Atrabiliario

Poemas de Claribel Alegría

2012-02-02T11:46:00.002+01:00

Ars poética

Yo,
poeta de oficio,
condenada tantas veces
a ser cuervo
jamás me cambiaría
por la Venus de Milo:
mientras reina en el Louvre
y se muere de tedio
y junta polvo
yo descubro el sol
todos los días
y entre valles
volcanes
y despojos de guerra
avizoro la tierra prometida.

Desahogo fugaz

Soy una chispa
en la tierra
un desahogo fugaz
del corazón que nos piensa.

Claribel Alegría

Leer sobre esta autora en: www.escritores.org

Foto de Luca Pierro

Gemelle Kessler - Le sirene siamo noi (mitología a lo vedette)

2012-01-31T14:40:00.000+01:00

Gemelle Kessler en la Web

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

2012-01-30T16:02:00.000+01:00

The first official Video of "Nights In White Satin" from the year 1967!
www.moodybluestoday.com

Peter Stults's "What if...": movies reimagined for another time and place

2012-01-27T10:54:00.001+01:00

Peter Stults at the Web

LEONARD COHEN - I am a Hotel (1983)

2012-01-26T16:37:00.000+01:00

Complete high quality version.

"I Am a Hotel is a 1983 Canadian made for TV short musical film, written by Leonard Cohen and Mark Shekter and directed by Allan F. Nicholls.
The storyline is based around imaginary events in the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, and the guests' (usually romantic) interactions with each other.

Leonard Cohen had the idea for the film based upon his personal experiences and his song The Guests. It was originally intended for the Canadian pay TV network C-Channel, but when the network collapsed, the production was completed by City TV with financial assistance from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Canadian Film Development Corporation.

Scenes:

Cohen features frequently, as an amused bystander ('the Resident'). Extensive dance routines in scenes 2 and 3 were choreographed by Ann(e) Ditchburn, who also dances as the Gypsy wife in scene 3. There are five scenes, each based around a Cohen song.

1. THE GUESTS (in which the characters enter via the lobby and are taken to their rooms; The bellboy and chambermaid meet in the corridor; and the manager and his wife apparently have angry words in the lobby after which she strides off).

2. MEMORIES (in which the bellboy pursues the chambermaid around the laundry and ballroom).

3. THE GYPSY WIFE (in which the manager's wife, in fetching attire, dances on the boardroom table).

4 CHELSEA HOTEL # 2 (in which the two lovers try, and fail, to make love, and the admiral and diva at last face each other across the hallway).

5 SUZANNE (in which scenes of Suzanne with Cohen are interspersed with shots of the two couples reunited and dancing together, and the hotel manager distraught and then drinking at the bar).

A short epilogue repeats the opening material from 'The Guests'.
The final credits give the makers as 'Blue Memorial Video Ltd' and dedicate the piece to David Blue (1941-1982).

Cast:

Leonard Cohen as The Resident
Celia Franca as The Diva
Alberta Watson as Suzanne
Toller Cranston as The Manager
Claudia Moore as Chambermaid
Daniel Allman as Young Lover
Samantha Logan as Young Lover
Robert Desrosiers as The Bellboy
Anne Ditchburn as The Gypsy Wife
Leo Leyden as The Admiral

The film won a Golden Rose international television award at the 1984 Montreux TV festival in Montreux, Switzerland.

Source of video and text: speleotube youtube channel

Collages by Oleg Borodin

2012-01-25T20:11:00.000+01:00

Fuente / Source: http://olegborodin.com/

Kyrielle by Boris Labbé

2012-01-24T16:06:00.000+01:00

Kyrielle from Boris Labbé on Vimeo.
Réalisation: Boris Labbé

EMCA 2011

WLT - Michael Kiwanuka - I'm Getting Ready

2012-01-18T12:15:00.000+01:00

Michael Kiwanuka's Web
WLT - Watch, Listen and Tell 's Web

Ruth Marten - Histoire un-Naturelle

2012-01-16T20:43:00.001+01:00

Artist Bio:

"Born and living in N.Y., Ruth Marten has worn several hats, in spite of the hair. From 1972 to 1980 she was an important figure in the tattoo underground and, as one of the few women practicing the craft, influenced people's ideas about body decoration. Working during the disco and punk era, she also tattooed in the Musée D'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris during the 10th Biennale de Paris in 1977.

Hired by Jean-Paul Goude for her first illustration (and for 30 years after) she illustrated books, albums and magazines and is most associated with the "Year in Provence" books of Peter Mayle, art-directed for A.A.Knopf by Carol Devine Carson. That love of the printed image informs her newest interest: changing, through over-drawing and collage, the configuration and content of 18th century engravings.

Her book Histoire un-Naturelle, published for her 2007 London exhibit at Isis Gallery, is a catalogue of the work that came on the heels of a 17 year obsession with hair. Her drawing, painting and sculpture has been exhibited at the Aldrich Museum (Pop Surrealism, 1998), the Tang Museum (Hair, Untangling a Social History, 2004), the Halsey Institute (Hair on Fire, 2009) and is represented in many collections -- most recently in the de Young Museum in San Francisco."

Text source: www.ruthmarten.com

GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN by Filip Piskorzynski

2012-01-14T11:12:00.002+01:00

GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN from Filip Piskorzynski on Vimeo.

Synopsis:
Ayoung woman wake's up in a dream about tomorrow. she flies till gravity hits her. ///
Une jeune femme se réveille dans un rêve de demain. Elle vole dans la nature. Jusqu'à être aspirée par un monde où règne la gravité. Où on l'oblige à mettre les pieds sur terre. Les gens qui l'entourent se ressemblent tous...

Music:
"Tasty City" by Rone

About the film:
"The film was shot in 2011. We started the project spontaneously in february in Burkina Faso and two shots from there even survived over the process. we continued to shoot additional scenes at the north sea cost without still knowing all of the story we would be telling at the end. Then in Hamburg we shot most of the scenes and finished it in brussels in july.
All in all I would say: round about 7 days of shooting. Lots of nice shots we didn't put in the final editing.
Shot on canon eos 5d mkII with older nikon prime lenses: 35mm 1.4 // 50mm 1.2 // 85mm 1.4 // 105mm 1.8. All pics are manually shot single photos in sraw2 format."
Filip Piskorzynski

William Fitzsimmons - Beautiful Girl /// Berlin Sessions #24

2012-01-13T20:50:00.004+01:00

William Fitzsimmons 's Website
Berlin Sessions' Website

Patti Jordan - Drawings 2009 / 2011

2012-01-13T11:46:00.002+01:00

Technique: Ink & Graphite on Paper

ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY:

Patti Jordan was born in New York City and lives and works in Montclair.
Patti Jordan was recently accepted into The Drawing Center’s online curated registry, “The Viewing Program” (NYC). Jordan received an Honorarium in 2009 for works included in “Lineweight,” a contemporary drawing exhibition at Truman State University Art Gallery, (Kirksville, MO). Two of her works have also been published in Manifest Creative Research Gallery’s 2010 International Drawing Annual. Jordan lectures on art and has written reviews for ArtCat Zine. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors from Pratt Institute and holds a Master of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from Montclair State University. She exhibits widely.

“Working with ink, water, graphite and solvent, Patti Jordan squeegees and pushes ink across the surface of large sheets of Fabriano paper. While not producing delicate soulful swoops with a hand-held Chinese brush, Jordan pushes and pulls her medium, coaxing and building the black ink so that it results in bold, textured and abstractly cratered and rippled layers. Creatures, bones, eyes, limbs and orifices appear, collide and condense on her horizontal and vertical scroll-like pieces, constructions of the imagination, psyche and random gesture.”

Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
(Text source: http://www.pattijordan.com/about/)

Patti Jordan's Web at www.pattijordan.com

Recycled Newspaper Stop Motion

2012-01-12T13:32:00.002+01:00

Synopsis: Old newspaper + Kitchen + No life = This film
Animation by: Lucy Young Clark

Suzanne Vega - Which Side Are You On?

2012-01-09T15:06:00.001+01:00

Suzanne Vega´s Web

Felicidades / Greetings

2011-12-20T19:22:00.003+01:00

¡Espero que 2012, cuando llegue, sea un año excelente

no sólo para los vinos!

