Quebec City
"Quebec City officially Québec is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. ... The Algonquian people had originally named the area Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning 'where the river narrows', because the Saint Lawrence River narrows proximate to the promontory of Quebec and its Cape Diamant. ... The city's landmarks include the Château Frontenac hotel that dominates the skyline and the Citadelle of Quebec, an intact fortress that forms the centrepiece of the ramparts surrounding the old city and includes a secondary royal residence. The National Assembly of Quebec (provincial legislature), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), and the Musée de la civilisation (Museum of Civilization) are found within or near Vieux-Québec. ..." (Bill D. + Max B. 1986, Wesley D. 1991)
W - Quebec City
YouTube: Quebec City, Quebec
Culture of Quebec
""The Culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North Americans majority in Quebec. It is noteworthy in the Western World; Quebec is the only region in North America with a French-speaking majority, as well as one of only two provinces in Canada where French is a constitutionally-recognized official language. ..."
Battle of Quebec (NHL)
Kingsburg and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
"Kingsburg is a village in Nova Scotia, Canada. The community is approximately 130 kilometers from Halifax Regional Municipality, 30 kilometers from Bridgewater and 25 kilometers from Lunenburg and now primarily a summer vacation and weekend getaway destination. Kingsburg features two large beaches, Hirtle's Beach and Kingsburg Beach. There is also a protected cape which features hiking trails called Gaff Point. Kingsburg has three large and two smaller ponds that are used for swimming. ... For many decades Kingsburg was mixed a fishing and farming community. By the mid twentieth century, with the widespread decline of small-scale Atlantic fishery, most fishing culture has disappeared. ..." (Bill D. + Max B. 2001, Wesley D., Renata D.)
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YouTube: Hirtle's Beach
"Lunenburg /ˈluːnənbɜːrɡ/ is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia in an effort to displace the French Roman Catholic Acadians and indigenous Mi'kmaq. The economy was traditionally based on the offshore fishery and today Lunenburg is the site of Canada's largest secondary fish-processing plant. The town flourished in the late 1800s, and much of the historic architecture dates from that period. ..."
W - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
W - Bluenose II
YouTube: Lunenburg Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Quebec City and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
What is Surrealism? - André Breton (1924)
"Four Surrealist Manifestos are known to exist. The first two manifestos, published in October 1924, were written by Yvan Goll and André Breton, the leaders of rivaling Surrealist groups. Breton published his second manifesto for the Surrealists in 1929, and wrote his third manifesto that was not issued during his lifetime. Leading up to 1924, two rival surrealist groups had formed. Each group claimed to be successors of a revolution launched by Guillaume Apollinaire. One group, led by Yvan Goll, consisted of Pierre Albert-Birot, Paul Dermée, Céline Arnauld, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Pierre Reverdy, Marcel Arland, Joseph Delteil, Jean Painlevé and Robert Delaunay, among others. ..."
The Avantgarde Nature of Surrealist Manifesto
What is Surrealism? - André Breton
2016: DADA Companion, 2016: The Growing Charm of Dada, 2012 December: Impressionism and Fashion, 2017: How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature, 2017: The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology - Mary Ann Caws, 2018 May: Europe After the Rain: Watch the Vintage Documentary on the Two Great Art Movements, Dada & Surrealism (1978)
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp: September 2020
"The electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel celebrated her 75th birthday this past September, and her sage and scientific criticisms of contemporary music ring truer with each passing year. Spiegel, one of the first artists to create music with digital synthesizers, described the boundless possibilities of art with electronic instruments. Computerized music gave her 'the complete freedom to define any world you wanted and work within it.' The artists featured in this month’s column similarly found inspiration from the endless capabilities and combinations of digital instrumentation, whether Jonathan Fitoussi’s combined orchestras of Buchla, Moog, and Korg synthesizers or numün’s spellbinding loops of acoustic instrumentation. ..."
