Luis Soares's Blog, page 326
October 7, 2016
Casta Diva
The priestess Norma leads her people in a prayer for piece. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role in Bellini's masterpiece, with the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Antonio Pappano, recorded September 2016. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/norma
Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece Norma had its premiere at La Scala, Milan, on Boxing Day 1831. After a muted initial response the opera quickly became popular, and is now a mainstay of the repertory. Norm...
October 6, 2016
Solmaz Sharif - Persistence of Vision with Gwendolyn Brooks
In the rearview, fog extinguishes the hills of new
money—mansions on acres away from road or sight.
Their architected privacy, windows to look out at
a land that won't look back. The fog's secure drapery.
It's space to dance through they buy and what one
might call "dappled light" moving across their acres, light
through their oaks moving over their mares, brushed to a sheen.
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Palms of sugar cubes. Soft snorting, I bet. Here, Muybridge
proved their horses fly a moment. In their homes, they...
8-bit Stranger Things
The show is widely known for its 80s vibes but watching it in 8-bit really digs deeper into our nostalgia. Grab some Eggos and watch away! 8-bit Cinema "gamifies" your favorite Hollywood Blockbusters into 80's arcade and NES inspired action!
The Numbers
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Recording produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich
Producers: Sara Murphy, Albert Chi, Erica Frauman
Editors: Leslie Jones, Andy Jurgensen
Recording Engineer: Sam Petts-Davies
Production Companies: Ghoulardi Film Company, m ss ng p eces
Gaffer: Michael Bauman
Key Grip: Tana Dubbe
Camera Operators: Ari Robbins, Brian Freesh
1st Assistant Camera: Josh Friz, Aaron Tichenor
Loader: Drey Singer
Electric: Kuba Bojsza, Peter Rybchenkov, Paul Theodoroff
Grips: James Coffin, John Mang,...
Hong Kong in the Fifties
These stunning photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s are captured beautifully by a teenager. Ho Fan who arrived from Shanghai in 1949. The streets, filled with vendors, coolies and rickshaw drivers, fascinated Ho. Taking pictures in a studio was the norm then, but the Ho was more interested in random, candid shots of strangers. His targets, however, did not always smile into the lens of his Rolleiflex. But it is great street photography that gives a peek into daily life in Hong Kong at...
October 4, 2016
Growin' Up
Growin' Up" off Bruce Springsteen's album 'Chapter and Verse'.
'Chapter and Verse' is the musical companion to Bruce Springsteen's autobiography 'Born to Run,' available now wherever books are sold.
'Chapter and Verse' is a collection of 18 songs chosen by Springsteen that trace his musical history from its earliest days, telling a story that parallels the one in the book. The album includes five previously unreleased tracks including two tracks from The Castiles, featuring a teenaged Spring...
In a Landscape
Murcof x Vanessa Wagner - In a Landscape. Taken from «Statea». 'In a Lansdcape' originally written by John Cage. Video directed by Life Observing Life
Todd Hido - Intimate Distance
From The New Yorker: "The photographs gathered in Todd Hido’s new book, “Intimate Distance,” were made over the course of the last twenty-five years. During that time, Hido has worked on several substantial groups of pictures, often simultaneously, photographing landscapes, byways, signs, suburbia, interiors, fabrics, and faces. When each group has come into focus as a project, Hido has published it as a book and exhibited it as a suite of prints. But what we have here is a chronolog...
October 3, 2016
Lower Dens - Real Thing
Director/ On Site Producer: SSION's Cody Critcheloe
Director of Photography: Michael Koshkin
Gaffer: Lauretta Prevost
Editor: Erin Grant
Lighting Assistant: Topher McLean
Makeup: Toby Klinger
Styling: Jenni Hensler
Production Assistant: Hunter Brown
Producer: Hard Land Management
Special Thanks To Gibson Guitars Showroom
Itasca - Carousel
The music of L.A.-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kayla Cohen is mutable and multivalent, richly allusive of the hermetic worlds of private-press canyon-cult mystics and East Coast noiseniks alike. Her adept fingerstyle guitar work—nimble but unshowy, always at the service of framing her plaintively unspooling modal progressions and gorgeous, moonlit voice—centers these melancholy pastorales in a hazy, heat-mirage space equally suggestive of familiarity and distance, community and an...