¡Les deseo salud, amor, amistad y trabajos interesantes

y dignamente remunerados!

* * * * *

When it comes, I hope 2012 ends up being an excellent year

not only for wine!

I wish you health, love, friendship and an interesting

and decent job!

Ofrin - How Come @ Glashaus/Arena Berlin 29.10.08

2011-12-16T19:59:00.000+01:00

Ofrin 's Web

The Cat Scan - Gatos digitalizados

2011-12-15T12:49:00.001+01:00

Fuente de las imágenes / images' source:

http://thecatscan.tumblr.com/

Sandi Fellman Photography - Insects

2011-12-13T23:31:00.001+01:00

I N S E C T S

Artist's Web: http://sandifellman.com/gallery/

Sin palabras / No comment

2011-12-12T19:27:00.001+01:00

A pesar de que éste es un blog libre de publicidad, no me pude resistir y tuve que publicar el siguiente material. La peculiar estética, el gusto o ausencia total de él, el humor, lo grotesco y poético...Ay...

Eventhough this is an ad free blog, I couldn´t resist posting the following material. The unique aesthethics, the taste or perfect lack of it, the humour, the poetical grotesque...Oh, my...

VER / WATCH:

Delfin Quishpe en la Web

Dos poemas de Adolfo Burriel

2011-12-10T18:04:00.002+01:00

Huerto de la media legua

Para Julio Palazón

Principio de la danza,

rosas abiertas
a infinitud de labios.

De "Furtivos días" Editorial Algaida, 2005

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La herida tiene...

La herida tiene
sangre de cobra,
caverna de pez ciego.

La herida
diezmó los árboles,
la sangre de los labios
desató la tormenta inesperada…

De "Colores desunidos" Ediorial AbeZetario, 2010

Adolfo Burriel

Pulsar series - Fotos de / Photos by Yuji Hamada

Tiny Vipers - Dreamer (Live on KEXP)

2011-12-06T22:15:00.000+01:00

Tiny Vipers' Web
KEXP 90.3 FM's Web

Charles Frederic Soehnée fantastic watercolor paintings

2011-12-05T19:08:00.000+01:00

About Soehnée:

Portrait of Soehnée by Pierre-Louis de Laval

"Between May 1818 and May 1819, Charles-Frédéric Soehnée filled three albums with an extraordinary series of watercolour paintings and sketches. These, together with a single lithograph, 'as far as we know, […] make up the bulk, if not the entirety of Soehnée 's œuvre .'
Soehnée had been born in 1789 in the Rhineland town of Landau, which at that time was part of France: his odd-looking surname is the Gallicized equivalent of Söhne . His family moved to Paris before the turn of the nineteenth century.
From about 1810, Soehnée was a pupil of the Neoclassical painter and illustrator Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. The best likeness we have of him is that painted by his friend and fellow-pupil Pierre-Louis de Laval (or Delaval ), in 1812.
Excepting a few conventional landscapes, Soehnée's paintings are almost entirely devoted to fantastical and grotesque subjects: groups of faceless figures are juxtaposed with variously ratlike and batlike creatures, or skeletal birds; and there is a strange preponderance of stilts, whips and fishing-rods.
The titles that Soehnée gave to some of his pictures are further suggestive of a 'gothic' sensibility: 'Journey to Hell;' 'Cradle of Death;' 'A Place of Silence;' and 'The Winds, Grouped around Plague and Death, Cover the Earth with Tombs…'
At the time these works were executed, it is likely that Soehnee was already engaged in research that would culminate, in 1822, with the publication of a technical treatise in which he disputed the traditional account of Van Eyck's having invented oil-painting, arguing instead 'for the existence, since antiquity, of a form of oil painting, or a mixture of encaustic and varnish, which in his view, could be the only explanation for the durability and preservation of ancient paintings.'
Thereafter, Soehnée seems to have abandoned art, and to have 'become a technician, and a dealer; [and] not content with theorising, he perfected a varnish which was extremely successful—Delacroix mentions it several times in his journal—and which is still in use today.'
The present images were lifted from Patrick Mauriès' catalogue Charles-Frédéric Soehnée (1789-1878): Un voyage en Enfer which was published by Le Promeneur in association with the Galerie Jean-Marie Le Fell, to coincide with an exhibition...
Mauriès' article Soehnée's Capriccios: The Paradox in Art, (translated into English by Judith Landry), which appeared in issue 17 of FMR magazine, was my source for the information quoted and paraphrased above."

Text source: Giornale Nuovo

El Empleo / The Employment - corto animación / animation short

2011-12-04T23:02:00.001+01:00

El Empleo / The Employment from opusBou on Vimeo
Direction: Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Idea: Patricio Plaza Animación
Animation: Santiago 'Bou' Grasso / Patricio Plaza
Titles design: Natalia Acosta
Production company: Opusbou (info@opusbou.com.ar)

Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship

2011-12-02T23:12:00.000+01:00

Dengue Fever's Web

Recomendación de Philip - ¡Gracias!

La boca - poema de José Watanabe

2011-12-01T20:11:00.002+01:00

La boca

En la encañada
había piedras como huesos de un animal prehistórico
                   que se desbarató
antes de alcanzar nuestro valle.

Un gran cráneo
quedó detenido en la pendiente con la boca abierta
y el resto del cuerpo se dispersó hacia el río.

Yo trepaba la pendiente
y me detenía frente a esa boca, una oquedad
donde el viento se huracanaba,
                                              y escuchaba
murmullos, palabras que se formaban a medias
          y luego, sin decir nada, se diluían.

Nunca hubo una frase clara. La boca
como un oráculo piadoso
trababa sus propias frases ante el niño:
                        lo sé ahora
y le agradezco la vida ciega.

José Watanabe

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Biografía:

José Watanabe (1946 - 2007) nació en Laredo, Trujillo (norte del Perú). Su madre, de origen serrano, fue enganchada en plena juventud para trabajar en las haciendas azucareras. Su padre era un inmigrante japonés con una distinción muy especial: poseía una gran cultura. Leía mucho, era pintor. Sabía hablar inglés y francés.

Por su vocación plástica, por la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Trujillo.
Realizó estudios de arquitectura en la universidad Federico Villarreal.

Publicó su primer libro, Álbum de familia, en 1971 que mereció el premio Poeta Joven del Perú. Su segundo libro, El huso de la palabra (1989), fue considerado por la crítica nacional como el poemario más importante de la década de los ochenta. Antígona "lo muestra como un dramaturgo de mucha potencia".

Texto tomado de: www.librosperuanos.com

Dream by Mary Jo Maraldo

Mary Jo Maraldo’s work grows out of her many years’ experience living and studying in Japan, and has been exhibited across the United States. Her avant garde approach is anchored in the tradition of Japanese abstract sumi art, also called bokusho, and also inspired by the ancient tortoise-shell scripts first discovered in China. One of her most dramatic adaptations of calligraphic arts is to sculpt three-dimensional representations of Chinese characters, using a variety of materials, including rocks, metal tubing, and netting.

Andres Marroquin photos - Zapallal / Yurinaki

2011-11-29T13:04:00.000+01:00

"Andrés Marroquín Winklemann's photographs in the series "Zapallal | Yurinaki" have the same bright, intense and episodic nature as my early childhood memories. The pictures are burnished, vibrant and yet urbane. His subject matter is decidedly determinedly quotidian, and what he has gathered together in so many of these photographs are in fact portraits of places to which a photographer's eye could only have been directed by one who has lived where he has been working. The work is everywhere attentive to, fascinated by the weight and sensation of ordinary life - seeks to re-imagine that life in collaborative reconstructions of its daily course that result in these rich, engrossing images. The palette of the images, the detail in each separate texture, the often luminous quality of light, all of these things give the work an undeniably sensuous quality, but these techniques are employed in the service of giving vibrancy to place in a way that might enable us to occupy it as memory, to occupy it as it is by those who - living there - have worked with the photographer to create these pictures."
Text source: www.andresmarroquin.com

Ver Web de Marroquin

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - The Puppini Sisters (Clip)

