Wikipedia - "Ernest Cole (1940 - February 19, 1990) was a South African photographer."
Wikipedia, NYT, YouTube
Ernest Cole
Wikipedia - "Ernest Cole (1940 - February 19, 1990) was a South African photographer."
Wikipedia, NYT, YouTube
The Shrine – Lagos
"In the past week the Nigerian authorities have finally succeeded in closing the legendary Shrine venue in Lagos. The Shrine club originally formed part of the 'Kalakuta Republic' founded by Fela Kuti in the early 70s (which also included a recording studio and commune), and was the stage where Fela developed the Afrobeat sound. It’s not the first time the venue has been closed by the authorities – The original Shrine was already destroyed in 1977 – but unfortunately it appears this latest closure may be final."
Laboca, Aphrodesia, amazon, YouTube - Lagos Jump - Visit to Fela's Shrine, Live at the Africa Shrine(Fela Death)
Orson Welles - The One Man Band (1995)
"ORSON WELLES: THE ONE-MAN BAND is a fascinating glimpse at this extraordinary man's final years - made with the cooperation of Oja Kodar, Welles' longtime companion, to whom he bequeathed a wealth of unedited films and fragments when he died in 1985. Granted exclusive access to Welles' heretofore unseen archives - and drawing from almost two tons of film cans containing fragments, shorts, project ideas, and sketches - the filmmakers are led by Kodar through the rich but unfulfilled Welles legacy."
UbuWeb
The Subway Issue
"The Subway in Pictures. A gallery of New York Times photography documenting 10 decades of New York City’s subway system."
NY Tiimes
Classified X
"A history of the racially stereotyped portrayal of African Americans in cinema. Written and narrated by Melvin Van Peebles, director of 'revolutionary' film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Van Peebles is no angel, his films have been called exploitative, but this history is powerful. Watch ALL 6 PARTS to see how stereotyped representations have evolved from early cinema to today."
YouTune - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Leaked Cables Offer Raw Look at U.S. Diplomacy
"A mammoth cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the last three years, provides an unprecedented look at bargaining by embassies, candid views of foreign leaders and assessments of threats. The material was obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of news organizations in advance."
NYT - State's Secrets, Wikileaks, Guardian, Spiegel, YouTube - Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Upcoming Iraq War Wikileaks Docs (Part 1 of 2), (Part 2 of 2)
Vintage Curt Teich linen postcards 1930s-50s
"A portion of my collection of linen postcards from the 30's and 50's"
flickr, Wikipedia - Curt Teich, jitterbuzz
Pills and Thrills: Fred Tomaselli’s Transports
Car Bomb, 2008
"When Motherless Brooklyn author Jonathan Lethem announced in April that he would be relocating from Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, to the white-collar, academic enclave of Claremont, California (where he’d take over David Foster-Wallace’s teaching slot at Pomona College), the borough felt a twinge of old-time, Brooklyn Dodgers–style rejection. Fortunately for dwellers of Kings County—and others who hold resident New York bards dear—Fred Tomaselli was simultaneously putting the finishing touches on the installation of his latest crackerjack show: his unabashedly gorgeous, conceptually expansive midcareer retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum."
The Paris Review, Wikipedia, James Cohan Gallery, white cube, BOMB, YouTube - Fred Tomaselli
Graffiti
Wikipedia - "Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. In modern times paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used grafitti materials."
Wikipedia, playdo, YouTube - Graffiti Tools
Skip James
Wikipedia - "Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Devil Got My Woman (1966), Skip´s Worried Blues, Cherry Ball Blues, Crow Jane, I'm So Glad (1931), Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
Marwencol
"After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed 'Marwencol' with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas."
siff, IMDb, Netflix
Sun Ra - "Space Is the Place" (1974)
Film still from Space is the Place, 1974
"Avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra stars in the movie version of his concept album Space Is the Place. Not following a linear plot line, this experimental film is a bizarre combination of social commentary, blaxploitation, science fiction, and concert performance."
UbuWeb
Robert Palmer
Wikipedia - "Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003), born in Batley, Yorkshire, was a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter. He was known for his distinctive voice and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Addicted To Love, Simply Irresistible, I didn't mean to turn you on (remix)
The American Friend (1977)
Wikipedia - "The American Friend ... is a 1977 film by Wim Wenders, loosely adapted from the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. The film is of the neo-noir genre, and features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin."
Wikipedia, amazon, YouTube, 1
Ohio Players
Wikipedia - "The Ohio Players were an American funk and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their double #1 hit songs 'Fire' and 'Love Rollercoaster'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Love Rollercoaster, Fire 1974 Live , Skin Tight, Who'd She Coo
A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S Burroughs
"Thanksgiving Day, Nov 28,1986 first appeared in the chapbook Tornado Alley, with illustrations by S. Clay Wilson. Gus Van Sant then made a short film of Burroughs reading the text. This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, or maybe what has always been wrong."
YouTube - Thanksgiving Prayer - William S Burroughs
Pet Shop Boys - 1985-1989
Wikipedia - "Unperturbed by the low chart position, the band returned to the studio in August to re-record 'West End Girls' with producer Stephen Hague. Released in October 1985, this new version initially entered the charts at a similarly low position, but began a slow rise, so that, by January 1986, it achieved the top spot."
