Luis Soares's Blog, page 294
March 5, 2017
William Blake - Nurse's Song
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Your spring and your day are wasted in play,
And your winter and night in disguise.
Carolyn Drake - Two Rivers (2007-11)
The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers stretch from the western edge of China across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, spanning a distance of 2,500km. They are the lifeblood of the vast, landlocked region between China, Russia, Iran and Afghanistan. The Greeks knew the two rivers as the Oxus and the Jaxartes. An islamic hadith holds that they are two of the four rivers that flow into Paradise. The Silk Route linking China to Europe followed the paths...
March 4, 2017
Elza Soares - Mulher do Fim do Mundo
MULHER DO FIM DO MUNDO
(Romulo Fróes e Alice Coutinho)
Meu choro não é nada além de carnaval
É lágrima de samba na ponta dos pés
A multidão avança como vendaval
Me joga na avenida que não sei qualé
Pirata e super homem cantam o calor
Um peixe amarelo beija minha mão
As asas de um anjo soltas pelo chão
Na chuva de confetes deixo a minha dor
Na avenida deixei lá
A pele preta e a minha voz
Na avenida deixei lá
A minha fala, minha opinião
A minha casa, minha solidão
Joguei do alto do terceiro andar
Quebrei a c...
March 3, 2017
In a Treeless Place, Only Snow
John Luther Adams: In a Treeless Place, Only Snow
Performed by faculty and fellows at the 2016 Bang on a Can Summer Marathon at the Summer Festival at MASS MoCA
Todd Reynolds, conductor
Ledah Finck, Lena Vidulich - violin
Nick Pauly - viola
James Burch - cello
Hope Wilk - harp
Sonya Belaya - celeste
Dylan Hunter Chee Greene - vibraphone
Eric Shuster - vibraphone
Video produced as part of live stream of Marathon by Little Dog Live
Jody Elff, director
Daniel Cashin, video director
Charlie Campbell, audi...
La fragua de Vulcano
A figure suddenly appears on the left in a forge where various blacksmiths are working, dressed in an orange robe and wearing a laurel wreath, with rays of light emerging from his head. This is Apollo, who addresses himself to Vulcan, the blacksmith nearest to him, whose stance reveals his lameness. Everyone has stopped working, astonished by the news Apollo is recounting: the adultery of Vulcan`s wife, the goodness Venus, with Mars, god of war, whose armour is being made at the forge. This...
To The Right
To The Right / Candice Drouet from Really Dim on Vimeo.
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To The Right / Candice Drouet
The Shining / The Darjeeling Limited / Holy Motors / Inherent Vice / Jackie Brown / Juno / Drive Ex Machina / Delicatessen / American Psycho / 2046 / Rebel Without A Cause / Little Miss Sunshine / 1984 / The Neon Demon / The Big Lebowski / Collateral / Donnie Darko / Bronson / Catch Me If You Can / Marie-Antoinette / It Follows / Lost River / Trainspotting / Still Alice / Cape Fe...
Get Out
In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.
Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upsta...
Carolyn Drake - Vallejo (2016)
Carolyn Drake studied Media/Culture and History in the 1990s at Brown University, where she became interested in the ways that history and reality are purposefully shaped and revised over time, and in the ways that artists can interrupt and shift these narratives. She worked for multimedia companies in New York after graduating from college, but eventually left her office job at the age of 30 to engage with the physical world through photography. In 2006, she moved to Ukraine, where...
George Oppen - ‘And Their Winter and Night in Disguise’
The sea and a crescent strip of beach
Show between the service station and a deserted shack
A creek drains thru the beach
Forming a ditch
There is a discarded super-market cart in the ditch
That beach is the edge of a nation
There is something like shouting along the highway
A California shouting
On the long fast highway over the California mountains
Point Pedro
Its distant life
It is impossible the world should be either good or bad
If its colors are beautiful or if they are...
March 2, 2017
Danez Smith - The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar
this gin-heavy heaven, blessed ground to think gay & mean we.
bless the fake id & the bouncer who knew
this need to be needed, to belong, to know how
a man taste full on vodka & free of sin. i know not which god to pray to.
i look to christ, i look to every mouth on the dance floor, i order
a whiskey coke, name it the blood of my new savior. he is just.
he begs me to dance, to marvel men with the
da...
