Luis Soares's Blog, page 265
June 23, 2017
Terrance Hayes - How to Draw a Perfect Circle
I can imitate the spheres of the model’s body, her head,
Her mouth, the chin she rests at the bend of her elbow
But nothing tells me how to make the pupils spiral
From her gaze. Everything the eye sees enters a circle,
The world is connected to a circle: breath spools from the nostrils
And any love to be open becomes an O. The shape inside the circle
Is a circle, the egg fallen outside the nest the serpent circles
Rests in the serpent’s gaze the way my gaze rests on the model.
In a blind...
Man Of War
'Man Of War', taken from the forthcoming album OK NOT OK 1997-2017, out June 23rd on XL Recordings. http://oknotok.co.uk/
Director: Colin Read
Co-Director: Connor Kammerer
Produced By: Pulse Films
Cinematogrpahy: Todd Martin
Executive Prodcuer: Rik Green
Producer: Jess Lowe
Production Coordinator: Eleni Cocores
1st Ac: Emma Hing
2nd Ac: Zoë Yi
Gaffer: Lori Dinsmore
Wardrobe Stylist: Chelsea Netzband
Hair & Make-Up: Anissa Salazar
Movement Director: Katherine...
Gerstl's Final Self-Portrait
From The New Yorker:
In a final, shocking self-portrait, he paints himself naked, his body streaked in clammy blue tones, his genitals colored strangely brown. Coffer describes the picture as one last gasp of self-assertion—“an artist who is crowing at his potency.” Others see it as a rehearsal for suicide—a portrait of the artist as a young corpse. Either way, the image has the feeling of a radical, irrevocable act. A veil has been torn; anything is possible.
June 22, 2017
Johnny & Mary
Bryan Ferry & Todd Terje - Johnny & Mary (Robert Palmer cover)
Johnny's always running around
Trying to find certainty
He needs all the world to confirm
That he ain't lonely
Mary counts the walls
Knows he tires easily
Johnny thinks the world would be right
If it could buy truth from him
Mary says he changes his mind
More than a woman
But she made her bed
Even when the chance was slim
Johnny says he's willing to learn
When he decides he's a fool
Johnny says he'll live anywhere
When he earns time...
Mercury
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly: NPR Music Field Recordings
In a Manhattan studio, some of the musicians behind Planetarium play the album's beautiful closing track.
By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
Early on a spring morning in Manhattan, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and Nadia Sirota gathered at Reservoir Studios in Manhattan to play a song first performed five years ago and an ocean away.
"Mercury" is the closing track off Planetarium, a song cycle about the planets by Steve...
Tinariwen (Live on KEXP)
http://KEXP.ORG presents Tinariwen performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 4, 2017.
Songs:
Talyat Girl
Assàwt (The Voice of Tamashek Women)
Sastanàqqàm (I Question You)
Nànnuflày (Fulfilled)
Host: Darek Mazzone
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro & Scott Holpainen
Editor: Scott Holpainen
L'Ascension
Olivier Messiaen: L’Ascension // The Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Broadcasting Choir, directed by David Robertson
June 21, 2017
Overnight
Parcels ~ Overnight
Produced by Daft Punk
Co-produced by Parcels
Written & composed by: Jules Crommelin, Patrick Hetherington, Noah Hill, Anatole Serret, Louie Swain, Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo
Recorded and mixed by Florian Lagatta at Gang Recording Studio
Mastering & Vinyl Cutting – Benjamin ‘’BiNJ’’ Weber
Artwork by Ezra Petronio
Mark Strand - Black Maps
Not the attendance of stones,
nor the applauding wind,
shall let you know
you have arrived,
not the sea that celebrates
only departures,
nor the mountains,
nor the dying cities.
Nothing will tell you
where you are.
Each moment is a place
you’ve never been.
You can walk
believing you cast
a light around you.
But how will you know?
The present is always dark.
Its maps are black,
rising from nothing,
describing,
in their slow ascent
into themselves,
their own voyage,
its emptiness,
the bleak, temperat...
Home
HOME (short film) from Daniel Mulloy on Vimeo.
Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday.
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