Feminize Your Canon: Alice Dunbar-Nelson
"In April 1895, the up-and-coming poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed 'the most promising young colored man in America,' saw a poem by a young writer, Alice Ruth Moore, accompanied by a photograph in which she appeared stylish and beautiful. He wrote to her immediately at her home on Palmyra Street in New Orleans, expressing his admiration, and they began an intense epistolary courtship that lasted two years. ..."
QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic
"... Sociologists and journalists have struggled to precisely categorize the shambolic conspiracy theory known as QAnon. Is it a political movement? A new religion? A cult? It has elements of all these things. There is a basic set of beliefs: namely that President Trump is waging a holy war within the government against a secret cabal of pedophiles, whose members included top Democrats like Hillary Clinton and her advisers. There are accompanying behaviors and rituals: the serial viewing of YouTube videos that embed the watcher deeper into the world of QAnon; the frantic decoding of 'Q drops,' or tersely worded message-board posts, which now number more than 4,000. There is a prophet, Q, and a God-like figure, Trump. ..."
New Republic
NY Times: What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?
New Yorker: What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?
Scientific American: People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features
W - QAnon, W - Conspiracy theory
Crazy ideas have long been a fixture of American life. Now paranoia thrives at the center of power, not just the fringes.
Sam Myers - I Got The Blues
"... Sam Myers was born in Laurel, Mississippi. He acquired juvenile cataracts at age seven and was left legally blind for the rest of his life, despite corrective surgery.] He could make out shapes and shadows, but could not read print at all; he was taught Braille. He acquired an interest in music while a schoolboy in Jackson, Mississippi, and became skilled enough at playing the trumpet and drums that he received a nondegree scholarship from the American Conservatory of Music (formerly the American Conservatory School of Music) in Chicago. Myers attended school by day and at night frequented the nightclubs of the South Side. There he met and was sitting in with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Elmore James. ..."
YouTube: "I Got The Blues"
W - Sam Myers
Fennesz
"Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited simply by his last name. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samples and glitch production. He lives and works in Vienna, and currently records on the UK label Touch. ... Fennesz was born and raised in Austria and studied music formally in art school. He started playing guitar around the age of 8 or 9. He initially performed as a member of the Austrian experimental rock band Maische before signing to electronic music label Mego as a solo artist. The influence of techno led him to begin composing with a laptop. ..."
Wikipedia
Fennesz
Red Bull - Fennesz (Video)
Discogs
YouTube: Agora, We Trigger the Sun, Rainfall
Boiler Room: St. John Sessions (Live) 43 min.
Lionel Bicknell Constable, 1828–1887
Cloud Study, c. 1850
"Once thought to have been painted by John Constable, this sketch was later attributed to his son. The artist experiments with color in this atmospheric study, using gray, blue, and white pigments to indicate rain clouds gathering ominously above the thin strip of land visible along the bottom edge of the image. ..." The Clark, "... Lionel taught himself to paint by studying his father's work and for many years his paintings – including this one – were attributed to John Constable. Lionel always worked on a small scale, and the low horizon and pinky-mauve of the sky are typical of his style. ..." Art UK
artnet
Study of Clouds with a Low Horizon, c.1850
Luc Sante: ‘Money doesn’t kill people, but it changes the fabric of daily life’
Miles Davis (tpt); Charlie Parker (as); Joe Albany (p); Addison Farmer (b); Chuck Thompson (d)
"Gazing out of the window of a smart hotel on the Bowery, a street once known as Manhattan’s Skid Row, Luc Sante is getting gently high on memory. 'Over there, next to the flophouse hotel, is where Nan Goldin lived and worked. Forty years ago there were still lots of vacant lofts here that had been burlesque and vaudeville theatres during the era when storefronts were saloons. There were bars solely inhabited by bums, their heads down on the counter. At night they’d be lined up outside the missions and Salvation Army hostels – veterans from world war two, from the Korean war, from the Vietnam war. At night, trash fires would be lit in oil drums …' The Belgian-born Sante is one of America’s most admired cultural topographers. ..."
