keith berry & distant melodies
58º north dvd, images by iain stewart & sound by keith berry(excerpt here)keith berry and the beauty of distant melodiessome ideas on "distant melodies":1. being in a museum at night, with no light, standing in front of a leonardo da vinci, only barely able to make anything out, just some dark colors and shapes.2. being on a ship at night, in the middle of the ocean, knowing you are surrounded by
he couldn't resist the opportunity to get back in the big time
billy wilder's ace in the hole, 1951(aka the big carnival)with kirk douglas, cinematography by charles langother great kirk douglas films i have watched lately:-lonely are the brave, 1962 (d. david miller)(a sad good bye to the west)-paths of glory, 1957 (d. stanley kubrick)-man without a star, 1955 (d. king vidor)-out of the past, 1947 (d. jacques tourneur)title (above) from kirk douglas in his
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no country for old men
no country for old men (d. coen brothers)some movies i am looking forward to seeing:-paranoid park (d. gus van sant)-izgnanie (d. andrei zvyagintsev)-climates (d. nuri bilge ceylan)-4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days (d. cristian mungiu)-the man from london (d. béla tarr)-no country for old men (d. coen brothers)-one hundred nails (d. ermanno olmi)-aleksandra (d. aleksandr sokurov)-secret sunshine (d.
serra, photographer of the sun
images from the richard serra exhibition at the moma, nyc.enjoyment from looking very close at these sublime abstractions, inspired by the tales of dostoevsky getting close to paintings by standing on a chair.do people look or talk about these work's rich surfaces?a great study of serra's work would be to make an imaginary grid on the surface of one sculpture, and photograph each square foot (for
other abstractions of the sun, at the moma
dorothea rockburne: scalar 1971 (details) moma(through a glass darkly)guillermo kuitca: untitled 1992 (details) momamarcel duchamp: network of stoppages, 1914 (detail) momajoan miro: the birth of the world, 1925 (details) momajean dubuffet: soul of the underground from the series materiologies, december 1959 (details) momafranz kline: chief, 1950 (detail) momadonald judd: relief, 1961 (detail)
lovely sadistic appearances
strother martin in john huston's the asphalt jungle, 1950, in his second film appearance (uncredited)i didn't realize this was strother martin, the classic sadist, until i did an image search on him the other day.one of my favourite actors, making lovely sadistic appearances in:john ford's the man who shot liberty valance 1962stuart rosenberg's cool hand luke 1967, and pocket money 1972"what we
music, melancholia
more encounters with musical melancholia:(just a list of some things i have heard lately)lou reed: hudson river wind meditations, 2007for melancholic yogalou reed: berlin, the bed, sad song, and the kids from berlin, 1973jason lescalleet: the pilgrimhomage to lescalleet's father that passed away from cancerdavid lang: the passing measures, 2001bass communion: ghosts on magnetic tape, 2004"
tour de l'apocalypse
robert garcet's tower of the apocalypseimage from: fantastic architecture: personal and eccentric visions, 1980 harry abramstext from the book:born in 1912, robert garcet is a stonecutter by profession. around 1930, he settled in fort ebenemael, belgium, building a house there, then a workshop. in the early fifties, he began the tour de l'apocalypse. garcet sees the church as the cause of today's
dead souls, light, sound, rain, and dogs
......which it was difficult to make out in the darkness. only half of it was lit by the light coming from the windows; also visible was a puddle in front of the house, which was stuck directly by the same light. rain beat noisily on the wooden roof and poured in burbling streams into the rain barrel. meanwhile the dogs went off into all possible voices: one, his head thrown back, howled so
new music, here and there
some new music i picked up, and many discs i heard while traveling through the wilds of north carolina, from my two knowledgeable tour guides.new arrivals (chartier, jgrzinich, roden and basinski):richard chartier + asmus tietchens: fabrications such delicate handling and transforming of asmus tietchens' sound work by richard chartier. much like the cover's image by chartier, the listener moves
abstraction of trees, mondrian
landzicht farm under bluish-grey sky, 1905geinrust farm in watery landscape, 1905-1906the grey tree, 1911composition 10 in black and white, 1915the classic book: piet mondrian: catalogue raisonné by joop joosten and robert welsh, abrams 1996(this is research for a video featuring north carolina trees, some big, some small, all put through the alembic of my camera. i asked old mondrian to help out
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the sphere ca. 1890 charcoalfrom the new book: as in a dream: odilon redon, hatje cantz 2007
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