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"...Purpose, the meaning of music"
1977 IBM educational film, "Some call it Software." (slyt. 10:59)
posted on Jan-17-25 at 6:33 PM
'Life in the 1800s' is a YouTube channel that "focuses on life in the 1800s: people who lived during that time and have stories to tell, living conditions and ways of life back then, historical elements of the 1800s, etc." 'My Grandfather met Napoleon: Bertrand Russell interview, 1952.' (slyt. 4:28) 'I was born in a cave in the 1896'
posted on Jan-4-25 at 1:53 PM
'Linda Lavin, acclaimed star of sitcom 'Alice' dead at 87.' 'The award-winning performer most recently acted in Netflix’s "No Good Deed' and forthcoming Hulu series 'Mid-Century.''' Linda Lavin sings, ' I'm going to live till I die"
posted on Dec-30-24 at 4:23 PM
'O Magnum Mysterium'. St. Olaf Chapel Choir and St. Olaf Orchestra. (slyt. 6:12)
posted on Dec-24-24 at 4:31 PM
"A Pack of Gifts Now' (slyt. 4:37)
posted on Dec-18-24 at 3:11 PM
'Chernobyl Accident-simulatation only (no talk)' (slyt, 3:31)
posted on Dec-12-24 at 8:03 PM
"In May 1915, Marianne Moore made her first appearance in Poetry. Then twenty-seven-years old...The second time Moore submitted poems to the magazine, Harriet Monroe rejected them. A rather aggrieved Moore fired back, "Printed slips are enigmatic things and I thank you for your criticism on my poems. I shall try to profit by it."" .."the late nineteen-fifties, when she was in her seventies, Marianne Moore became a star. She went on the “Tonight Show” to talk about the Brooklyn Dodgers with Jack Paar. The elderly poet was profiled in Sports Illustrated and featured on the cover of Esquire, with Jimmy Durante, Joe Louis, and others.George Plimpton picked her up in a limousine at her home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and escorted her to a game at Yankee Stadium."
posted on Dec-8-24 at 3:08 PM
"The wind phone is an unconnected telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones." "In Japan, there is a frontier between life and death, and it’s perched on the steep slopes of a mountain called Kujira-yama, the Mountain of the Whale. That’s where we’re going..." 'How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death.'
posted on Dec-2-24 at 2:38 PM
Muse. 'The 2nd Law: Isolated system' (slyt. 4:59)
posted on Dec-1-24 at 3:23 PM
'Chuck Woolery, game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83'
posted on Nov-24-24 at 3:46 PM
'The Reluctant Dragon and Mr Toad Show. 1970. (slyt, 22:59)
posted on Nov-21-24 at 8:45 PM
'The Treaty of Westphalia.' Fry and Laurie ( slyt, 4:58)
posted on Nov-19-24 at 4:21 PM
'About Sensations', 1948 Aviator film (slyt, 5:30) ((CW warning, sexism)) "In 1943, Lt. Robert Osborn, in collaboration with Commander Seth Warner, created the “sage of safety” character for a column in the BUAER News Letter produced by the Bureau of Aeronautics to address the increasing aircraft mishap rate. Osborn’s illustrations commingled with Warner’s narrative accounts of aircraft accidents." " Case in point: this 1945 Navy training film produced at Warner Bros. Cartoons featuring cartoonist Robert Osborn’s character Grampa Pettibone. I’d never come across anything about this in all my years of research." 'The Grampa Pettibone collection'
posted on Nov-13-24 at 9:27 PM
Toru Fukuda:Three-dimensional wood inlay. Miyama crow swallowtail. (slyt. 12:38)
posted on Nov-6-24 at 12:50 AM
"'The Bat' is a three-act play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood that was first produced by Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper in 1920" which was based on a 1907-08 serialized novel, 'The Circular Staircase.' "The Bat is a 1926 American silent comedy mystery film directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda" which in 1959 was (re) made into a movie starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. 'The Bat'. (slyt)
posted on Oct-31-24 at 2:17 PM
William S. Burroughs: 'When Did You Stop Wanting to Be President?' (slyt) Here is the original article including Burroughs text. ( note George Romney)
posted on Oct-25-24 at 8:20 PM
Michael Lucarelli/classical guitar/ Theme to 'Halloween' (slyt.3:15)
posted on Oct-24-24 at 4:08 PM
Ludovico Einaudi. 'Ascolta' (slyt, 4:51)
posted on Oct-14-24 at 8:42 PM
Interview with Neurologist Warren McCulloch. (slyt)
posted on Oct-11-24 at 6:43 PM
Lee Marvin Sings: 'Wand'rin' Star' from the movie 'Paint your Wagon' (slyt)
posted on Sep-29-24 at 6:58 PM
Jiang Zemin meets the press, candidly. (slyt)
posted on Sep-18-24 at 8:09 PM
'New Mass.(achusetts) law bars circuses from using elephants, lions, giraffes and other animals.' though "Exceptions include animals that live at a zoo and the use of animals in filming movies. Non-exotic animals like horses, chickens, pigs, and rabbits can continue to be exhibited."
