Videos, Audio, Poetry, Paintings etc., that send a message

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likewise sculptures, eg "torn notebook" by Claes Oldenburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOSOn8wOSY&mode=related&search=

"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum" - Claes Oldenburg

 

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From Iraq: Last Letter Home from Pfc. Jesse Givens

(crikey this is well done )

US Army Pfc. Jesse Givens died in Iraq in the service of his country on the first of May, 2003, in his 34th year. He wrote this letter to his wife Melissa, his five year-old son Dakota (nicknamed 'Toad') and his unborn child Carson (nicknamed 'Bean'). He asked Melissa not to open the envelope unless he was killed. 'Please, only read it if I don't come home,' he wrote. 'Please put it away and hopefully you will never have to read it.'
Andrew Garland, baritone
Lee Hoiby, composer and pianist

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/03/10/private_givens_letter/

Listening to Lee Hoiby's setting of Jesse Givens' letter, Erick Lichte says he's especially touched by the closing lines:................. "Go outside and look at the stars and count them. Don't forget to smile."

"The hopefulness and the love of life that's expressed in his words is immeasurable," he says. "It's almost too much to bear."

Melissa Givens says she's proud that even in death her husband continues to touch people. She'll get an opportunity to witness the effects of her husband's words mixed with music next week. She'll fly from her home in Colorado to Wisconsin to hear Cantus and other groups sing the new work in Eau Claire during the Intercollegiate Male Choir Festival.

Cantus premieres Lee Hoiby's "Private First Class Jesse Givens" during its 10th anniversary concerts Friday and Saturday in the Twin Cities

 

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http://www.daliprintgallery.com/gallery.php?id=2&i=589#
not that I'm heavily into art, but salvador dali sure was prepared to go out on a limb..
workhorse
the persistence of memory

victim of the bullfight
the tear of time ( time cures all ?)

protect her from misfortune's mistakes

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954) was Dalí's way of ushering in the new science of physics above psychology (?)

The Philadelphia Museum of Art used a surreal entrance display including its steps, for the 2005 Salvador Dali exhibition

 

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much of a muchness... spanning about 450 years (mid 1500's to Archibald prize 2006)

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1516–bf. 1604) was a Flemish/British engraver, illustrator, and painter most often associated with the English Royal Court of the mid-16th Century, and is more commonly remembered as the illustrator of the 1567 edition of Aesop's Fables.

The Face of War (also known as The Visage of War; in Spanish La Cara de la Guerra) (1940) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It was painted during a brief period when the artist lived in California.

The trauma of war had often served as inspiration for Dalí’s work. He sometimes believed his artistic vision to be premonitions of war. This work was painted between the end of the Spanish Civil War and beginning of the Second World War.

The painting depicts a disembodied face hovering against a barren desert landscape. The face is withered like that of a corpse and wears an expression of misery. In its mouth and eye sockets are identical faces. In their mouths and eyes are more identical faces in a process implied to be infinite. Swarming around the large face are biting serpents. In the lower right corner is a hand print that Dalí insisted was left by his own hand.

The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J F Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919. It is administered by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for "the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australasia during the 12 months preceding the date fixed by the Trustees for sending in the pictures." The Archibald Prize is awarded annually and as of 2007, the prize is A$35,000.

 

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last one on salvador dali (i promise)

 

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Surrealism - Good Eats

Surrealism and Rene Magritte

 

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to be or not etc
Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 Soliloquy (1996)

 

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obviously this has nothing to do with Anna Nicole or Magritte, but this lady still qualifies as a pretty good artist in my book (and clever) - only 30 secs

A Tribute to Anna Nicole Smith by Rene Magritte

Anna Nicole is sadly getting a lot of negative press after her death so here is a sweet little vignette by Super Amanda that pays homage to the fact she did not take herself too seriously.

Super Amanda writes:

"Jayne Mansfield, who Anna emulated in her very first Guess campaign, was said to have taken the myth of the platinum blond with her when she died in 1966 in a now notorious car crash. Anna Nicole did the impossible, she resurrected an archetype that was long gone and lived it to the hilt, and while that may be a dubious honor it would be unfair to not celebrate Anna Nicole Smith for what she was--a living piece of pop art, bold, annoying, dazzling, beautiful, bizarre, at times bombastic and excessive but ultimately, like Mansfield, a beautiful blond inferno and an American original."


