Live 1976. Stockholm.
YouTube
Field Hollers, Work song
Wikipedia - "Field Hollers as well as work songs were African American styles of music from before the American Civil War, this style of music is closely related to spirituals in the sense that it expressed religious feelings and included subtle hints about ways of escaping slavery, among other things. Slaves in New Orleans had a field area called Congo Square in which they were allowed time on Sundays to dance and sing more freely than they could on the plantations."
Wikipedia, W - Work song, Slave Work Songs, YouTube - Work Songs in a Texas Prison, Gandy Dancers, Poor Boy - Lomax Prison Recording, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Black Woman
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
Wikipedia - "Delaney & Bonnie – later called Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Comin' Home, Delaney and Bonnie with Eric Clapton 1969, Getting To Know You So Well, Poor Elijah, I Don't Want To Discuss It, When The Battle Is Over
Peter Hutchinson
"Peter Hutchinson, born in England in 1930, has been living and working in Provincetown, Massachusetts, since 1953. As one of the pioneers of Land Art, he is represented in such renowned collections as the Musée d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basle, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York."
Peter Hutchinson, Movie, artnet, amazon
Hot Hot Hot
Wikipedia - "'Hot Hot Hot' is a song by Montserrat musician Arrow featured on his 1982 studio album Hot Hot Hot. Written by Arrow himself, the song became an instant dance floor hit and was later covered by artists around the world, most notably in 1987 by American singer David Johansen under the name Buster Poindexter."
Wikipedia, Repeating Islands, YouTube - Hot Hot Hot, Buster Poindexter - Hot Hot Hot
Arena - Robert Mapplethorpe (1988)
"Profile of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial of American photographers, which accompanied an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in the year before he died. Contains interview with Mapplethorpe himself, along with critic and author Edmund White, and with several of Mapplethorpe's subjects."
UbuWeb
Soft Cell
Wikipedia - "Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of 'Tainted Love'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Tainted Love, Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 80s
Mulholland Drive
Wikipedia - "Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Director."
Wikipedia, Film Comment, September/October 2001, YouTube
Greater New York
"Greater New York, the third iteration of the quinquennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan New York area, will open at MoMA PS1 on May 23 and run through October 18, 2010. The 2010 exhibition will not only present recent work made within the past five years, but also will foster a productive workshop where artists are invited to experiment with new ideas within MoMA PS1’s building for the duration of the exhibition."
PS1, MoMA, (1), WNYC, Village Voice, DLK Collection, YouTube - Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1, YouTube - Greater New York at PS1 RUSHES, YouTube - Greater New York at P.S.1 Part I, Part II
Jimi Hendrix
Wikipedia - "James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres." Sept 18, 40th anniversary.
Wikipedia, Jimi Hendrix, last.fm, YouTube - Purple Haze, All Along The Watch Tower, Voodoo Chile, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing, Killing Floor, Foxy Lady, Fire, Spanish Castle Magic, Red House, Rock me baby, Band of Gypsys
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Wikipedia - "Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 - July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Goin Down to the River, Shake Em On Down, John Henry, Spike Driver Blues, You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley, Blues Maker, 1969 - Part 1, Part 2, When I Lay My Burden Down
Cyberpunk
Shibuya crossing
Wikipedia - "Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on 'high tech and low life'. The name is a blend of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story 'Cyberpunk', published in 1983. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order. Cyberpunk works are well situated within postmodern literature."
Wikipedia, The Cyberpunk Project, Cyberpunk Review, Mirrorshades
The Music Machine
Wikipedia - "The Music Machine (1965–1969) was an American garage rock and psychedelic (sometimes referred to as garage punk) band from the late 1960s, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell and based in Los Angeles. The band sound was often defined by fuzzy guitars and a Farfisa organ. Their original look consisted of all-black clothing, (dyed) black moptop hairstyles and a single black glove."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Talk Talk, Trouble, Masculine Intuition
Eclipse
"Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity."
