Lakota Nation and their quest for justice

“lakota nation vs. the united states”

great documentary on the lakota nation and their quest for justice – quite an interesting film to view in these trying times. saw this again for the third time tonight (if you count movies seen on flights as one) available on apple tv and on youtube – well worth the watch, especially if you pay for it xx  by xy

GMC vs DMC: when a dream car crashes into war, politics and drugs

john delorean and his wife cristina ferrare

the design of the DMC 12 by giorgetto giugiaro

the factory in belfast smack in the middle of the IRA wars

great BBC docu on the downfall

john delorean worked at GMC (general motors company) and became one of its highly paid presidents, he was cocky and brash and surely pissed off a lot of top brass at the company. he was fired / he resigned (depending whom you ask) to build his dream car company named DMC (delorean motors company). GMC was not happy. margaret thatcher and ronlad reagans FBI somehow were involved in bringing the company down and convicting john delorean on drug charges. he was ruined, the company went bankrupt, but all charges where dropped. john became a born again christian and supposedly went to heaven. by uh

gianni agnelli : what a ham! and why we love him…

with his first wife marella

even giants start small

oh hi jackie kennedy!

older wiser agneli and the fiat empire

good clip on gianni agnelli’s life…

“the agnelli look was about ease, grace and never trying too hard. like the dinner party just happened without any planning.”

“was he vain? He invented it.”

“he had the view of Aristotle – where goodness and beauty overlap.”

three quotes that sum up gianni agnelli and la dolce vita. this video is part 2 of the HBO documentary agnelli (2017). genuine style is both timeless and priceless, it is innate and money (though not necessary to have flair) in the hands of agnelli made his life shine so brightly that the whole world was lit up. by uh

le mepris: breakdown of jean luc godard’s garden scene in contempt

at the expense of being screamed at… i do believe woman, more than men, have the ability to turn off emotions. men may subdue their emotions, but once there… it is not so easy for men to turn back.

a really beautiful breakdown of this loaded and constructed garden scene in le mepris by This video essay by cristina alvarez lópez and adrian martin of mubi

definitely one of my favorite films, seen it projected several time, have it on blue ray, and highly recommend catching it in a proper cinema if you can. by uh

the last race : 1957 Mille Miglia

peter collins in the 1957 ferrari 335 sport scaglietti s/n 0700. on left is mechanic ascanio lucchi, in middle is enzo ferrari and on the right in black shirt is martino severi, a test driver.

1955 ferrari 750 monza – the horrific 1957 ferrari crash that ended the mille miglia race

in april of 1956, the year before this, the ferrari racing team was victorious at the mille miglia, winning the first four places. the grand champion was eugenio castellotti, one of the brightest young stars on team ferrari… less than two months later, personal tragedy struck enzo and his wife laura. their beloved 24-year-old son, dino, succumbed to a years-long battle with muscular dystrophy. enzo was inconsolable and briefly considered quitting ferrari. when he was finally ready to return to work, enzo suffered a second painful blow—his star driver castellotti was killed in a training accident on the ferrari test track in modena.

castellotti’s death came just weeks before the 1957 edition of the mille miglia. for the first time in his life, enzo ferrari publicly expressed doubts about dedicating his life to such a dangerous sport. “something had changed within enzo and the way he was looking at motor racing,” says luca dal monte, author of the biography enzo ferrari: power, politics, and the making of an automotive empire.

the night before the start of the 1957 mille miglia, ferrari gave a speech at a big banquet in brescia. “maybe it was the deaths of dino or castellotti that made him more sensible to the whole issue of dying,” says dal monte. “he expressed doubts the night before the race—that what he’s doing is actually bringing death to people.” those words where haunting given the faith of alfonso de portago who thundering down the road at 155 miles per hour, when something punctured the left front tire of the ferrari which killed him and 9 spectators during the crash

the 24. edizione mille miglia (italian for “one thousand miles”) was an auto race held on a course totalling 992.332 miles (1,597.004 km), made up entirely of public roads around italy, mostly on the outer parts of the country on 11–12 may 1957. the route was based on a round trip between brescia and rome, with start/finish in brescia.

as in previous years, the event was a race against the clock, as the cars were released at one-minute intervals. in the mille miglia, the smaller displacement, slower cars started first. each car number related to their allocated start time. for example, wolfgang von trips’s car had the number 532, he left brescia at 5:32am, while the first cars had started late in the evening on the previous day. some drivers went with navigators, others didn’t; a number of local italian drivers had knowledge of the routes being used and felt confident enough that they wouldn’t need one.

