laura Veirs on March 6 at Venue 515 to the person who can identify the most locations.

HINTS:

1. Some images will probably be identifiable without too much effort, others were included because we thought they looked “neat” and may require some Google ogling.
2. When in doubt, be as specific as possible.
3. Not everything is a landmark, but may just be a part of a place, town or a natural formation.
4. These images are from much, though not all, of the KRCC listening area).

We’ll contact the winner next Monday and identify all the locations for you then.

While we welcome your comments and thoughts on the images in the comments section whether you want to play or not, PLEASE DO NOT PUT ANY OF YOUR ANSWERS OR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE COMMENTS! INSTEAD, YOU CAN EMAIL YOUR ANSWERS (NUMBERED 1-36) AND CONTACT INFORMATION TO US AT: thebigsomething@krcc.org.

Thanks!