bit part: a preview of a biopic about Claude Shannon (previously)—the unsung Father of Information Theory
the revolution will not be biennialised: Banksy (previously) makes an appearance at a Venice expo, selling paintings of giant cruise ships moored in the canals
en pointe: the Hong Kong Ballet celebrates its fortieth birthday
๐พ ๐พ ๐พ: Thangrycat is exploiting vulnerabilities in the underpinning architecture of the internet
urban spelunking: when the Jehovah’s Witnesses relocated from Brooklyn Heights to upstate, their vacated properties included a series of underground passageways, via Super Punch
conducive to learning: a collection of striking maps and charts that inspired pupils in the late nineteenth century
walking trot: phones can now determine who is carrying them by knowing their users’ gait and other kinematic factors, via Slashdot
Thursday 23 May 2019
7x7
Wednesday 8 August 2018
6x6
glou glou: TYWKIWDBI regales us with an overview of new wine terminology
ะณะพัะพะดะฐ́-ะฟัะธ́ะทัะฐะบะธ: a visually stunning gallery of abandoned places in Russia, via Things Magazine
voluntarily generated pilomotor reflex: studying goosebumps produced at will is a lot more intriguing than it first appears
i’ve got to break free: Freddie Mercury trains with the Royal Ballet in 1979
der phantashische film: German animator Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work on Yellow Submarine, created a psychedelic opening sequence for broadcaster ZDF
south street squidport: as sort of a reverse trap-street, one online mapping service is creating neighbourhoods and districts according to the branding of advertising agencies
Friday 26 May 2017
she’s got electric boots, a mohair suit
Singer, song-writer duo Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin have collaborated with several film-makers to produce music videos to three of their iconic songs over forty years after their initial release. Go to this link to see all three songs—the others being Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer, other numbers like Crocodile Rock achieved perfection already with a guest appearance on the Muppet Show—and learn about their production and choreography, which in the featured video reminded me of the Triadic Ballet of the Bauhaus movement.
Sunday 11 December 2016
choreographed geometries
Our thanks to the brilliant Messy Nessy for her extended and studied appreciation of the sublimely strange Triadic Ballet of the Bauhaus Theatre movement of the 1920s.
We had marvelled at the production and revivals beforehand but we were not clued into the backstory, inspiration and legacy enough to be able to enjoy it to the full extent, one always being induced to learning more, like realising the aspirations of Bauhaus itself was in a way realised in the lifestyle engine that is IKEA. The passage through the acts to something darker and more mechanised, formal and constrained in its expression, symbolised synthesizing the Dionysian impulse (which we’d assign to dance) in purely artificial and abstract Apollonian terms—which is ultimately the fate or anything staged and the burden of performance art. In fact, one of the character designs of Oskar Schlemmer that appeared in the third triad became the inspiration for Kansai Yamamoto’s 1973 Ziggy Stardust exaggerated jodhpur jumpsuit. There is currently an exhibit on set layout, choreography and costumes in Metz, and while no troupe is performing the piece right now, you can watch a video of a seminal production at the source link above.
Thursday 8 January 2015
root, third and fifth
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