Mapping Jah Wobble’s Interdimensional Dub Image

“In 1980 Jah Wobble left his role as bassist for Public Image Limited to pursue a vast range of other projects—like the border-crossing fusion of his long-running Invaders of the Heart, and a series of DIY releases on his own label Lago Records. He’s explored everything from dub and funk to jazz, electro, ambient, and various regional musical styles. He’s worked with a wide range of similarly restless figures, including Bill Laswell and Brian Eno. His recent work includes a deluge of tracks uploaded to Bandcamp during lockdown, along with a second LP of Chinese dub recorded with his wife, acclaimed harpist Zi Lan Liao, and their two sons. ...”

Bandcamp (Audio)

2011 September: Can, 2011 February: Plight & Premonition, 2011 June: Persian Love, 2013 October: Flux + Mutability - David Sylvian and Holger Czukay (1989) , 2014 June: Holger Czukay - Der Osten Ist Rot, Rome Remains Rome (1984/7), 2012 June: The Lost Tapes, 2016 March: Invaders Of The Heart - Jah Wobble (1982), 2017 April: Jah Wobble, The Edge, Holger Czukay - Snake Charmer (1983), 2017 June: The Legend Lives On… Jah Wobble In Betrayal (1980), 2017 July: Can - The Singles (2017), 2017 September: Holger Czukay (1938-2017), 2019 September: Holger Czukay - Cinema (2018), 2020 December: Future Days (Remastered) - Can (2014)

Selected Media 2016 - 2018: Bartosz Kruczyński

 

“Emotional Response is delighted to present a special project, a collection of music from Bartosz Kruczynski, recorded for “Selected Media” and presented here as a time-piece of his continuing works. Initially known as one half of sample based project Ptaki (The Very Polish Cut Outs / Transatlantyk), Kruczynski first appeared for Emotional Response as The Phantom for the first series of Schleißen in 2015. Featuring two works of deep ‘fourth world’ sounds, they highlighted a shift to more mellow, synthetic and hazy compositions. ... Here though, Kruczynski returns to the ambient and ethereal - plus a touch of dub techno - to showcase his expansive collaborative work with Polish studio, TVP Culture. ...”

Bandcamp (Audio)

Producer Bartosz Kruczynski fuses pastoral ambient and dub on new collection (Audio)

Discogs (Video)

YouTube: Selected Media 2016 - 2018  45:01

What Qualifies as Street Art?

 

JR, The Wrinkles of the City, Los Angeles - Brewery Downtown - USA, 2011

“The ascent of so-called street artists into the moneyed realms of the blue chip is not exactly a new phenomenon—it’s been nearly two years since KAWS skyrocketed to a new auction record of HK$116 million (US$14.8 million) with the sale of The Kaws Album (2005) at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, which was followed six months later by the record-breaking sale of Banksy’s Devolved Parliament (2009) for £9.8 million ($12.1 million). These two mononym artists could be seen as the loosely defined category’s twin princes, despite their stylistic differences—KAWS’s vibrant cartoon riffs and Banksy’s wry stencils are two of the most easily recognizable, not to mention consistently lucrative, styles in contemporary art. But as collectors the world over continue to be fascinated with ‘Companion’ figures and Girl With Balloon prints, the exact parameters of what constitutes ‘street art‘ remain nebulous. ...”

Artsy

Walter Kaufmann’s Classic Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

 

“Walter Kaufmann spent 33 years (1947-1980) teaching philosophy at Princeton. And more than anyone else, Kaufmann introduced Nietzsche’s philosophy to the English-speaking world and made it possible to take Nietzsche seriously as a thinker – something there wasn’t always room to do in American intellectual circles. Without simplifying things too much, Kaufmann saw Nietzsche as something of an early existentialist, which brings us to these vintage lectures recorded in 1960 (right around the time that Kaufmann, a German-born convert to Judaism, also became a naturalized American citizen). The three lectures offer a short primer on existentialism and the modern crises philosophers grappled with. Kierkegaard and the Crisis in Religion begins the series, followed by Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy and Sartre and the Crisis in Morality.  Kaufmann’s talks are now listed in the Philosophy section of our collection of 1100 Free Online Courses. …”

