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"The Old Way and The New". (slyt.11:00+) 1912. Considered the first presidential campaign film. "This is an example of how politics has long been evolving along with, and in response to, new media,” Historian Trygve Throntveit notes “This was quite extraordinary to release a film like this and in some ways it just goes to show that we always have constantly adapted our politics to changes in society and culture.”
'The First Televised Presidential Debate'. 1956. Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Margaret Chase Smith debate current issues.
"That’s right—the first televised presidential debate featured two women."
posted on Aug-29-24 at 9:35 PM
"In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of our beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water." 'Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming' Jun 24, 2024. (PBS video/audio.)
posted on Aug-18-24 at 3:01 PM
'My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary.' Two Films by Béla Tarr. 'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) and 'The Turin Horse' (2011).
posted on Aug-10-24 at 6:05 PM
"Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a rule: never depict any adults and keep it a world of children. This helped make Peanuts a sensation not only in the comic strips, but also as a multimedia franchise. However, a loophole existed for one surprise character." But if one Adult voice stood out, Ms. Othmar, played by Dean Hubbard could be it. "Where are the parents?" 'The mystery of the Peanuts’ parents'
posted on Jul-29-24 at 9:16 PM
"Thomas Sperry of Cranford NJ and Shelley Byron Hutchinson of Ypsilanti MI, founded the Sperry and Hutchison Co. in 1896. They made money by selling the stamps to retailers who would then give them to their customers. 10 stamps for every dollar spent. Consumers would save up their stamps and then exchange them for products from the S&H Catalog (IdeaBook) at S&H redemption centers, which numbered 600 nationwide by the mid-1960s." 'The Sperry & Hutchinson Story.' Remembering S&H Green Stamps booklets and stores: Vintage photos The 1979 'style' Ideas book. (internet archive)
posted on Jul-26-24 at 8:09 PM
"Wherever I goddamn like." (slyt, 1:11) Shohreh Aghdashloo as Chrisjen Avasarala in a key diplomatic scene from the series The Expanse. Aghdashloo in a interview: "Well, my major is political science and international relations. I studied political science in the UK, forty-two years ago I started, and got my BA in 1984. As of then, like any other political student, I used to call myself a student, the fact that I was coming from a revolution in Iran, made me believe that leaving Iran, there was no place for a young outspoken actress like myself". 'The Ethics of Avasarala'
posted on Jul-18-24 at 6:36 PM
"Changing nominees at this point has literally never happened before—not even once. Richardson’s assertion that “in the whole picture of American history, if you change the presidential nominee at this point in the game, the candidate loses”—so clear, so forceful, so authoritative—is totally invented." 'Is the Age of the Resistance Historian Coming to an End? (via A&L Daily)
posted on Jul-14-24 at 7:00 PM
The year 69 CE is noted for the Year of the Four Roman Emperors, "The Revolt of the Batavi was a rebellion led by the Batavi, a small but powerful Germanic population of Batavia on the Rhine delta, against the Roman Empire." Though "Despite the ultimate victory of the Romans, the Batavi’s early successes were notable. In fact, their victories over the Roman legions were predicted by Veleda, a seer who was worshiped as a deity..." 'Veleda and the Ancient Germanic Seers' so, Vitellius...
posted on Jul-8-24 at 9:25 PM
Making handmade bespoke shoes with hand-dyed leather. (slyt. 49:51)
posted on Jul-5-24 at 2:24 PM
'Vessel with a Pestle, Chalace from the Palace.' From The Court Jester, 1955. Danny Kaye, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Glynis Johns. (slyt. 3:39)
posted on Jul-4-24 at 8:09 PM
In 1862, Adam Worth listed as "dead, he was now free to enlist once more and to claim another bounty. Like many others he got a taste for it, taking the money, deserting, re-enlisting again in another unit under another name. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." "The words refined and gaudy, by all practical standards, contrast. But, somewhere between the ether of the two words there is a fine line that, when the words blend across that line, a rarity is created. This specimen is one of color but with an ability to control that color to his/her advantage; to sip of the grapes of life with a celebratory vigor and vim and always emanate what the Parisians call en elegance." In 1876, he stlole Gainsborough' Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire from JP Morgan's father. it wasn't until 1901 that the portrait was returned brokered through Pinkerton. "He nicknamed Worth ‘the Napoleon of Crime.’ Called Adam Worth, Alias ‘Little Adam’ by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, you can read it here. 'A Master Thief, Irish Hostess, English Duchess, and the Origins Pan Am.'
