I have been thinking about certain movies from the 80s that kind of represent this moment in time, regardless of whether they are good or bad. And while movies are, for the most part, dependent on narrative, they also have the ability to capture the space, clothing styles, hairdos, music, and the overall built environment [...]
Last night, Anto and I spent the evening playing with YouTube. Anto did her Laurea in Philosophy at the Unviersity of Milan and here thesis was on [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], so it is always a joy to listen to her talk about his thinking. As we were talking we stumbled upon a scene from Derek Jarman’s [...]
Fifteen seconds into this clip comes one of my favorite lines from one of the best films of the last century, [[Night of the Hunter]] (1955). The other eight and half minutes is just a bonus
BEN HARPER: “What religion you profess, preacher?”
HARRY POWELL: “The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.” [...]
This is awesome, found it via Dan Coleman’s Open Culture blog, and it is just amazing how insane people can be (if it isn’t a fake, but I tend to agree with Dan that this is the real deal). Sometimes I love humanity, and the minute and half video below is why. Despite the [...]
Well, Antonella Dalla Torre’s Italian 202 class had its first annual La Mattina degli Oscar (The Morning of the Oscars), and it was quite a special event. Good food, everyone well-dressed, and the culture was first rate, now that’s Italian! The occasion was a celebration of the recent work this class put into creating [...]
Finally, the last and mashed installation of my [[Dawn of the Dead]] (1978) series which took far more technical and creative energy than I originally imagined. The idea behind this experiment was simple: create three commentaries upon the social/political sub-themes dealing with consumer culture embedded within Dawn of the Dead using [...]
I got my first video response on YouTube today, and it is a pretty cool feeling. Much has been said about how bad the commentary can be on YouTube, and I tend to agree though I have had better luck than most. That said, the real genius of YouTube is in the video response feature, [...]
Carole Garmon pointed me to a beautifully disturbing re-enactment of a performance piece by [[Allan Kaprow| Allan Kaprow's]] “Shake It,” (1972) or at least that’s what I think it’s titled. I didn’t know anything about Kaprow before Carole explained his influential role in defining the concepts of performance art as well as helping to develop [...]
Scott Leslie passed along video footage of [[Friedrich Nietszche]] that is pretty wild. Nietzsche’s works have undergirded much of Western Civilization’s art, literature, drama, and philosophy throughout the twentieth century; his aphoristic philosophical writing re-imagined entire structures of thought. In many ways, he is far more an abstraction than an embodied reality —a series of [...]
Since I am already talking about Warhol and film, here is a bit of “Did you know?” trivia I found pretty fascinating when I first heard it.
Did you know that [[Andy Warhol]] made the first film adaptation of [[Anthony Burgess]]’s novel [[Clockwork Orange]]? Trippy, right? He actually bought the rights and made the experimental [...]
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