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
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
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
the last race : 1957 mille miglia
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
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
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
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 “news mogul” (foreign spy) 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
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
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 – 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 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
WWI
sykes-picot-agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the united kingdom and france, with assent from the russian empire and the kingdom of italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the (turkish) ottoman empire.
full documentary : how britain started the arab-israeli conflict
“the bitter struggle between arab and jew for control of the holy land has caused untold suffering in the middle east for generations. it is often claimed that the crisis originated with jewish emigration to palestine and the foundation of the state of israel. yet the roots of the conflict are to be found much earlier – in british double-dealing during the first world war. this is a story of intrigue among rival empires; of misguided strategies; and of how conflicting promises to arab and jew created a legacy of bloodshed which determined the fate of the middle east.” a good watch – one more documentary to better understand the world we live in. by dd
hot wheels digital track – watch out for those sharp turns
o.k. this is hilarious – big-up to all the nerds out there 🙏 stay goofy. by ar
“…i wouldn’t go so far to call the brother fat, i mean hes gotta weight problem, what the niger gots to do? hes samoan…” – that’s a damn shame
“…check out the big brains on brett, you’re a smart mother fucker, that’s right.” – check out the big brains on brett
“…man …i will never forget your ass for this… in fact what the fuck am i doing in the back, you’re the motherfucker who should be on brain detail…” – car scene brain detail
“…now, i want you go in that bag and find my wallet… its the one that says bad-mother-fucker…” – diner scene bad mother fucker
quentin tarantino’s classic pulp fiction — watched this gem on my flight west and remembered all the greatest bits of dialogue that tarantino and samual jackson mouthed off. just brilliant! the film is not a story but rather bits of ingeniously funny dialogue, and i’m not even including the great parts with bruce willis, just great stuff… worth another watch. by uh
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