posted on Jun-30-24 at 2:01 PM
"The Wild West looms large in the American psyche, so it’s no surprise it plays a prominent role in the stories we tell in film and television. But there’s one writer who’s been able to take the essence of the Old West and modernize it for today’s savvy audience:" 'How Taylor Sheridan is redefining the Western genre'. 'But the show’s (Yellowstone) focus on white-male resentment hardly distinguishes it from other prestige fare — sure, Yellowstone is about mad men, but so was Mad Men.' from: ' How the Cowboy was Colonized'
posted on Jun-21-24 at 3:01 PM
'Wanderers' A short film my Erik Wernquist . (slyt. 3:50)
posted on Jun-16-24 at 8:25 PM
80 years ago President Roosevelt delivered a speech: "..."Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far." Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
posted on Jun-5-24 at 8:45 PM
Secret to flipping eggs. (slyt)
posted on Jun-3-24 at 2:52 PM
"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears." 'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
posted on May-31-24 at 7:05 PM
"In the life of a poet, of course, there is no Election Day to distinguish the visionaries from the also-rans. So Stevens’s response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. Scholars argue over this: some see him as returning, defensively, to conservatism, particularly since in a 1940 letter he declared that “Communism is just the new romanticism,” and referred to “my rightism.”" 'What Mitt Romney Might Learn From Wallace Stevens' [archive link]
posted on May-29-24 at 6:14 PM
'Paul Williams shows up in his Planet of the Apes costume and performs "Here's That Rainy Day"'. (slyt.9:49)
posted on May-26-24 at 7:42 PM
Bill Mitchell was "responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM, Mitchell spent the entirety of his 42-year career in automobile design at General Motors". Bill Mitchell’s Silver Arrow I. In 1957, coming back from the Turin Auto Show Mitchell faced "Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) had forbidden American automakers from participating in any performance or motorsports activities—which included the building, selling, or advertising of performance-oriented products." Studio X: The Story of Bill Mitchell's Secret Styling Studio at General Motors.
posted on May-20-24 at 2:25 PM
"High Math by Ma And Pa Kettle' (slyt. 3:23)
posted on May-9-24 at 10:15 PM
Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
posted on May-7-24 at 2:44 PM
'Lost Sheep'. A paper stop motion film by Lukas Rooney. (slyt. 7:16)
posted on May-5-24 at 6:35 PM
Bryats Band. 'Vesnyanka' українська Інді-фолк (slyt. 3:44)
posted on Apr-27-24 at 5:49 PM
'Small pizza delivery shop.' (slyt. 4:12)
posted on Apr-20-24 at 6:40 PM
'on the Tories' (slyt. 1:00)
posted on Apr-17-24 at 8:55 PM
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades." 'The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns.'. (archiveorg) "This attraction is now virtually obsolete. Outdoor Amusement Business Association president Greg Chiecko was quoted as claiming he polled his members about dunk tank clowns and that “most say they don’t know of any that still exist today.” (medium) 'Chicago’s Riverview Park and the Racist Dunk Tank'. {CW: Racism. Clowns.}
posted on Apr-9-24 at 11:34 PM
'I’ve never seen ...The Searchers.' "I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …" "(John) Ford is likely the best American historian when it comes to narrative filmmaking 'Printing the Legend: 'The Searchers and a journey into the heart of America’s darkness.' " Scores of film students and enthusiasts have wondered and wrote about what does this last scene of the film mean." Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Searchers Doorway Scene. { CW: racism in film.}
posted on Apr-8-24 at 9:35 PM
'A Grand Day Out'. Landing on the Moon with Wallace & Gromit. (slyt. 2:52)
posted on Apr-1-24 at 5:20 PM
