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Gallery of Impressive Works, Technology & Curiosities
Terry Gilliam’s Do It Yourself Animation Show
This is a link to my other tumblr dedicated to my own audio/video project called, A Legion of Pigs. Please click on the picture and follow us! Cheers!
Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I’m deaf with it. Love is that dirty aborting horror that you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It’s half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like lysol. To hell with love. Love is making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to anymore. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I’m through with you and I’m through with love. Your kind of pick-nose love.
- Ernest Hemingway ( To Have and Have Not, 1937)
Pensione Ichino (1997) by Jerome Witkin
oil on canvas, 3 panels 57x120 inches
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/jerome-witkin-painting-hi_b_789528.html
Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.
Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger. The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
Joe/Narcissus (Jack Bittner) is an ordinary man who has recently signed a complicated lease on a room. As he wonders how to pay the rent, he discovers that he can see the contents of his mind unfolding whilst looking into his eyes in the mirror. He realises that he can apply his gift to others (“If you can look inside yourself, you can look inside anyone!”), and sets up a business in his room, selling tailor-made dreams to a variety of frustrated and neurotic clients. Each of the seven surreal dream sequences in the diegesis is in fact the creation of a contemporary avant-garde and/or surrealist artist, as follows:
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The video above can be enlarged to full screen, just click on the Google Video drop-down box. Also, here is another version in better quality but the audio is not the original. It has been updated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=303G8-8dVWg
Let’s all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat.
Louise Brooks with flintlocks (1928)
A 20-minute video on the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969 by The Winston’s. This sample was used extensively in early hip-hop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
