Gary Snyder
Wikipedia - "Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the 'poet laureate of Deep Ecology')."
Wikipedia, Morern American Poetry, poets.org, Gary Snyder Poems
Jennifer Steinkamp
Istanbul Modem - MUSAC
"Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception."
Steinkamp Artist Resume
Josef Koudelka
Magnum - "Invasion ... In August of 1968 the Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia with more than 5,000 tanks and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The invasion followed Czech reforms that emphasized freedom of the press, consumer goods, and democracy."
Magnum
Magnum
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
"Out of a dance vocabulary entirely designed to suit her own body the choreographer developed an idiom closely linked to specific performers."
Rosas, Wikipedia, Vlaams Theater Instituut, YouTube, (1)
Rosas, Wikipedia, Vlaams Theater Instituut, YouTube, (1)
Stan Drake
"Born in Brooklyn on November 9th, 1921, he worked for $1 a day on the back of a Dugan's Donut truck for spare cash when going to high school."
Stan Drake, Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1
Stan Drake, Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1
Michael Eastman
Arenal, Cuba Series
Duane Reed Gallery - "The St. Louis native has traveled throughout Europe and Cuba to shoot his architectural and landscape photography."
Duane Reed Gallery
1970 FIFA World Cup
Wikipedia "The Brazilian team, featuring the likes of Pele (who was in his fourth and final World Cup), Carlos Alberto, Clodoaldo, Gerson, Jairzinho, Rivelino, and Tostao, is usually regaded as the greatest attacking World Cup team ever."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - Pele, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - Pele, YouTube, (1)
Joseph Campbell
Wikipedia - "Joseph John Camphell (March 26, 1904 - October 30, 1987) was an American mythology professor, writer, and lecturer best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Joseph Campbell Foundation
Wire
Wikipedia - "Wire are arguably a definitive art punk or post-punk ensemble, mostly due to their richly detailed and atmospheric sound, often obscure lyrical themes and, to a lesser extent, their Situationist political stance."
Wikipedia, Pinkflag, Brainwashed, wireviews
Wikipedia, Pinkflag, Brainwashed, wireviews
Jean-Luc Godard
Wikipedia - "Many of Godard's films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history."
Wikipedia, IMDb, Cinema=Godard=Cinema, senses of cinema, Godard, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, IMDb, Cinema=Godard=Cinema, senses of cinema, Godard, YouTube, (1)
Newgrange
Sacred Destinations - "Newgrange has been dated to about 3200 BC, during the Bronze Age. It is not known for whom the tomb was built, but it was clearly the burial of great tribal leaders."
Sacred Destinations, Wikipedia, Knowth, Newgrange
Sacred Destinations, Wikipedia, Knowth, Newgrange
Lester Bangs
Wikipedia - "Leslie Conway Bangs (December 13, 1948 - April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism."
Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, (1), ALLLIE, RockCritics
Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, (1), ALLLIE, RockCritics
Vietnam War Era Ephamera Collection
May 12, 1967 Helix cover
"It's not hard to define 'what' the Sixties were. Most can agree on the main ingredients: Vietnam and the explosion worldwide of wars for national liberation; civil rights and emergence of 'black power' and other cultural-identity movements...."
University of Washington Libraries
"It's not hard to define 'what' the Sixties were. Most can agree on the main ingredients: Vietnam and the explosion worldwide of wars for national liberation; civil rights and emergence of 'black power' and other cultural-identity movements...."
University of Washington Libraries
Big Apple Circus
Wikipedia - "Paul Binder and Micheal Christensen were a pair of American street jugglers who, after meeting in San Francisco, decided to travel to Europe in the early 1970s."
Wikipedia, Big Apple Circus, Wikipedia - Circus
Thomas Dworzak
"State organized demonstration marking the 24th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy, 'The Den of Espionage', by radical students and Revolutionary Guards."
Thomas Dworzak
Nancy Holt
Captures the Sun at both Winter & Summer Solstices
Wikipedia - "Nancy Holt (born, April 5, 1938) is an American artist famous for her public sculpture, installation art and land. Throughout her career, Holt has also produced works in other mediums, including film, photography, and writing artist's books."