Who was Jack Lord. "When Jack Lord died, he left 40 million dollars to charities in Hawaii. There is Jack Lord's Special Memory of Elvis.' 'Stoney Burke' fan? Jack Lord has a collection of selected works. "This is a critical lesson for any young writer. We want our characters to be “real.” We want our heroes to be “relatable.” But characters are not real and heroes are not normal. They can’t be. If they were, they wouldn’t be heroes." 'The Jack Lord Rule'
posted on Mar-25-24 at 10:44 PM
'Novae.' A supernova's vision.' by Thomas Vanz. (slyt. 3:09)
posted on Mar-11-24 at 8:11 PM
"When the academic reviews of The New Science of the Enchanted Universe began to appear, following its publication a year after Sahlins’s death, I noticed a strange phenomenon: For a genre conventionally prosaic, the scholarly critics kept having encounters with the metaperson of Sahlins himself. When Katherine Pratt Ewing, a professor of Islam at Columbia University, sat down to write her review at her dining table on a Sunday morning, she suddenly found herself slipping into “an almost hypnagogic state in which Marshall was a felt presence,” she recalled in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. “It wasn’t a matter of belief about whether this was possible—it just was.” 'The enchanted worlds of Marshall Sahlins' (via A&L Daily)
posted on Mar-8-24 at 4:36 PM
"While no one place can definitively claim to be the birthplace of the Coney dog, Michigan, by sheer volume and duration of its Coney restaurants, makes a strong bid. Detroit’s famous Coney dog restaurants, American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island, followed Todoroff’s Original Coney Island in Jackson, Michigan, which dates its beginning to 1914." 'The Cult of the Detroit Coney Dog, Explained.'
posted on Feb-26-24 at 2:36 PM
'U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon'. Space.com:"Update for 6:45pm ET: Touchdown! Intuitive Machines that its IM-1 lander Odysseus has landed on the moon and is transmitting a faint, but definite, signal. The exact health of the craft is unclear, but it has landed, Intuitive Machines reports." After some still unconfirmed problems, "The Odysseus lander is "not dead yet" 'Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is aiming for a crater near the moon's south pole. Here's why'
posted on Feb-22-24 at 4:12 PM
'Kid Auto Races at Venice' is a 1914 silent film with Charlie Chaplin appearing for the first time as 'The Little Tramp.' Here is a colorized version. (slyt. 6:51) Previous megathread
posted on Feb-17-24 at 4:06 PM
Overlooked No More: Voltairine de Cleyre, America’s ‘Greatest Woman Anarchist’ (NYT-archive link) de Cleyre was a poet of merit as told by Elizabeth King's essay on her poetry, 'Pearl of Anarchy. Voltairine de Cleyre’s radical poetry is more timely than ever.' The anarchist library has a collection of her poetry on-line
posted on Feb-11-24 at 6:28 PM
"The composition of Opening dates back to 1979, where Glass was commissioned by the Alberta Piano Institute to write a set of varying piano pieces for educational use. It was originally published for solo piano as part of his 'Solo Piano' album in 1989, and since then has been re-recorded and re-arranged in numerous other forms. Opening was also re-contextualised in 1996 as part of the album ‘The Essential Philip Glass’ and was even re-arranged again in 2010 as an orchestral score." Phillip Glass - 'Opening' ( offical version) [slyt. 7:17]
posted on Feb-6-24 at 9:06 PM
"Some honeybees in Italy regularly steal pollen off the backs of bumblebees... Pollen stealing has been seen before, in the United States. But now, researchers in Italy have also observed honeybees snatching pollen off the backs of bumblebees. The observations, published December 21 in Apidologie, are among the most extensive documentation of bee-on-bee larceny to date." previously
posted on Jan-28-24 at 2:20 PM
'One Revolution Per Minute'. A short film by Erik Wernquist. (slyt. 6:23)
posted on Jan-24-24 at 10:07 PM
'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (slyt. 2:23) via: a kid with a camera
posted on Jan-19-24 at 8:08 PM
Dr. King's "I have been to the mountaintop speech." 'The Journey Of A Civil Rights Icon: Rare Photos Of Martin Luther King Jr.'