Eclipse, Tottel's Magazine, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, THIS Magazine, Space - Clark Coolidge, Men In Aida - David Melnick, Silliman's Blog
The Long Take: Lucy Raven, Thom Andersen
Lucy Raven, China Town
"How do you show what’s not there anymore—or what’s not there yet? Answers run throughout the work of both Lucy Raven and Thom Andersen, who trace processes and places that are gone, hidden, or changing so rapidly that we can hardly keep pace."
ARTFORUM
Ephemeral New York
Union Square
"Union Square has been around since 1839, when it opened with a large central fountain, according to the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. But when Union Square was ripped up during subway construction in the 1920s, the fountain went with it. This postmarked, stamped 1910, doesn’t indicate what we’re looking at, but I think it’s Union Square West."
Ephemeral New York
Risk
Wikipedia - "Risk is a strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde ('The Conquest of the World'), in France. Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. Players attempt to capture territories from other players by rolling higher die numbers. The game is won when one player has managed to occupy every territory."
Wikipedia, Risk, Total Diplomacy, YouTube
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Gates
"Drawing 2002, in two parts. 38 X 244 cm. and 106,6 X 244 cm. (15" X 96" and 42" X 96"). Pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, aerial photograph, fabric sample and hand-drawn technical data."
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, amazon, YouTube - The Gates, YouTube - The artists behind The Gates Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936
"Following the chaos of World War I, a move emerged towards figuration, clean lines, and modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies of the avant-gardes—particularly Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism—that dominated the opening years of the 20th century."
Guggenheim, amazon, New York TimeOut
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
"Remember back in 2006 when Werner Herzog heroically rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a wrecked car?"
Coilhouse, Report: Affleck admits Joaquin Phoenix doc a fake
Amrita Sher-Gil
Three Girls, 1935
Wikipedia - "Amrita Sher-Gil ... (January 30, 1913, – December 5, 1941), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important women painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India."
Wikipedia, Tate, Kamat, Guardian, YouTube
K. Leimer
"The music of Lesser Epitomes is derived from the aleatoric reordering of discreet, compatible components in relationships that emulate typical theme and variation. The end results were reprocessed into deliberately modified versions or left as is. The three principal pieces are indexed for random shuffle during replay — and reordering is recommended."
palace of lights, Melliflua, cdbaby. emusic
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
"The one Irish poet people used to know was Yeats. More recently it has been Seamus Heaney. And yet 'the standing army of Irish poets never falls below 20,000,' proclaimed Patrick Kavanagh, who was one of them. An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, running to almost a thousand pages, comes from a country with a population roughly equal to that of Tennessee. The book includes upwards of 50 poets— and there's not a dull page in it. Editor Wes Davis's selection is judicious, while his introduction and notes are as informative as they are brief."
WSJ, Eyewear, Wooing the clay, amazon
Rufus Thomas
Wikipedia - "Rufus Thomas, Jr. (March 27, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Walking the Dog, Jump Back, Do the funky penguin, The Memphis Train, All Night Worker
BBC - 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year
"From back-garden enthusiasts to professional photographers - the Royal Observatory in Greenwich received hundreds of entries for its 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition."
BBC
The Clash - Rudie can’t fail
"Okay, I went to the market to realise my soul
Cos what I need I just don’t have, oh no
First they cursed then they pressed me ‘till I hurt
They say Rudie can’t fail"
YouTube - Rudie can’t fail, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
AVC: Art & Literature Gallery
"As a community that presented itself to the known world over two thousand years ago, may we always continue to keep our Macedonian heritage strong by promoting our history, our traditions and our Democratic spirit throughout the world. We owe it to Eordea our Beloved and Sacred Mother Earth, Aristotle the Philosopher of Macedonia, Alexander the Invincible of Pella, Ptolemy I Soter of Eordea, his descendent Cleopatra VII Pharaoh of Alexandria, and all our great Macedonian ancestors for bestowing on to us, such a priceless inheritance."
AVC Media
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