Luis Soares's Blog, page 282

Pop/Pistol

From the MoMA tumblr:

While much of Whitfield Lovell’s work is based on anonymous photographs, Pop/Pistol is a uniquely personal drawing for the artist. It depicts his grandfather, Eugene Glover, who was shot and killed by muggers while returning home from the bank in 1984. Set against a vibrant orange field, the profile image of Glover (“Pop”) and the detailed rendering of a gun are surrounded by a text describing the crime that was published in the New York Daily News. By transcribing the...

Monday morning class.

Performing the first movement of Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. Gould's performance begins at 18:03.

 

Originally aired on January 31, 1960 on CBS Television as part of its Ford Presents series, this program was entitled "The Creative Performer." The entire show is actually three performances — by Gould, the soprano Eileen Farrell (singing the "Suicidio!" aria from *La Gioconda*), & Igor Stravinsky (conduc...

Em Azul

Yuja Wang plays Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' with Lionel Bringuier directing the Camerata Salzburg.

Robert Lowell - Waking Early Sunday Morning

O to break loose, like the chinook

salmon jumping and falling back,

nosing up to the impossible

stone and bone-crushing waterfall –

raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there, stopped by ten

steps of the roaring ladder, and then

to clear the top on the last try,

alive enough to spawn and die.

 

Stop, back off.  The salmon breaks

water, and now my body wakes

to feel the unpolluted joy

and criminal leisure of a boy –

no rainbow smashing a dry fly

in the white run is free as I,

here squatting like a dragon o...

At The End Of The Cul-de-Sac

"At The End Of The Cul-de-Sac" short film by Paul Trillo from Paul Trillo on Vimeo.

In one continuous shot, a man has a public meltdown in the middle of a residential cul-de-sac. The neighbors gather together and watch, debating how best to deal with unstable man. What unfolds is a constantly shifting scenario in which community's cultish public shaming is taken to extreme heights.

Shot in a single take using a drone, check out how it was made here: https://vimeo.com/168713894

'At The End...

Emily Dickinson - While we were fearing it, it came—

 

While we were fearing it, it came—
But came with less of fear
Because that fearing it so long
Had almost made it fair—

There is a Fitting—a Dismay—
A Fitting—a Despair
’Tis harder knowing it is Due
Than knowing it is Here.

They Trying on the Utmost
The Morning it is new
Is Terribler than wearing it
A whole existence through.

Tarantella

Liszt’s ‘Tarantella’ (S. 162) features on Benjamin Grosvenor’s album ‘Homages’ which explores hidden connections between works written centuries apart. In this new recording Benjamin explores works by great composers paying tribute to their predecessors.

Haze

Haze from Chloe Domont on Vimeo.

Written & Directed by Chloe Domont
Starring Casey Drogin & Hannah Gross
Produced by Jesse Mineo & Chloe Domont
Executive Producer - Jere B Ford
Director of Photography - Brian Lannin
Production Designer - Grace Sloan
Editor - Chloe Domont
Sound Designer - Arjun G Sheth
Composer - Tim Phillips

Gaffer - Ben Rutkowski
Script Supervisor - Alex Loeb
Production Sound Mixer - Alan Kudan
Boom Operator - Mattheau O'Brien
1st AC - Zack Schamberg
2nd AC -...

Lincoln in the Bardo

His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at a...

Caicó

Joe Zawinul toca e Maria João canta Villa Lobos, com letra de Teca Calazans.

 

Caicó

Ó, mana, deixa eu ir
Ó, mana, eu vou só
Ó, mana, deixa eu ir
Para o sertão do Caicó

Eu vou cantando
Com uma aliança no dedo
Eu aqui só tenho medo
Do mestre Zé Mariano

Mariazinha botou flores na janela
Pensando em vestido branco
Véu e flores na capela