posted on Jan-15-24 at 2:07 PM
Death buy Lemonade. (slyt. 2:00)
posted on Jan-7-24 at 2:04 PM
Thomas Lynch' poem 'Par Rum Pum Pum Pum. 'I Don’t Know . . . But I Live in Hope': A Conversation with Poet, Undertaker, Essayist Thomas Lynch. PBS 'Frontline' did a great job on 'The Undertaking' (full documentary, slyt.) 'Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets'.
posted on Dec-31-23 at 2:29 PM
Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty actor dies at 75.
posted on Dec-30-23 at 4:05 PM
Aretha Franklin/ Black Sabbath mashup. 'supernaut/'chain of fools' (slyt) and toss in a dash of Randy Rhodes. Steele makin' it real reviews.
posted on Dec-28-23 at 2:35 PM
"The only artist in the world to embed gold leaves in glass, Kirikane." Yamamoto Akane: 'Making Beauty'. (slyt) [via The British museum]
posted on Dec-22-23 at 5:35 PM
"The aim of writing under the name of this nonexistent philosopher was, in Rorty’s words, ‘intellectual empathy’, understood as the attempt to enter into the mind of another thinker, a kind of exercise. This thinker, who does not exist, nevertheless takes up a particular perspective on the world, a perspective that rests on a different set of assumptions and preoccupations from the author’s." 'Forging Philosophy' [via: Arts & Letters Daily.]
posted on Dec-16-23 at 2:15 PM
Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen giving a speech to Howard Beale in the movie 'Network'. (slyt)
posted on Dec-15-23 at 3:23 PM
'Bluebird' by Charles Bukowski. (slyt)
posted on Dec-7-23 at 2:50 PM
Michael Palin and the mystery of Hammershøi. BBC4 (slyt)
posted on Dec-4-23 at 3:11 PM
"Adventures in Imagination": The 1948 Model Plane contest in Detroit, Mi. (slyt)
posted on Nov-28-23 at 8:46 PM
posted on Aug-29-24 at 9:35 PM
"In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of our beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water." 'Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming' Jun 24, 2024. (PBS video/audio.)
posted on Aug-18-24 at 3:01 PM
'My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary.' Two Films by Béla Tarr. 'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) and 'The Turin Horse' (2011).
posted on Aug-10-24 at 6:05 PM
"Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a rule: never depict any adults and keep it a world of children. This helped make Peanuts a sensation not only in the comic strips, but also as a multimedia franchise. However, a loophole existed for one surprise character." But if one Adult voice stood out, Ms. Othmar, played by Dean Hubbard could be it. "Where are the parents?" 'The mystery of the Peanuts’ parents'
posted on Jul-29-24 at 9:16 PM
"Thomas Sperry of Cranford NJ and Shelley Byron Hutchinson of Ypsilanti MI, founded the Sperry and Hutchison Co. in 1896. They made money by selling the stamps to retailers who would then give them to their customers. 10 stamps for every dollar spent. Consumers would save up their stamps and then exchange them for products from the S&H Catalog (IdeaBook) at S&H redemption centers, which numbered 600 nationwide by the mid-1960s." 'The Sperry & Hutchinson Story.' Remembering S&H Green Stamps booklets and stores: Vintage photos The 1979 'style' Ideas book. (internet archive)
posted on Jul-26-24 at 8:09 PM
"Wherever I goddamn like." (slyt, 1:11) Shohreh Aghdashloo as Chrisjen Avasarala in a key diplomatic scene from the series The Expanse. Aghdashloo in a interview: "Well, my major is political science and international relations. I studied political science in the UK, forty-two years ago I started, and got my BA in 1984. As of then, like any other political student, I used to call myself a student, the fact that I was coming from a revolution in Iran, made me believe that leaving Iran, there was no place for a young outspoken actress like myself". 'The Ethics of Avasarala'
posted on Jul-18-24 at 6:36 PM
"Changing nominees at this point has literally never happened before—not even once. Richardson’s assertion that “in the whole picture of American history, if you change the presidential nominee at this point in the game, the candidate loses”—so clear, so forceful, so authoritative—is totally invented." 'Is the Age of the Resistance Historian Coming to an End? (via A&L Daily)
posted on Jul-14-24 at 7:00 PM
The year 69 CE is noted for the Year of the Four Roman Emperors, "The Revolt of the Batavi was a rebellion led by the Batavi, a small but powerful Germanic population of Batavia on the Rhine delta, against the Roman Empire." Though "Despite the ultimate victory of the Romans, the Batavi’s early successes were notable. In fact, their victories over the Roman legions were predicted by Veleda, a seer who was worshiped as a deity..." 'Veleda and the Ancient Germanic Seers' so, Vitellius...