Open Culture (Audio)

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101

 

“Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and political iconoclast who inspired and nurtured generations of San Francisco artists and writers from City Lights, his famed bookstore, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 101. The cause was interstitial lung disease, his daughter, Julie Sasser, said. The spiritual godfather of the Beat movement, Mr. Ferlinghetti made his home base in the modest independent book haven now formally known as City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. A self-described ‘literary meeting place’ founded in 1953 and located on the border of the city’s sometimes swank, sometimes seedy North Beach neighborhood, City Lights, on Columbus Avenue, soon became as much a part of the San Francisco scene as the Golden Gate Bridge or Fisherman’s Wharf. ...”

NY Times (Video)

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In Memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Immortal Beat (Audio)

Guardian - The soul of the city: San Francisco honors literary hero Lawrence Ferlinghetti

from a secret location: City Lights Nos. 1–4 (1963–78)

PennSound: Ferlinghett (Video/MP3)

Outlaw country

 

“Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music, most popular during the 1970s and early 1980s. Outlaw country often centers around outlaws or prisoners opposing law enforcement, or on the lifestyles of criminals ‘on the lam’ and their relationships with substance abuse and poverty. It is sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music. The music has its roots in earlier subgenres like honky tonk and rockabilly and is characterized by a blend of rock and folk rhythms, country instrumentation and introspective lyrics. The movement began as a reaction to the slick production and popular structures of the Nashville sound developed by record producers like Chet Atkins. The outlaw sound has its roots in blues music, honky tonk music of the 1940s and 1950s, rockabilly of the 1950s, and the evolving genre of rock and roll. ...”

Wikipedia

Original Outlaws: 10 Country Heroes Who Paved The Way For Americana (Video)

Jostijn Ligtvoet

 

“My father made a recording for his sonology study in 1973 for a mime festival called 'opposites'. It is a recording with the organ in the lead, long notes, dissonant. Very nice. I wanted to shape the composition by starting atonal, listening carefully to the recording, finding contradictions therein and playing with them. Chaos is very important in my work, so it is there too. It really feels like I was there at the time, understanding why he composed and recorded the music. In that regard, there is no boundary between that time and this one, even though it was 48 years ago. My father passed away 11 years ago, but this brings me closer to him than ever. It is also an ode to my mother, who passed away last December. Thanks to my mother, my father was able to channel all his wild ideas. Modules used: Morphagene + Maths + Erbe-Verb ... Cello ...”

YouTube: Opposites, Twilight and fire

YouTube: Jostijn Ligtvoet

Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity

 

“In March 1889 Peter Kropotkin agreed to give six lectures to William Morris’s Socialist Society in Hammersmith, London. Labeling the series ‘Social Evolution,’ he planned to explore ‘the grounds’ of socialism. As it turned out, he never delivered the talks, but the title and timing, just a year before he published his first essay on mutual aid, hint at the content. He left a bigger clue when he told Morris’s daughter May that he had been working on the series during his recent tour of Scotland. According to local press reports, one of the issues on Kropotkin’s mind was the feasibility of socialism. Perhaps rashly, given that one critic had dismissed his socialism as a futile, dangerous scheme to ‘reach Arcady through anarchy,’ he told an Aberdeen meeting that too many workers attracted to socialism still believed it impractical. ...”

ROAR

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Grauzone - Die Sunrise Tapes (1998)

 

“When I first met Marco Repetto, I barely had a clue about his past. It was in May 1994, as I was getting ready to move into his old flat in the centre of Bern. I knew that Repetto was a renowned techno producer, something underlined by the presence of a Roland Jupiter 6 in one of the rooms. However, it took me years to realize that Repetto was once the drummer of Grauzone: the band responsible for ‘Eisbär,’ one of the biggest Swiss pop epiphanies of the ’80s. Somewhere between Neue Deutsche Welle and Cure-inspired new wave, Grauzone had pressed angry lyrics, à la mode muted guitar playing and quirky synthesizer experiments into a dazzling conglomerate of not quite dance music. ...”