2011-11-21T18:41:00.000+01:00

The Puppini Sisters at the web

Martín Ramírez - art brut / outsider art

2011-11-18T16:00:00.002+01:00

LA VIDA
Martín Ramírez nació en 1895 en el estado de Jalisco, México y murió en el hospital psiquiátrico de Dewitt, California, en 1963, un periodo traumático. Vivió la revolución de Pancho Villa y Zapata y la de los Cristeros contra el excesivo poder de la iglesia católica, ambas en México y, por si fuera poco, también la Gran Depresión del 29 en Estados Unidos.
Ramírez se desenvolvió en estos escenarios convulsos, de los que apenas emergió sin habla, física y psíquicamente maltrecho.
En 1925 emigra a California en busca de trabajo, que consigue primero en la construcción de los ferrocarriles y después en las minas. Manda dinero a su mujer, que sigue en Jalisco con sus cuatro niños muy pequeños y una gran deuda que liquidar invertida en unas pocas hectáreas y un ranchito de adobe. El crak del 29 y la orden de no dar trabajo a extranjeros y deportar a los mexicanos a su tierra le dejan, de nuevo, con las manos vacías. Los amigos vuelven. Martín no.
En 1931, sin trabajo, sin domicilio, confuso -no habla inglés-, le detiene la policía en un estado tal que deciden confinarlo en un manicomio.
Aunque escapa en varias ocasiones los diagnósticos, implacables -depresión, demencia catatónica, esquizofrenia irrecuperable-, acaban con su rebeldía. Los últimos 30 años de su vida los pasa internado en el DeWitt State Hospital, el psiquiátrico del que no saldrá hasta su muerte.

EL ARTISTA
¿En qué momento este jornalero inculto y sin preparación alguna empieza a pintar? ¿Cuál es su motivación? Ramírez recolecta papeles de toda clase, sábanas de papel, papel de liar, cuartillas y revistas que luego pega con un engrudo preparado por él mismo a base de harinas y su propia saliva. Utiliza betún de los zapatos, zumos de frutas, pinturas que encera con las cerillas que luego emplea a modo de pinceles. Cualquier cosa le sirve. Son las herramientas de un superviviente, un pobre inmigrante institucionalizado.
Lejos de los círculos artísticos e ideológicos de los Rivera, Siqueiros, Kahlo….. Ramírez consigue elaborar un lenguaje propio, único, tan reconocible en la composición como en el repertorio de imágenes que recrea. Presenta los dramas de su vida en forma de mapas que alcanzan hasta los tres metros de largo.
De su México natal, las iglesias, plazas, pueblos, madonas, vírgenes y pistoleros a caballo, revolucionarios armados con la doble canana sobre el pecho. De Estados Unidos, trenes, túneles interminables, nichos, cuevas como bocas oscuras que se abren camino a lo profundo, lo que no se conoce, lo que asusta, lo que da miedo.
Texto tomado de http://aaaaarte.com

Artist Martín Ramírez (right) and psychologist Tarmo Pasto hold up one of Ramírez's works
at DeWitt State Hospital.
Photo source: http://arttattler.com

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In English:

Introduction to the Martin Ramirez Exhibition by curator, Brook Davi at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Read more about this artist at: http://arttattler.com

Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You

2011-11-17T15:41:00.000+01:00

Townes Van Zandt en la Web

La vida en un día / Life in a day - documental / documentary

2011-11-16T09:59:00.003+01:00

"La vida en un día" es un experimento global histórico destinado a la creación del primer largometraje del mundo filmado por los usuarios: un documental rodado por vosotros en un único día. El 24 de julio, dispondrás de 24 horas para captar un retazo de tu vida con una cámara. Las secuencias más significativas y más fascinantes se editarán en un experimento documental producido por Ridley Scott y dirigido por Kevin Macdonald."
Tomado de youtube.com/lifeinaday
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"Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) team up to offer this candid snapshot of a single day on planet Earth. Compiled from over 80,000 YouTube submissions by contributors in 192 countries, Life in a Day presents a microcosmic view of our daily experiences as a global society. From the mundane to the profound, everything has its place as we spend 90 minutes gaining greater insight into the lives of people who may be more like us than we ever suspected, despite the fact that we're separated by incredible distances."
Text by Jason Buchanan, Rovi for www.fandango.com

Ver docu terminado con subtítulos español / Watch full doc:

PINCHA AQUÍ - CLICK HERE

Kurt Vile - Society Is My Friend

2011-11-15T16:22:00.000+01:00

Kurt Vile's Web

Underwater digital photos / fotografía digital subacuática - Mark Mawson

2011-11-08T15:50:00.002+01:00

Aqueous

www.markmawson.com

Watch sculptures : Moments in time / Esculturas reloj: momentos en el tiempo

2011-11-05T11:46:00.001+01:00

Sculptures by / Esculturas por Dominic Wilcox

"Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature time-based sculptures using a collection of vintage mechanical watches and customised model figures. By attaching tiny figures onto the second and minute hands of each watch, Wilcox has made unique, animated scenes from everyday observations and imagined situations.
(...)
"The miniature figure on the second hand moves around constantly and the figure on the minute hand appears stationary. I spent time thinking about the relationship between the two people, how one passes another repeatedly and I tried to think about when that situation happens in real life or in an imagined scenario. I altered head and arm angles of found model figures and made objects such as the LCD tv with wire and plug. The glass domes are hand blown to fit each watch exactly."
Text taken from the artist's Web

Debussy - Beau soir - Leonid Kogan, Andreï Mytnic

2011-11-04T11:12:00.000+01:00

Claude Debussy
Leonid Kogan

Cinco poemas del Patio de locos - Andrés Neuman

2011-11-03T11:16:00.004+01:00

SINOPSIS

Patio de locos es un recorrido a través de los espacios, los pensamientos y la soledad de un conjunto de personajes que conviven dentro de un manicomio. Todos ellos permanecen atrapados en un ambiente enrarecido en el que, de una u otra manera, evaden o postergan un presente insatisfactorio. En este escenario observamos cómo se construye una nueva realidad, gracias a la inusual lógica de los pacientes psiquiátricos y a la débil convicción en lo real que tienen sus custodios.

Una indagación poética sobre los límites del sentido común y sobre la omnisciencia de la voz autorial. Un poemario de lenguaje impactante y alucinado, con personajes (y narradores) en tensión consigo mismos, capaces de transmitirnos una nueva versión de las cosas, atravesada por la locura y por el exceso de razón.

CINCO POEMAS DE PATIO DE LOCOS

Estruendomudo
Lima, 2011

2
el sol viene a colmar las cuencas de los locos
los pajaritos trinan
los árboles babean
también hay mariposas mareos convulsiones
el patio huele a polen el baño está ocupado
las náuseas se incrementan la avispa se relame
el género bucólico es una medicina
amable alivio lírico la aguja busca el brazo

14
¡escarabajo! insiste
el loco que se arrastra por el patio
pero nadie parece comprender
esa premonición
(¿el narrador sabrá?)
todos miran al cielo con el labio colgando
otro loco se traga el sol y eructa
el doctor nube pasa
se interesa
¿y por qué escarabajo?
al profeta le entra un ataque de furia
hay cosas que se aplastan si se explican

17
está también el loco de la muleta rota
deambula por el patio haciendo círculos
sí me partí la pierna
explica serio
y esa pierna era mía pobrecita
lo justo es que también se parta la muleta
¿pero no te curaste? objeta el enfermero
por eso dice el loco ahora sólo
espero a que se cure la muleta
lo dice y sigue andando
tropieza se levanta
con los codos heridos las rodillas abiertas
(difícil sostener el daño ajeno
concluye el narrador haciendo círculos)

25
pásame el tenedor exige el loco
de la muleta rota contemplando
su sopa de fideos
¿tenedor?
se burla el enfermero
(es joven y le cuesta seguirles la corriente
aclara el narrador paternalista)
¿tenedor para el caldo?
¡sí señor! le responde
ofendido el de la muleta rota
lo fácil es llevarse todo todo
no dejar nada para el plato
yo prefiero pinchar mi parte de la sopa
¿entiendes o no entiendes? bah te escupo
(se limpia el enfermero con una servilleta)
tienes que ir aprendiendo murmura el veterano
a distinguir los locos de los locos

28
cada vez continúa
explicándole a nadie el loco rubio
que me levanto afeito ducho visto
(ah ¿pero tú te duchas? se burla entonces nadie)
que me lavo la ingle la rodilla
que me corto las uñas me pongo calcetines
pienso en la muerte ¿entiendes?
en la muerte por partes
(no no entiendo
murmura nadie) ¡sí! ¡te juro!
veo no un gran vacío
sino muertes pequeñas
una a una
la del pie la del pelo la del pito
(interesante ajá)
así vivo la muerte muchas veces
viene por todos lados
se deshace se absorbe
es como agua o gel (en fin en fin
me voy a otra cabeza adiós muy buenas
dice y se esfuma nadie)
menos mal sigue él que me medican

Andrés Neuman

Textos tomados de la Web: www.andresneuman.com

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Vollis Simpson “Molinillos gigantes”

The great wind-animated sculptures of Vollis Simpson, made of scrap metal and festooned with bicycle reflectors. Some stand 40 feet tall.

