Luis Soares's Blog, page 23

The Darkness That You Fear

“The Darkness That You Fear is a hopeful piece of music. When we found the combination of the different voices worked set to the flow of the music it made us feel optimistic, like it was something we wanted to share.” - Tom Rowlands

The video is directed by @Ruffmercy “When I first heard the song I immediately connected with the theme and the overall positive vibe. New government rules for relaxing lockdown had been announced and combined with the sun shining, it left me feeling positive about ...

Guinnevere

"Guinnevere" by David Crosby covered by Sarah Lipstate (Noveller)

David Crosby and Graham Nash play Guinnevere on BBC in 1970

Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald (American b. Columbus, GA 1973, lives Baltimore) received her MFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Portobelo, Panama (1997). In 2016, Sherald was the first woman to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition grand prize; an accompanying exhibition, The Outwin 2016, has been on tour since 2016 and opened at the Kemper Museum, ...

Colville

From Granta:

Among the Native men, among the rush of rivers and mountains of Omak and Okanogan on the Colville Reservation in Northern Washington, where Fergus Thomas traveled to photograph a bare back horse relay and a ‘suicide” race, the word for horse is kəwáp and the word for the race is q̓ʷq̓ʷuƛ̕aʔxnm.

Genet por Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti - Jean Genet (1954 or 1955)

Genet was among the leading French writers of the twentieth century. Seeing himself as an outsider, he celebrated his homosexuality and criminal past in his work. He also wrote a short book on Giacometti. Like many of Giacometti’s portraits, this work uses a reduced palette of colours, and gradually builds its likeness of Genet with a series of small tentative brushstrokes. This technique creates a tense, shifting outline around the figure, which p...

The Underground Railroad

“Nothing was given, all was earned. Hold on to what belongs to you.” From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead comes the Amazon Original limited series "The Underground Railroad". Premiering May 14 on Prime Video.

Seamus Heaney - The Railway Children

When we climbed the slopes of the cutting
We were eye-level with the white cups
Of the telegraph poles and the sizzling wires.

Like lovely freehand they curved for miles
East and miles west beyond us, sagging
Under their burden of swallows.

We were small and thought we knew nothing
Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires
In the shiny pouches of raindrops,

Each one seeded full with the light
Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves
So infinitesimally scaled

We could stream through the ey...

Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)

"Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)" the new song by Angel Olsen from 'Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories’, out May 7th on Jagjaguwar. // Footage shot by Conor Hagen and Michael Harris // Photographs by Cameron McCool and Kylie Coutts // Motion design by Chloe Hemingway

No Dreams

Official video for Noveller "No Dreams" off the full-length album 'No Dreams' out Oct. 22nd 2013 on Important Records.
Directed by Alexis Fleisig
Original artwork "Geometry Of Place" by Justin James King
Animation by Alexis Fleisig
Noveller is Sarah Lipstate

Intermezzo

Brahms: Intermezzo No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 117 - Sunwook Kim (김선욱)