Guardian (Video)
Luc Sante: ‘America still has this Puritan backbone, still this Calvinist restraint: Paris is the inverse of that’
2015 December:The Other Paris
How Storyboarding Works: A Brief Introduction to How Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson & Other Directors Storyboard Their Films
"When you're making a film with complex shots or sequences of shots, it doesn't hurt to have storyboards. Though professional storyboard artists do exist, they don't come cheap, and in any case they constitute one more player in the game of telephone between those who've envisioned the final cinematic product and the collaborators essential to realizing it. It thus greatly behooves aspiring directors to develop their drawing skills, though you hardly need to be a full-fledged draftsman like Ridley Scott or even a proficient comic artist like Bong Joon-ho for your work to benefit from storyboarding. You do, however, need to understand the language of storyboarding, essentially a means of translating the rich language of cinema into figures (stick figures if need be), rectangles, and arrows — lots of arrows. ..."
Open Culture (Video)
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What is a storyboard and why do you need one? (Video)
Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax
"Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made. As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million. The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. ..."
NY Times
NY Times: Charting an Empire: A Timeline of Trump’s Finances
NY Times: An Editor’s Note on the Trump Tax Investigation
NY Times: Trump’s Financial Records Show Long History of Tax Avoidance (Video)
****NY Times: Opinion - The Picture of a Broken Tax System
On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)
"Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish intellectual of kaleidoscopic abilities and interests – literary critic, philosopher, translator, essayist, radio presenter – has always fascinated academics and intellectuals. His dense academic prose, his unique reading of Marxism, his fascination with Jewish mysticism, but more importantly, his ability to capture some of the major transformations of the early 19th century Europe in a series of literal and temporal frames that distilled the very material which gave it consistency – iron, concrete, shopping arcades, new technologies such as photography and film, ideological propaganda – into words, earned Benjamin a cult-like following which continues today. Artists, philosophers, theorists from every discipline, continue to offer different readings and meanings to his work, which remains strikingly relevant to social and political transformations today. ..."
Public Domain Review
2015 September: In praise of dirty, sexy cities: the urban world according to Walter Benjamin
Ross Gay: Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved?
"The very first would be the ones in the apartments where I grew up, where I have the firm memory of my father dunking while still wearing his Pizza Hut duds—my brother confirms this—, and where I marked spots (x’s with medical tape) to practice for the hot shot competition, shoveling snow from the court (cue little-kid-shoveling-snow-so-he-can-practice-basketball music) which, yeah whatever, Craig won. Sometimes at this court there were two hoops, sometimes one (a hoop can get pulled down by a big kid, you know? I have been that big kid. Who even knows what a big kid is anymore?), always it was crooked, often there were puddles, perpetually there were little craters in the asphalt which, if the game was serious, someone would probably take a little bit of that asphalt home in their palm or knee. ..."
LitHub
2012 November: Your Guide to the Brooklyn Nets, 2013 March: March Madness 2013, 2013 October: Rucker Park, 2014 January: History of the high five, 2015 February: Dean Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015), 2015 June: Basketball’s Obtuse Triangle, 2015 September: Joint Ventures: How sneakers became high fashion and big business, 2015 October: Loose Balls - Terry Pluto (2007), 2015 December: Welcome to Smarter Basketball, 2016 January: The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (1994), 2016 January: A Long Hardwood Journey, 2016 March: American Hustle - Alexandra Starr, 2016 November: 2016–17 College Basketball, 2017 November: 2017-18 College Basketball, 2017 March: N.C.A.A. Bracket Predictions: Who the Tournament Experts Pick, 2017 June: The Rise and Fall of the High-Top Sneaker, 2018 January: Chaos Is This College Basketball Season’s Only Constant, 2018 March: The End of March Madness?, 2018 March: The 2018 March Madness Cinderella Guide, 2018 August: Ancestor Work In Street Basketball, 2018 November: Where Have College Basketball’s Star Point Guards Gone?, 2019 November: Players to Watch in the 2019-20 College Basketball Season
Tour de France Soundtracks - Kraftwerk (2003)
"Tour de France Soundtracks (renamed to Tour de France for its remastered release) is the tenth studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk. It was first released on 4 August 2003, through Kling Klang and EMI in Europe and Astralwerks in North America. The album was recorded for the 100th anniversary of the first Tour de France bicycle race, although it missed its intended release date for the actual tour. It includes a new recording of their 1983 song of the same name, the cover artwork of both releases being nearly identical. The announcement of the release caused much anticipation, as it had been 17 years since the group had put out a full album of new studio material (1986's Electric Café, also known as Techno Pop). ..."