posted on Jul-8-24 at 9:25 PM
Making handmade bespoke shoes with hand-dyed leather. (slyt. 49:51)
posted on Jul-5-24 at 2:24 PM
'Vessel with a Pestle, Chalace from the Palace.' From The Court Jester, 1955. Danny Kaye, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Glynis Johns. (slyt. 3:39)
posted on Jul-4-24 at 8:09 PM
In 1862, Adam Worth listed as "dead, he was now free to enlist once more and to claim another bounty. Like many others he got a taste for it, taking the money, deserting, re-enlisting again in another unit under another name. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." "The words refined and gaudy, by all practical standards, contrast. But, somewhere between the ether of the two words there is a fine line that, when the words blend across that line, a rarity is created. This specimen is one of color but with an ability to control that color to his/her advantage; to sip of the grapes of life with a celebratory vigor and vim and always emanate what the Parisians call en elegance." In 1876, he stlole Gainsborough' Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire from JP Morgan's father. it wasn't until 1901 that the portrait was returned brokered through Pinkerton. "He nicknamed Worth ‘the Napoleon of Crime.’ Called Adam Worth, Alias ‘Little Adam’ by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, you can read it here. 'A Master Thief, Irish Hostess, English Duchess, and the Origins Pan Am.'
posted on Jun-30-24 at 2:01 PM
"The Wild West looms large in the American psyche, so it’s no surprise it plays a prominent role in the stories we tell in film and television. But there’s one writer who’s been able to take the essence of the Old West and modernize it for today’s savvy audience:" 'How Taylor Sheridan is redefining the Western genre'. 'But the show’s (Yellowstone) focus on white-male resentment hardly distinguishes it from other prestige fare — sure, Yellowstone is about mad men, but so was Mad Men.' from: ' How the Cowboy was Colonized'
posted on Jun-21-24 at 3:01 PM
'Wanderers' A short film my Erik Wernquist . (slyt. 3:50)
posted on Jun-16-24 at 8:25 PM
80 years ago President Roosevelt delivered a speech: "..."Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far." Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
posted on Jun-5-24 at 8:45 PM
Secret to flipping eggs. (slyt)
posted on Jun-3-24 at 2:52 PM
"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears." 'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
posted on May-31-24 at 7:05 PM
"In the life of a poet, of course, there is no Election Day to distinguish the visionaries from the also-rans. So Stevens’s response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. Scholars argue over this: some see him as returning, defensively, to conservatism, particularly since in a 1940 letter he declared that “Communism is just the new romanticism,” and referred to “my rightism.”" 'What Mitt Romney Might Learn From Wallace Stevens' [archive link]
posted on May-29-24 at 6:14 PM
'Paul Williams shows up in his Planet of the Apes costume and performs "Here's That Rainy Day"'. (slyt.9:49)
posted on May-26-24 at 7:42 PM
Bill Mitchell was "responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM, Mitchell spent the entirety of his 42-year career in automobile design at General Motors". Bill Mitchell’s Silver Arrow I. In 1957, coming back from the Turin Auto Show Mitchell faced "Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) had forbidden American automakers from participating in any performance or motorsports activities—which included the building, selling, or advertising of performance-oriented products." Studio X: The Story of Bill Mitchell's Secret Styling Studio at General Motors.
