Jamaican Ska Roots

This film footage is wonderful...and, as with the Melodians, actually seeing the performance adds immeasurably! http://hypediss.com/jamaican_ska_roots
It's linked from a site called The Afflicted Yard. For Steph and Anthony--and maybe all the rest of you? Intro sounds are Ras Michael and Sons of Negus...

Bilbainadas

No hay quien pueda, no hay quien pueda, con la gente marinera.
Marinera, pescadora, no hay quien pueda, por ahora.
Si te quieres casar con las chicas de aquí, tienes que ir a buscar capital a Madrid, capital a Madrid, capital a Madrid,
si te quieres casar con las chicas de aquí.

Darkened rooms in late summer, heavy wooden blinds to hold out the light. Los Porteños buscan...buscan...pero buscan a qué?
Romancero. Quiet tree-lined streets, cobble stones and gray walls...balcony above. Figure half-hidden behind white curtains. Si te quieres casar...

For Berta and Sabina (con algo de Buenos Aires)...

New York

"...There was no detail. Night came and even the sharp edged contours melted. A million lights perforated the huge masses - switching, flickering - a light modulation dissolving solid form...I got drunk - from seeing."

Moholy-Nagy, 1969

"The Books"

Aleatoric Sounds and Sights:
composed collages, to peruse and enjoy for the pleasure of scaping* short stories.

listen and see: the books music

*scaping – (v.) the scene building of closed eyes; creating an image of a view into; (continue to add your definitions below)

For a Painting of Painting a Room

Benjamin and others, happily I found a way, on this site, to post audio on Blogger.

I just discovered this haunting track called "The Dying Soldier" recorded by Buell Kazee in New York City on January 18, 1928:


And, for Sabina, by the same artist, recorded two days before, "The Butcher's Boy (Railroad Boy)":

The Butcher was a Woman

Neo Homesteading

Towards a self-reliant city. This is an announcement for the identifying of local networks and resources for becoming more self-equipped and expending less un-renewable energy.

The metabolic relationship with site, work for yield—the return clear, and the agent for improved ownership, communal.

video at: howtohomestead.org

My Kid Could Paint That-the movie

I heard about this a couple of months ago, and now it's featured on the NY Times Video: Arts/Movies podcast....

http://www.sonyclassics.com/mykidcouldpaintthat/

If the art had been done by an adult would it alter it's "believability"? Something tells me I just opened a can of worms...

Onward!

So, here we go. First, thanks to Anthony Bello for setting up the weblog site. I encourage each of you to be a part of the endeavor. Let's see what happens--where it goes. Many good ideas come up in class--thoughts, references, things remembered--this is the place where they can be returned to, amplified, filled out--shared. Also, the ease of including images makes for...possibilities...