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tie' ller

When I took this pic I had in mind the one that Teller took of Obrist. It was for some interview in some french magazine.It was better than mine

I was looking looking up the net in search of one of the last Marc Jacobs campaigns.It' s some girl in front of a bench or something similar and i guess it's for me the best campaign shooted by Teller. Off course together with the pics of Eggleston+Rampling. Instead i found this one wich reminds me of a pic he took of Hans Ulrich Obrist. Off course i cant find it either.
Teller+Jacobs,one of the best things happened to the fashion world.
I personally think they aim to redefine the position of the star in the viewer eyes. They don't need to change the way we look at them in the big screen. Cinema and reality.
They need to turn upside down some other "reality",the one offered by tv. Nobody says that we need to spend hours in front of it to be,to say the least,influenced. For instance, it s enough to see the news and to react to the editing of the images of a concert,.Teller,following the canons of certain photography(and here i have to ask God to please bless america),thus a certain vision of the world,produces analogies.index and not icon.

papa's got a brand new bag

I'd like to clarify certain aspects of my short posts on jazz.
First of all I'm discovering new things everyday,i'm reading about different opinions and approaches to the issue.I'm still "shaping"(can i say that?) my idea
Second,what I'm trying to do is to find out whether or not jazz is a black experience(sure it is),how it develops and what kind of relation the protagonists of the "new thing" era established with their roots back to africa and with their current situation in the Usa back to the '60s. I'm trying to find out whether and how we shouldnt reduce the topic to an europocentric approach as many critics seem to have done in the past. It s not a matter of "purity" of a culture,a concept wich seems to me pretty dated. The few books i read on the subject convinced me to see a culture "as a process more than a result". Cultures tath don't change die. experiences that don't cross other experiences are up to be forgotten. It's just a way to position different experiences and to give them the real importance.

In 1960 and '61...when I first started playing,I had a thing that was free,you know? But when he started playing,I had to listen just to his tone,you undersatnd? to listen to him play was just like he was talking to me,saying,'Brother,get yourself together spiritually". Just one sound-that's how profound this man was.
ALBERT AYLER ON JOHN COLTRANE

MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

"L'avventura"is my favourite movie by Antonioni,the search for Anna stands for the crysis of the centrality of western man(and woman),thus of western society. Outside the city the man is inoffensive.
The camera denies the role of the man as the subject. "The hills have eyes" and the multiple visions stand for the loss of a clear one. Sandro Bernardi,describing the camera motion,talked about of "subjective with no subject".
I watched it many times and every time i liked it more

math sucks

http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2007/07_Luglio/31/fioroni_esami_riparazione.shtml
ho finito un liceo scientifico senza aver mai studiato matematica.Grazie al sistema di crediti e debiti mi rifiutavo di copiare,chi mi avrebbe mai convinto a passare due ore di stress con la paura di tirare fuori bigliettini,chiedere suggerimenti?Tanto sarei stato promosso in ogni caso.Consegnavo il foglio bianco e leggevo la gazza rosea.
Trovo tutto questo indegno e sono quindi d'accordo con la reintroduzione degli esami di reparazione o comunque una riflessione sull'argomento.

l image et l impur

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.alexandreleupin.com/publications/images/clip_image002_007.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.alexandreleupin.com/publications/imageimpur.html&h=228&w=288&sz=40&hl=fr&start=0&um=1&tbnid=CEjNOsll7rfhoM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlorenzo%2Blotto%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dfr%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN
« Dieu, à en reprendre de la force, finirait-il par ex-sister,
ça ne présage rien de meilleur
qu’un retour de son passé funeste. »
Jacques Lacan, Télévision

« Nous aimons la mort davantage que les Occidentaux aiment la vie. »
Oussama Ben Laden

j ai ne pas encore lu,mais je pense ça pourrait etre interessant

INGMAR BERGMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Obit-Bergman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Il mio film preferito è "Persona",in cui a mio parere il dramma della protagonista ricorda il dramma di un personaggio della letteratura italiana,Marta,"l'esclusa" del romanzo pirandelliano.
Spero che la memoria non mi tradisca,guardai il film parecchi anni fa,ma ricordo mi colpi' che lei non voleva,non amava suo figlio e questo non poteva essere.

Yo y la daisy

mi amiga mexicana decidio de volver a su casa en los angeles y de deharme como un perrito abandonado por una calle de guadalajara. porque daisy,porque lo hiciste?si un dias en mi vida voy a tener bastante plata,prometro en el nombre de toda mi familia unida,de buscarte.no se donde,no se cuando
WWW.LADAISY.COM

oh,coney

http://www.scribd.com/doc/202962/Delirious-New-York
The beach itself became a refuge for the hopeless victims from the city,people that with the few coins left bought a one-way ticket to Coney,they get together and wait for the end...

jazz is black? i want my baby back vol.1

Bebop made the rhytmic pulse more subtle by doing awy with the steady beat from the bass drum and the pianist's left hand and it widened harmonic horizons through use of upper intervals of a chord.. Both these developments gace the soloist new freedom(that's was the all point,ndr)...during thelate '50's ,the dense("three on one") harmonic matrix he favored and the tremendously rapid speeds of execution needed to refer to all the chords threatened to smoother any ordinary soloist beaneath their combined weight...Coltrane's use of ostinatos and "Giant steps" chords and patterns merely imposed a different,but ultimately no less inhospitable group of restrictions....In that respect bebop was no different from its predecessors:...further artistic progress was possible only by demolishing the dominant paradigm.KOFSKY-JOHN COLTRANE AND THE JAZZ REVOLUTION OF THE '60
As much as Cezanne(my reference to panting means a lot in regard to black culture,white art,black music,white cultureetc etc),arguably one of the most(if not the most)revolutionary painter ever, thought that he needed to find a new way to represent classicism, Coltrane was far too willing to do away with the western tradition. There s a research of something that doesn't belong to us

style

I was thinkin' of something that happened to me a while ago. I was out with some friends and i bumped into my ex neighbour. I was nice to him, unfortunately I was wearing a hat,kind of Pete Doherty style. He looked at me and told me "Could you imagine if Pasolini had seen you,what would have he told you?"

NYSEEPHOTOGRAPHY

ah,los gringos un otra vez

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8OLvEJ3kP1s

PING PONG

Pont Marie(4eme),c'est ici que je joue au ping pong presque tous le jours.contactez moi si vous voudriez faire un match

cowboys again

I watched "Drugstore cowboy" by Gus Van Sant. I liked it a lot,i definitely consider it to the best movie by him. Amazing photography,very good actors,Borroughs that (almost) plays Borroughs
Still i kind of felt something was missing. i' m never completely satisified by the way he depicts characters,thus the human being and his actions. It's their role in the movie.
Narrative is far too important in a cinema where,as Korinne and Soderbergh,from Mekas to Gallo, pure images,poetry is what really counts. The story is already there

art against the machine

Intorno al 1667 Perrault e colleghi elaborano un progetto per la nuova facciata del Louvre,facciata che verra' terminata sette anni dopo. Lo "stile reale" determino' il superamento del barocco italiano,nonche' l'affermazione del classicismo francese. Questo fu ancheuno degli ultimi lavori di Perrault e il barocco trionfo' di nuovo a Versailles.(Dif)facile capire che Luigi XIV non ne era rimasto soddisfatto.