posted on May-20-24 at 2:25 PM
"High Math by Ma And Pa Kettle' (slyt. 3:23)
posted on May-9-24 at 10:15 PM
Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
posted on May-7-24 at 2:44 PM
'Lost Sheep'. A paper stop motion film by Lukas Rooney. (slyt. 7:16)
posted on May-5-24 at 6:35 PM
Bryats Band. 'Vesnyanka' українська Інді-фолк (slyt. 3:44)
posted on Apr-27-24 at 5:49 PM
'Small pizza delivery shop.' (slyt. 4:12)
posted on Apr-20-24 at 6:40 PM
'on the Tories' (slyt. 1:00)
posted on Apr-17-24 at 8:55 PM
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades." 'The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns.'. (archiveorg) "This attraction is now virtually obsolete. Outdoor Amusement Business Association president Greg Chiecko was quoted as claiming he polled his members about dunk tank clowns and that “most say they don’t know of any that still exist today.” (medium) 'Chicago’s Riverview Park and the Racist Dunk Tank'. {CW: Racism. Clowns.}
posted on Apr-9-24 at 11:34 PM
'I’ve never seen ...The Searchers.' "I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …" "(John) Ford is likely the best American historian when it comes to narrative filmmaking 'Printing the Legend: 'The Searchers and a journey into the heart of America’s darkness.' " Scores of film students and enthusiasts have wondered and wrote about what does this last scene of the film mean." Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Searchers Doorway Scene. { CW: racism in film.}
posted on Apr-8-24 at 9:35 PM
'A Grand Day Out'. Landing on the Moon with Wallace & Gromit. (slyt. 2:52)
posted on Apr-1-24 at 5:20 PM
Who was Jack Lord. "When Jack Lord died, he left 40 million dollars to charities in Hawaii. There is Jack Lord's Special Memory of Elvis.' 'Stoney Burke' fan? Jack Lord has a collection of selected works. "This is a critical lesson for any young writer. We want our characters to be “real.” We want our heroes to be “relatable.” But characters are not real and heroes are not normal. They can’t be. If they were, they wouldn’t be heroes." 'The Jack Lord Rule'
posted on Mar-25-24 at 10:44 PM
'Novae.' A supernova's vision.' by Thomas Vanz. (slyt. 3:09)
posted on Mar-11-24 at 8:11 PM
"When the academic reviews of The New Science of the Enchanted Universe began to appear, following its publication a year after Sahlins’s death, I noticed a strange phenomenon: For a genre conventionally prosaic, the scholarly critics kept having encounters with the metaperson of Sahlins himself. When Katherine Pratt Ewing, a professor of Islam at Columbia University, sat down to write her review at her dining table on a Sunday morning, she suddenly found herself slipping into “an almost hypnagogic state in which Marshall was a felt presence,” she recalled in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. “It wasn’t a matter of belief about whether this was possible—it just was.” 'The enchanted worlds of Marshall Sahlins' (via A&L Daily)
posted on Mar-8-24 at 4:36 PM
"While no one place can definitively claim to be the birthplace of the Coney dog, Michigan, by sheer volume and duration of its Coney restaurants, makes a strong bid. Detroit’s famous Coney dog restaurants, American Coney Island and Lafayette Coney Island, followed Todoroff’s Original Coney Island in Jackson, Michigan, which dates its beginning to 1914." 'The Cult of the Detroit Coney Dog, Explained.'
