M|A|R|R|S

Wikipedia - "MARRS (stylised MARRS on logo) was a 1987 one-off recording act formed by the groups A.R. Kane and Colourbox which only released one commercial disc. It became 'a one-hit wonder of rare influence' because of their international hit 'Pump Up the Volume', considered the first UK number one to contain samples from other songs, and nominated for a Grammy Award in 1989."
Wikipedia, W - Pump Up the Volume (song), YouTube - M.A.R.S. - Pump Up The Volume, MARRS - Pump Up The Volume [Radio Edit]

Christian Marclay: The Clock

"'The Clock' is constructed out of moments in cinema when time is expressed or when a character interacts with a clock, watch or just a particular time of day. Marclay has excerpted thousands of these fragments and edited them so that they flow in real time. While 'The Clock' examines how time, plot and duration are depicted in cinema, the video is also a working timepiece that is synchronised to the local time zone."
White Cube, Huffington Post, Artinfo, NYT, Paula Cooper Gallery, YouTube

The Social Network

"They all laughed at college nerd Mark Zuckerberg, whose idea for a social-networking site made him a billionaire. And they all laughed at the idea of a Facebook movie--except writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher, merely two of the more extravagantly talented filmmakers around. Sorkin and Fincher's breathless picture, The Social Network, is a fast and witty creation myth about how Facebook grew from Zuckerberg's insecure geek-at-Harvard days into a phenomenon with 500 million users."
amazon, YouTube - The Social Network, YouTube - New York Film Festival, 1 of 5, 2 0f 5, 3 of 5, 4 of 5, 5 of 5

Hugo Keesing

"Hugo Keesing is a teacher and a pop music archivist. I'm not sure he'd refer to himself as an artist (I didn't ask him), but he did produce a piece of work called Chartsweep, which many of us who listen to sound collage couldn't help but think of as art."
UbuWeb

The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins

"A 1967 Les Blank film of Lightnin Hopkins visiting his hometown of Centerville, TX '…a gorgeous 31-minute poem of a movie, a series of snapshots from his life as well as a look at an era fast disappearing…Watching the film is something of a revelation, at least if you ever had a doubt where the blues came from.'"
Metafilter, Classic Blues Videos/YouTube - Blues Documentaries

Faith47

"Faith47 is a painter and street artist known best for the giant murals that adorn the city of Cape Town."
Wooster Collective

Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Wikipedia - "Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 9, 1903 – December 13, 2004) was an American painter, lithographer and widow of renowned artist Ben Shahn, who wrote and illustrated children's books including 'The Zoo of Zeus' and 'Gilgamesh.' She met her future husband during a trip to New York in 1932. Both of them worked for the Depression-era Resettlement Administration, later part of the Farm Security Administration."
Wikipedia, The Visual Literature of Bernarda Bryson-Shahn: Developing a Social Conscience, Google

Plight & Premonition - David Sylvian & Holger Czukay

"On Holger's invitation David spent a few nights working in Can studio with the legendary bass player which saw the production of this evocative album. Two long form, drone-based, instrumental compositions, this album has remained a firm favourite of David's. Originally released in March 1988 David produced a remix of the entire album as a bonus CD with the instrumental compilation 'Camphor'."
David Sylvian, last.fm, Youtube - Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessels 1988), The spiralling of winter ghosts

Jones Beach

Wikipedia - "The park is renowned for its great beaches, 10 mi (13.5 km) in length, facing the open Atlantic Ocean and furnishes one of the most popular summer recreational locations for the New York metropolitan area. It is the most popular and heavily visited beach on the East Coast, with an estimated six million visitors per year." Jones Beach: 1955-1970.
Wikipedia, Jones Beach, YouTube - Jones Beach

Soulsonic Force

Wikipedia - "The Soulsonic Force (also referred to as Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force) are an American electro-funk and hip-hop ensemble led by Afrika Bambaataa who helped establish hip-hop in the early 1980s with songs such as 'Planet Rock'. They were also influential in the birth of the electro movement in America and helped pave the way for modern dance music styles such as electro-funk and electro-hop."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Soul Sonic Force-Renegades Of Funk, Afrika Bambaataa - Looking for the Perfect Beat, Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock, Soul Sonic Force Rap in 1979 or 1980?, Grandmaster Flash & The 4 MCs " 12/23/1978 (Part 1/3), (Part 2/3), (Part 3/3)

Empire - Social networks, social revolution

"Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?"
YouTube

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild

"We came into being in the last decades of the 20th century, when two brothers found their inner creativity in the midst of a dwindling academic job market. It turned out that making smart, funny things proved to be almost as satisfying as probing eternal questions (alright, maybe not quite). Although we still contemplate truth and justice, it is our enduring goal to fulfill the materialistic desires of the funny and sophisticated everywhere!"
The Nation - The Unemployed Philosophers Guild