Artist's Web

Thiago Pethit - Nightwalker

2011-11-02T10:24:00.000+01:00

www.thiagopethit.com

French Movie - Short film on poem

2011-10-30T14:24:00.001+01:00

French Movie from Scott Wenner on Vimeo.
Film by Scott Wenner
Poem by David Lehman

Autorretrato erótico en dos actos - Gabriela Lovera

2011-10-28T11:18:00.003+02:00

Amanece.

El astro irrumpe en un grito sordo que estremece las sombras:

Éxtasis de luz.

Atardece.

Una mano invisible asciende con la luna,

la coloca en el centro del deseo,

hace brotar la noche,

la deja a merced de los labios.

María Gabriela Lovera Montero

Autorretrato erótico en dos actos
Madrid, 2011

Tinariwen - Tenere Taqhim Tossam (Official Video)

2011-10-27T09:46:00.000+02:00

www.tinariwen.com

InsideJobDocumentary - subt. español

2011-10-26T18:37:00.003+02:00

Trailer:

"Inside Job es un documental que ganó un oscar en la última edición de los premios de Hollywood. En él podemos ver un análisis de la crisis de las hipotecas basura desde varias perspectivas, aunque siempre desde el mismo patrón ideológico. Inside Job culpabiliza de la crisis al neoliberalismo y al afán desmedido de los gobiernos estadounidenses de las últimas décadas por desregular el sistema financiero y mantenerlo a salvo de una mínima intervención estatal. Y a partir de ahí examina la crisis desde el lado de los altos empleados de las grandes entidades financieras, desde las asociaciones que promovían la regulación financiera, desde los políticos partidarios de la desregulación y también desde los economistas que justificaron todas las medidas implantadas por el neoliberalismo."
Leer resto de la reseña en: www.attac.es

Ver documental completo en inglés
con subtítulos en español:

PINCHA AQUÍ

Tessa Farmer - Nymphidia

2011-10-25T10:21:00.005+02:00

"Tessa's miniscule sculptures reinvigorate a belief in fairies: not the sweet Tinkerbell image in popular conscience, but a biological, entomological, macabre species translating pastoral fable into nightmarish lore. Constructed from bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects, each of Tessa's figures stand barely 1 cm tall, their painstakingly intricate detail visible only through a magnifying glass.

Hovering with rarefied, jewel-like beauty, Tessa's tiny spectacles resound with a theurgist exotica: their specimen forms borrow from Victorian occultism to evolve as something alien and futuristic. Playing out apocalyptic narratives of a microscopic underworld, Tessa's manikin wonders rule with baneful fervour: harnessing mayflies, battling honey bees, attacking spindly spiders. Presented as wee preternatural discoveries, Tessa's sculptures conjure a superstitious premise, dismantling the mythos of fantasia with evidence of something much more gothic, sinister, and bewitching."

Text by Patricia Ellis - Source: www.tessafarmer.com

The Universal Mind Of Bill Evans

2011-10-23T11:04:00.000+02:00

directed by Louis Cavrell

"From the jazzpages personal archives, I bring you the intriguing documentary 'The Universal Mind Of Bill Evans'. Several years ago, Rhapsody released a 21-minute video called 'Bill Evans On The Creative Process', a badly edited reduction of a 1966 TV program introduced by Steve Allen, the first host of the now famous 'Tonight Show'. This short film is a restoration of the original 45-minute telecast. Here is Evans, his hair slicked back, his terrible teeth uncapped, a cigarette waving in the air, in intense conversation with his composer brother Harry Evans (a professor of music at Louisiana State University) on the nature of creativity in jazz.

This documentary features in-depth discussion of Evans' internal process of song interpretation, improvisation, and repertoire. Through demonstration on the piano, Bill uses the song 'Star Eyes' to illustrate his own conception of solo piano and how to interpret and expand upon the melody and underlying chord structure.

Onstage, Evans was famously reticent about speaking, but here he's surprisingly, stirringly provocative."

Text and video source: http://jazzpages.tumblr.com

Declinaciones del monólogo de Eunice Odio

2011-10-21T13:04:00.004+02:00

I
Estoy sola,
muy sola,
entre mi cintura y mi vestido,
sola entre mi voz entera,
con una carga de ángeles menudos
como esas caricias
que se desploman solas en los dedos.
Entre mi pelo, a la deriva,
un remero azul,
confundido,
busca un niño de arena.
Sosteniendo sus tribus de olores
con un hilo pálido,
contra un perfil de rosa,
en el rincón más quieto de mis párpados
trece peregrinos se agolpan.

II
Arqueándome ligeramente
sobre mi corazón de piedra en flor
para verlo,
para calzarme sus arterias y mi voz
en un momento dado
en que alguien venga,
y me llame...
pero ahora que no me llame nadie,
que no quepo en la voz de nadie,
que no me llamen,
porque estoy bajando al fondo de mi pequeñez,
a la raíz complacida de mi sombra,
porque ahora estoy bajando al agónico
tacto de un minero, con su media flor al hombro,
y una gran letra de te quiero al cinto.
Y bajo más,
a las inmediaciones del aire
que aligerado espera las letras de su nombre
para nacer perfecto y habitable.
Bajo,
desciendo mucho más,
¿quién me encontrará?
Me calzo mis arterias
(qué gran prisa tengo),
me calzo mis arterias y mi voz,
me pongo mi corazón de piedra en flor,
para que en un momento dado
alguien venga,
y me llame,
y no esté yo
ligeramente arqueada sobre mi corazón, para verlo.
y no tenga yo que irme y dejar mi gran voz,
y mi alto corazón
de piedra en flor.

Eunice Odio

(En Web A media voz)

Read Eunice Odio's poems translated into English

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3 photos of Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen'sThe Experience of Green (2009)

Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen filled the Dumbo Arts Center with their enormous site-specific installation The Experience of Green (2009). The exhibition emphasized the contrast between the organic and the built environment. Viewers stepped out of Dumbo’s stark brick-and-glass commercial district into a fantastical forest; a walk-through labyrinth of old growth trees made entirely from red kraft paper. The spectacular network of gnarled tree trunks and twisted roots extended over every inch of the gallery, suspending the boundaries of space and time while fully immersing the viewer.
Red more at: www.artcat.com

Lianne La Havas - Final Form (Everything Everything Cover)

2011-10-20T12:30:00.000+02:00

Lianne La Havas en la Web

Fragmento de la película "Concursante"

2011-10-19T10:43:00.002+02:00

DEL DINERO, DE LOS PRÉSTAMOS, DE LOS BANCOS, DE LA PÉRDIDA Y DE LA ILUSIÓN.

"El Concursante (2007) es la ópera prima de Rodrigo Cortés que cuenta la historia de Martín Circo Martín (Leonardo Sbaraglia), un profesor de historia de la economía, que gana un premio millonario en un concurso de televisión, pero se da cuenta de que no puede mantenerlo y acaba endeudándose más y más.
El Concursante es una crítica agresiva al sistema financiero y a los bancos, a los préstamos y al nivel de vida de occidente en que la gente gasta lo que no tiene y el dinero no es real. El montaje tiene un ritmo vertiginoso, y el aspecto formal original y surrealista da mucha personalidad a la película, pero a veces distrae de la trama y estorba más que enriquece."
(Fuente del texto: www.peliculas.info)

Collage by Iure Kothe

2011-10-18T11:38:00.004+02:00

Baseball 09 (baseoil)

Analog Collage by iuri kothe, made on 070307, size: 24x18 cm.

