Luis Soares's Blog, page 290

Reverie.

Taken from the new album Arca, out April 7 on XL Recordings. http://x-l.co/arca

Conceived by Jesse Kanda and Alejandro Ghersi

 

Director: Jesse Kanda
Executive Producer: Juliette Larthe
Producer: Hannah May
Production Assistant: Tom Manaton
1st Assistant Director: Bryony James
Director of Photography: Steve Annis
1st Camera Assistant: Eira Wyn Jones
2nd Camera Assistant: Isabel Boddy
Steadicam: Tom English
Prosthetics Artist: John Nolan Studio
Stylist: Akeem Smith
Make Up Artist: Inge Grognard
Make...

Derek Walcott - A Far Cry From Africa

A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.
Corpses are scattered through a paradise.
Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries:
'Waste no compassion on these separate dead!'
Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?
Threshed out by beaters, the long rushes break
In a white dust of ibises whose cries
Have wheeled since civilizations...

A quatro mãos.

Lucas & Arthur Jussen play Franz Schubert's Fantasie in F-moll (D940) live from the Seoul Arts Center in Korea, 2014

 

‘It is like driving a pair of BMWs’ remarked conductor Michael Schønwandt, after directing the Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen. Despite their young age, they have been taking part in the international concert world for years. Whether they perform as a duo or as soloists, Lucas and Arthur are praised by both press and audiences.

(...)

In 2005, the brothers studied...

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti - Autoritratto (1920) / Kunsthaus Zürich

Tearjerker

Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel is the inspiration for a new musical union between Britpop icon Jarvis Cocker and genre-blurring Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Chilly Gonzales. This spring at the Barbican in London, the pair will debut Room 29, a show that brings to life the ghosts of the famous hotel, accompanied by a 16-track album of the same name.

 

In a new film by British director Garth Jennings, shot in the Marlene Dietrich Suite at the Hotel Lancaste...

A Friend

Formation - A Friend - Out Now! // Debut Album - Look At The Powerful People - out March 24th

Sherman Alexie - The Facebook Sonnet

Welcome to the endless high-school

Reunion. Welcome to past friends

And lovers, however kind or cruel.

Let’s undervalue and unmend

 

The present. Why can’t we pretend

Every stage of life is the same?

Let’s exhume, resume, and extend

Childhood. Let’s all play the games

 

That occupy the young. Let fame

And shame intertwine. Let one’s search

For God become public domain.

Let church.com become our church.

 

Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess

Here at the altar of loneliness.

Futura

The Futura font (really typeface, but let's drop the pedantry for the sake of clarity) is famous. Futura was created by Paul Renner in 1920s Germany, just as the Bauhaus movement was picking up steam. Though Renner wasn't Bauhaus, Futura had that flavor, which was part of the problem.

The newly powerful Nazis favored the ornate Fraktur type style to modern Futura, so they excluded both the type and its creator. Of course, Nazis are not just evil, but also often insane and inefficient — so Fut...

Aaron Smith - Like Him

I’m almost forty and just understanding my father
doesn’t like me. At thirteen I quit basketball, the next year
refused to hunt, I knew he was disappointed, but never
thought he didn’t have to like me
to love me. No girls. Never learned
to drive a stick. Chose the kitchen and mom
while he went to the woods with friends who had sons
like he wanted. He tried fishing—a rod and reel
under the tree one Christmas. Years I tried  
talking deeper, acting tougher
when we were together. Last summer
I w...

Silhouettes I, II and III

‘Silhouettes I, II and III' is taken from the Floating Points' debut album 'Elaenia'.

Visuals by Will Hurt: http://willhurt.net.