this race was won by scuderia ferrari driver piero taruffi without the aid of a navigator. he completed the 992-mile distance in 10 hours, 27 minutes and 47 seconds- an average speed of 94.841 mph (152.632 km/h). the italian finished 3 minutes in front of his second-placed team-mate, the german driver, von trips. olivier gendebien and jacques washer were next, ensuring scuderia ferrari finished 1-2-3. by uh

its a plane? no, its a plate? no it’s purple magazine…

you! yes you! purple magazine launch party at silencio club – 303 west 57th street

olivier zahn and stylist masha orlov

the incredible waris ahluwalia and friend

boni reiffers and friend

tyler mazaheri and alexander droth

a little older, a lot less sexier, but definitely still happening – purple magazine launch party for issue number 41 “the essence of fashion” during new york fashion week. by ac

ivan smagghe : lot radio stage at making time

franco ivan smagghe full set = solid….

steady agit-bot all the way through. this aint no death-disco. press play and get some shit done… recording from lot radios booth at making time” festival, fort mifflin, philadelphia… about lot radio new yorks finest : lot radio is an independent, non-profit, online radio-station live-streaming 24/7 from a reclaimed shipping container on an empty lot in new york. “we got a great deal on the rent”. by nk

he was a construct : an interesting take on who jeffrey epstein really was

jeffrey epstein “math teacher”

leslie wexner billionaire businessman ceo of victorias secret and epsteins only client

eli cohen – syrian mossad agent

jeffrey epstein “financier” – donald trump, evanka trump, jeffrey epstein, ghislaine maxwell – epstein most likely had dirt on donald trump

robert maxwell and her daughter ghislaine

robert maxwell (ghislaine maxwell’s father) henry kissinger

eric weinstein reveals the terrifying story of meeting jeffrey epstein

interesting take on who the “disgraced financier” jeffrey epstein really was. a financier who worked with no one (but wexler) and had no trace of investment documents. he was a supposed billionaire who’s wealth vanished after his mysterious death, very much like robert maxwell (ghislaine maxwell’s father) whos wealth disappeared after his mysterious death. he mingled with royalty and elite and documented dirt (honey traps) on each to use as collateral but for what?

eric weinstein (not related to harvery weistein) received his phd in mathematical physics from harvard university in 1992 under the supervision of raoul bott. weinstein left academia after stints at the massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) and the hebrew university of jerusalem. weinstein was invited to a colloquium by mathematician marcus du sautoy at oxford university’s clarendon laboratory in may 2013. you can listen to the full interview here. by xy

Jim Marshall exhibit and new book : photographs of the Peace Movement in the 1960s

peace: photographs by jim marshall

“the peace symbol as we know it today was designed in 1958 by gerald holto”

haight street san francisco 1967 (© jim marshall photography)

a new exhibit with previously unseen photographs by jim marshall at the san francisco art exchange (SFAE).

almost 60 years after the creation of the CND peace symbol, marshall’s body of “peace” photographs is a “beautiful and thoughtful reflection from one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century,”

no on the travel ban oakland 1965

the exhibit is in celebration of the release of marshall’s new book jim marshall: peace, released by reel art press, according to a press release. the forward is written by street artist shepard fairey, the book’s text is written by peter doggett… and joan baez, provides the book’s afterword

peace walk for nuclear disarmament golden gate park 1962

free speech rally telegraph ave. berkeley 1968

marshall was one of the most recognized photographs in the history of music. he also explored the changing times of the 1960s, photographing the creativity and celebrity. he started documenting the CND peace symbol and peace rallies as a personal project, reel art press writes. the photographs had remained in his archives until now. the photographs were taken between 1961 and 1968 across america.

new york city photographed at newport folk festival in 1963

jim marshall 1936-2010

the CND peace symbol was designed in 1958 by gerald holtom for the british campaign for nuclear disarmament, reports reel art press. the symbol then spread from the uk to the us. marshall’s photographs document the symbol’s different meanings over time, starting as a symbol for “ban the bomb”-specific protests, and ending up as an international sign for peace. by xy

peace now: some words of wisdom from charles mingus

charles mingus at a peace rally circa 1967

charles mingus – don’t let it happen here

“…one day they came and they took the communists, and i said nothing because i was not a communist.

then one day they came and they took the people of the Jewish faith, and i said nothing because i had no faith.