posted on Sep-9-24 at 6:42 PM
"The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival' (slyt. .06)
posted on Sep-4-24 at 2:08 PM
"The Old Way and The New". (slyt.11:00+) 1912. Considered the first presidential campaign film. "This is an example of how politics has long been evolving along with, and in response to, new media,” Historian Trygve Throntveit notes “This was quite extraordinary to release a film like this and in some ways it just goes to show that we always have constantly adapted our politics to changes in society and culture.” 'The First Televised Presidential Debate'. 1956. Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Margaret Chase Smith debate current issues. "That’s right—the first televised presidential debate featured two women."
posted on Aug-29-24 at 9:35 PM
"In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of our beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water." 'Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming' Jun 24, 2024. (PBS video/audio.)
posted on Aug-18-24 at 3:01 PM
'My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary.' Two Films by Béla Tarr. 'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) and 'The Turin Horse' (2011).
posted on Aug-10-24 at 6:05 PM
"Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a rule: never depict any adults and keep it a world of children. This helped make Peanuts a sensation not only in the comic strips, but also as a multimedia franchise. However, a loophole existed for one surprise character." But if one Adult voice stood out, Ms. Othmar, played by Dean Hubbard could be it. "Where are the parents?" 'The mystery of the Peanuts’ parents'
posted on Jul-29-24 at 9:16 PM
"Thomas Sperry of Cranford NJ and Shelley Byron Hutchinson of Ypsilanti MI, founded the Sperry and Hutchison Co. in 1896. They made money by selling the stamps to retailers who would then give them to their customers. 10 stamps for every dollar spent. Consumers would save up their stamps and then exchange them for products from the S&H Catalog (IdeaBook) at S&H redemption centers, which numbered 600 nationwide by the mid-1960s." 'The Sperry & Hutchinson Story.' Remembering S&H Green Stamps booklets and stores: Vintage photos The 1979 'style' Ideas book. (internet archive)
posted on Jul-26-24 at 8:09 PM
"Wherever I goddamn like." (slyt, 1:11) Shohreh Aghdashloo as Chrisjen Avasarala in a key diplomatic scene from the series The Expanse. Aghdashloo in a interview: "Well, my major is political science and international relations. I studied political science in the UK, forty-two years ago I started, and got my BA in 1984. As of then, like any other political student, I used to call myself a student, the fact that I was coming from a revolution in Iran, made me believe that leaving Iran, there was no place for a young outspoken actress like myself". 'The Ethics of Avasarala'
posted on Jul-18-24 at 6:36 PM
"Changing nominees at this point has literally never happened before—not even once. Richardson’s assertion that “in the whole picture of American history, if you change the presidential nominee at this point in the game, the candidate loses”—so clear, so forceful, so authoritative—is totally invented." 'Is the Age of the Resistance Historian Coming to an End? (via A&L Daily)
posted on Jul-14-24 at 7:00 PM
The year 69 CE is noted for the Year of the Four Roman Emperors, "The Revolt of the Batavi was a rebellion led by the Batavi, a small but powerful Germanic population of Batavia on the Rhine delta, against the Roman Empire." Though "Despite the ultimate victory of the Romans, the Batavi’s early successes were notable. In fact, their victories over the Roman legions were predicted by Veleda, a seer who was worshiped as a deity..." 'Veleda and the Ancient Germanic Seers' so, Vitellius...
