Luis Soares's Blog, page 377

Keith Waldrop - Below the Earth

My first glance takes in
an army, tens of thousands ready
armed. As a mirror reflects
indistinctly and with a feeble
light, so it cracks and
soon fades. From its surface a clear
image of the beholder.
In these paintings: harbors, promontories,
shores, rivers, fountains,
fanes, groves, mountains, flocks, and of
course shepherds. Sometimes mythological
episodes, figures of the gods, the
battles at Troy, wanderings of Ulysses.
Scorned in these days of bad taste.
Now we have frescos of mon-
strositie...

The making of '1979'

Here's the making of the 1979 music video. This was filmed in Santa Clarita, CA, in January 1996. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. This was the 2nd Mellon Collie music video. 1995 Virgin Records.

D.H. Lawrence - In A Boat

See the stars, love,

In the water much clearer and brighter

Than those above us, and whiter,

Like nenuphars.

Star-shadows shine, love,

How many stars in your bowl?

How many shadows in your soul,

Only mine, love, mine?

When I move the oars, love,

See how the stars are tossed,

Distorted, the brightest lost.

—So that bright one of yours, love.

The poor waters spill

The stars, waters broken, forsaken.

—The heavens are not shaken, you say, love,

Its stars stand still.

There, did you see

That s...

All The Way

HBO Films presents All the Way, starring Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, Saturday, May 21 at 8pm on HBO.

Dan Witz - Mosh Pits (Human and Otherwise)

Influenced by the work of Renaissance painters Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, his large-scale oil paintings of rampant crowds embody a rebellious and provocative nature that’s heightened by a stunning hyperreal aesthetic. He elaborates:

“I’m an academic realist painter, but I’m living in the 21st century, so I’m not going to be painting Roman soldiers invading, or some gothic baroque composition…The highest aspiration of an academic realist painter are these big group figure p...

Ashes to Ashes

Michael Stipe, Karen Elson & Paul Cantelon sing and play David Bowie's 'Ashes To Ashes' at the Music of David Bowie event at Carnegie Hall on 1st April 2016.

Poetic Justice

Grant Snider, an illustrator and cartoonist, draws the online strip “Incidental Comics.”

Suuns - Brainwash

Explore the new interactive Virtual Reality video for the track "Brainwash", off SUUNS' new album Hold Still, out on April 15, 2016. This is the third instalment in a triptych of videos that were released in anticipation with the release of this VR application. This video is only a fragment of the VR experience, to see the rest you can download the full app for free here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

The New Moon; or, 'I've lost My Boat, You shan't have Your Hoop'

Acho que o cão do Goyanão se afogou e anda a correr na praia num quadro do Turner:

Joseph Mallord William Turner -The New Moon; or, 'I've lost My Boat, You shan't have Your Hoop' - exhibited 1840

Victoria Pomery on J.M.W. Turner’s The New Moon; or,‘I’ve lost My Boat, You shan’t have YourHoop’

I love being by the sea – that feeling of space, of fresh air and being at one with nature. I’m very fortunate to live on the Kent coast, and in the past few months I’ve moved into a beautiful office...

Brian Eno - The Ship

"‘The Ship’ started as an Ambient work intended for a multi channel sound installation in Stockholm, but during the making of it I discovered that I could now sing a low C - which happens to be the root note of the piece. Getting older does have a few fringe benefits after all. From that point the work turned into an unusual kind of song...a type I've never made before where the vocal floats free, untethered to a rhythmic grid of any kind."

Brian Eno