Interview: Marco Repetto on Grauzone’s “Eisbär” and Beyond (Video)

Grauzone: The ice cold sounds of classic 80s Swiss new wavers

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Discogs

amazon: 1980-1982 Remastered

YouTube: Die Sunrise Tapes (Full Album) 51:11

What an 1850s winter scene says about New York life

 

“At first glance, ‘Winter Scene on Broadway’ does what colorized engravings are supposed to do, which is to offer a dramatic, romantic view of life in New York City, mainly for nonresidents. In this case, the overview is the hustle and bustle of Gotham’s most famous thoroughfare between Prince and Spring Streets in wintertime: icicles hanging from handsome buildings, pedestrians of all stripes navigating the sidewalks, and a jam-packed streetcar fitted with sled rails and pulled by three teams of horses making its way through the snow. But when you look a little closer, a series of mini stories appear. And these small narratives tell us a lot about how New Yorkers experienced day-to-day life in the mid-1850s—the time period when French painter Hippolyte Victor Valentin Sebron completed his depiction of the wintry city. ...”

Ephemeral New York

A Small Group of Militants’ Outsize Role in the Capitol Attack

 

“As federal prosecutors unveil charges in the assault on the Capitol last month, they have repeatedly highlighted two militant groups — the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — as being the most organized, accusing them of planning their strategy ahead of time and in some cases helping escalate a rally into an attack. The two organizations stand in contrast to a majority of the mob. Of the more than 230 people charged so far, only 31 are known to have ties to a militant extremist group. And at least 26 of those are affiliated with the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys. The groups differ in their focus and tactics: The Oath Keepers are part of an anti-government militia movement that emphasizes military-style training, while the Proud Boys espouse an ideology of male and Western superiority, with members often expressing white-supremacist and anti-immigrant views. But the groups have been united in their allegiance to former President Donald J. Trump. ...”

NY Times

******NY Times - The Lost Hours: How Confusion and Inaction at the Capitol Delayed a Troop Deployment

2021 February: 77 days: Trump’s campaign to subvert the election

A Collision at Anfield Does Little to Slow Liverpool’s Fall

 

Mohamed Salah cut down by Tom Davies, a fair reflection of Liverpool’s afternoon, its month, its season.

“LIVERPOOL, England — It is every week, now, that Liverpool seems to lose another little piece of itself. An unbeaten home record that stretched back more than three years disappeared in January, spirited away by Burnley. The sense of Anfield as a fortress collapsed soon after, stormed in short order by Brighton and then by Manchester City. The golden afterglow of the long-awaited Premier League crown that arrived last summer has been dimming for some time, but it darkened for good last week, with Jürgen Klopp conceding the Premier League title while still in the bitter grip of winter. And then, as fireworks boomed and car horns blared across Merseyside on Saturday evening, came what may be the most hurtful shift of all. Everton had not tasted victory at Anfield this century. ...”

NY Times

Jazz On Film...Michel Legrand

 

“Celebrating the life of the legend that is Michel Legrand and music for the New Era, this stunning stand-alone collection, compiled by label owner Jason Lee Lazell for Record Store Day 2020, features the jazz cuts from some of the most iconic films of the French New Wave era….  Michel has collaborated with jazz greats such as, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, Bud Shank, Lena Horne and in later times, contemporary artists such as  Iggy Pop, Carla Bruni, Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Cullum, Madeline Peyroux… Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. ...”

Moochin' About (Audio)

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Modern Painters - John Ruskin (1843–1860)

 

“Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defense of the later work of J.M.W. Turner. Ruskin used the book to argue that art should devote itself to the accurate documentation of nature. In Ruskin's view, Turner had developed from early detailed documentation of nature to a later more profound insight into natural forces and atmospheric effects. In this way, Modern Painters reflects ‘Landscape and Portrait-Painting’ (1829) by American art critic John Neal by distinguishing between ‘things seen by the artist’ and ‘things as they are.’ ...”

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Radicals On Film: The Intertwining Legacies Of John Ruskin & Peter Fuller (Video)

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2014 March: John Ruskin

The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9.

Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme

 

“Little of San Francisco today is as it was half a century ago. But at the corner of Turk Boulevard and Lyon Street stands a true survivor: the Church of St. John Coltrane. Though officially founded in 1971, the roots of this unique musical-religious institution (previously featured here on Open Culture) go back further still. ‘It was our first wedding anniversary, September 18, 1965 and we celebrated the occasion by going to the Jazz Workshop,’ write founders Franzo and Marina King on the Church’s web site. ‘When John Coltrane came onto the stage we could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit moving with him.’ Overcome with the sense that Coltrane was playing directly to them, ‘we did not talk to each other during the performance because we were caught up in what later would be known as our Sound Baptism.’ Or as Marina puts it in this new short documentary from NPR’s Jazz Night in America, ‘The holy ghost fell in a jazz club in 1965, and our lives were changed forever.’ ...”

Open Culture (Video)

2011 November: John Coltrane Quartet, Live at Jazz Casual, 1963, 2012 March: John Coltrane 1960 - 1965, 2012 September: "Naima" (1959), 2012 October: Blue Train (1957), 2013 April: The World According to John Coltrane, 2013 November: A Love Supreme (1965), 2014 July: New Photos of John Coltrane Rediscovered 50 Years After They Were Shot, 2014 November: Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise”, 2015 February: Lush Life (1958), 2015 May: An Animated John Coltrane Explains His True Reason for Being: “I Want to Be a Force for Real Good”, 2015 July: Afro Blue Impressions (2013), 2015 September: Impressions of Coltrane, 2015 December: Giant Steps (1960), 2016 January: Crescent (1964), 2016 April: The Church of Saint John Coltrane, 2016 July: Soultrane (1958), 2016 December: Dakar (1957), 2017 July: The John Coltrane Record That Made Modern Music, 2017 October: Live at the Village Vanguard (1962), 2017 December: Interview: Archie Shepp on John Coltrane, the Blues and More, 2018 March: Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (1959), 2018 June: Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last, 2018 July: Stream Online the Complete “Lost” John Coltrane Album, Both Directions at Once, 2018 November: Jazz Deconstructed: What Makes John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” So Groundbreaking and Radical?, 2020 January: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme

Paul Delaroche - The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)

 

“British history looks bloody and macabre in this painting of the last moments of Jane Grey, who was installed on the throne for just a few days to preserve a Protestant succession before being overthrown by Henry VIII’s eldest daughter, Mary. Delaroche spares no pathetic detail. She shakes with horror in her matching silk dress and blindfold as her ladies in waiting wail and swoon. Even the executioner feels the tragedy of it. Delaroche often homed in on the violence of the British past and its grim stage, the Tower of London, where this is set: he also depicted the young 15th-century princes murdered in the Tower, probably by their uncle, Richard III. But appearances can be deceptive. While he choses to project his nightmares on the British past he is clearly also representing a more recent French history. For Lady Jane Grey, read Queen Marie-Antoinette going to the guillotine. ...”

National Gallery

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Jardin des plantes

 

“The Jardin des plantes (French for ‘Garden of the Plants’), also known as the Jardin des plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France. The term Jardin des plantes is the official name in the present day, but it is in fact an elliptical form of Jardin royal des plantes médicinales (’Royal Garden of the Medicinal Plants‘), which is related to the original purpose of the garden back in the 17th century. Headquarters of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), the Jardin des plantes is situated in the 5th arrondissement, Paris, on the left bank of the river Seine, and covers 28 hectares (280,000 m²). Since 24 March 1993, the entire garden and its contained buildings, archives, libraries, greenhouses, ménagerie (a zoo), works of art, and specimens' collection are classified as a national historical landmark in France (labelled monument historique). ...”