Wikipedia, greenmuseum.org, Video Data Bank
Wikipedia - "Nancy Holt (born, April 5, 1938) is an American artist famous for her public sculpture, installation art and land. Throughout her career, Holt has also produced works in other mediums, including film, photography, and writing artist's books."
Wikipedia, greenmuseum.org, Video Data Bank
Q. Sakamaki
"Since the land 80s, he has photographed New York's political, social landscape, such as issues of AIDS, homelessness, and street crimes, focusings on people suffering their human rights violation in the related poverty, discrimination, and violence."
Q. Sakamaki, Redux Pictures, NYT
Q. Sakamaki, Redux Pictures, NYT
The Incredible String Band
Wikipedia - "The members of the group are considered musical pioeers in psych folk and, by integrating a very wide variety of traditional music forms and instruments, in the development of world music."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, The Incredible String String Band, YouTube, (1), (2)
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, The Incredible String String Band, YouTube, (1), (2)
The Marvel and Measure of Peru
Two singing entertianers of Contisyo
"When Francisco Pizarro and his fellow Spanish conquistadors first encountered Peru in 1523, they were shocked by the wholly unfamiliar world."
The Getty
The Getty
Paul Blackburn
M.L. Rosenthal - "This is how Blackburn's art works: lightly, broodingly, absorbingly. The opening couplet of The Watchers takes us unawares. It is plain, casual."
Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, EPC, PENNSOUND, Literary History
Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, EPC, PENNSOUND, Literary History
Alan Watts
Wikipedia - "Alan Wilson Watts (Jaanuary 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience."
Wikipedia, Alan Watts, Alan Watts Lectures and Essays, Alan Watts Resource, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Wikipedia, Alan Watts, Alan Watts Lectures and Essays, Alan Watts Resource, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Wikipedia - "His intense discipline and phenomenal creative energy when working were in violent contrast with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as its central figure."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, The Fassbinder Foundation, Jim's Reviews / Fassbinder, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, The Fassbinder Foundation, Jim's Reviews / Fassbinder, YouTube, (1)
Paul Gauguin
Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891
Wikipedia - "His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the was to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Olga's Gallery, National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, wbur.org
Wikipedia - "His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the was to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Olga's Gallery, National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, wbur.org
Remember Tibet
"On the occasion of the Beijing Olympics opening this upcoming August 8th 2008, we will be asking people to remember Tibet's struggle for independence against the undemocratic government of China."
Remember Tibet
Remember Tibet
Nick Cave
Wikipedia - "He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Guardian - "Old Nick", Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Guardian - "Old Nick", Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1942 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal."
By the Peoply, For the Peoply: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
By the Peoply, For the Peoply: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
Poor People's Campaign: A Dream Unfulfilled
Kathy Lohr - "In early 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned a Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., for the spring. "
npr, Higher Pictures
npr, Higher Pictures
Bill Knott
Robert Arnold - "Outspoken yet reclusive, lyrical but political, simultaneously tragic and comic, Bill Knott seems to specialize in self-denial."
Memorious 6, not poetry blog, Wikipedia, Bookslut, Ploughshares
Beijing 2008
NYT - "An ecstatic China finally got its Olympic moment on Friday night. And if the astonishing opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games lavised grand tribute on Chinese civilization and sought to stir an ancient nation's pride, there was also a message for an uncertain outside world: Do not worry. We mean no harm."
NYT: Olympics 2008, Rings, NYT: China's Leaders Try to Impress and Reassure World.
NBC Olympics, NBC: Opening Celemony (Video)
NYT: Olympics 2008, Rings, NYT: China's Leaders Try to Impress and Reassure World.
NBC Olympics, NBC: Opening Celemony (Video)
William Christenberry
T.B. Hick's Store in Newbern, Ala., 1976
Wikipedia - "William Christenberry (born November 5, 1936) is a photographer, painter and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama."
Wikipedia, Christenberry Online, npr
Wikipedia, Christenberry Online, npr
The Roches
Wikipedia - "The Roches (Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche) are a female vocal group of three songwriting sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey, known for their unusual and rich harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances."
