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"it's J.R.R. Tolkien reading and Singing his Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers/The Return of the King it's a magnificent piece of audio and was recorded before the books publication.On this Lp Prof. Tolkien reads from his notes for the books as well as sings and chants verses of prose in elfish!, read the books in High School but I'm not a big LOTR fan boy by any stretch yet this recording always amazes me. "
cupcakes!
does dr wilson know all of the secrets of prospect park ?
purdy funny - dear lindsay
cant find the serge gainsbourg thread
In two current exhibitions of paintings, short videos, and seven-inch sound-effects records from the mid-‘70s to the mid-‘80s, the work of Jack Goldstein (1945–2003) is just as conceptually acute as it is easy on the eyes. At Metro Pictures, Goldstein's gorgeous yet dissonant paintings seem to be based on photographs capturing nature at its most awe-inspiring (lightning flashes, volcanic eruptions). But does nature really exist in such luscious Technicolor? Uptown at Mitchell-Innes & Nash are several more paintings, nine handsome 7-inch discs, and an exceptional loop of his beautiful, spare videos. Obvious precursors to the work of contemporary artists like T.J. Wilcox, Goldstein's videos reveal the artist steeped in the same concerns that would later inform his paintings. White Dove, 1975, shows the futile attempt of a pair of hands to clasp a perched dove, which flutters away before it can be captured. The hypnotizing The Jump, 1978, presents rotoscoped stock footage of divers. The glitzy effect transforms the athletes into pixilated jewels, their lithe bodies spinning and twisting from highboards before disappearing with a splash into a black void. Goldstein's exceptional body of work elucidates a state in which beauty is experienced second-hand, inside the pages of magazines and television screens, and locates something more complicated than spiritual bankruptcy therein.
—Nick Stillman artforum
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during a promo on tcm, someone related the story of steve mcqueen spending hours getting in and out of cars in order to figure out what would look "the coolest." gotta appreciate that kind of commitment to craft.
junior bonner / this is always on my film recommend list
phil spector, man or bush?
Here’s a classic coincidence: we were at aKa talking about their Monday film nights, and whether a better projection screen could be devised. I was speculating about the possibility of some sort of paint, and a couple of days later there was an article in the NY Post about exactly that. (Ugh, the Post now requires registration; bad move.) Anyway, the stuff is called Screen Goo and looks to be the thing if you’re serious about turning a wall into a cinematic vista.
This blog will document
the in-and-outs and ups-
and-downs of the
renovation of our 1870's
brownstone in Clinton Hill.
the in-and-outs and ups-
and-downs of the
renovation of our 1870's
brownstone in Clinton Hill.
german super 8 cover art
Vinyl Video, an artistic venture by a collective of European artists, who encode black and white video data into the grooves of vinyl records, and play them back through a custom-built set-top box.
via kens wfmu blog
The Bush Administration's aggressive response to a Newsweek story alleging that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed the Koran down the toilet in front of Islamic detainees displays the height of hypocrisy. After Newsweek clumsily issued an apology, followed by a retraction, White House spokesman Scott McClellan called on the magazine to "help repair the damage that has been done, particularly in the region," by explaining "what happened and why they got it wrong." Maybe the Bush Administration should do the same, by opening up its secret facilities for inspection to the Red Cross and other third-party observers. We are printing below a letter from reader Calgacus--a pseudonym for a researcher in the national security field for the past twenty years--that shows how the desecration of the Koran became standard US interrogation practice.
i was wondering about this. payback time baby!
Google Maps satellite image of a... um... well... weather balloon? Swamp gas? Atmospheric anomaly? (via robotwisdom)
"Our first winner came in and said it was a fortune cookie," said Rebecca Paul, chief executive of the Tennessee Lottery. "The second winner came in and said it was a fortune cookie. The third winner came in and said it was a fortune cookie."
Investigators visited dozens of Chinese restaurants, takeouts and buffets. Then they called fortune cookie distributors and learned that many different brands of fortune cookies come from the same Long Island City factory, which is owned by Wonton Food and churns out four million a day.
Investigators visited dozens of Chinese restaurants, takeouts and buffets. Then they called fortune cookie distributors and learned that many different brands of fortune cookies come from the same Long Island City factory, which is owned by Wonton Food and churns out four million a day.
