Puddles Pity Party - War Pigs (2022, Black Sabbath Cover) ( m.youtube.com )
Puddles' incredibly atmospheric 2022 cover of Black Sabbath's iconic 1970 song War Pigs manages to make the song his own while preserving its greatness....
Art: Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths ( www.spoon-tamago.com )
Today I discovered the work of Miyu Kojima, a Japanese artist who makes beautifully detailed miniature dioramas of rooms in which people have died lonely deaths, a phenomenon called kodokushi....
Berlinde De Bruyckere: What’s Divine Is Never Simple | Conversation ( ocula.com )
Discussion of the work of Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere. I recently saw Arcangelo 1, which is made out of cast wax and animal hides.
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio) ( m.youtube.com )
Can't help quoting the "hmmm!" from this piece today. This is a track off Gil Scott Heron's first album, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (though, it was actually recorded in an Atlantic Records studio with a small live audience)....
'Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas: Premonitions of the Mystical Rebirth of Urbanism' by Gian Piero Frassinelli ( www.readingdesign.org )
Glorious hallucinations that are reminiscent of Calvino's Invisible Cities but also of Borges. Here's an extract:...
The timeless allure of ruins (article) ( www.bbc.com )
One remarkable ancient artefact, a Babylonian world map from the Sixth Century BCE, marks the beginning of this obsession. The map, inscribed on a clay tablet, shows how ancient people imagined the quadrants of the earth: it describes lands of serpents, dragons, and scorpion-men, the far northern regions “where the sun is...
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (Live, Pasadena 1983) ( m.youtube.com )
The Psychedelic Furs recorded this strangely mesmerizing live version of Love My Way at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, US in 1983, for a tv music programme. It has a slower tempo than the album version from Forever Now (1982), yet the timing is very even and Richard Butler is pitch perfect....
Phantom Threads: Seven Ways of Looking at the Ghosts of Cinema ( www.filmcomment.com )
Really thoughtful piece by Dennis Lim on the relationship between ghosts and cinema. Excerpts:...
Manos: The Hands of Fate (Harold Warren, 1966) ( m.youtube.com )
@Arotrios seems to be on a break, so for the time being, "I am Torgo - I take care of the place while the Master is away". Widely regarded as a strong contender for the worst feature film of all time, Manos: The Hands of Fate is a film about a family who take a wrong turn and end up in the sinister domain of the Master, his...
Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them? Rachel Morris. ( journals.openedition.org )
The world is full of museums that don’t exist fully in three dimensions – museums described in words or drawn on paper; museum catalogues; museums on the web. There are also many museums that are the creation of artists, novelists and poets, and so have a strong thread of imagination running through them. The latter cast an...
Abandon the Old in Tokyo - Yoshihiro Tatsumi ( mangatoto.com )
Gritty and heartbreaking, this 1970s collection from the master of gekiga, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, was published in English in 2006....
Alice (Jan Švankmajer, 1988). Original Czech language version with English subtitles, remastered ( m.youtube.com )
Alice (Neco z Alensky) was Czech surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer's first full-length feature film, and combines stop-motion animation with live action. In some ways it's a very loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland but in another sense it's very faithful, as it allows us to experience anew the initial...
After You've Gone - Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grapelli, 1949 ( m.youtube.com )
A late version, in postwar Rome. Earlier versions with Quintette du Hot Club here (includes vocal) and here....
Gandahar - 1987 - René Laloux ( vimeo.com )
“In a thousand years, Gandahar will be destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved and what can’t be avoided will be.”...
radio free fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the universe ( radiofreefedi.net )
radio free fedi is consent, agency and artist celebrating community radio from the fediverse. We actively and openly present contributing artists' information with the hopes that you will drop-in, discover, and then LEAVE? That's right, RFF has no interest to be an end-point for hyper focused consumption. We also do not have the...