Wikipedia, The Roches, YouTube: The Roches Hallelujah Chorus 1982, (1), (2), (3)
Wikipedia, The Roches, YouTube: The Roches Hallelujah Chorus 1982, (1), (2), (3)
Era Rock Art
"Amongst the outcrops and boulders of northern England keen eyes may spot an array of mysterious symbols carved into the rock surfaces."
Era Rock Art
Stanley Kubrick
Wikipedia - "Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an influential American film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films."
Wikipedia, IMDb, Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker, The Kubrick Site, MySpace
Horace Bristol
Portrait of Young Legong Dancer, Bali, 1939
Robert Miller Gallery - "One of the first staff photographers for LIFE magazing. Horace Bristol (1908 - 1997) worked aginst a backdrop of profound economic upheaval and sweeping political change."
Robert Miller Gallery, The Getty, Horace Bristol
Robert Miller Gallery, The Getty, Horace Bristol
George Tooker
Lunch, 1964
"His subjects, often of mixed sexual and racial features, are often obscured by heavy clothing and appear sagging and shapeless, trapped within their own dull worlds."
Rogallery, Ten Dreams
"His subjects, often of mixed sexual and racial features, are often obscured by heavy clothing and appear sagging and shapeless, trapped within their own dull worlds."
Rogallery, Ten Dreams
Alan Loman
Wikipedia - "Alan Lomax (January 15, 1915 - July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain."
Wikipedia, The American Folklife Center, npr, pbs
Wikipedia, The American Folklife Center, npr, pbs
Hubbard Street Dance
"Continually expanding its diverse repertoire with work by leading national and international choreographers, the company also contributes to the art form's evolution by developing new choreographic talent collaborating with artists in music, visual art and theatre."
Hubbard Street, Wikipedia, YouTube
Hubbard Street, Wikipedia, YouTube
Gilberto Gil
Wikipedia - "Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil ..., is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment."
Wikipedia, Gilberto Gil, Last FM, YouTube
Wikipedia, Gilberto Gil, Last FM, YouTube
Iran Archaeology
Marguerite Del Giudice - "What's so striking about the ruins of Persepolis in southern Iran, An ancient capital of the Persian Empire that was burned down after being conquered by Alexander the Great, is the absence of violent imagery on what's left of its stone walls."
National Geographic
National Geographic
Malcolm X
Biography of Malcolm X - "Intelligent and articulate, Malcolm was appointed a minister and national spokeman for the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad also charged him with establishing new mosques in cities such as Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York."
Biography of Malcolm X, Wikipedia, The Official Web Site of Malcolm X, The Malcoolm X Project at Columbia University, YouTube, (1), (2)
Biography of Malcolm X, Wikipedia, The Official Web Site of Malcolm X, The Malcoolm X Project at Columbia University, YouTube, (1), (2)
Hudson River School
Algonquin Indians at Palisades
Wikipedia - "The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement by a group landscape painters, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism."
Wikipedia, ArtLex, Hudson River School Art Trail
Wikipedia - "The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement by a group landscape painters, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism."
Wikipedia, ArtLex, Hudson River School Art Trail
Samuel Stimpert
Cog II, 2005
"His own artwork consist of sculptures intended to provide the viewer with material with thought and perhaps goad them into contemplation of the human experience."
Underground Art Union, Samuel Stimpert
Underground Art Union, Samuel Stimpert
Robert Crumb
Wikipedia - "Robert Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He currently lives in Southern France."
Wikipedia, The Official Crumb Site, YouTube
Neal Oshima
Manila 04
"Squatter Settlements in Metro Manila - These photographs were made over the past five years as part of a survey of the architure of informal settlements in Metro Manila."
urban landscapes
urban landscapes
Louis Malle
Films de France - "Louis Malle comes from a rare breed of French film director who achieved a reputation as a great director not just in his native France but internationally, and was not afraid to embrace a wide renge of subjects, some notoriously controversial."
Films de France, Wikipedia, TSPDT, IMDb, YouTube, (1), (2)
Films de France, Wikipedia, TSPDT, IMDb, YouTube, (1), (2)
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