posted on Jul-8-24 at 9:25 PM
Making handmade bespoke shoes with hand-dyed leather. (slyt. 49:51)
posted on Jul-5-24 at 2:24 PM
'Vessel with a Pestle, Chalace from the Palace.' From The Court Jester, 1955. Danny Kaye, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Glynis Johns. (slyt. 3:39)
posted on Jul-4-24 at 8:09 PM
In 1862, Adam Worth listed as "dead, he was now free to enlist once more and to claim another bounty. Like many others he got a taste for it, taking the money, deserting, re-enlisting again in another unit under another name. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." "The words refined and gaudy, by all practical standards, contrast. But, somewhere between the ether of the two words there is a fine line that, when the words blend across that line, a rarity is created. This specimen is one of color but with an ability to control that color to his/her advantage; to sip of the grapes of life with a celebratory vigor and vim and always emanate what the Parisians call en elegance." In 1876, he stlole Gainsborough' Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire from JP Morgan's father. it wasn't until 1901 that the portrait was returned brokered through Pinkerton. "He nicknamed Worth ‘the Napoleon of Crime.’ Called Adam Worth, Alias ‘Little Adam’ by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, you can read it here. 'A Master Thief, Irish Hostess, English Duchess, and the Origins Pan Am.'
posted on Jun-30-24 at 2:01 PM
"The Wild West looms large in the American psyche, so it’s no surprise it plays a prominent role in the stories we tell in film and television. But there’s one writer who’s been able to take the essence of the Old West and modernize it for today’s savvy audience:" 'How Taylor Sheridan is redefining the Western genre'. 'But the show’s (Yellowstone) focus on white-male resentment hardly distinguishes it from other prestige fare — sure, Yellowstone is about mad men, but so was Mad Men.' from: ' How the Cowboy was Colonized'
posted on Jun-21-24 at 3:01 PM
'Wanderers' A short film my Erik Wernquist . (slyt. 3:50)
posted on Jun-16-24 at 8:25 PM
80 years ago President Roosevelt delivered a speech: "..."Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far." Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
posted on Jun-5-24 at 8:45 PM
Secret to flipping eggs. (slyt)
posted on Jun-3-24 at 2:52 PM
"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears." 'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
posted on May-31-24 at 7:05 PM
"In the life of a poet, of course, there is no Election Day to distinguish the visionaries from the also-rans. So Stevens’s response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. Scholars argue over this: some see him as returning, defensively, to conservatism, particularly since in a 1940 letter he declared that “Communism is just the new romanticism,” and referred to “my rightism.”" 'What Mitt Romney Might Learn From Wallace Stevens' [archive link]
posted on May-29-24 at 6:14 PM
'Paul Williams shows up in his Planet of the Apes costume and performs "Here's That Rainy Day"'. (slyt.9:49)
posted on May-26-24 at 7:42 PM
Bill Mitchell was "responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM, Mitchell spent the entirety of his 42-year career in automobile design at General Motors". Bill Mitchell’s Silver Arrow I. In 1957, coming back from the Turin Auto Show Mitchell faced "Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) had forbidden American automakers from participating in any performance or motorsports activities—which included the building, selling, or advertising of performance-oriented products." Studio X: The Story of Bill Mitchell's Secret Styling Studio at General Motors.
posted on May-20-24 at 2:25 PM
"High Math by Ma And Pa Kettle' (slyt. 3:23)
posted on May-9-24 at 10:15 PM
Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
posted on May-7-24 at 2:44 PM
'Lost Sheep'. A paper stop motion film by Lukas Rooney. (slyt. 7:16)
posted on May-5-24 at 6:35 PM
Bryats Band. 'Vesnyanka' українська Інді-фолк (slyt. 3:44)
posted on Apr-27-24 at 5:49 PM
'Small pizza delivery shop.' (slyt. 4:12)
posted on Apr-20-24 at 6:40 PM
'on the Tories' (slyt. 1:00)
posted on Apr-17-24 at 8:55 PM
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades." 'The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns.'. (archiveorg) "This attraction is now virtually obsolete. Outdoor Amusement Business Association president Greg Chiecko was quoted as claiming he polled his members about dunk tank clowns and that “most say they don’t know of any that still exist today.” (medium) 'Chicago’s Riverview Park and the Racist Dunk Tank'. {CW: Racism. Clowns.}
posted on Apr-9-24 at 11:34 PM
