Luis Soares's Blog, page 217

The Forever Tree

The Forever Tree, a black historical fantasy film, stars Wendell Pierce and Olivia Washington. It made its debut at the third Bentonville Film Festival, which aims to headline creative works by women and filmmakers of color.

Set during the Harlem Renaissance, The Forever Tree tells the mysterious, magical story of Tawny Bennett, an antiquarian's apprentice. The film is just 18 minutes long, but co-writer and producer Chrishaunda Lee Perez says she hopes someday they'll find the resources to...

The Photographer as Hero

Patrick Joust is a self-taught photographer, living and working in Baltimore, MD. He is also here: http://www.patrickjoust.com

Someday my Prince Will Come

This video shows Bill Evans playing with his last regular trio - bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joe La Barbera nearly a year and a half before his tragic and untimely death. Live from Iowa. 30th January 1979.

Valery Katsuba

VALERY KATSUBA

I was born in the village of Sergeyevichi in 1965. At that time the village was in the Soviet Union - now it is in the Republic of Belarus. Space flight was already under way, and my father liked it when my mother put on high-heeled shoes and styled her hair into a "babetta" for village festivals.

My father and elder brother taught me how to work, while my mother and younger brother indulged my penchant for the arts and sciences. At school I was friendly with the histo...

Divertimento

Béla Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz 113/BB 118
Performed by the NEC Chamber Orchestra on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at Jordan Hall

Punta Otok

Sequoyah Tiger: Punta Otok taken from "Parabolabandit" out on Morr Music Oct. 2017 

Directed by: Leila Gharib
Dance & choreography: Sonia Brunelli 
Filmed in Cres, Croatia in an abandoned tennis court transformed
into a diy skatepark by a local skateboard team called CTN (creation tha nothing).

Robert Duncan - Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing

Was he then Adam of the Burning Way?

hid away in the heat like wrath

        conceald in Love’s face,

or the seed, Eris in Eros,

        key and lock

of what I was?        I could not speak

        the releasing

word.        For into a dark

        matter he came

and askt me to say what

        I could not say.        “I ..”

 

All the flame in me stopt

        against my tongue.

My heart was a stone, a dumb

        unmanageable thing in me,

a darkness that stood athwart

        his need

for t...

Cucurucu

Music video by Nick Mulvey performing Cucurucu. // Shot on Nihiwatu beach in Indonesia by National Geographic director James Morgan, commissioned by Nick himself and filmed by Morgan in March 2013.

The Social Contract

From Existential Comics:

Social Contract Theory is the area of philosophy that deals with how an individual deals with the society that they belong to. In modern philosophy, it is mostly closely associated with Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes, in particular, thought that humans were naturally in an "all against all" violent state before civilization, and in order to avoid this, individuals cede authority to a sovereign. Rousseau argued for a more democratic soc...

Emperor

Music video by Mark Lanegan performing Emperor.