Wikipedia, W - Tour de France (song)
allmusic (Audio)
Discogs (Video)
amazon
YouTube: Tour De France (Official Music Video), Tour De France - Prologue + Tour De France Étape 1+2+3, Tour De France (1983) 49:13
2008 April: Kraftwerk, 2011 March: Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution, 2011 March: Kraftwerk - Documentary, 2011 April: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany, 2011 May: Autobahn, 2011 October: Trans-Europe Express, 2012 February: Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, 2012 October: Radio-Activity, 2014 May: "The Telephone Call" (1987), 2014 November: Kraftwerk - live at Cirkus, Stockholm
David Hockney’s Portraits on Paper
"Opening next week at the Morgan Library & Museum, 'David Hockney: Drawing from Life' is the first major exhibition to focus on the artist’s portraits on paper. Spanning more than half a century, the works showcased in 'Drawing from Life' see Hockney returning again and again to some of the individuals he holds dearest: the designer Celia Birtwell, his friend and former curator Gregory Evans, the printer Maurice Payne, his mother, and himself. Evident everywhere is Hockney’s mastery of color and his devotion to capturing the subject at hand. A selection of images from the show appears below. ..."
The Paris Review
Guardian - David Hockney: Drawing from Life review – stripping subjects down to their gym socks
amazon
NPG (Video)
YouTube: Exhibition Review - David Hockney: Drawing from Life at the National Portrait Gallery
Self Portrait, 1954, collage on newsprint, 16 1/2″ X 11 3/4″
2011 March: The Responsive Eye (1966)
Elevated rails, rooftops, and McSorley’s: How painter John Sloan captured 20th-century Manhattan
"Many artists have been inspired by the scenes of life in New York City, particularly Lower Manhattan. But perhaps no artist captures the feeling of New York during the hot, heavy days of August like the painter John Sloan. Sloan was one of the leading figures of the 'Ashcan School' of artists of the early 20th century, a loosely-defined movement which took its name from a derisive reference to the supposed lowbrow quality and themes of their work, and the smudgy, impressionistic brushstrokes they utilized. His workaday subjects and hazy images of city life capture the heaviness of the air of New York during its dog days. Here’s a look at some of those paintings of life in our city 100 years ago. ..."
6sqft
Yeats at Petitpas’ (1910-1914)
2009 August: John Sloan, 2011 November: American realism, 2012 December: Old New York, 2015 May: Spectator of Life, 2015 October: Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917, 2015 October: Tenderloin, 2015 October: McSorley's Bar - John Sloan (1912), 2015 December: "Red Kimono on the Roof," 1912, 2016 January: “The Hell Hole,” 1917, 2016 February: Gloucester Days, 2016 March: “Hanging Clothes,” 1920, 2016 May: "Roof, Summer Night," 1906, 2016 October: "Spring Rain," 1912, 2016 October: "The Lafayette" (1927), 2016 December: The Old House at Home by Joseph Mitchell (April 1940)
Why This Renaissance Painting Glows
Lorenzo Lotto, Saint Catherine, 1522
"Even when on view in a gallery full of striking works, Lorenzo Lotto’s half-length portrait of Saint Catherine has an unusual presence. Part of the sense of its loveliness comes from the beauty of the saint herself, but it’s not only her face that makes this painting so engaging. The colors reverberate; green and red are arranged in strong opposition. The green is intense, with hints of yellow in the highlights. The reds range from the deep burgundy hue of the velvety brocade curtain behind the saint to the bright-hot color of her dress. That dress adds amazing power—opulent, undulating folds of fabric reflect light, suggesting lustrous silk. ..."
