Luis Soares's Blog, page 214

Ifti Nasim - A Boy Taught Me How To Kiss A Girl

Playing Cricket was praying
Five times at once.
Every evening after
We all gather in the school ground
Like a different sets of animals
Around the watering hole
In Serengeti.
Some playing Hockey
Some Football
Some doing nothing, reading, watching
Some predators.
We both were sweating rather drenching.
We jump in the swimming pool.
My fear of water and drowning came over me.
He knew.
He held my arm and waist and made me swim.
Coming back home at dusk
He looked around.
Under a mango tree
He held my face in his pa...

Caténaires

Watch pianist Conrad Tao play Elliott Carter's Caténaires.

WQXR's Midday Masterpieces:
Host: Elliott Forrest
Producers: Eileen Delahunty, Aaron Dalton & Christine Herskovits
Video Producer: Kim Nowacki
Social Producer: Eliza Grace Martin
Audio Engineer: Irene Trudel

Bianca Bagnarelli

Bianca Bagnarelli is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator.

She's the co-founder of Delebile, an indipendent label publishing comic by young italian and international authors.

Her first comic volume, Fish, published by Nobrow, won the gold medal for the short form at the Society of Illustrators of New York.

She works and has worked as an illustrator with The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired UK, ESPN, NBC, McSweeney's, Moleskine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and others...

Another white guy in 2017 who takes himself so goddamn seriously

Father John Misty's official music video for his song "Leaving LA" from the album Pure Comedy, out now on Sub Pop Records and Bella Union.

 

I was living on the hill
By the water tower and hiking trails
When the big one hit I’d have a seat
To watch masters abandon their dogs and dogs run free
Come on baby it’s time to leave
Take the van and the hearse down to New Orleans
Leave under the gaze of the billboard queens
Five foot chicks with parted lips selling sweatshop jeans

 

These LA phonies and the...

'Tis the season to be list-y

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2017: A VIDEO COUNTDOWN from David Ehrlich on Vimeo.

a video countdown of the 25 best films of 2017.
edited by David Ehrlich (@davidehrlich)

*for best experience, please set to 1080p and don headphones.

**for detailed analysis of each film, and notes on the making of this video, visit IndieWire at: http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/david-ehrlich-best-movies-2017-video-compilation-edit-1201903497/

MUSIC CREDITS:

1. "The Chain" / Fleetwood Mac (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY V...

Uma Da Manhã

João Retorta: Uma Da Manhã (1am) | Random Acts
Lisboa, uma noite. Num dia como outro qualquer. Lisbon, one night. On a day just like any other.
João Retorta is a Lisbon-born, London-based filmmaker who has collaborated with Loyle Carner, Wretch 32 and Jax J

Moses Sumney Live

Moses Sumney performs at Grande Halle de la Villette for Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2017.

Pere Gimferrer - Oda a Venecia ante el mar de los teatros, de Arde el mar

               Las copas falsas, el veneno y la calavera de los teatros.

                                                                      García Lorca

 

Tiene el mar su mecánica como el amor sus símbolos.
Con que trajín se alza una cortina roja
o en esta embocadura de escenario vacío
suena un rumor de estatuas, hojas de lirio, alfanjes,
palomas que descienden y suavemente pósanse.
Componer con chalinas un ajedrez verdoso.
El moho en mi mejilla recuerda el tiempo ido
y una gota de plomo hierve e...

Altered Carbon

Based on the award-winning novel, Altered Carbon takes place in a future where the human mind can now be digitized and downloaded into a "cortical stack" and placed into new bodies, called sleeves. 

The series follows Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), who is brought back to life centuries later to investigate the attempted murder of Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), the wealthiest man on Earth. As the investigation progresses, Kovacs comes to learn that his past isn’t nearly as bu...

'Sketch for the Crucifixion' and 'The Crucifixion'

Thomas Eakins, 1880

This painting of the Crucifixion, Eakins's only religious work, demonstrates the artist's interest in rendering the human body realistically. Jesus's sagging torso, bent knees, stretched arms, and clenched hands all suggest an actual male body hanging from a cross in the agony of his last moments. To understand the human anatomy in this position, Eakins strapped a model, one of his students, to a cross.

Eakins spent most of his life in Philadelphia, but trained in a Pari...