Month: June 2016

Diego Rivera: “I Hearld the Wonderful Symphony”

Photographer Unknown, (Industrial Machinery), Sepia

“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford’s industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the wonderful symphony which came from his factories where metals were shaped into tools for men’s service. It was a new music, waiting for the composer with genius enough to give it communicable form.

I thought of the millions of different men by whose combined labor and thought automobiles were produced, from the miners who dug the iron ore out of the earth to the railroad men and teamsters who brought the finished machines to the consumer, so that man, space, and time might be conquered, and ever-expanding victories be won against death.”

― Diego Rivera, My Life, My Art

Don DeLillo: “Let the Bath Take Total Hold”

Photographer Unknown, (Easing into the Heat)

“How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he’d linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total hold, ease and alleviate, before he put on clothes and entered the complex boxes where people do their living.
Nothing fits the body so well as water.”

― Don DeLillo

Nicky Barkla

Nicky Barkla, “The Third Eye- Darren Brown”, Anaglyph

Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye’s image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye.

Derren Brown is an English mentalist and illusionist. Since his television debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, he has produced several other shows both for the stage, and for television in both series and specials. He has also written books for magicians as well as the general public. He makes clear in his performances that all of his apparent abilities, which manifest on stage/screen as feats of memory, intuition, mind-reading and control of other objects/people, are achieved through a variety of psychological means, such as hypnosis, suggestion, cold reading, misdirection, and showmanship.

Brown came out as gay in 2007, and is in a long term relationship. He came out late in life—his parents were not practicising Christians, but they sent him to Bible classes from age 5, believing it was the right thing to do. In an effort to deal with issues of self-esteem and sexuality, Brown became a committed Evangelical Christian in his teens in order to present a confident, asexual, character. After he came to the conclusion that his belief in Christianity had no basis, he instead turned to the character of the eccentric, caped magician to fulfill his role in life.

Alessandro “Sasha” Benedetti

Alessandro “Sasha” Benedetti, “Ligurian Wave”

Alessandro Benedetti, known as Sasha, is a IENI-CNR researcher and lives in Bonassola on the west coast of Italy near Genoa. He is a great lover and connoisseur of Ligurian waves and sea storms and a passionate photographer. The village in which he lives allows him to give free rein to this passion. His photography is available in a book, Wave Watching, published by Casa Editrice Hoepli, an Italian publishing house based in Milan.

This book made possible by the collaborative team of Sasha Benedetti, Stefano Gallino, and Luca Onorato was publshed in November 2011. It is still available through HOEPLI.it.

Arantzazu Martinez

Arantzazu Martinez, “The Fallen Angel”, Oil on Linen, 45 x 29 Inches, , Museo Europeo de Arte Modemo

Arantzazu Martinez is a Spanish artist who received her BFA at the Fine Arts University of the Basque Country. She later attended the New York Academy of Figurative Art for her classical art training. She currently resides and works in Madrid, traveling often back to New York. Martinez has recently exhibited her work in New York at the 2019 IBEX Masters Exhibition, the largest showing of super-realistic, figurative, contemporary art in the world.

Angelico and Isais Jimenez

Angelico and Isais Jimenez, Mythical Mexican Beasts, Carved Wood

Angelico and Isais Jimenez  are the sons of Manuel Jimenez, the founder of the Oaxaca School of Mexican carved and painted animals. Though relatively unknown outside of Mexico, their work is excellent and available for sale.

Further information on their work can be found at: https://www.fofa.us/woodcarving/2

Olafur Arnalds, “So Close”

Olafur Arnalds, “So Close”

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and edgy beats crossing-over from ambient/electronic to pop. Ólafur was a drummer of hardcore / metal bands Fighting Shit and Celestine, as well as others.

In 2009, Ólafur also formed an experimental techno project, entitled Kiasmos, with Janus Rasmussen from the Icelandic electro-pop band Bloodgroup. In 2014 Ólafur announced his electronic debut album under the Kiasmos project.

Broadchurch is a British television crime drama broadcast on ITV. It was created and written by Chris Chibnall and produced by Kudos Film and Television, Shine America, and Imaginary Friends. Broadchurch series one focused on the search for a boy’s murderer by detectives Alec Hardy (played by David Tennant) and Ellie Miller (played by Olivia Colman). Chibnall was inspired by the Jurassic Coast of Britain to set his crime drama in a fictional, close-knit small town in Dorset. Much of the tone of the series was inspired by the music of Ólafur Arnalds, who also composed the soundtrack for the program me.

Highly recommend this series of detective stories; great acting; hot detective; and the sound of the show by Arnalds is superb.

Another great song by Olafur Arnalds. This one was used in the closing credits of Broadchurch, one of my favorite detective series. If you like this song, see the show, available on Netflix. You will not be disappointed.

 

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