Luis Soares's Blog, page 183
May 21, 2018
Pierrot
“Pierrot” by Alex Zhang Hungtai - Taken from 'Divine Weight'
Written by: Alex Zhang Hungtai
Directed by: Kevin Luna & Brian Echon
Make up by: Inga Schunn
Christian Sanna - Moraingy
From Christian Sanna's site:
Spectators sitting in a circle, a dirt ground, saturated music, and two opponents (Fagnorolahy) facing each other. That is the atmosphere of the "Moraingy".
Originally this traditional combat practiced by the Sakalava (coastal ethnic group of Madagascar) was used as a game, as a means of defense, and as a training for war.The fights are held on Sunday afternoon and on holidays. Here fair play is required and the opponent is not seen as an enemy but a way...
May 19, 2018
Black Walls
Video By Chromatics
Director Of Photography: Rene Hallen
Charles Simic - The Body
This last continent
Still to be discovered.
My hand is dreaming, is building
Its ship. For crew it takes
A pack of bones, for food
A beer-bottle full of blood.
It knows the breath that blows north.
With the breath from the west
I will sail east each night.
The scent of your body as it sleeps
Are the land-birds sighted at sea.
My touch is on the highest mast.
It cries at four in the morning
For a lantern to be lit
On the rim of the world.
Museu das Descobertas
The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited in 1840. Measuring 35 3/4 x 48 1/4 in. in oil on canvas, it is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In this classic example of a Romantic maritime painting, Turner depicts a ship, visible in the background, sailing through a tumultuous sea of churning water and leaving scattered human forms floating in its wake.
Battalia à 10
Anthony Marwood, leader
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
For more information visit www.detnorskekammerorkester.no
One hundred years before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was appointed a court musician in Salzburg, another well-known musician was in the employ of the Archbishop as composer and violinist. Heinrich von Biber (1644-1704) was generally considered to be the greatest violin virtuoso of his time and the composer of demanding and revolutionary music for solo violin and for the orchestra.
In 16...
May 18, 2018
I've Seen That Face Before
Music video by Grace Jones performing I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango). (C) 1981 The Island Def Jam Music Group. From Wikipedia:
The song juxtaposes "Libertango", an Argentine tango classic written by composer and bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla (first recorded by Piazzolla himself in 1974), against a reggae arrangement and new lyrics penned by Jones herself and Barry Reynolds. Lyrically, it describes the darker side of Parisian nightlife. The song includes spoken parts in French: "Tu c...
Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to...
Tonight
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, performs John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine.
Sauvage
Le prix Fondation Louis Roederer de la Semaine de La Critique a été remis au jeune Félix Maritaud, découvert il y a tout juste un an à Cannes dans 120 battements par minute. Dans Sauvage, le premier film de Camille Vidal-Naquet, il campe Léo, jeune égaré épris de liberté, mais taraudé par une quête éperdue d'amour.