Wikipedia

Scanner Modulates the Source

 

“... Scanner found the spectacle in the everyday. And so it was a huge pleasure today when one of Scanner’s old voices appeared in a new piece, albeit a brief one. Today is Fat Tuesday, and perhaps by chance or perhaps by perfect design, the music synthesizer company Mutable Instruments, based in Paris, France, released a new module called Beads (having lived in New Orleans for four years, I found the connection natural, but it was likely coincidence). The module had clearly already been in the hands of many forward-thinking synthesizer musicians for some time, because right on cue YouTube and Instagram (as of this evening, I couldn’t find any on Vimeo) were filled with video demonstrations of this new module’s features. ...”

disquiet (Video)

2012 October: Scanner, 2015 December: Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), 2017 September: The Great Crater (2017), 2018 January: Podcast 523: Scanner, 2019 September: scanner - Unearthly Powers (2019), 2020 May: Tonspur: Artists in Isolation Live

The Universal Appeal of Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love” Image

 

“When people think of the most influential artists in punk, there are some obvious options. You’ve got the Clash, The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Black Flag, Fugazi. But a band that get overlooked for their considerable influence is the Buzzcocks. Think about it. Their 1977 Spiral Scratch EP was the first independently released punk record, which fused the idea of DIY to the punk ethos. It set a precedent for bands releasing their own music, their New Hormones label predating Rough Trade, SST, Touch and Go, Subpop and Dischord. Guitarist Pete Shelley and original frontman Howard Devoto also booked the Sex Pistols to play their first Manchester gig, making the band not just a London scene blip but a national presence, as well as kickstarting the Manchester punk/indie scene. Plus for better or worst, they invented pop punk and did it better than any other band since. But for this video Trash Theory will be focusing on their greatest moment: ‘Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)’.”

That Eric Alper (Video)

2017 May: Singles Going Steady (1979)

Il Maestro By Martin Scorsese: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema

 

 

“Ext. 8TH Street - Late afternoon (C. 1959). Camera in nonstop motion  is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s carrying books. In his other hand, a copy of The Village Voice. He walks quickly, past men in coats and hats, women with scarves over their heads pushing collapsible shopping carts, couples holding hands, and poets and hustlers and musicians and winos, past drugstores, liquor stores, delis, apartment buildings. ... He cuts back east on West 4th past Kettle of Fish and Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square South, where a man in a threadbare suit is handing out leaflets: Anita Ekberg in furs, and La Dolce Vita is opening at a legitimate theater on Broadway, with reserved seats for sale at Broadway ticket prices! ...”

Harpers

2017 March: Roma (1972), 2017 September: Fellini Satyricon (1969)

Fania Records

 

DJ Turmix

“Fania Records is a New York based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Brooklyn born Italian-American ex-New York City Police Officer turned lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from a popular luncheonette frequented by musicians in Havana, Cuba that Masucci frequented when he worked for a public relations firm there during the pre-Castro era. Fania is known for its promotion of Salsa music. Frustrated by the meager amount of money he was receiving for his recordings, Pacheco started Fania in 1964 and sold records to music stores out of the trunk of his car. ... Among Fania's signature stars are: Willie Colon, Celia Cruz, Eric Gale, Larry Harlow, Ray Barretto, Ralfi Pagan, Luis ‘Perico’ Ortiz, Bobby Valentín, Rubén Blades, Héctor Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Adalberto Santiago, Ismael Miranda and many others. ...”

Wikipedia

YouTube: Fania Vinyl Sets (ft DJ Turmix) - SALSA 30:17, Boogaloo #1 28:59, Boogaloo #2 31:07, Boogaloo #3 31:02, Boogaloo #4 27:26, Latin Funk 28:38

2011 November: Charlie Palmieri, 2014 March: Harlem River Drive - Harlem River Drive (1971), 2014 October: Fania at Fifty, 2017 December: Nu Yorica: Culture Clash In New York City - Experiments in Latin Music 1970-77, 2018 December: Latin Underground Revolution: Swinging Boogaloo, Guaguanco, Salsa & Latin Funk from New York City 1967-1978, 2017 June: Eddie Palmieri - Unfinished Masterpiece (1976), 2018 July: The Soul Of Spanish Harlem / El Barrio: Sounds from the Spanish Harlem Streets, 2011 June: Mario Bauzá, 2017 June: Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York, 2012 February: Rubén Blades, 2017 December: Carlos Vera: Barcelona's Boogaloo: Mixes and Mashups, 2019 April: An NYC Mambo, Boogaloo and Salsa Family Tree, 2019 October: Best Fania Samples: 20 Latin Grooves That Helped Build Hip-Hop

