Speaking about Brian Eno (see previous post), on You Tube there is the whole Imaginary Landscapes, a film on Eno by Duncan Ward & Gabriella Cardazzo.
Imaginary Landscapes is a profile of a modern artist at the cutting edge of technological change and popular taste. It brings into an intensely personal focus Brain Eno’s seemingly disparate work in sound, vision and light, and explores his music in visual terms, based on landscapes and images that have shaped his life as an artist.
Paul Morley recently spoke to Brian Eno for a BBC arena documentary in which Eno proved that he is always good for a controversial and catchy phrase about the music industry:
The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you’d be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history’s moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.
The whole interview is published on the Guardian’s site.
Il nostro elegante commander-in-chief è finito sul popolare Photoshop Disasters per una serie di immagini malamente e dilettantisticamente ritoccate tratte dal libro Noi amiamo Silvio edito da Peruzzo.
Nella fattispecie si vede una foto in cui pezzi di folla sono stati chiaramente duplicati al fine di far apparire più gente intenta ad osannare il nostro. Anche il mazzo di fiori è disegnato gran male. In realtà è probabile che questa immagine sia il montaggio di tre foto: Berlusconi, la folla, piazza Duomo. Il fatto che la menzogna sia utilizzata come normale strumento di propaganda dovrebbe far pensare.
Il commento di Photoshop Disasters:
Oh Silvio. I have no problem with your mafia connections, your masonic lodge business, the tax fraud, the false accounting, the bribing of judges, embezzlement, seducing young girls, etc. We all do that kind of thing. But when you start pumping up your crowds with Photoshop you cross the line, mister.
Chi ha letto Il giovane Holden (The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951) potrà ora seguire le sue deambulazioni per Manhattan grazie a una mappa interattiva completa di citazioni pubblicata sul New York Times.
Trace Holden Caulfield’s perambulations around Manhattan in “The Catcher in the Rye” to places like the Edmont Hotel, where Holden had an awkward encounter with Sunny the hooker; the lake in Central Park, where he wondered about the ducks in winter; and the clock at the Biltmore, where he waited for his date. Roll your mouse over each point and read about Holden’s experience there in J.D. Salinger’s words.