Inri

Date: 2005. Size: 32x20cm. The mountain is (i think) Yosemite - USA.

constelacao ursa maior

Size: 17x23cm. Date: 2004 / 08 / 24.

Ensaio sobre a Pintura

Featuring Caravaggio and Gisele Bündchen Size: 63x28cm. Date: 2005 / 01 / 09.

"Born in the city of São Paulo, Brazil (1980), Iuri Kothe dedicates remarkable talent to the art of collage since 2003 – both analog, with pieces of magazine photographs, and digital, with pictures processed on Photoshop.
His images show good precision, aesthetic appeal and high suggestive impact and have attracted the attention of journalists, who see a peculiar form of communication; and other artists, stimulated to bring them to public exhibition." (Text source: Iure Kothe's web)

Iure Kothe's Web

When the Day Breaks / animación - animation

2011-10-17T10:40:00.001+02:00

1999, Canada
Directors: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby

"When the Day Breaks illuminates life's most ordinary aspects a toaster, a lemon, a trip to the store and endows them with a visceral power. Co-directors Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis use pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel. With deft humor and finely rendered detail, When the Day Breaksevokes the promise and fragility of a new day, hinting that these moments are what will some day form our memories; that the everyday is what defines us and connects us."
Text source: www.awn.com

Pina Bausch - Exclusive Clip: Lean on Me

2011-10-14T10:05:00.002+02:00

'Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost'.
Pina Bausch

About PINA, the film:
"PINA is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in the summer of 2009. PINA is directed by Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, Wings of Desire), who was a long-standing friend of Pina's."
Read the rest of this text at: www.hopscotchfilms.com.au

My First Day At School - Mi primer día de colegio (poema animado en inglés)

2011-10-13T16:52:00.002+02:00

Animation by Andrew Leek alias ajleek / voice: Pat Lakeland

My Own Window: no sea, just light and shade / photos by Gabriela Lovera

2011-10-12T11:59:00.005+02:00

Window and shape of house

Window and shape crumbling down

Photos by Gabriela Lovera:

"Inspired by the Divola images, but without the sea or the abandonment, I made some pictures of my own. The idea was to capture shade and light, and my own internal mood."

John Divola - Zuma Series (1977-78)

2011-10-11T11:14:00.000+02:00

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

"Every time that I would return to this house I would notice that it had changed. Often it was a minor change, some rearranged papers and a few empty beer cans in the corner. The change was at times more substantial, like arriving to find the house full of large tree branches that had recently been set on fire and extinguished, water still dripping from the ceiling. On another occasion there might be a strong wind blowing through the window. Once I arrived to find the house gone.

On Initially arriving I would move through the house looking for areas or situations to photograph. If nothing seemed to interest me I would move things around or do some spray painting. The painting was done in much the same way that one might doodle on a piece of paper. At that point I would return to the camera and explore what ever new potentials existed.

These photographs are not meant to be documents of painting, or sculpture, or even of environmental works. When photographing the space I saw my painting as only an aspect of what was there. The painting did allow me to explore my own gestures. However, it can not be isolated from the broken glass on the floor or a curtain being blown by the wind. No element is of greatest importance. I am most satisfied when the line between evidence of my actions and what is already there is not distinct. These photographs are the product of my involvement with an evolving situation. The house evolving in a primarily linear way toward it's ultimate disintegration, the ocean and light evolving and changing in a cyclical and regenerative manner. My acts, my painting, my photographing, my considering, are part of, not separate from, this process of evolution and change. These photographs are not so much about this process as they are remnants from it. My participation was not so much one of intellectual consideration as one of visceral involvement. (taken from the artist's Web)

John Divola en la Web

Mae West - Occidental Woman

2011-10-09T13:33:00.000+02:00

Mae West at the Web

The Hunt - Christian Jankowski

2011-10-06T22:33:00.002+02:00

Christian Jankowski en la Web

The Hunt, 1992/1997
Single-channel video
Betacam SP (Master)
1:11 minutes, color with sound
The Hunt is Christian Jankowski’s most seminal early project, the first video to encapsulate the conceptual twists and self-reflexive humor that now define his mature practice. The footage captures a segment of Jankowski’s week-long quest to eat only groceries he shoots in the supermarket with a bow and arrow. The Hunt is an excellent complement to Jankowski’s 3-channel video Point of Sale. Incisively direct, the early work reveals the groundwork of the latter project’s more discursive investigation of art, business, and their overlap.
(text taken from: http://www.icaboston.org)

Mentalgassi, street artists / arte callejero

2011-10-05T11:50:00.002+02:00

Mentalgassi es un colectivo de artistas afincado en Berlín, cuyos tres miembros principales intervienen objetos urbanos corrientes, empleando en muchos casos la técnica del "wheat paste".

http://mentalgassi.blogspot.com

Beck - Timebomb

2011-10-04T11:25:00.000+02:00

Beck en la Web
Chris Jordan en la Web

POSSESSED - documentary by Martin Hampton

2011-10-01T11:07:00.001+02:00

POSSESSED from Martin Hampton on Vimeo.

Martin Hampton en la Web
Síndrome de Diógenes en la Web
Diogenes syndrome at the Web

Alexandr Sennikov photography

2011-09-30T11:26:00.000+02:00

Fotografías que son como cuadros de naturaleza muerta y que representan reliquias de lo que fue la era soviética. Se trata de la obra del fotógrafo Alexandr Sennikov.

My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy (Live Laundro Matinee accoustic session)

2011-09-28T09:42:00.002+02:00

Laundro Matinee acoustic session en la Web
My Brightest Diamond en la Web

Autorretrato / Self-portrait

2011-09-27T13:44:00.000+02:00

Así me he dibujado a lápiz /This is how I've drawn myself in pencil:

Gabriela Lovera - 2011

Jan Svankmajer - Et Cetera (1966)

2011-09-26T09:18:00.000+02:00

Jan Svankmajer en la Web

Sea Organ of Zadar / Órgano del mar en Zadar, Croacia

2011-09-22T17:08:00.002+02:00

De día / By day:

De noche / By night:

Sobre el Órgano del mar:

"Esta obra maestra de la acústica y la arquitectura fue creada por los Dalmatian Stone Carvers y el arquitecto Nikola Basic en 2005. Recientemente han recibido el European Prize for Urban Public Space por este proyecto. Está inspirada por una romántica visión del poder de la naturaleza. Crea una zona de paseo que surge a partir de la construcción de una estructura escalonada, a la orilla del mar que bordea la península donde se encuentra la ciudad, y recupera para sus habitantes un enclave marítimo que, hasta la fecha, se había mantenido abandonado pese a que, paradójicamente, ofrece la mejor perspectiva para contemplar la hermosa puesta de sol de Zadar. Esta estructura incorpora en su interior un mecanismo de tubos que transforma en sonidos el aire empujado por las olas, transformando la estructura arquitectónica en una suerte de gran instrumento musical cuya melodía impredecible suena incesantemente. Basic crea así un nuevo espacio que conecta la ciudad con el mar, y, mediante el estímulo sensorial que ofrece, incita al establecimiento de una interacción compleja del individuo con ese entorno: una experiencia estética única que surge entre ese límite de lo urbano y lo natural."
Fuente: www.acusticaweb.com

About the Sea Organ:

"The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian Stone Carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands."
Source of text: www.oddmusic.com

Escúchalo /To listen to the organ, CLICK HERE

moondog - why spend the dark night

2011-09-21T10:38:00.000+02:00

music: moondog - why spend the dark night
video: amalia aguilar - afro mood
mix: iuri kothe

Família Gangsters - Reciclar Você - (CLIPE OFICIAL)

2011-09-20T09:55:00.001+02:00

Familia Gangsters' Web
Graffiti Artist Mundano

La brida (poema de Zakaria Mohammed, Palestina)

2011-09-19T17:22:00.004+02:00

Vídeo tomado de la Web del Festival Internacionbal de Poesía de Medellín

Some poems translated into English:

Mohammed was born in 1951 in the Nablus area. He studied Arabic literature at Baghdad University. In addition to his poetry publications, he published his first novel in 1996 and a collection of plays in 1999. His poetry is considered to be one of the best examples of modernist Arabic poetry. He participated in the 1999 Medellin International Poetry Festival in Colombia, and the 2001 Arab World Institute poetry festival in Paris. He lives in Ramallah.