then one day they came and took the unionists, and i said nothing because i was not a unionist.

they burned the Catholic churches one day, and i said nothing because i was a protestant.

one day they came and they took me, and i could say nothing because i was as guilty as they were of genocide, destroying the rights of any man to live…”

some great words by charles mingus, genuine people should follow them regardless of the parties – follow them when they effects the jews and follow them when they effects the palestinians. cease fire now, free the hostages, stop the illegal settlements, demand a just peace, there is no humane alternative – by xy

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s most beguiling photographs

hiroshi sugimoto – oscar wilde

curator ralph rugoff talks us through five of hiroshi sugimoto’s photos, revealing his fixation with humanity’s precarious place in history

“my camera is like a time machine” confessed hiroshi sugimoto, the japanese photographer, who, since the 1970s, has been radically rethinking and expanding the medium. known for creating large-format, black-and-white images, sugimoto’s works appear to freeze time as a means to investigate humanity in a deeper, metaphysical sense. in his own words, his work is an attempt to capture “the essence of time itself”.

for the first time in britain, a major survey of the renowned tokyo-born photographer is open at london’s hayward gallery. aptly titled time machine, the retrospective assembles key works from his 50-year practice, revealing his fixation with humanity’s precarious place in history. beguiling and uncanny, his shots veer towards abstraction; simultaneously attracting and confounding the viewer. they invite us to contemplate representations of reality, or something more transcendental – beyond our cognitive faculties.

in conversation with another, curator ralph rugoff argues that sugimoto “uses the camera as a tool for thinking”. below, he spotlights five key works from the artist’s five-decade career.

hiroshi sugimoto – polar bear, 1976

“works such as polar bear convince many people that sugimoto is a wildlife photographer. but the polar bear in this photograph is not a real one. it’s a piece of stuffed, taxidermy in a display at new york’s american museum of natural history which he visited in 1974. this is an example of sugimoto’s diorama pictures, which draw from the early history of photography – when 19th-century figures such as louis daguerre used staged, fake backdrops in their photography studios. cultural theorists such as walter benjamin would then describe the diorama as an early precursor of photography. sugimoto is thinking about how dioramas were historically used to deceive the viewer. he wants to make the polar bear appear alive again, allowing the fake subject to appear completely real after being processed by the camera. nevertheless, death hangs over this image. in that sense, his diorama works are all like memorials.”

 

hiroshi sugimoto – goshen, indiana, 1980

“one night, sugimoto was working late in the museum taking these diorama pictures. then the lyrics of a song came into his head, the line: ‘let the light shine on you’. he had a vision of filming in a movie theatre. sugimoto asked himself: what would it look like if i left my camera open for the whole movie? he imagined it would create this intense, glowing light. it’s almost as if the screen has sucked everybody out of the theatre into this kind of white void. sugimoto was thinking about movie theatres as secular spaces in which people look for a certain kind of collective emotional or transcendental experience. the movie theatre represents the sublime. and in this time, the empty movie theatre – devoid of people – paradoxically represents a void, which nevertheless feels very present.”

 

hiroshi sugimoto is represented by the marian goodman gallery

hiroshi sugimoto – lake superior, cascade river, 1995

“lake superior, cascade river is part of a series sugimoto started in the 1990s. i chose this photograph because it so obviously relates to painting, and in some ways, you could argue sugimoto creates work more like an abstract painter than a photographer. this could be a rothko. in reality, it’s an example of his seascapes, which he began in the 1980s. by the time he took this shot, he had probably photographed over 200 seas around the world. he took this photograph just before the sun rose, so you see the light from the sun that’s coming up; it’s going directly in the clouds, over the water, and then the water is reflecting that white light above it. i reference rothko because he was a big influence on sugimoto. rothko was a painter conveying rather than illustrating emotional states. that’s something that sugimoto has spoken about in relation to his work; he’s trying to project his own thoughts and feelings onto his photographs, rather than document things that already exist in the world. in that sense, even though we know him as a photographer, his work stands outside of photography. his work isn’t about documenting the world.” excerpts from an article in “another magazine”. by ac

 

elektron digitakt : effect box and sampler

elektron digitakt 8-voice drum computer and sampler – approx $800

this video picks the roland as the winner – but hey it’s a free market out there

oh the digitakt 8 – this was always on my list, despite newer, cheaper, and better units like the roland SP404 have come to challenge it. im putting this here so we don’t forget what to get next christmas. by bh