National Gallery of Art
Why Renaissance Paintings Aren’t as Green as They Used to Be
Material Innovation and Artistic Invention: New Materials and New Colors in Renaissance Venetian Paintings
This detail of Sandro Boticelli's "The Mystical Nativity" contains verdigris pigment.
Prince's Sign O' The Times: An oral history
"On 29 March, 1987, Prince swept the board at the Razzies. ... Behind that dizzying scope lay a disorganised, almost chaotic, recording process. Prince was creatively on fire, sometimes completing two or three songs in a day. At the same time, he got engaged to and separated from his creative muse, Susannah Melvoin; and fired his beloved backing band, The Revolution. The turmoil resulted in a huge outpouring of creativity. Seldom can so much work have been recorded, shelved, recycled or thrown away as in the period 1985 to 1987. In the end, Sign O' The Times was a Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from the remains of three completed, but discarded albums: Dream Factory, Camille and the triple-disc Crystal Ball set. Now, 33 years on, Prince's estate is releasing an expanded version of Sign O' The Times which includes 45 unreleased tracks from the recording sessions. ..."
BBC (Video)
NY Times: Prince’s Vault Reveals a Brilliant Trove With ‘Sign O’ the Times’ (Video)
amazon: Sign O The Times (Deluxe Edition)
The master tapes for Sign O' The Times, submitted to Warner Bros in early 1987
2020 May: “Prince and the Revolution: Live,” the Historic 1985 Concert Is Streaming Online
Fadi Tabbal is the Thread Connecting Lebanon’s Imperiled Indie Scene
"Producer and studio owner Fadi Tabbal is reflecting on the impact that the cataclysmic August 4th blast at Beirut’s port had on the country’s thriving alternative music scene. Not only did the explosion claim over 200 lives and damage more than half of the capital’s buildings, it also brought a weakened Lebanon to its knees. Drained from an overdrawn, 10-month-long revolution, the nation was already fending off economic collapse when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Lebanon is a beacon of arts and culture in the Middle East. ..."
Bandcamp (Audio)
Fadi Tabbal 'Music For The Lonely Vol. 1 (2017-2018)'
The Archaeologist Who Helped Mexico Find Glory in Its Indigenous Past
Zelia Nuttall, who began an academic career in archaeology after she divorced her archaeologist husband in 1888, is best known for her work on ancient Mexican manuscripts.
"Historically, 19th century archaeology has centered on heroic histories of white men’s conquest and exploration of foreign lands. Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Nuttall was neither a man, nor an explorer in the traditional sense. Perhaps her unique perspective helps account for her unconventional approach: For over 30 years, Nuttall investigated Mexico’s past to give recognition and pride to its present—a project Western archaeology had largely ignored in favor of bloody, salacious narratives of Mesoamerican savages. ..."
Smithsonian
An Introduction to pre-Hispanic Mixtec Codices
Codex Nuttall; facsimile of an ancient Mexican codex belonging to Lord Zouche of Harynworth, England
Map of the Aztec Empire lead by Tenochtitlan circa 1519, before the arrival of the Spanish.
Powerful Bushwick Photographer Documents What Changes, What Stays the Same
Street photographer Andre D. Wagner takes a self-portrait.
"When celebrated New York street photographer Andre D. Wagner found himself close to tears on the subway earlier this year, he realized it was time to take a step back. It was May 29, and he’d planned to take the train from his home in Bushwick to document one of New York’s first protests for George Floyd in Foley Square. But on his way to the platform, he spotted a white construction worker pointing an iron rod at him like a gun, mimicking a shooting motion, laughing. Wagner snapped a photo, but the image was already burned in his memory. ..."
BKReader
A scene from Wagner’s neighborhood in Bushwick.
