Video: Mr Blue Footed Booby
. From the director: “This short film is an invitation to a lucid dream. Let’s take dinner together!” Written and directed by Gino Imagino Email subscribers may click on the … Continue reading
Video: The Addams Family dancing Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones
For a brief moment, forget the hurricanes, the threat of nuclear war, the fires burning in LA, Montana, Washington, DC and the hearts of white supremacists. Breathe in. Breathe out. And repeat after me. “Hey Ho……Let’s go!”
Video: Charles Bukowski’s Crappy Life
. “I’m such a spoiled old toad … I was blessed with a crappy life.” — Charles Bukowski in 1993 One afternoon, Bukowski sat down to record the audio version … Continue reading
Molly Fisk: Washington Square — New York, 1941
His eyes lose focus,
and his other senses — so long ignored in deference
to saturated color — come alive, more vivid now
because of their confinement.
Video: Stylo G x Jacob Plant “Bike Engine”
. Directed by Keith Schofield, this short film is the strangest visual poem you will ever experience. . . Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to … Continue reading
Video: Never Again (a tribute to Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
. During the final stage of World War Two, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. … Continue reading
Video: Charlie Chaplin — Modern Times “Nonsense Song” (1936)
. When Chaplin sang this song in Modern Times, he was internationally famous, but it was the very first time that the world had heard his voice, after two decades of … Continue reading
Video: Human Population Through Time
. It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Elegy For A Painter
beauty is a need
like thirst and sex – that even in the Neolithic,
even in a cave, a man once painted
his own hand and was joined by the hands
of others, you said.
Video: The Curse and the Jubilee
. Directed by Ivete Lucas and Otis Lee, The Curse and the Jubilee is an intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the … Continue reading
Chuck Taylor: The Song Dog
. Note Posted on Back Door for Coyote Sorry, I didn’t know you still yodeled your yips around these hills. How stupid of me to assume that just because a … Continue reading
Claudia Nolan: Sometimes the Bright Sophistry of Earnest Souls
Sometimes the bright sophistry of earnest souls of unlearned but much practiced minds shines its own light on the tangled feet of those so eager for the lie, the … Continue reading
Video: Order from Chaos
. This short animated film is the result of a collaboration between the UK-based electronic musician Max Cooper and the French motion graphics artist Maxime Causeret. Order from Chaos features … Continue reading
Video: War & Pierce perform “I Lived To Tell About It”
. Chris Pierce and Sunny War met through a mutual friend, the composer and producer Jared Faber who thought that the two accomplished musicians would hit it off. Pierce, War and … Continue reading