The Reapers

-- Who are you, trekking along rough roads,
sweat secreting from your bodies?
-- We are the reapers of the rolling hills.
We set out at dawn
and harvested the wind
and time
and hallucinations sprouting
like the grasses of the savanna
O! how weird our harvest can be
If the night hadn't fallen so soon
we would've reaped with our scythes
silence, death and stone
and descended toward the sea
and gathered the waves and their quavering
to make everything perfect,
perfect and definite.

Translated by Sharif Elmusa from 'Al-Karmel' magazine, No 67, Ramallah 2002 and reprinted from Banipal No 15/16.

The rose and the bull

At night the rose is dark
At night a black bull
flies from the rose
It pierces the skin
with its two silver horns
At night the rose is dark
The spilt blood
of the hapless passer-by
drips from its horns
At night the rose is dark
But in daylight
the rose's black bull
is only a shadow
lying in ambush
So beware
when you pick
the rose
Beware
Carry a dagger
close to your heart
to butcher
that bull
which lies
all day
folded in petals
at the heart of the rose

Night

Night is opening its poisonous flower
It seeps through the sky
like a tincture spilt into water
Night is unfurling its flower
for the solitary insomniacs
who stumble along from step to step
Night is enfolding the city
as the homeless come out
from their doorways and basements
Night is opening its poisonous flower
as dread rolls down the stairs
like a melon
The last one
Spare me
the last bullet in the revolver
so death can wait at the doorway
Spare me
the last gasp in the lungs
so breath can expire with hard labour
Spare me
the last copy of the key
so only the ghosts can get in

Translated by the author and Sarah Maguire. Reprinted from Banipal No7.
© Translation copyright Banipal and translator. All rights reserved.

A Tavern

Here the dead are carousing
Here they shake their heads
to the music of shroud bells.

Emigration

They're all gone
towards that place in the North
where the grasses grow
to the height of their breasts
They left behind them
tattered strips from their children's clothes
and the pegs of their tents
They're gone
Their children on the backs of mules
Their youths carrying baskets
and their sheep's bells
They were like a cloud
climbing up to heaven
The more they penetrated the land
the more their shadows expanded
and returned towards the camps
Their dogs were mute
They would surpass the migrating crowd , then sit down
their eyes watching
the moving shadows
as they ran back ward
like a dark river.

Zakaria Mohammed

Source of texts: www.sakakini.org

Increíble pero cierto / Unbelievable

2011-09-18T11:30:00.003+02:00

Vegan Black Metal Chef Episode 2 - Easy Meal Ideas of The Ages:

Vegan Black Metal Chef en la Web

Messer fur Frau Muller - The Best Girl in the U.S.S.R

2011-09-16T12:05:00.001+02:00

Messer fur Frau Muller en la Web

LUCID by Jack Haslehurst

2011-09-15T11:30:00.000+02:00

LUCID from Jack Haslehurst on Vimeo.
Jack Haslehurst en la Web

Errol Morris' Vernon, Florida documentary

2011-09-15T11:13:00.004+02:00

Movie clip:

Sinopsis:
"Vernon, Florida is an odd-ball survey of the inhabitants of a remote swamp-town in the Florida panhandle. Henry Shipes, Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins and others discuss turkey-hunting, gator-grunting and the meaning of life. This second effort by Errol Morris, originally titled Nub City, was about the inhabitants of a small Florida town who lop off their limbs for insurance money (“They literally became a fraction of themselves to become whole financially,” Morris commented.) but had to be retooled when his subjects threatened to murder him. Forced to come up with a new concept Morris created Vernon, Florida (1981) about the eccentric residents of a Southern swamp town.

David Ansen in Newsweek wrote, “Errol Morris makes films unlike any other filmmaker. Vernon, Florida, like his earlier study of pet cemeteries, Gates of Heaven, is the work of a true original. On the surface, it is simply a portrait of several somewhat eccentric residents of a slow backwater town… There’s a taste of Samuel Beckett in the film’s tone of droll, forlorn hopefulness, and something of Buster Keaton in the spacious frames and exquisitely deadpan comic timing. Vernon, Florida isn’t sociology at all, it’s philosophical slapstick, a film as odd and mysterious as its subjects, and quite unforgettable.” —errolmorris.com"

(Text taken from: http://mubi.com)

Errol Morris at the Web
About the film

Watch film online: HERE

Tu veux ou tu veux pas - Marcel Zanini

2011-09-14T09:27:00.000+02:00

Marcel Zanini en la Web

Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show

2011-09-13T13:37:00.001+02:00

Terry Gilliam en la Web

Ulay & Abramović "Imponderabilia" [1977]

2011-09-11T14:04:00.000+02:00

Marina Abramovic en la Web

Elysian Fields - Red Riding Hood [Official Video]

2011-09-10T11:08:00.000+02:00

Elysian Fields - Red Riding Hood [Official Video] from Ojet Records on Vimeo.
Elysian Fields' Web

Better Use for Leisure Time (1950)

2011-09-09T11:39:00.000+02:00

"Coronet Instructional Films were shown in American schools starting in about 1941. The company was an offshoot of Coronet Magazine, a digest-sized magazine that itself was owned by Esquire, Inc. Owner David Smart was deeply interested in visual education and the power of the film to teach and convince, and built a full studio on his estate in Glenview, Illinois, where at its height hundreds of films were cranked out each year. The films were sold to schools and libraries by a network of distributors and were quite successful -- in 1976 Coronet celebrated its sale of 1 million prints. Most Coronet films were shot in Kodachrome, but Kodachrome prints of many titles are quite rare. It was cheaper to purchase black-and-white prints, and most sales were black-and-white. For more Coronet history, see Ken Smith's excellent book "Mental Hygiene," published by Blast Books (www.blastbooks.com)." (Taken from Internet Archive)

Coronet Instructional Films

Li'l Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs (1966)

2011-09-09T10:29:00.000+02:00

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs en la Web

Lisa Wassmann - photography

2011-09-08T13:01:00.000+02:00

Lisa Wassmann - photography

Minibio: Born and raised 1981, WestBerlin. Lives and works in Berlin and all over the globe. Studied Communication Design from 2006 to 2009

Lisa Wassmann 's Web

Cabezon Key

2011-09-06T19:49:00.001+02:00

Cabezon Key en la Web

The Last Poets - When The Revolution Comes

2011-09-06T14:00:00.000+02:00

The Last Poets en la Web

Temporary Valparaiso :: Pascuala Ilabaca

2011-09-03T13:47:00.000+02:00

collection petites planètes • volume 4 • TEMPORARY VALPARAISO (PART 2) from Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes on Vimeo.
Pascuala Ilabaca en la Web

Caleb Charland - Demonstrations

2011-09-02T10:45:00.001+02:00

"Demonstrations combines my scientific curiosity with a constructive approach to making pictures. I utilize everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate my own experiences with wonder. Each piece begins with a simple question (How would this look? Is that possible? What would happen if...) and develops through a process of experimentation. By establishing physical parameters first, I discover each idea’s visual potential. This allows the natural properties of the subject matter to inform my aesthetic decisions as I construct these arenas to reveal the phenomena.
My process and choice of subject matter stem from growing up in a do it yourself household where I learned to appreciate the power that tools and materials hold. As I explore the garage and search through the basement to solve these pictures, I find new ways of putting old tools and familiar materials to work. “Demonstrations” intends to inspire wonder and curiosity in all viewers." (Caleb Charland)
Text taken from: StoneCrop Gallery Web

Agujetas, Cantaor (Dominique Abel, 1999)

2011-09-01T10:25:00.000+02:00

Dominique Abel en la Web
Agujetas, Cantaor en la Web

jose luis guerin - souvenir (1986)

2011-08-31T13:17:00.001+02:00

Título: Souvenir
Director: José Luis Guerín
Año: 1986
Duración: 04:46
Color: B/N
País: España

"Tres años después de su debut con Los motivos de Berta, José Luis Guerín realizó este cortometraje donde dejó patente su predilección y amor incondicional por el cine de ensayo. Una pieza que destaca por su carácter esencialmente visual, su lenguaje reflexivo y poético, y su estilo claro y sencillo. Las mismas señas de identidad que después aplicaría e iría depurando hasta el extremo en largometrajes como Innisfree, Tren de sombras o En construcción."