Song Credits: "Rene & Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" by Paul Simon (more) (less)

I gotta feeling she's called 'Super Amanda' because of her bra size .

 

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River of Freedom by Orson Welles

A parable that mirrors our own time with the US led Iraq War. A classic animated story brought to life by the masterful voice of Orson Welles.

The Most Profound Moment in Cinema History

This short segment from Orson Welles' cinematic essay, F for Fake, may be the profoundest moment in cinema history. It is both uniquely moving, as well as stunningly deep philosophically---a truly rare cinematic combination. This clip should be required viewing, not only for every student of cinema, but for everyone who seeks an antidote to the world's increasing descent into cruelty and darkness. Here, Welles achieves the miraculous with amazingly simple means (note the lack of music as an emotional "guide", for example). God created Orson Welles...then broke the mold. Introduced by media psychologist, Dr. James N. Herndon. (www.orsonwelles.tv)

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake

Cathedral of Chartres
In perhaps the most celebrated segment of the film, treating the power of art and the nature of authorship, Welles narrates a montage sequence of the medieval French landmark, Chartres Cathedral:

"Now this has been standing here for centuries. The premier work of man perhaps in the whole western world and it's without a signature. Chartres. A celebration to God’s glory and to the dignity of man. All that’s left, most artists seem to feel these days, is man. Naked, poor, forked radish. There aren’t any celebrations. Ours, the scientists keep telling us, is a universe which is disposable. You know it might be just this one anonymous glory of all things, this rich stone forest, this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand choiring shout of affirmation, which we choose when all our cities are dust; to stand intact, to mark where we have been, to testify to what we had it in us to accomplish. Our works in stone, in paint, in print are spared, some of them for a few decades, or a millennium or two, but everything must fall in war or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash: the triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life... we're going to die. 'Be of good heart,' cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced - but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much."

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chartres_Cathedral.html

 

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https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=136880&highlight=umbrella#post136880
this from joke thread :-

A 90 yr old man went to the doctor for a check up. He was asked how he felt and replied "great I am now married to an 18 yr old and we have just come up with a new son. How is that?"
The doctor thought for a minute then said " I have a friend who was going hunting and mistakingly picked up his umbrella instead of his gun. When confronted with a huge bear he pointed the umbrella at the bear and it fell down dead. What do you think about that?
The old man replied " I think someone else must have shot the bear".
Exactly said the doctor.

good joke nioka lol

lol - as they say at the retirement village.... "can I take my false teeth out - cos then there's more room for your tongue "

 

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Orson Welles (a couple of posts back) says the same thing ... and gets the professors top marks for "most profound moment in cinema history"

but I personally found this a stronger hitting message ...
planet of the apes - charlton heston - final scene

oh my god
i'm back !
i'm home !
all the time..
you finally really did it !
you maniacs !
you blew it up !
god damn you !
god damn you all to hell !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in 1963 in French as La planète des singes. As singe means both "ape" and "monkey," Xan Fielding called his translation Monkey Planet. It is an example of social commentary through dystopia.

Planet of the Apes (1968) was a groundbreaking science fiction film based on Boulle's novel, and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston. It was the vision of producer Arthur P. Jacobs, who commissioned Rod Serling to write the script, but the final version would be written by Michael Wilson. Jacobs enlisted Heston (who enlisted Schaffner) well before any production deal was made, and Heston's star status was instrumental in gaining support for the film. They gained the support of Mort Abrahams after producing a short film demo which showed that the makeups (initially created by Ben Nye, Sr., not to be confused with the design perfected by John Chambers for the actual film) could be convincing enough to not appear funny, as most "monkey suits" up to that time had. In the English-language films, the apes are insulted when called "monkeys," but in the original book, no distinction is made because "singes" is the French word for both "apes" and "monkeys".

 

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2001 Space Odyssey

or "2001 minutes of space idiocy" as MAD magazine called it at the time

The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of novels and films created from 1948 to 1997 primarily by the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and by the film director Stanley Kubrick. The series consists of two films and four novels. The two films were directed by Kubrick and by Peter Hyams, respectively. ........... Since the stories and settings in the various book and film entries all diverge, Clarke has stated that the continuity of the series represents happenings in a set of parallel universes.