Wikipedia, YouTube - West End Girls (Live 1986), West End Girls, It's A Sin (Live at The Roxy 1987), Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money), Suburbia, I Want A Lover, One More Chance, It couldn't happen here 1988, Two Divided By Zero, Love Comes Quickly
The Upsetters
Wikipedia - "The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song 'I Am The Upsetter', a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd. The Upsetters were originally Gladdy's All-Stars, led by pianist Gladstone Anderson and it was they who originally recorded the international hits 'Live Injection' and 'Return Of Django'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, Roots Archives, YouTube - Return of Django, Holiday Dub, Dry Acid, Guns of Navarone, One Step Dub
Jazz Age
Wikipedia - "The Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s or the Roaring Twenties from which jazz music and dance emerged. The movement came about with the introduction of main stream radio and the end of the war. This era ended in the 1930s with the beginning of The Great Depression but has lived on in American pop culture for decades. With the introduction of jazz came an entirely new cultural movement in places like the America, France and England. The birth of jazz music is often accredited to African Americans but expanded and modified to become socially acceptable to middle-class white Americans."
Wikipedia, Jazz Age Culture, Jazz Age Chicago, YouTube - To Live In The 1920's, Flappers - The Roaring Twenties
Old School Hip Hop Mega Mix
"This video and mega mix is dedicated to all pioneers of Hip Hop Culture from the East Coast to the West Coast from 1967 - 1985. We thank you for everything you have created for us. We also thank you for showing the world that creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, practicality, and perseverance with limited resources can shock the world... quell racism...and eventually construct peace."
YouTube - Old School Hip Hop Mega Mix
Jason Eppink's The Shadow Machine
"The Shadow Machine is a hand-made analog projection system that reanimates two blacksmiths from the late 1800’s, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge and compiled on plate #374 of his Animal Locomotion series."
Wooster Collective
Hindsight is Always 20/20 - R. Luke DuBois
"An interview with R. Luke DuBois, the creator of 'Hindsight is Always 20/20' on August 23, 2008, near the Pepsi Center on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. Luke's artwork is part of the innovative 'Dialog:City' project curated by Seth Goldenberg and coordinated by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs. Luke's project is brilliant, well worth putting on your must-see list if you are in Denver for the convention."
blip, Hindsight is Always 20/20, R. Luke DuBois
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
"Recorded a mere two months before lead singer Ian Curtis committed suicide but released a month after his death, 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is the sound of despair in musical form. At the time of writing the song, Curtis’s marriage was under considerable strain, due in part to his ongoing affair with a Belgian woman. And whether autobiographical or not, the lyrics are clearly the work of a troubled soul."
BBC, YouTube - Love will tear us apart
Werner Herzog Reads Curious George
"Ok, it’s not really Werner Herzog. Just a little playful satire. A guess at how the German director might reinterpret/read the children’s classic Curious George. This version is dark and existential."
Open Culture
"Silence: lectures and writings" - John Cage
"'As the unchallenged father figure of American experimental music, Mr. Cage wields an influence that extends far beyond sound alone....Indeed, the entire American avant-garde would be unthinkable without Mr. Cage's music, writings, and genially patriarchical personality.'--John Rockwell, The New York Times"
amazon, Google, YouTube - Listen : John Cage - in love with another sound -01, 02
James Carr
Wikipedia - "James Carr (June 13, 1942 - January 7, 2001), was an American Rhythm & Blues and soul singer. Born to a Baptist preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi, Carr began singing in church and was performing in gospel groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee, when he began recording in the mid-'60s for Goldwax Records, a small Memphis based label."
Wikipedia, amazon, YouTube - You Got My Mind Messed Up, Pouring Water on A Drowning Man, At the dark end of the street, A Man Needs A Woman, Love Attack, I'm Going for Myself, Only fools run away, That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me, Bring Her Back
Mark Bradford
Kryptonite, 2006
Wikipedia - "Mark Bradford (born 1961 Los Angeles, California) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles."
Wikiedia, PBS - art21, PBS - art21, 2, Sikkema Jenkinsco, YouTube - Artists Talk: Mark Bradford
The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer
Nemesis (The Great Fortune)
"The strange world of Albrecht Dürer, populated by monsters, witches, hybrid animals, and marauding soldiers, shares spiritual and social preoccupations with our own time."
The Clark
Youth International Party
Wikipedia - "The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a more radically youth-oriented and countercultural offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. It was founded on Dec. 31, 1967."
Wikipedia, Yippie Leaflet, Chicago, August 25, 1968, Video - Yippie (1968)
Akhenaten
Wikipedia - "According to the composer, this work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha (about Mohandas Gandhi). These three people — Akhenaten, Einstein and Gandhi — were all driven by an inner vision which altered the age in which they lived, in particular Akhenaten in religion, Einstein in science, and Gandhi in politics."
Wikipedia, Glass Pages, amazon, YouTube - Akhnaten, Akhnaten's aria, Akhnaten, Hymn to the Sun, Love duet from Akhnaten
April 2010: Wikipedia - "Satyagraha is an opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance de Jong. The opera is loosely based on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and is the second part of Glass's 'Portrait Trilogy' of operas about men who changed the world, which also includes Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten." Wikipedia, W - Satyagraha, Philip Glass, amazon, YouTube
January 2010: Wikipedia - "Einstein on the Beach is an opera scored and written by Philip Glass and designed and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. It also contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs." Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
People Watching Plus
"A common phrase in any metropolis is the term 'people watching.' This game takes the restful past-time and adds an interactive element. Made by Rune Madsen, Scott Wayne Indiana, Nien Lam and Nikolas Psaroudakis."
vimeo, Rune Madsen
Joe Brainard - "I Remember"
"I remember the first time I met Frank O’Hara. He was walking down Second Avenue. It was a cool early Spring evening but he was wearing only a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. And blue jeans. And moccasins. I remember that he seemed very sissy to me. Very theatrical. Decadent. I remember that I liked him instantly."
Poets, amazon, frieze - "I Remember"
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