Thursday, 5 January 2012

The Revival Of Psychogeography

Jazz Is Our Religion (1971)


Directed by John Jeremy
Documentary that focuses on the photographs of Val Wilmer, while various voices ( Rashied Ali, Bill Evans, Marion Brown, Dewey Redman & others) comment. With Jazz poems by Langston Hughes and Ted Joans.
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Vinyl Sales Up 39 Percent In 2011

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

So there is a way out of Gitmo?

Patti Smith writes song about Amy Winehouse

NY Police Demographics Unit Casts Shadows From Past

esther addley 
Santorum spent $1.65 per vote. Rick Perry spent $817 (tks )

Prison Visiting Room Portraits, An Interview with Alyse Emdur

In 2005, Alyse Emdur unearthed a photograph (above) of her visiting her older brother in prison. She recalls, even as a 5 year old, her confusion and discomfit with the tropical beach scene to her back.
To Alyse, these garishly coloured corners of the prison visiting rooms are analogous with commercial photo portrait studios, “If you weren’t familiar with prisons, you might think these were prom photos or made in community centres. They’re very ambiguous,” says Alyse.
Fascinated by the obscure and closeted mural works in prisons across the U.S., Alyse meditated upon them in her MFA grad show (she even commissioned a prison artist to paint a mural on parachute canvas). She is now bringing hundreds of authentic American prison visiting room portraits from her Prison Landscapes project together in a book to be released later this year...
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Women Struggling to Drink Water

Ryan Boldt (solo)

Mary Hamilton's Last Goodnight
Falling Down Blues
Lazy John 

♪♫ The Deep Dark Woods - River in the Pines


Bonus:

Hasn’t the Anti-Semitism Charge Been Trivialized Enough?

Santorum Exposed

Australian Mutant Sharks