Luis Soares's Blog, page 52
July 6, 2020
C.P. Cavafy - Half an Hour
I never had you, nor I suppose
will I ever have you. A few words, an approach,
as in the bar the other day—nothing more.
It’s sad, I admit. But we who serve Art,
sometimes with the mind’s intensity,
can create—but of course only for a short time—
pleasure that seems almost physical.
That’s how in the bar the other day—
mercifully helped by alcohol—
I had half an hour that was totally erotic.
And I think you understood this
and stayed slightly longer on purpose.
That was very necessary. Because
with all...
July 4, 2020
America
Is it love you’re after?
A sign of the flood or one more disaster
Don’t do to me what you did to America
Don’t do to me what you did to America
I have loved you, I have grieved
I’m ashamed to admit I no longer believe
I have loved you, I received
I have traded my lifeFor a picture of the scenery
Don’t do to me what you did to America
Don’t do to me what you did to America
I give it all up in laughter
The sign of the cross awaiting disaster
The dove flew to me like a vision of paranoia
The dove flew t...
Farrenc Quintet
p>Louise Farrenc - Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, op. 30
Berit Cardas, violin
Klaus Christa, viola
Bjørg Værnes Lewis, cello
Leon Bosch, double bass
Akiko Shiochi, piano
Mvt. I - Allegro - 0:14
Mvt. II - Adagio ma non troppo - 11:28
Mvt. III - Scherzo: Presto - 17:45
IV - Finale: Allegro - 21:19
July 3, 2020
Weekend Mood
John Singer Sargent - Male Model Resting (c.1895)
Boygenius demos
Voice memo recordings taped in rehearsal on June 5th, 2018 the day before the group would enter the studio to record their eponymous EP.
Don't Wanna
The official video for HAIM - Don't Wanna
July 2, 2020
All My Friends
LCD Soundsystem perform All My Friends at Glastonbury 2016.
July 1, 2020
A Decade of Sun
As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.
With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 se...
Life On Mars
David Bowie performs Life on Mars at Glastonbury 2000.
June 30, 2020
The best part of me is you
"The best part of me is you" is a project discovering my own identity as a man, by using photography I am about to decipher who I am through the people I am drawn to photograph. I can see how the more effeminate man becomes more accepted in society as we move into a generation of men who are more openly expressive in challenging what is typically conceived as masculine. Some of the men photographed in the project I’ve known for years and others i've only had a few interactions with before as...