'I’ve never seen ...The Searchers.' "I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …" "(John) Ford is likely the best American historian when it comes to narrative filmmaking 'Printing the Legend: 'The Searchers and a journey into the heart of America’s darkness.' " Scores of film students and enthusiasts have wondered and wrote about what does this last scene of the film mean." Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Searchers Doorway Scene. { CW: racism in film.}
posted on Apr-8-24 at 9:35 PM
posted on Jan-17-25 at 6:33 PM
'Life in the 1800s' is a YouTube channel that "focuses on life in the 1800s: people who lived during that time and have stories to tell, living conditions and ways of life back then, historical elements of the 1800s, etc." 'My Grandfather met Napoleon: Bertrand Russell interview, 1952.' (slyt. 4:28) 'I was born in a cave in the 1896'
posted on Jan-4-25 at 1:53 PM
'Linda Lavin, acclaimed star of sitcom 'Alice' dead at 87.' 'The award-winning performer most recently acted in Netflix’s "No Good Deed' and forthcoming Hulu series 'Mid-Century.''' Linda Lavin sings, ' I'm going to live till I die"
posted on Dec-30-24 at 4:23 PM
'O Magnum Mysterium'. St. Olaf Chapel Choir and St. Olaf Orchestra. (slyt. 6:12)
posted on Dec-24-24 at 4:31 PM
"A Pack of Gifts Now' (slyt. 4:37)
posted on Dec-18-24 at 3:11 PM
'Chernobyl Accident-simulatation only (no talk)' (slyt, 3:31)
posted on Dec-12-24 at 8:03 PM
"In May 1915, Marianne Moore made her first appearance in Poetry. Then twenty-seven-years old...The second time Moore submitted poems to the magazine, Harriet Monroe rejected them. A rather aggrieved Moore fired back, "Printed slips are enigmatic things and I thank you for your criticism on my poems. I shall try to profit by it."" .."the late nineteen-fifties, when she was in her seventies, Marianne Moore became a star. She went on the “Tonight Show” to talk about the Brooklyn Dodgers with Jack Paar. The elderly poet was profiled in Sports Illustrated and featured on the cover of Esquire, with Jimmy Durante, Joe Louis, and others.George Plimpton picked her up in a limousine at her home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and escorted her to a game at Yankee Stadium."
posted on Dec-8-24 at 3:08 PM
"The wind phone is an unconnected telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones." "In Japan, there is a frontier between life and death, and it’s perched on the steep slopes of a mountain called Kujira-yama, the Mountain of the Whale. That’s where we’re going..." 'How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death.'
posted on Dec-2-24 at 2:38 PM
Muse. 'The 2nd Law: Isolated system' (slyt. 4:59)
posted on Dec-1-24 at 3:23 PM
'Chuck Woolery, game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83'
posted on Nov-24-24 at 3:46 PM
'The Reluctant Dragon and Mr Toad Show. 1970. (slyt, 22:59)
posted on Nov-21-24 at 8:45 PM
'The Treaty of Westphalia.' Fry and Laurie ( slyt, 4:58)
posted on Nov-19-24 at 4:21 PM
'About Sensations', 1948 Aviator film (slyt, 5:30) ((CW warning, sexism)) "In 1943, Lt. Robert Osborn, in collaboration with Commander Seth Warner, created the “sage of safety” character for a column in the BUAER News Letter produced by the Bureau of Aeronautics to address the increasing aircraft mishap rate. Osborn’s illustrations commingled with Warner’s narrative accounts of aircraft accidents." " Case in point: this 1945 Navy training film produced at Warner Bros. Cartoons featuring cartoonist Robert Osborn’s character Grampa Pettibone. I’d never come across anything about this in all my years of research." 'The Grampa Pettibone collection'
posted on Nov-13-24 at 9:27 PM
Toru Fukuda:Three-dimensional wood inlay. Miyama crow swallowtail. (slyt. 12:38)
posted on Nov-6-24 at 12:50 AM
"'The Bat' is a three-act play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood that was first produced by Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper in 1920" which was based on a 1907-08 serialized novel, 'The Circular Staircase.' "The Bat is a 1926 American silent comedy mystery film directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda" which in 1959 was (re) made into a movie starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. 'The Bat'. (slyt)
posted on Oct-31-24 at 2:17 PM
William S. Burroughs: 'When Did You Stop Wanting to Be President?' (slyt) Here is the original article including Burroughs text. ( note George Romney)
posted on Oct-25-24 at 8:20 PM
Michael Lucarelli/classical guitar/ Theme to 'Halloween' (slyt.3:15)
posted on Oct-24-24 at 4:08 PM
Ludovico Einaudi. 'Ascolta' (slyt, 4:51)
posted on Oct-14-24 at 8:42 PM
Interview with Neurologist Warren McCulloch. (slyt)
posted on Oct-11-24 at 6:43 PM
Lee Marvin Sings: 'Wand'rin' Star' from the movie 'Paint your Wagon' (slyt)
posted on Sep-29-24 at 6:58 PM
Jiang Zemin meets the press, candidly. (slyt)
posted on Sep-18-24 at 8:09 PM
'New Mass.(achusetts) law bars circuses from using elephants, lions, giraffes and other animals.' though "Exceptions include animals that live at a zoo and the use of animals in filming movies. Non-exotic animals like horses, chickens, pigs, and rabbits can continue to be exhibited."