posted on Feb-26-24 at 2:36 PM
'U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon'. Space.com:"Update for 6:45pm ET: Touchdown! Intuitive Machines that its IM-1 lander Odysseus has landed on the moon and is transmitting a faint, but definite, signal. The exact health of the craft is unclear, but it has landed, Intuitive Machines reports." After some still unconfirmed problems, "The Odysseus lander is "not dead yet" 'Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is aiming for a crater near the moon's south pole. Here's why'
posted on Feb-22-24 at 4:12 PM
'Kid Auto Races at Venice' is a 1914 silent film with Charlie Chaplin appearing for the first time as 'The Little Tramp.' Here is a colorized version. (slyt. 6:51) Previous megathread
posted on Feb-17-24 at 4:06 PM
Overlooked No More: Voltairine de Cleyre, America’s ‘Greatest Woman Anarchist’ (NYT-archive link) de Cleyre was a poet of merit as told by Elizabeth King's essay on her poetry, 'Pearl of Anarchy. Voltairine de Cleyre’s radical poetry is more timely than ever.' The anarchist library has a collection of her poetry on-line
posted on Feb-11-24 at 6:28 PM
"The composition of Opening dates back to 1979, where Glass was commissioned by the Alberta Piano Institute to write a set of varying piano pieces for educational use. It was originally published for solo piano as part of his 'Solo Piano' album in 1989, and since then has been re-recorded and re-arranged in numerous other forms. Opening was also re-contextualised in 1996 as part of the album ‘The Essential Philip Glass’ and was even re-arranged again in 2010 as an orchestral score." Phillip Glass - 'Opening' ( offical version) [slyt. 7:17]
posted on Feb-6-24 at 9:06 PM
"Some honeybees in Italy regularly steal pollen off the backs of bumblebees... Pollen stealing has been seen before, in the United States. But now, researchers in Italy have also observed honeybees snatching pollen off the backs of bumblebees. The observations, published December 21 in Apidologie, are among the most extensive documentation of bee-on-bee larceny to date." previously
posted on Jan-28-24 at 2:20 PM
'One Revolution Per Minute'. A short film by Erik Wernquist. (slyt. 6:23)
posted on Jan-24-24 at 10:07 PM
'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (slyt. 2:23) via: a kid with a camera
posted on Jan-19-24 at 8:08 PM
Dr. King's "I have been to the mountaintop speech." 'The Journey Of A Civil Rights Icon: Rare Photos Of Martin Luther King Jr.'
posted on Jan-15-24 at 2:07 PM
Death buy Lemonade. (slyt. 2:00)
posted on Jan-7-24 at 2:04 PM
Thomas Lynch' poem 'Par Rum Pum Pum Pum. 'I Don’t Know . . . But I Live in Hope': A Conversation with Poet, Undertaker, Essayist Thomas Lynch. PBS 'Frontline' did a great job on 'The Undertaking' (full documentary, slyt.) 'Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets'.
posted on Dec-31-23 at 2:29 PM
Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty actor dies at 75.
posted on Dec-30-23 at 4:05 PM
Aretha Franklin/ Black Sabbath mashup. 'supernaut/'chain of fools' (slyt) and toss in a dash of Randy Rhodes. Steele makin' it real reviews.
posted on Dec-28-23 at 2:35 PM
"The only artist in the world to embed gold leaves in glass, Kirikane." Yamamoto Akane: 'Making Beauty'. (slyt) [via The British museum]
posted on Dec-22-23 at 5:35 PM
"The aim of writing under the name of this nonexistent philosopher was, in Rorty’s words, ‘intellectual empathy’, understood as the attempt to enter into the mind of another thinker, a kind of exercise. This thinker, who does not exist, nevertheless takes up a particular perspective on the world, a perspective that rests on a different set of assumptions and preoccupations from the author’s." 'Forging Philosophy' [via: Arts & Letters Daily.]
posted on Dec-16-23 at 2:15 PM
Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen giving a speech to Howard Beale in the movie 'Network'. (slyt)
posted on Dec-15-23 at 3:23 PM
'Bluebird' by Charles Bukowski. (slyt)
posted on Dec-7-23 at 2:50 PM
Michael Palin and the mystery of Hammershøi. BBC4 (slyt)
posted on Dec-4-23 at 3:11 PM
"Adventures in Imagination": The 1948 Model Plane contest in Detroit, Mi. (slyt)
posted on Nov-28-23 at 8:46 PM