The Society of Mind - Marvin Minsky (1986)

 

"The Society of Mind is both the title of a 1986 book and the name of a theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky. In his book of the same name, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence step by step, built up from the interactions of simple parts called agents, which are themselves mindless. He describes the postulated interactions as constituting a 'society of mind', hence the title. The work, which first appeared in 1986, was the first comprehensive  description of Minsky's 'society of mind' theory, which he began  developing in the early 1970s. ... He develops theories about how  processes such as language, memory, and learning work, and also covers concepts such as consciousness, the sense of self, and free will; because of this, many view The Society of Mind as a work of philosophy. ..."

Wikipedia

The Society of Mind: Written by Marvin Minsky. Formatted for the web by Dylan Holmes. (Video)

[PDF] Society of Mind

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YouTube: Marvin Minsky: Mind As Society (excerpt) - Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove, Interview with Marvin Minsky, Kurzweil Interviews Minsky: Is Singularity Near?

First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack.

 

“At least six people who had provided security for Roger Stone entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, according to a New York Times investigation. Videos show the group guarding Mr. Stone, a longtime friend of former President Donald J. Trump, on the day of the attack or the day before. All six of them are associated with the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia that is known to provide security for right-wing personalities and protesters at public events. ...”

NY Times

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NY Times - ‘This Kettle Is Set to Boil’: New Evidence Points to Riot Conspiracy (Video - Jan. 2021)

The Atlantic: A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans (Nov. 2020)

Narcisse-Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, The Storm, 1871

 

“This brooding landscape was painted in the wake of the defeat of France by Prussia, at a time of national crisis and soul-searching. You can see it in that low, heavy, apocalyptic sky. Díaz had Spanish parents but they died when he was a child and he grew up in Paris. He was part of a pioneering landscape school who liked to paint around Fontainebleau, mixing emotional romanticism with rough on-the-spot realism. This is a haunting example of his poetic feel for the gusts and vapours of the changing woods and fields.“

National Gallery

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Horse Money - Pedro Costa (2015)

 

“’We’ll keep on falling from the third floor. We’ll keep on being severed by the machines. Our head and lungs will still hurt the same… We’ll be burned… We’ll go crazy. It’s all the mould in the walls of our houses… We have always lived and we will always die like this. It’s our sickness.’ This is how one of a congregated group of Cape Verdean immigrant labourers describe their lot in Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, a film that might be subtitled ‘A Universal History of Poverty’. Costa’s film begins with an overture of images by the Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, showing the bare, stifling tenements of New York City a century ago, yet not so far from the scenes in the Fontainhas slums in Lisbon to which Costa has returned time and again. This precedes Horse Money’s ‘contemporary’ narrative, which begins with Costa’s star and muse Ventura, wearing nothing but a pair of red briefs, descending a gloomy stairwell into the bowels of what at first looks like a stone-walled medieval dungeon, though from one shot to another it may change to appear as a clean, modern hospital. ...”

Sight & Sound

Film of the Week: Horse Money

Horse Money: An Interview with Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa on the Mysteries of ‘Horse Money,’ Films About Forgetting, and Bart Simpson

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YouTube: HORSE MONEY - New UK trailer

2010 May: Pedro Costa, 2020 October: Vitalina Varela (2019)

Pedro Costa

David Macaulay: Building A Mill Town

 

“The Heritage Winooski Mill Museum is pleased to present a selection of David Macaulay’s original illustrations of mill town landscapes and waterpower technology from his book MILL (1983). Pages from the authors sketch book show his process for researching and developing both the storyline and images for the fictional mill town of Wicksbridge. Through his detailed studies of the mechanics and architecture of real historic mills, Macaulay's illustrations brings us on a journey through time to gain a deeper understanding of how New England mill towns evolved. As you look through the exhibit, you may notice some similarities to the Champlain Mill and other mill structures in the Winooski mill district and Vermont. ...”

The Mill Museum (Video)

Burlington's Manufacturing Heritage along the Winooski River

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