Michael Cimino at Heaven’s Gate – he was 77 years old
Michael Cimino died at 77.. Although he directed a few films in the decades after “Heaven’s Gate,” Cimino kept a low profile, and plastic surgery made him almost unrecognizable. He resurfaced at the...
View ArticleThe Taste of Abbas Kiarostami – (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016)
Rain : photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2007 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London) via Eyewash Tom Clark Abbas Kiarostami via Palermo Abbas dies via the Gurardian Abbas Kiarostami, the multi-award-winning Iranian...
View ArticleDennis Oppenheim – Parallel Stress, Ten Minute Performance Piece
Dennis Oppenheim – Parallel Stress, ten minute performance piece, 1970 Intended partly as a protest against the minimalist fixation on the essence of the object, this piece tested the capacity of the...
View ArticleAll You Fascists Bound To Lose, Woody Guthrie & Bound for Glory- Hal Ashby &...
Happy birthday Woody Guthrie! Robert Crumb (previous post Birthday bean effect) Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose (Youtube) Bound for Glory July 14 (also a birthday of Ingmar Bergman.. who...
View ArticleWhen Hunter met Muhammad + Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Gonzo (Levity links) Quotes America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to...
View ArticleBaron Raymund Von Stillfried – a Pioneer Photographer of Meiji Japan
Baron Raimund von Stillfried, also known as Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz, was an Austrian photographer. (See more photos )here. Japan times book review of Baron Raimund von sillfried – a...
View ArticleJunichiro Tanizaki – In Praise of Shadow + The Tatoo on Ayako Wakao
Irezumi (Directed by Yasuzo Masumura) “This painting shows your future,” Seikichi said, pointing to the woman under the cherry tree — the very image of the young girl, “All these men will ruin their...
View ArticleElliott Erwitt – Magnum Photographer was Born in Paris on July 26, 1928
Elliot Erwitt Elliott Erwitt: The photographer who got the best out of Castro, Kerouac, and Monroe Interestingly, his greatest inspirations are Modigliani’s poetic paintings and the Italian Neorealist...
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