posted on Sep-9-24 at 6:42 PM
"The Adafruit 6 second electronics film festival' (slyt. .06)
posted on Sep-4-24 at 2:08 PM
"The Old Way and The New". (slyt.11:00+) 1912. Considered the first presidential campaign film. "This is an example of how politics has long been evolving along with, and in response to, new media,” Historian Trygve Throntveit notes “This was quite extraordinary to release a film like this and in some ways it just goes to show that we always have constantly adapted our politics to changes in society and culture.” 'The First Televised Presidential Debate'. 1956. Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Margaret Chase Smith debate current issues. "That’s right—the first televised presidential debate featured two women."
posted on Aug-29-24 at 9:35 PM
"In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of our beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water." 'Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming' Jun 24, 2024. (PBS video/audio.)
posted on Aug-18-24 at 3:01 PM
'My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary.' Two Films by Béla Tarr. 'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) and 'The Turin Horse' (2011).
posted on Aug-10-24 at 6:05 PM
"Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a rule: never depict any adults and keep it a world of children. This helped make Peanuts a sensation not only in the comic strips, but also as a multimedia franchise. However, a loophole existed for one surprise character." But if one Adult voice stood out, Ms. Othmar, played by Dean Hubbard could be it. "Where are the parents?" 'The mystery of the Peanuts’ parents'
posted on Jul-29-24 at 9:16 PM
"Thomas Sperry of Cranford NJ and Shelley Byron Hutchinson of Ypsilanti MI, founded the Sperry and Hutchison Co. in 1896. They made money by selling the stamps to retailers who would then give them to their customers. 10 stamps for every dollar spent. Consumers would save up their stamps and then exchange them for products from the S&H Catalog (IdeaBook) at S&H redemption centers, which numbered 600 nationwide by the mid-1960s." 'The Sperry & Hutchinson Story.' Remembering S&H Green Stamps booklets and stores: Vintage photos The 1979 'style' Ideas book. (internet archive)
posted on Jul-26-24 at 8:09 PM
"Wherever I goddamn like." (slyt, 1:11) Shohreh Aghdashloo as Chrisjen Avasarala in a key diplomatic scene from the series The Expanse. Aghdashloo in a interview: "Well, my major is political science and international relations. I studied political science in the UK, forty-two years ago I started, and got my BA in 1984. As of then, like any other political student, I used to call myself a student, the fact that I was coming from a revolution in Iran, made me believe that leaving Iran, there was no place for a young outspoken actress like myself". 'The Ethics of Avasarala'
posted on Jul-18-24 at 6:36 PM
"Changing nominees at this point has literally never happened before—not even once. Richardson’s assertion that “in the whole picture of American history, if you change the presidential nominee at this point in the game, the candidate loses”—so clear, so forceful, so authoritative—is totally invented." 'Is the Age of the Resistance Historian Coming to an End? (via A&L Daily)
posted on Jul-14-24 at 7:00 PM
The year 69 CE is noted for the Year of the Four Roman Emperors, "The Revolt of the Batavi was a rebellion led by the Batavi, a small but powerful Germanic population of Batavia on the Rhine delta, against the Roman Empire." Though "Despite the ultimate victory of the Romans, the Batavi’s early successes were notable. In fact, their victories over the Roman legions were predicted by Veleda, a seer who was worshiped as a deity..." 'Veleda and the Ancient Germanic Seers' so, Vitellius...
