Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

"These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound? That's right, before it was all-808-everything, hip-hop used a secret (and sometimes not-so-secret) selection of classic soul, funk rock, and jazz records from the ’60s and ’70s to create their sound. From tiny, obscure snippets to instantly-recognizable loops, the sample-based producers of the late ’80s and early ’90s uncovered some truly classic musical gems that are still sought after and used today."
Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

Diplomacy

Wikipedia - "Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases (players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances with other players) and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects."
Wikipedia, Play Diplomacy Online, The Game of Diplomacy, (1), amazon

The American Breed

Wikipedia - "The American Breed was an American rock band that was formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1969."
Wikpedia, last.fm, YouTube

Art of the Mimeo Revolution

"I just finished reading Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics to Comix 1963-1990, which was released in connection with an exhibition at Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin a year ago."
Mimeo Mimeo, Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963 - 1990, Little Magazine Collection

DOLK Goes BIG in Brooklyn

"In New York for his show with M-City at the Brooklynite Gallery, DOLK has been hitting Brooklyn hard."
Wooster Collective, Brooklynite Gallery

The Master Musicians of Jajouka

"Jajouka is an ancient village perched above a long valley in the blue Djebala foothills of the Rif Mountains in northern Morocco. The village is home to the Master Musicians of Jajouka as well as the sanctuary of Saint Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, who came from the East around 800 AD to spread Islam to North Morocco."
The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Wikipedia, W - 1, My Space, YouTube, (1), (2), Master Musicians of Joujouka Live in Porto part 1, Porto part 2, Rolling Stones - 'In Morocco" BBC Documentary 1989 Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5.

Patti Smith, Tom Snyder

"February 23, 2009 — Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978."
YouTube

Benjamin Péret

Wikipedia - "Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist."
Wikipedia, Green Integer, enotes, Benjamin Péret: songs of the eternal rebels

Ken Kesey

Wikipedia - "Kenneth Elton 'Ken' Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s."
Wikipedia, W - Merry_Pranksters, Psychedelic 60s: Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, YouTube

Eugène Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People
Wikipedia - "Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement."
Wikipedia, Eugène Delacroix,

Gregory Isaacs

Wikipedia - "Gregory Isaacs (born Gregory Anthony Isaacs, 15 July 1951, Fletchers Land, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as 'the most exquisite vocalist in reggae'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Tango #16

"'Tango', #16 in the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine series, offers the unexpected pairing of contemporary downtown NY composers with vintage tango songs."
continuo, UbuWeb

Thomas Struth

Sommerstrasse, Düsseldorf, 1980
Wikipedia - "Thomas Struth (born 1954) is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work covers detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. Along with Andreas Gursky, he is one of Germany's most noted modern-day photographers."
Wikipedia, artnet, Marian Goodman

“Get out of there!,” the definitive montage

"So I was dangling this dork from Pajiba upside-down trying to dislodge his lunch money when out popped this video. It’s a montage of 'Get out of there!' scenes from movies."
Filmdrunk

Soviet Non-Conformist Art – Before and after the fall of the USSR

Lucien Dulfan, City Street, 1980s
"Under the paradoxical title Soviet Non-Conformist Art – Before and after the fall of the USSR, the Chambers Gallery next to Smithfields Market is showing paintings and prints by a group of artists hailing from the Odessa School, the Ukrainian Underground and Russia."
A World to Win, FAD, Guardian

Darren Almond

"Darren Almond’s diverse work, incorporating film, installation, sculpture and photography, deals with evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory."
White Cube, artnet

It's a Beautiful Day

Wikipedia - "It's a Beautiful Day was a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme. LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin."
Wikipedia, It's a Beautiful Day, YouTube - It's a Beautiful Day, (1), Soapstone Mountain, Bombay Calling

Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery

Anthony Van Dyck, Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20
"Dulwich Picture Gallery holds one of the world's major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, reintroduces American audiences to this institution’s collection through an exceptional group of works, to be shown exclusively at the Frick through May 30, 2010."
The Frick Collection

Made in Abearica

"Yesterday I rendezvoused with a brother in arms at the cigar store and was handed a manila envelope enclosing a dossier pivotal to the success of the Mimeo Revolution. The scans above do not do justice to the breadth and depth of this project. It is a multi-media affair with a CD, a website, text and artwork."
Mimeo Mimeo, Abearica