Vermeer: Master of Light

Woman Holding a Balance – (c. 1665)
"This segment analyzes the National Gallery's painting Woman Holding a Balance. With the help of special effects we are able to understand Vermeer's construction of the painting and his complete control of the work."
YouTube - Vermeer: Master of Light 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 5/5

Patti Smith - Horses & Hey joe

"Patti Smith in 1976."
YouTube

Soviet Posters

"With the Russian Revolution of 1917, for the first time in history an entire nation is governed by a communist system. The posters from the first years of this government show revolutionary zeal and optimism of building a new society. Campaigns are waged to eliminate illiteracy and improve health care. Other posters attack the opponents of Lenin's government: a bloody civil war swept the country until 1920. Progressive artists use the poster as a medium to reach a broad public. As far as style is concerned, they do not have to cope with artistic directives yet."
International Institute of Social History

History of Hip-Hop Vol. 7: 1985

"Run DMC – Together Forever (Krush Groove 4)
LL Cool J – I Can’t Live Without My Radio
Steady B – Just Call Us Def
Superkids – The Tragedy (Don’t Do It)
The Treacherous Three – Turn it Up
Toddy Tee – The Batterram
Kurtis Blow – If I Ruled The World
Mantronix – Fresh Is The Word- feat. MC Tee
Marley Marl – Marley Scratch- feat. MC Shan
Stetsasonic – Just Say Stet
Run DMC – King Of Rock
Jazzy Jay – Cold Chillin In The Spot
Schoolly D – PSK
Supernature – The Show Stoppa (It’s Supa Fresh)
The B-Boys – Girls (Pt. 2)
Bad Boys feat. K-Love – Veronica
Cutmaster DC – Brooklyn’s In The House
Grandmaster Flash – Larry’s Dance Theme
Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick – The Show
Tricky Tee – Johnny The Fox
Sparky D – Sparky’s Turn (Roxanne You’re Through)
Korner Boyz – It’s On (Jazzy Jeff Scratch)
Run DMC – Darryl & Joe (Krush Groove 3)
Roxanne Shante – Bite This
Whistle – Nothing serial (We’re Only Buggin’)
Word Of Mouth feat. DJ Cheese – King Kut
Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three – Request Line
Masterdon Committee – Funkbox Party 2
Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three – The Roof Is On Fire
Egyptian Lover – Computer Love
LL Cool J – That’s A Lie"
The Run

Czechoslovakian Registered Cover from 1962

"My first blog post for sometime here on Footyphila and I've got a beautiful cover to share with you all. It satisfies my inner stamp collecting nerd like you've never known. Why? Well it's registered for starters and I do like examples of my main thematic interests on a nice registered cover."
Footyphila Plus

Son House

Wikipedia -"Eddie James 'Son' House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 (?)– October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music."
Wikiedia, last.fm, YouTube - Death Letter Blues, Forever on my Mind, Levee Camp Blues, Grinnin' In Your Face (with spoken intro), John the Revelator

Kenward Elmslie's poem songs

"In the 1950's Kenward Elmslie was the protege of the well-known lyricist John Latouche, who had worked with Duke Ellington and many others. Elmslie, at times uncredited, helped Latouche with such chores as writing a lyric for Leonard Bernstein's theme to On the Waterfront, and songs for on and off-Broadway revues."
PERFECT SOUND FOREVER, Fifteen from 1984: Gay History Week 15: Kenward Elmslie, YouTube - Stayin dry

April 2008: Kenward Elmslie, PENNSOUND, Jacket #7, Wikipedia

Sandinista! - The Clash

Wikipedia - "Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. Anticipating the 'world music' trend of the 1980s, it features reggae, jazz, mock gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, and rap."
Wikipedia, amazon, YouTube - Charlie Don't Surf, Brand New Cadillac, Armagideon Time, One More Time & Dub, The Call Up, Sound of the Sinners, The Magnificent Seven (1 0f 3), Interview - Jun 1981 (2 of 3), This Is Radio Clash - Jun 1981 (3 of 3), Up in Heaven (not only here), Rebel Waltz, Police On My Back, Somebody Got Murdered

The ABC's of DADA

"The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another. ..."
YouTube - The ABC's of DADA (1 of 3), (2 of 3), (3 of 3)

All of this and nothing

Jorge Macchi, Vanishing Point, 2005
"All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international artists."
Hammer

Tom Johnson

Wikipedia - "American composer Tom Johnson (born November 18, 1939 in Greeley, Colorado), is one of the few composers to self-identify as minimalist; in fact, he coined the term while serving as the new music critic for the Village Voice. He has since collected these articles in the book The Voice of New Music which is available free through the external link below. He has lived in Paris since 1983."
Wikipedia, Continuo, YouTube - Nine Bells, Satz 7