posted on Jul-8-24 at 9:25 PM
Making handmade bespoke shoes with hand-dyed leather. (slyt. 49:51)
posted on Jul-5-24 at 2:24 PM
'Vessel with a Pestle, Chalace from the Palace.' From The Court Jester, 1955. Danny Kaye, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Glynis Johns. (slyt. 3:39)
posted on Jul-4-24 at 8:09 PM
In 1862, Adam Worth listed as "dead, he was now free to enlist once more and to claim another bounty. Like many others he got a taste for it, taking the money, deserting, re-enlisting again in another unit under another name. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." "The words refined and gaudy, by all practical standards, contrast. But, somewhere between the ether of the two words there is a fine line that, when the words blend across that line, a rarity is created. This specimen is one of color but with an ability to control that color to his/her advantage; to sip of the grapes of life with a celebratory vigor and vim and always emanate what the Parisians call en elegance." In 1876, he stlole Gainsborough' Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire from JP Morgan's father. it wasn't until 1901 that the portrait was returned brokered through Pinkerton. "He nicknamed Worth ‘the Napoleon of Crime.’ Called Adam Worth, Alias ‘Little Adam’ by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, you can read it here. 'A Master Thief, Irish Hostess, English Duchess, and the Origins Pan Am.'
posted on Jun-30-24 at 2:01 PM
"The Wild West looms large in the American psyche, so it’s no surprise it plays a prominent role in the stories we tell in film and television. But there’s one writer who’s been able to take the essence of the Old West and modernize it for today’s savvy audience:" 'How Taylor Sheridan is redefining the Western genre'. 'But the show’s (Yellowstone) focus on white-male resentment hardly distinguishes it from other prestige fare — sure, Yellowstone is about mad men, but so was Mad Men.' from: ' How the Cowboy was Colonized'
posted on Jun-21-24 at 3:01 PM
'Wanderers' A short film my Erik Wernquist . (slyt. 3:50)
posted on Jun-16-24 at 8:25 PM
80 years ago President Roosevelt delivered a speech: "..."Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far." Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
posted on Jun-5-24 at 8:45 PM
Secret to flipping eggs. (slyt)
posted on Jun-3-24 at 2:52 PM
"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears." 'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
posted on May-31-24 at 7:05 PM
"In the life of a poet, of course, there is no Election Day to distinguish the visionaries from the also-rans. So Stevens’s response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. Scholars argue over this: some see him as returning, defensively, to conservatism, particularly since in a 1940 letter he declared that “Communism is just the new romanticism,” and referred to “my rightism.”" 'What Mitt Romney Might Learn From Wallace Stevens' [archive link]
posted on May-29-24 at 6:14 PM
'Paul Williams shows up in his Planet of the Apes costume and performs "Here's That Rainy Day"'. (slyt.9:49)
posted on May-26-24 at 7:42 PM
Bill Mitchell was "responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM, Mitchell spent the entirety of his 42-year career in automobile design at General Motors". Bill Mitchell’s Silver Arrow I. In 1957, coming back from the Turin Auto Show Mitchell faced "Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) had forbidden American automakers from participating in any performance or motorsports activities—which included the building, selling, or advertising of performance-oriented products." Studio X: The Story of Bill Mitchell's Secret Styling Studio at General Motors.
posted on May-20-24 at 2:25 PM
"High Math by Ma And Pa Kettle' (slyt. 3:23)
posted on May-9-24 at 10:15 PM
Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
posted on May-7-24 at 2:44 PM
'Lost Sheep'. A paper stop motion film by Lukas Rooney. (slyt. 7:16)
posted on May-5-24 at 6:35 PM
Bryats Band. 'Vesnyanka' українська Інді-фолк (slyt. 3:44)
posted on Apr-27-24 at 5:49 PM
'Small pizza delivery shop.' (slyt. 4:12)
posted on Apr-20-24 at 6:40 PM
'on the Tories' (slyt. 1:00)
posted on Apr-17-24 at 8:55 PM
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades." 'The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns.'. (archiveorg) "This attraction is now virtually obsolete. Outdoor Amusement Business Association president Greg Chiecko was quoted as claiming he polled his members about dunk tank clowns and that “most say they don’t know of any that still exist today.” (medium) 'Chicago’s Riverview Park and the Racist Dunk Tank'. {CW: Racism. Clowns.}
posted on Apr-9-24 at 11:34 PM
'I’ve never seen ...The Searchers.' "I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …" "(John) Ford is likely the best American historian when it comes to narrative filmmaking 'Printing the Legend: 'The Searchers and a journey into the heart of America’s darkness.' " Scores of film students and enthusiasts have wondered and wrote about what does this last scene of the film mean." Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Searchers Doorway Scene. { CW: racism in film.}
posted on Apr-8-24 at 9:35 PM