Senses of Cinema

Sherman Ong, 2005
Wikipedia - "Senses of Cinema is prominent quarterly online film journal founded in 1999. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Senses of Cinema publishes work by film critics from all over the world, including critical essays, career overviews of the works of key directors, and coverage of many international festivals."
Wikipedia, Senses of Cinema, Senses of Cinema - Great Directors, Senses of Cinema - online journal

Clock DVA

Wikipedia - "Clock DVA is an Industrial music, Post-Punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adi Newton and Steven 'Judd' Turner."
Wikipedia, My Space, last.fm, YouTube - The Hacker, Sound Mirror, Fractalize, '4 Hours' (7" 1981), NYC OVERLOAD

Peasant

Peasant Wedding, Pieter the Elder Bruegel
Wikipedia - "A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district (when the Roman Empire became Christian, these outlying districts were the last to Christianise, and this gave rise to 'pagan' as a religious term)."
Wikipedia, The Lifestyle of Medieval Peasants, W - Peasants' Revolt, Medieval Peasant, The Medieval Technology Pages - Peasant Houses

The Hobbit

Wikipedia - "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in a time 'Between the Dawn of Færie and the Dominion of Men', The Hobbit follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug."
Wikipedia

Poets House

"Poets House is a national poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Our poetry resources and literary events document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, and stimulate public dialogue on issues of poetry in culture."
Poets House, Wikipedia

Bob Dylan Musical Roots and Influences Pages

"He is a dime-store philosopher, a drugstore cowboy, a men's room conversationalist. And when he describes his young life, he declares himself dumbfounded at the spectacle. 'With my thumb out, my eyes asleep, my hat turned up an' my head turned on,' says Bob Dylan, 'I'm driftin' and learnin' new lessons.'"
Roots of Bob Dylan, 2000

Dee Dee Sharp

Wikipedia - "Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue, September 9, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Mashed Potato Time, Slow Twist, Gravy( For My Mashed Potatoes)

Textile workers strike (1934)

St. Louis unemployed protest, 1934
Wikipedia - "The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days. The strike's ultimate failure and the trade union's defeat left the Southeastern United States an unorganized and anti-union region for the next 50 years."
Wikipedia

Rough Trade Records

Wikipedia - "Rough Trade Records is an independent record label, based in London, United Kingdom. It was started in 1978 by Geoff Travis."
Wikipedia, Google: "Do It Yourself - The Story Of Rough Trade"

The Paris Review

"'Dear reader,' William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, 'The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book.'"
The Paris Review, (1), Wikipedia

Pierre Bismuth

Wikipedia - "Pierre Bismuth (b. 1963 in Paris) is a contemporary artist. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life, from headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen's magazines, to even the color of the walls."
Wikipedia, Pierre Bismuth

Caterpillar

"Edited by Clayton Eshleman, Caterpillar would make many a top ten list of greatest post-WWII little magazines. Mags like Yugen, Floating Bear or J are quick hits. A cigarette break. Caterpillar is like smoking a churchill maduro."
Mimeo Mimeo

Brian Eno on media and his music

"Interview with Brian Eno on media and his music. Edited by Denise Gallant for Video West, San Francisco KQED show, 1980s. Interview by Video West. Video Synthesis effects by the Synopsis Video Synthesizer."
YouTube - Interview/Lecture. The Thing Is... An Interview, (2), (3). Imaginary Landscapes, (2), (3), (4). Constellations (77 Million Paintings), (2). Later, 2001. Music For Airports Interview. Voices. Banned Anti-War Demo in London.

Fresh Stuff from Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada in Monterrey, Mexico

"The work above by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was done as part of the project Seres Queridos."
Wooster Collective

Lucinda Williams

Wikipedia - "Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public."
Wikipedia, Lucinda Williams, last.fm, YouTube - Passionate Kisses, Drunken Angel, Right In Time, Still I Long For Your Kiss, I Just Wanted To See You So Bad, Sweet Side, World Without Tears, Crescent City, Lake Charles, C'mon, Pineola, Overtime, Ventura, Blue, Big Red Sun Blues, Bus To Baton Rouge

Romantic poetry

The Funeral of Shelley , Louis Edouard Fournier (1889)
Wikipedia - "Romanticism largely began as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day. Inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual ‘movement’. Indeed, the term 'Romanticism' did not arise until the Victorian period."
Wikipedia