2017 August: Capturing Love, the Brooklyn Way, 2017 September: An Ode to Acts of Kindness on the New York City Subway, 2018 March: Here for the Ride: Andre D. Wagner’s Subway Photographs
Vice and virtue: 10 super rare Miami soul 45s
"Quickly building a reputation as the go to for rare funk, soul and disco 45s, reissue label Athens Of The North dig out ten essential but nigh on untraceable 7″s from the sunshine state. Few city scenes are as evocative as quintessential Miami soul of the early ’70s. Practically synonymous with open-shirted, medallion-wearing gentlemen cruising down Collins Avenue under the Atlantic sun, a decade of vice and virtue on Miami Beach was soundtracked by some of the country’s most adept, and often under-rated musicians. The funk and soul that emerged from the sunshine state had a certain unmistakable swagger, combining the urban drama of James Brown-influenced funk, with a Latin flair drifting over the Gulf of Mexico. ..."
The Vinyl Factory (Video)
An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times
"When next you meet an existentialist, ask him what kind of existentialist s/he is. There are at least as many varieties of existentialism as there have been high-profile thinkers propounding it. Several major strains ran through postwar France alone, most famously those championed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus — who explicitly rejected existentialism, in part due to a philosophical split with Sartre, but who nevertheless gets categorized among the existentialists today. We could, perhaps, more accurately describe Camus as an absurdist, a thinker who starts with the inherent meaningless and futility of life and proceeds, not necessarily in an obvious direction, from there. ..."
Open Culture (Video)
2011 October: Albert Camus on Nihilism, 2014 November: Albert Camus: Soccer Goalie, 2015 May: LISTEN: New Cave And Ellis Soundtrack, 2016 April: Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche, 2016 April: Algerian Chronicles (2013), 2017 November: The Stranger (1942), 2018 July: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960), 2019 September: Les Pieds-Noirs: Algeria’s Forgotten Footballers, 2020 March: The Plague (1947)
The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse
"Sometime around the year 1100 BC, right at the end of the Bronze Age, a wave of destruction washed over the Eastern Mediterranean. It wiped whole civilizations off the map, and left only ash and ruin in its wake. This catastrophe, known as “the Late Bronze Age Collapse”, has become one of the enduring puzzles of archaeology. I want to explore how so many societies could collapse all at once, and seemingly without warning, as well as examine the lessons it might teach us in our increasingly globalised and interconnected world. ..."
Soundcloud (Audio)
YouTube: The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse (Audio)
W - Late Bronze Age collapse
2020 September: Roman Britain - The Work of Giants Crumbled
Shiva Feshareki
"Shiva Feshareki is an internationally acclaimed composer & electronic artist, and the 'cutting-edge expression of turntablism'(SSFB). Her diverse output explores electronics, acoustics, context and perspective through wide ranging practices that incorporate classical craft and experimental methodology. ... Her signature turntable performances fuse together sonic palettes using hyperphysical electronic manipulations and sampling techniques. Cuts from drum and bass, garage, gabber, deep minimalism and her own orchestral works are yielded to create complex live compositions that are as kinetic as they are delicate. ..."
Shiva Feshareki (Video)
The original turntablist – Daphne Oram by Shiva Feshareki
Cave Story: Shiva Feshareki is taking Éliane Radigue and Lee Gamble deeper underground (Video/Audio)
Composer Shiva Feshareki selects her favourite minimalist compositions (Video)
W - Shiva Feshareki
YouTube: NTS Live at Uniqlo Tate Lates 16:57, Shiva Feshareki & Kit Downes Live from St John-at-Hackney Church- 10.10.16 36:35, Against The Clock 12:13
Michael Prophet - Warn Them Jah, The Abyssinians - Declaration Of Rights, Delroy Wilson - Have Some Mercy, Fabian Miranda - Destiny, Freddy Clarke & I Roy - I Man, The Tamlins - Baltimore, Andy Sax Hornsman's Share
"Michael Haynes (3 March 1957 – 16 December 2017), known professionally as Michael Prophet, was a Jamaican roots reggae singer known for his 'crying' tenor vocal style, whose recording career began in 1977. ... The impoverished Greenwich Farm district had long been a hotbed of musical activity, and during the late 1970s Michael Haynes began singing on local sound systems. In 1978 he recorded his first singles, The Woman I Love, Super Star and True Born African, but they made little impact. Haynes then formed a vocal trio with friends from the neighbourhood, but when they auditioned for the visionary producer Vivian “Yabby You” Jackson, Jackson convinced him to ditch the other vocalists, renamed him Michael Prophet and shifted the focus of his lyrics to Rastafari philosophy and the harshness of ghetto life. ..."
