Ibiza - A Short Film About Chilling

April 11th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

Ibiza - A Short Film About Chilling

What makes this film important is the timing, sitting between the acid and the ecstasy. It was made in 1990, after Acid House, before the Ministry of Sound, and a decade before binge drinking would once more replace illegal narcotics as the opiate of the masses. In England, house music moved from fields in Essex and impromptu nights in old Warehouses to permanent, alcohol free, clubs under Victorian arches in places like Southwark in South London. These damp, dark, or damp and dark surroundings could not have been more different from the sunshine and stucco of a small island in the Mediterranean that was to become the unlikely holiday home for House. Ibiza decreed mighty, 24 hour, thomping nightclubs, measureless to man and became a cultural phenomenon for today’s social anthropologists to look back on. For some of the people in this film it was apparently their ‘first trip outside of England’.
36 mn 53 s 29 oct. 2006

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Bizarre Mies van der Rohe pop video

April 7th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

The thought of making a pop video about the most uptight of uptight modernist architects makes the mind boggle.

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The two Scorsese concert films - Shine a Light and The Last Waltz

April 4th, 2008 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

Rolling Stones - Shine a Light Trailer

One of Martin Scorsese’s earlier movies was not a gangster pic but a documentary about aging rockstars and the last performance by ‘The Band’. It was released exactly 20 years ago, in April 1978. Scorsese’s latest film, released today is about a performance by the Rolling Stones, who were aging rockstars when the first film was made. Here are the trailers of the two movies, for comparison.

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Glenn Gould Chair

April 1st, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

Nobody played Bach like Glenn Gould - literally. He made uncontrollable noises while hunched up over the keyboard, perched on an ancient chair with a broken seat that he carried with him for performances. Now someone has made a replica of the completely knackered Gould chair, for over a $1000.
Glenn Gould Chair
Unlike many eccentric ‘artists’ Gould is the real deal, so obviously odd that his manner does not seem affected and his mastery is genuine.

Roll Up: Get Your Own Glenn Gould Fucked Up Chair Here

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Composer of the Classic Electronic Track, Popcorn, Playing it 40 years later, on a Grand Piano

March 29th, 2008 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

Popcorn was the classic electronic piece from the 60’s used countless times as backing music to represent modernity. Here, its composer, Gershon Kingsley, plays it today, on a concert grand. I love this. Below is the original for comparison.

I have also made a Wist of various versions of Popcorn, here »

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