 

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I see John Lennon has taken up sky-writing

 

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one for the kiwis out there
congrats on bledisloe - you lucky bugas lol

gingerbread haka

 

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and an add-on for the Tongans

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=86523&highlight=fern#post86523

And the Kiwi’s black magic it runs in their blood,
Like the silver fern in the South Island mud,
-And the black from the depths of their pupilled eyes,
-And the warpaint pitch, and the warrior cries, -
-And the haka-filled nostils like apple pies
-(I don’t mean in content, I mean in size)
and their teeth, full tattooed by stud.
.....
But the point I would make is the fans all rise
When the AllBlack and Visitors “thudd-d”.

 

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haka vs the sipi-tai
lol
"protocol" of haka and sipi-tai , you wait till the others finish XXX oops - no you don't - you interrupt them lol.
"they couldn't help themselves"
"crossed half way" lol

I guess this "protocol" was about as close as they got to a "Polynesian Geneva Convention" My guess is that their protocol would give a shinbone if someone crossed the halfway line lol. Talk about "giving the demon inside us" a day out in the park lol.

http://www.rugbyheaven.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/24/1066974323766.html 25 Oct 2003

Tonga can only match the Kiwis in the haka
Webb Ellis Trophy sat smugly like a golden dwarf on its display table before the Test, a short kick from New Zealand's preparations on Suncorp Stadium, and few could deny the All Blacks' claim to it after their marvellous execution of Tonga last night.

New Zealand ran riot in their 13-tries-to-one 91-7 win for their third successive bonus-point victory. But a World Cup record it was not as they won 145-17 against Japan in 1995.

In a departure from most rugby internationals, the Tongans had a team consultation with a sports psychologist to help them "erase their demons" of violence. They could not help themselves.

In the most dramatic moment of the tournament, the Tongans reacted so emotionally at the All Blacks' launching into their haka they began their own war chant, the sipi-tai, advancing aggressively until Heamani Lavaka, the tight-head who propped Eastern Suburbs to the Shute Shield this year, crossed the half-way line.

The crowd of 47,000 roared its delight. )(LOL)(

Tongan coach Jim Love observed later: "We adhered to protocol. In true Tongan tradition before warfare we started our war cry before the All Blacks finished."

But Love described their program of three games in nine days as "pretty unfair, especially for a small nation like Tonga . There's a huge difference between amateurism and professionalism".

You wonder if that goes for the haka as well lol. "lines of amateurs facing lines of pros" (lines of prose?)

New Zealand's coach John Mitchell said his team was responsible for "some outstanding play in not an easy game. ...........
The second half began in light rain and with thunder rumbling overhead, the All Blacks added another three tries etc ..........

Tonga's fate appeared sealed before the kick-off, having already lost to Italy 36-12, a team thumped 70-7 by New Zealand. They had also lost to Wales 27-20.

New Zealand 91 (Caleb Ralph 2, Doug Howlett 2, Mils Muliaina 2, Daniel Braid, Daniel Carter, Corey Flynn, Carlos Spencer, Kees Meeuws, Leon MacDonald tries, penalty try; Leon MacDonald 12 cons, Carlos Spencer con) bt Tonga 7 (Pierre Hola try; Sateki Tu'ipulotu con) at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Referee: Pablo Deluca (Arg). Crowd: 47,588.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=late+lunch+with+les&search=Search
set of 3 ...
message? - humphries is an very multitalented idiot , lol
first Sir Les Petterson....

Late Lunch with Les (Part 1 of 3)
100 Greatest Stand-Ups

Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson - Number 82 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.

In Dec 2006 Edna has 50th anniversary
It's rather daunting to think about that
The character was really only created for a 2 week season
People find the character of Edna rather endearing
I can't understand that because she is something of a monster etc .

funny man lol.
Sir Les & His Pianist

Kyle Minogue describes the unexpected appearance of Sir Les Patterson's pianist on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall. Taken from Heroes of Comedy: Barry Humphries, Channel 4 on 30/10/1999