W - Michael Prophet, Michael Prophet - Warn Them Jah, The Abyssinians - Declaration Of Rights, Delroy Wilson - Have Some Mercy + Version, Fabian Miranda - Destiny, Freddy Clarke & I Roy - I Man 12' (Jungle Beat label), The Tamlins - Baltimore (& Dub), Andy Sax Hornsman's Share & dub
How RBG Made Old Age Look Cool
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 80 the year she transformed from public figure to pop culture icon. It was 2013, Ginsburg had issued a scathing dissent in the Shelby County v. Holder voting rights case, and an admiring New York University law student created the Notorious RBG Tumblr feed. The blog was sprinkled with pictures of the justice in a crown like rapper Biggie Smalls’, along with cheeky lyrics from R&B songs—drawing parallels, years before 'Hamilton,' between the subversive spirit of hip-hop and the power of American institutions. ... This new character, Notorious RBG, had the same intelligence and drive—the blog was deeply respectful and often intellectual, quoting passages from Ginsburg’s court opinions—but she was also a badass and, better, a meme. ..."
Politico
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp (1956)
"Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism toward a Cubist, and then post-Cubist, approach, providing commentary while standing before Nude Descending a Staircase ('I was not aware of Italian Futurism when I painted it') and The Large Glass ('The two crackings are symmetrically arranged and there is… almost an intention there… a ready-made intention, in other words, that I respect and love.'). These concepts are paradoxically, although quite logically, articulated alongside his desire for 'dryness' and mechanical precision. Viewers also gain insight into Duchamp’s thoughts on painting for an 'ideal' public—a notion he clearly distinguishes from ivory-tower elitism. ..."
UbuWeb: A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp (Video) 29:47
Tate - An Unpublished Drawing by Duchamp: Hell in Philadelphia
Marcel Duchamp in conversation with Beatrice Cunningham in the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1955.
2009 May: Marcel Duchamp, 2009 September: Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess, 2009 November: Étant donnés, 2016 April: A Marcel Duchamp Collection, 2017 June: Rebel Ready-Made (1966)
“We Translate Every Experience into the Same Old Codes”: In Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Passenger,’ Jack Nicholson Attempts a Transference of Self
"Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film The Passenger is a languid thriller in which not much seems to happen, beautifully. The protagonist, David Locke (Jack Nicholson), a weary journalist chasing rebels in Chad, on a seeming whim swaps identities with a similar looking fellow traveler Robertson (Chuck Mulvehill) he finds dead from a heart attack in their dusty hotel, after their previous evening’s drinking. Locke seeks to leave his old life behind ('I’ve run out of everything… Everything except a few bad habits I couldn’t get rid of.'), following a bread crumb trail of appointments in the other man’s diary across Europe, picking up a fellow passenger, 'The Girl' (Maria Schneider) along the way. ... This is a film where the language of cinema itself plays out the drama of the human mind, in which architecture and the daring use of cross-cutting from present to past tense in the same scene, can both illuminate and explore time, memory, identity, and the sense of freedom and entrapment that surround our passengers. ..."
Cinephilia & Beyond (Video/Audio)
2011 September: Red Desert (1964), 2014 December: The Passenger (1975), 2017 April: Blow-Up (1966), 2017 October: L'Avventura (1960), 2017 December: La Notte (1961), 2018 February: L'Eclisse (1962)
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