Tomado de Blog Metraje Encontrado

Star - Elysian Fields

2011-08-30T11:57:00.000+02:00

Elysian Fields en la Web

Cash rules everything around me - Dan Tangue

2011-08-29T13:38:00.001+02:00

The hidden messajes in Dollar notes

Los mensajes ocultos en billetes de dólar

Dan Tangue

American, b. 1974
lives in New Orleans, Louisiana

Taken from /Tomado de la Web: http://dantaguestudio.com/

Ivan Illich Talks Tools, Cybernetics, and the Good Samaritan

2011-08-26T12:57:00.000+02:00

Ivan Illich at the Web

Cristina Calderón: La dueña del fin del mundo

2011-08-23T16:41:00.004+02:00

Cristina Calderón: La dueña del fin del mundo from PortalPatrimonio on Vimeo.
Este vídeo fue escrito y dirigido por Hans Mulchi B.
Producción CNCA - Área de Patrimonio Cultural - Chile

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Buscando a Cristina Calderón /
In Search of Cristina Calderón

September 15, 2006
by Pablo Helguera
For some reason related to the poetic symmetry of fate, it is fitting that the last speaker of the Yhagan language would live in the southernmost village of the world. The Villa Ukika, with population of 51, is an indigenous village located South East of Puerto Williams, a Chilean village that is in turn South of Ushuaia. Puerto Williams has a population of 3000. It was originally a naval settlement, and the officers of the Chilean navy appear to still constitute the main population here.
The search for Cristina Calderón turned out to be a feat no less challenging than the search of Marie Smith Jones in Anchorage. Having been in touch via email for several months with her granddaughter, who promotes the knowledge of Yaghan language and culture, I had only obtained spotty and vague information as to the whereabouts of “La Abuela” (“Grandma”), as she is known here. When I arrived to Ushuaia, I only knew that she lived in Puerto Williams, which is 20 km. away by crossing the Beagle channel. I did not know, however, that transportation between Ushuaia and Puerto Williams is practically nonexistent at this time of year. I also was not certain to find La Abuela once I managed to cross. But there was no other choice but to try.
I finally managed to hire a transportation in a little rubber boat that crossed me, along with two Australians, to the Isla Navarino in Chile, where Puerto Williams is located. We crossed amidst snow and the frigid wind on the boat that jumped on the waves as if we were horseriding. We had to make an appointment with two immigration officers that met us at Puerto Navarino (an otherwise deserted spot) in order to get our passports stamped (once again). From there, a van took us to the other side of the island, through a dirt road (there are no paved streets or highways here), crossing snow and sleet, until we finally reached our destiny.
I walked into Villa Ukina, which has a spectacular view to the sea and the mountains. The house of La Abuela was in the center of the village. Cristina herself opened the door, and to my relief, knew who I was. But he asked me to come back at 3pm, and with her slight Chilean accent added: “but also you should know that I charge for interviews”.

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.panamericanismo.org/

Web de The School of Panamerican Unrest / La Escuela Panamericana del Desasosiego

"Thanatopsis" (1962) - by Ed Emshwiller.

2011-08-22T19:35:00.000+02:00

Ed Emshwiller en la Web

Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane [Official Music Video]

2011-08-20T22:18:00.000+02:00

Angus and Julia Stone en la Web

Hands on Paper - Recycled phrases poems in 2011 calendar

2011-08-02T11:09:00.003+02:00

"A calendar featuring texts taken from an English coursebook. The short textual extracts become poems to digest month to month.
DIN A 4, 14 pages, cardboard, b/w laser printed, wire binding, edition of 50.
Edited by: Einer von uns beiden, 2010.

Source: English Course, Linguaphone Institute, Limited, London, 1996."

Images and text taken from: http://handsonpapers.com/buy-petrol-stay-in-bed-meet-people/

SEE THE WHOLE THING

A Day With the Boys - corto de ficción de / a short film by Clu Gulager (1969)

2011-08-01T12:00:00.005+02:00

Part 1:

Part 2:

A DAY WITH THE BOYS
Universal Pictures
Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Clu Gulager
Cinematography: Laszlo Kovacs

Cast: Ricky Bender, Artie Conkling, William Elliott, Jack Grindle, John Gulager, Mike Hertel, James Kearce, John McCaffrey, Mark Spirtos, Craig Williams

Clu Gulager en la Web

Pop-Art Graffitti Intervention and Turbo Sculpture History (en inglés)

2011-07-30T11:24:00.005+02:00

Red Army monument Pop-art intervention - Sofia, Bulgaria

Unknown Graffitti Artists

Watch this as an interactive panoramic view CLICK HERE

Text taken from The Daily Mail online version:
"Twenty years ago you would have been shot for stepping too close to this monument in Sofia in Bulgaria.
But after the smashing of the Berlin Wall, statues celebrating communist rule appear to be fair game to the graffiti artists of the former Soviet block in Eastern Europe.
An anonymous artist transformed Russian Red Army soldiers from a monument in the city of Sofia, in Bulgaria, into popular superheroes and cartoon characters.
Taking centre stage is Superman with his distinctive red cape and blue suit. To the left is Santa Claus and to the right Ronald McDonald, the mascot of the fast-food giant McDonalds, and the Joker also makes an appearance.
Below the graffiti artist has sprayed "Moving with the times" in Bulgarian black paint. The "artistic vandalism" appeared this morning - but it is still not clear who is behind the colourful display".

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004814/Is-bird-Is-plane-No-Superman-friends-painted-Soviet-statue-Banksy-Bulgaria.html#ixzz1TZw9Jeox

Three pictures taken from http://urbanshit.de

RELATED SUBJECT: VIVE LE POP!
The History of Turbo Scupture in ex-Yugoslavia:

Turbo Sculpture (English) from A.D. on Vimeo.
Video by Aleksandra Domanovic

Artavazd Pelechian -- The End (1991) and Life (1993)

2011-07-25T12:50:00.002+02:00

"Considerado por Jean-Luc Godard como unos de los cineastas vivos más importantes de nuestro tiempo, Artavazd Pelechian es, no obstante, un autor poco conocido quizás por su corta producción en número (apenas quince películas) y formato (básicamente, cortos y mediometrajes). Catalogado como documentalista experimental, en The End, su última película, filma en silencio a hombres y mujeres de diferentes edades y etnias en el recorrido de un tren de Moscú a Ereván."
Fuente del texto: http://metraje-encontrado.blogspot.com/

"The filmmaker works with his images as if they were a musical score. Around a central theme, he orchestrates variations and modulations that create an impression of a flood of private images arriving from beyond the frame. Pelechian is making a name for himself as a montage filmmaker who tends to inscribe in his works the movement of the world and history. His films are odes, even symphonies that speak about humanity, nature and the cosmos. Man is often seen contending with a strong, encompassing nature that guides, transports and protects him. Pelechian speaks to us about humility and our connection with time. Artavazd Pelechian has been practicing a method of film construction he refers to as «distance montage» since the 60s, in films using either found footage, Our Century or original material, The Seasons. In the early 90s, Pelechian made two spiritual films which are among his simplest and most beautiful productions: The End (1991) and Life (1992), Pelechian's first colour film. Where The End looks towards death, Life is about a birth, consisting mainly of views of a young woman's face in the throes of labour, her heaving body in its hospital room seen as a changing landscape. Two shifts take place: the child is born and the camera shows us this new life; then, in a final shot that re-orders the entire film in retrospect (like the final shot of Pelechian's earlier portrait of peasant life, The Seasons), we see mother and child, faces side-by-side perhaps a year later, mirrors of one another save for the difference in age."

