June 2010
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A Single Man | Tom Ford
Saw this a while back and thought it worth mentioning. Tom Ford really is a genius and here is another reason why…
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Balkan Cinema
Time Of The Gypsies | Emir Kusturica
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Balkan Copper
In case you were wondering:
An archaeological site in southeastern Europe has shown its metal. This ancient settlement contains the oldest securely dated evidence of copper making, from 7,000 years ago, and suggests that copper smelting may been invented in separate parts of Asia and Europe at that time rather than spreading from a single source.
Radiocarbon dates for animal bones...
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Blind Mice Can See
Researchers have restored sight to blind laboratory mice by using gene therapy. The new treatment, published online June 24 in Science, may one day allow some people with retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable genetic eye disease, to read, drive and navigate a room. »»
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Woodbutcher
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Here’s to one of the best, a real-life seer, the kind that gets all of us looking at whole mess a little differently. You got another week to see a his show at the MOMA. Please do yourself a favor. —-
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s...
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TK Webb | True Love
So our good friend TK up...
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Messidor | Alain Tanner
A pair of young lady hitchhikers searching for some freedom drift around the Swiss countryside committing crimes.
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Rossville Boat Graveyard, Staten Island
from www.forgotten-ny.com: One of the eeriest places in the five boroughs, the entire Northeast, or perhaps the entire country, is in the borderland where New York City peters out, leaving New Jersey ahead and the hustle & bustle of the city behind. This is the place where the souls of 17th and 18th century patriots wander in search of someone to clean up their burial ground, and the place...
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Tom Waits | Hold On
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Unknown Passage | The Dead Moon Story
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Meteora Monastery
According to legend, one monastery founder could only reach the mountain peaks on the back of an eagle. As early as the 11th century, the region’s caves sheltered hermitic monks, but by the 14th century the orthodox monks were constructing elaborate stone and terracotta buildings, safe from marauding raiders below. Even in the 18th and 19th century, the monasteries remained secure...
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Dead Moon | DOA » Fred and Toody met...
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Ali Farka Toure
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Anselm Kiefer
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New Mexico
Photographs by Jordan Sullivan and Pamela Love | View More »
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Leonardo Drew
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Christian Boltanski | No Man's Land
This week will be your last chance to see Christian Boltanski’s installation at Armory Park. When else will you get around to recording your heartbeat?
Filling the vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall, No Man’s Land is Christian Boltanski’s most ambitious project in the United States to date. This monumental work explores the signature motifs of the artist’s forty-year career - individuality,...
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Garbage Warrior
Shot over three years in the USA, England, India and New Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature- length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders fron New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics and an inspirational tale of triumph over buereaucracy,...
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The Bloop
The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) several times during 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown. »
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Marina Abramovic
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Andrei Tarkovsky | Polaroids
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The Journal of Albion Moonlight | Kenneth Patchen
Henry Miller on Kenneth Patchen | Man of Anger and Light
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Sam Cooke | Live at Harlem Square, 1963
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Oak Island
The Oak Island Money Pit is the site of the world’s longest running hunt for lost treasure. For hundreds of years, treasure hunters have ventured to Nova Scotia, Canada and tried to recover the treasure which is protected by a series of ingeneous traps. As treasure hunters have attempted to recover the bounty from the Money Pit, cleverly engineered flood tunnels flood the shaft with...
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Cliff House Project
From: “Dan Z” Subject: Cliff house door knob Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 Hello, My name is Dan. When I was younger I lived in SF and climbed down in the rocks below the Cliff House frequently with a friend of mine. We found a lot of things down there. I still have a door knob from one of the Cliff House’s. It is made of glass (I think) inside of the knob is a tea rose with a sprig of fern...
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Bannerman Island
A tiny island in the setting of the Hudson Highlands is called Pollepel, now familiarly known as Bannerman Island. Once an uninhabited place, accessible only by boat, it was considered haunted by some Indian tribes and thus became a refuge for those trying to escape them. These superstitions and others promoted by later Dutch sailors make for many fanciful tales. Even the name Pollepel...
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Wallace Stegner | The Berry Patch
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov
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The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry
Chapter 1
Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November. The night before Sonny had played his last game of football for Thalia High School, but it wasn’t...
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Jackson’s eleven years old taking music...
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Trudell
John Trudell is an acclaimed poet, national recording artist, actor and activist whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indian of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island from...