Victoria Sambunaris

Yellowstone, 2008
"For most of my photographic life, my interest has been the landscape. I have journeyed extensively in my car throughout the northeast, down to the Rio Grande, through basin and range, across the western plains, down to the Salton Sea, into the Petrified Forrest, around the mines of Nevada."
Women in Photography, artnet, Yancey Richardson Gallery

Ernest Tubb

Wikipedia - "Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, 'Walking the Floor Over You' (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Drivin' Nails in my Coffin, I'm Looking High And Low, When Jesus Calls, Will You Be Satisfied That Way, Thanks a Lot, I'll Step Aside

Robert ParkeHarrison & Shana ParkeHarrison

Wikipedia - "Robert ParkeHarrison (born 1968) is a photographer, best known for his work (with wife Shana ParkeHarrison) in the area of fine art photography. The photographs of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have been displayed in 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows worldwide."
Wikipedia, Robert ParkeHarrison & Shana ParkeHarrison, YouTube - Teresa Stratas, Youkali Tango from Marie Galante

Feeling from Mountain and Water

Wikipedia - "Feeling from Mountain and Water (Chinese: 山水情; Pinyin: shān shuǐ qíng) is a Chinese animated short film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio under the master animator Te Wei. It is also referred to as 'Love of Mountain and River', 'Feelings of Mountains and Waters'."
Wikipedia, SAW - Video

Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids

"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 70 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, many of them on public view for the first time."
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Weatherspoon, Imagine Peace, YouTube - Curator's Insights, One Step Big Shot

Yoshihide Otomo

Wikipedia - "Yoshihide Otomo (... born August 1, 1959 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the noise rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise, jazz, avant-garde and contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the EAI-scene, and is featured on important records on labels like Erstwhile Records. He plays guitar, turntables, and electronics."
Wikipedia, Yoshihide Otomo, Interview by Jason Gross (May 1998), YouTube - The Many Moods Of Otomo Yoshihide, Guitar solo Tokyo 1994, Fred Frith & Otomo Yoshihide, Otomo Yoshihide & Tori Kudo, Ground-Zero

Millet and Rural France

Path Through the Wheat
"Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) is one of the great French artists of the 19th century. His images of rural life are among the most recognized and beloved in the history of art, and his innovative treatment of light and color anticipates Impressionism."
Boston Low Brow, MFA, Google

Cairn

Wikipedia - "A cairn (carn in Irish, carnedd in Welsh, càrn in Scots Gaelic) is a man-made pile of stones, often in conical form. They are usually found in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, or near waterways."
Wikipedia

Meredith Monk: A Voice For All Time

"When I think about Meredith Monk, I think of her alone, on a stage bereft of instruments or props or other people. Whether in a cavernous concert hall or in a tiny club, the vision of her lone self is dramatic. With a slight tilt of the head and a grounding of the body, she opens her mouth and begins to sing. In this simplest of actions, she reveals extraordinary power."
npr, amazon, Authentic Voice: An Interview with Meredith Monk, Bryn Mawr - Video, Text: Meredith Monk interviewed by Isla Leaver-Yap, facebook

SHINDIG! - Legends of Rock & Roll

The Righteous Brothers - "KoKo Joe". Jerry Lee Lewis - "High School Confidential". Aretha Franklin - "Mockingbird". Tina Turner - "Goodbye, So Long". Bo Diddley - "Hey Bo Diddley". Little Anthony & The Imperials - "Hurt So Bad". Johnny Cash - "Orange Blossom Special". The Everly Brothers - "Wake Up Little Susie". Chuck Berry - "Back In The USA". James Brown - "Night Train".
YouTube - 1, 2, 3

Hip-Hop History Volume 6: 1984

"LL Cool J – I Need A Beat
Whodini – Friends
Donald D – Don’s Groove
The World’s Famous Supreme Team – Hey DJ
Run DMC – Rock Box
UTFO – Roxanne, Roxanne
Roxanne Shante – Roxanne’s Revenge
T La Rock – It’s Yours
Kurtis Blow – AJ Scratch
The Fat Boys – Jailhouse Rap
Whodini – Freaks Come Out At Night
Kurtis Blow – Basketball
Davy DMX – One For The Treble (Fresh)
Doug E. Fresh – Original Human Beatbox
Doug E. Fresh – Just Having Fun
Master O.C. & Krazy Eddie – Masters of the Scratch
The Fat Boys (Disco 3) – Human Beat Box
Whodini – Five Minutes of Funk
Newcleus – Jam On It
DJ Hollywood – Hollywood’s Message"
The Rub

New works by Various & Gould

"The work above, as well as those in the video, are from Various and Gould's Rabotniki series as well as one about modern saints, called 'Sankt Nimmerlein' (Saint Neverever?!). Saint Redundus is the saint of the homeless and unemployed. Saint Spekulatius is the patron of the bankers."
Wooster Collective