Text source: mabsurda Youtube channel

Artavazd Pelechian en la Web

El sol del membrillo (Victor Erice)

2011-07-22T11:23:00.000+02:00

Victor Erice en la Web
El sol del membrillo en la Web

BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING Clip Officiel

2011-07-21T10:23:00.000+02:00

BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING Clip Officiel por Has_Been
Will Sweeney animations
Birdy Nam Nam en la Web

Robert Montgomery - BILLBOARD PIECES

2011-07-20T15:50:00.001+02:00

"London poet/artist Robert Montgomery has been at work since 2005, hijacking city billboards and public areas of interest guerilla style to display his poetic works of art. Montgomery’s series of billboards that appear in big cities here and across the pond showcase his poems, that border on melancholy yet thought provoking themes."
(Taken from: http://stupiddope.com)

Robert Montgomery en la Web

Les Astronautes : Chris Marker/Walerian Borowczyk

2011-07-19T14:55:00.003+02:00

Chris Marker en la Web
Walerian Borowczyk en la Web

本琴 BOOK XYLOPHONE - xilófono de libros

2011-07-17T22:13:00.000+02:00

Joris Ivens - Regen / Lluvia (1929)

2011-07-14T11:25:00.000+02:00

Joris Ivens en la Web

Documental María Sabina, mujer espíritu de Nicolás Echevarría

2011-07-11T21:00:00.000+02:00

Guión, realización y fotografía de Nicolas Echevarría

Kleksographien - Justinus Kerner

2011-07-10T11:29:00.001+02:00

"Médico, poeta, visionario: con estos tres calificativos define a nuestro personaje su biógrafo Otto Joachim Grüsser1, y cualquiera que conozca sumariamente la vida de este personaje del Romanticismo alemán reconocerá que le hace justicia. Esa triple vertiente de su personalidad, desplegada por lo general en los campos correspondientes —como médico estudió con gran finura el botulismo; como poeta, al lado de Uhland, es cabeza del romanticismo suabo; como visionario se hará célebre con el caso de la vidente de Prevorst— se manifiesta de manera conjunta y armoniosa, al final de su vida, en esas curiosas producciones de las que pretendo mostrar algunos ejemplos en este trabajo: las kleksografías.

«Kleksographien» es el nombre dado por Kerner a figuras como las que aquí se muestran; un neologismo no acuñado por él mismo, sino por «un ingenioso amigo del arte y del humor» cuya identidad desconocemos. Después de considerar varias opciones he optado por la mera adaptación al español, pues la traducción del vocablo alemán «Kleks» —borrón, mancha de tinta— habría producido engendros como «borronografías» o «manchografías»; la opción «maculografías» quedaba descartada por el hecho de que el propio Kerner podría haber utilizado el vocablo latino de haber querido...

En su breve introducción a la edición existente de algunas kleksografías, Justinus Kerner nos explica cómo su creciente pérdida de visión, debida a cataratas, ha provocado, por una parte, una mayor torpeza al escribir, que se traduce en profusión de borrones, y por otra en la toma en consideración de las caprichosas formas, aún bien perceptibles para él, que adoptan las gotas de tinta sobre el papel inutilizado para la escritura después de plegarlo del mismo modo que, como ahora recuerda, hacían a veces otros escolares y él mismo en la lejana infancia para divertirse con semejantes productos del azar. La semejanza de este proceder con el test de Rorschach ha sido generalmente reconocida, hasta convertirse en un lugar común. Sin embargo, no he conseguido encontrar un testimonio explícito a este respecto. El autor de referencia en la historia de la «psiquiatría dinámica», Henri F. Ellenberger, da por sentada la influencia de las kleksografías de Kerner, pero sin aportar prueba alguna. Y el propio Rorschach sólo de refilón emplea dicho neologismo sin siquiera asociarlo al médico romántico.

Con todo, algo hay en el origen de estas «kleksografías» que escapa a la propia voluntad y que, por lo tanto, les confiere esa cualidad misteriosa que su autor reconoce en dos de los primeros poemas:

De la muerte los heraldos
desde la noche de tinta
traen del Hades los grabados.
(¡Corazón, nada sabías!).

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Estas figuras del Hades,
negras, que me traen temores,
son espíritus menores;
por sus solas fuerzas nacen.
Para espantarme, sucintas,
brotan de manchas de tinta.
Así, siempre pienso en ellas
en la noche, en las tinieblas."

La fuente del texto anterior es el artículo sobre Kleksographien por Luis Montiel titulado "KLEKSOGRAFÍAS DE JUSTINUS KERNER SELECCIÓN, TRADUCCIÓN Y ESTUDIO PRELIMINAR":
http://www.frenia-historiapsiquiatria.com/pdf/fasciculo%204/121-kleksografias-de-justinus-kerner-seleccion-traduccion-y-estudio-preliminar.pdf

Ver libro Kleksographien entero en la Web:
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kerner1890/

Objets impossibles n°2 -Dmitri Kourliandski (musique) / Abstract Birds (création d'images)

2011-07-07T17:37:00.000+02:00

Dmitri Kourliandski en la Web
Abstract Birds en la Web

Atrabiliario

Poemas de Claribel Alegría

Gemelle Kessler - Le sirene siamo noi (mitología a lo vedette)

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

Peter Stults's "What if...": movies reimagined for another time and place

LEONARD COHEN - I am a Hotel (1983)

Collages by Oleg Borodin

Kyrielle by Boris Labbé

WLT - Michael Kiwanuka - I'm Getting Ready

Ruth Marten - Histoire un-Naturelle

GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN by Filip Piskorzynski

William Fitzsimmons - Beautiful Girl /// Berlin Sessions #24

Patti Jordan - Drawings 2009 / 2011

Recycled Newspaper Stop Motion

Suzanne Vega - Which Side Are You On?

Felicidades / Greetings

Ofrin - How Come @ Glashaus/Arena Berlin 29.10.08

The Cat Scan - Gatos digitalizados

Sandi Fellman Photography - Insects

Sin palabras / No comment

Dos poemas de Adolfo Burriel

Tiny Vipers - Dreamer (Live on KEXP)

Charles Frederic Soehnée fantastic watercolor paintings

El Empleo / The Employment - corto animación / animation short

Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship

La boca - poema de José Watanabe

Andres Marroquin photos - Zapallal / Yurinaki

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - The Puppini Sisters (Clip)

Martín Ramírez - art brut / outsider art

Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You

La vida en un día / Life in a day - documental / documentary

Kurt Vile - Society Is My Friend

Underwater digital photos / fotografía digital subacuática - Mark Mawson

Watch sculptures : Moments in time / Esculturas reloj: momentos en el tiempo

Debussy - Beau soir - Leonid Kogan, Andreï Mytnic

Cinco poemas del Patio de locos - Andrés Neuman

Thiago Pethit - Nightwalker

French Movie - Short film on poem

Autorretrato erótico en dos actos - Gabriela Lovera

Tinariwen - Tenere Taqhim Tossam (Official Video)

Inside*Job*Documentary - subt. español

Tessa Farmer - Nymphidia

The Universal Mind Of Bill Evans

Declinaciones del monólogo de Eunice Odio

Lianne La Havas - Final Form (Everything Everything Cover)

Fragmento de la película "Concursante"

Collage by Iure Kothe

When the Day Breaks / animación - animation

Pina Bausch - Exclusive Clip: Lean on Me

My First Day At School - Mi primer día de colegio (poema animado en inglés)

My Own Window: no sea, just light and shade / photos by Gabriela Lovera

John Divola - Zuma Series (1977-78)

Mae West - Occidental Woman

The Hunt - Christian Jankowski

Mentalgassi, street artists / arte callejero

Beck - Timebomb

POSSESSED - documentary by Martin Hampton

Alexandr Sennikov photography

My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy (Live Laundro Matinee accoustic session)

Autorretrato / Self-portrait

Jan Svankmajer - Et Cetera (1966)

Sea Organ of Zadar / Órgano del mar en Zadar, Croacia

moondog - why spend the dark night

Família Gangsters - Reciclar Você - (CLIPE OFICIAL)

La brida (poema de Zakaria Mohammed, Palestina)

Increíble pero cierto / Unbelievable

Messer fur Frau Muller - The Best Girl in the U.S.S.R

LUCID by Jack Haslehurst

*Errol Morris' Vernon, Florida* documentary

Tu veux ou tu veux pas - Marcel Zanini

Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show

Ulay & Abramović "Imponderabilia" [1977]

Elysian Fields - Red Riding Hood [Official Video]

Better Use for Leisure Time (1950)

Li'l Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs (1966)

Lisa Wassmann - photography

Cabezon Key

The Last Poets - When The Revolution Comes

Temporary Valparaiso :: Pascuala Ilabaca

Caleb Charland - Demonstrations

InsideJobDocumentary - subt. español

Errol Morris' Vernon, Florida documentary