Phoenixes & Threads

There is a folder in my inbox called "Listen-Watch Later" which has messages going back to 2014. I am up late this year, listening and watching, and putting some of these links here, little phoenixes reborn from the ashes of their deletion in my inbox.

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New Order - Temptation (Remastered 2017) [12" Version]

If you were a fan of danceonfilm in old Twitter days you will enjoy these 7 mins of Fred Astaire dancing to New Order ... with Rita Hayworth?

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Chernobyl Disaster from Ravcan

Something to listen to on Chernobyl Remembrance Day

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Feels like a John Luther Adams kind of day.

Audio & playlist from November 4, 2022

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This video is about the Czechoslovak pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, winner of "Best Pavilion" at Expo 58. The speaker begins by introducing the history of Belgium, highlighting its industrial prowess and mentioning its role in World Wars. The 1958 Brussels World Fair is then introduced as a momentous occasion showcasing the achievements of various countries.

After a tour of the whole fair, the film tours the Czechoslovak pavilion -- the beautiful displays of Czechoslovakia's industry, technology, and art. The Laterna Magika, a famous theatrical performance using innovative lighting techniques, is pictured. The video concludes with the closing ceremonies of the World Fair and the return of the filmmaking crew to Czechoslovakia.

The video is in Czech. Have you tried "Autotranslate" with the closed captioning? Check it out. We do live in the future.

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Habib Jalib from the Progressive Writer's Movement in Lahore,

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LABORATORIO MENDIA Proyecto Parásito Benigno Polilla Corazón

A study of a fascinating insect.

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Watch "Dr. Cornel West with Ken Sanders Salt Lake City" on YouTube

This is the first time I'm posting a current video: Dr. Cornel West - author, philosopher, theologian, and US Presidential Candidate - speaking in a bookstore in Salt Lake City about love, humanity, American history and culture, and his presidential campaign. I highly recommend for anyone who is feeling depressed or disheartened by the spectacle of an inevitable Biden-Trump match-up.

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stones make birds make stones 

Absurd texts by Kite and ChatGPT. Turn on “Transcript” and read along.

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Here is an album to listen to, no watching... I own this record... on CD. I never play it... but when it comes on the radio, like just now, I get so ecstatic!!! You should listen, too. These were new sounds on Earth when they arrived.

[Full Album] M̲y b̲l̲ood̲y v̲a̲lenti̲ne - l̲o̲vel̲e̲ss

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"From a remote mountain village in Tunisia, Kalt, a female hacker hijacks the airwaves in Northern Africa and France to broadcast political messages. When Julia, a French Intelligence officer, gets on the case, she flies in from France to infiltrate the hacker world and find out who is behind the interruptions. Things quickly turn into a cat-and-mouse game as Kalt and Julia play each other to get what they want."

Full-movie on Youtube, but it does not include English subtitles--only French subtitles for Arabic dialogue. It has been on Amazon Prime Video but is not currently... Available from many university libraries, online and on DVD. Find your library here--> https://www.worldcat.org/formats-editions/66473982

"El Fani’s film proposes a vision of innovative resistance in the ceaseless border crossings of its savvy Tunisian hacker heroine, Kalt, and her merry band of unconventional, stereotype-defying friends. Hacking into French television broadcasts from Tunisian locations, Kalt nonviolently disrupts the established televisual order, enjoining spectators playfully to resist passive consumerism. While it adapts cyber-thriller motifs such as anxiety about the vulnerability of information and technology, Bedwin Hacker paints Kalf s illicit forays into the French airwaves as more akin to pirate radio broadcasts and other tactics of countercultural activism, or jamming." - Suzanne Gauch, "Jamming civilizational discourse: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker" (Screen v 52 n 1, link)

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Angel’s Egg (1985) ‘天使のたまご’ Directed by Mamoru Oshii

A visually stunning and sonically unnerving 80s anime. You know I love my mystical egg girls. I was charmed by this beguiling and mysterious film, which features a hapless girl who collects glass jugs and protects an egg whose content is unknowable. She is a kind of street urchin who roams an ornate, apocalyptic landscape on an inscrutable cosmic mission. The somnambulant hunters hurl their lampoons at the shadows of coelacanth-like fish. (We are all chasing ghosts, aren't we?) The girl meets a boy who has forgotten whence he came. Yet these two amnesiacs are propelled by forces beyond themselves...

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Angel's Egg (1985) English Subtitle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Movie: Angel's Egg (1985). Genres: Fantasy, Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy World, Twisted, New, Thriller, Dark Fantasy. Language: Japanese Subtitl

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Invisible Places 2017 - Hildegard Westerkamp - The Practice of Listening in Unsettled Times

http://invisibleplaces.org/

Hildegard Westerkamp keynote at Invisible Places conference in 2017. (I was looking on the web to see if there was a video of Francisco Lopez at the conference... there is not but there are excellent keynote lectures by Hildegard Westerkamp, Sam Auinger, and Juhani Pallasmaa.) The proceedings of the conference were edited into a book, available as PDF on the website:

From the conference website:

Many studies engaged with acoustic ecology have focused on urban environments, motivated by increasing concerns about the sensory impoverishment related to the dominance of anthropogenic sound associated with traffic and other types of transport, machinery from industry or construction, alarm signals and other sounding activities, which often mask and interfere with our living environment. These anthropogenic sounds have tended to be linked to a lack of environmental quality, as they inhibit the perception of other natural sounds. The sounds of the wind, the water, the voicing of certain animals originating from natural landscapes often contrast with human sounds in urban landscapes. They often share the same physical characteristics as measured by volume, duration, frequency or tone, but are experienced by humans differently. Beauty is in the ear of the beholder, we could say.

Soundscapes are part of any ecosystem and a fundamental manifestation of life. Every individual and species contributes and responds differently to a given sonic context with its own perceptual mechanism and will use diverse communication strategies. Development processes and urbanization have directly influenced the environment, often in negative ways that eliminate or diminish unique sounds, causing loss of social identity and cultural diversity.

Processes that occur in a landscape create patterns of sounds that can be identified. In turn, the entire phenomenon that inhibits or prevents effective acoustic communication can have consequences for the survival of individuals, species and ultimately, entire ecosystems. As our natural soundscapes morph and shrink, threats of extinction increase.

The future of cities is often related to the idea of city as a living environment dependent on and enriched by technology. A city should be seen as a sustainable community, where living organisms coexist and interact with man-made technologies integrated in our everyday life. Landscape therefore reflects the way humans interact with their natural world while organizing space and time. In this sense, landscape ecology should be expanded conceptually and imaginatively to encompass all the possible dimensions of human relations with and within the environment, including its living components.

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars, artists and theoreticians on soundscape art and ecology and encourage them to present new perspectives that will further interdisciplinary research and practice. We still know little about the complex relationships between landscapes and soundscapes or the significance of acoustic ecology for all living organisms including ourselves. Focused study and intentional stewardship of our sound heritage for the holistic evaluation of landscapes is fundamental to the evolution of all species, and will have a great impact on the survival of many. This will be a central topic to be discussed.

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Incredible animation of selfies | Selfies by Claudius Gentinetta | Anima...

Nobody Seems to Like Them Yet Everyone Has Reasons to Take Them.

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Reading a new article today about death and displacement of the Yanomami people of the Amazon

The Massacre of the Amazon Yanomami by Land Invaders

The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian

And remembering Juan Downey's films with the Yanomami, for example "The Laughing Alligator"

Image Union, episode 0204: Yanomami - Media Burn Archive

Image Union episode featuring "The Laughing Alligator" by Juan Downey. Color video. A video art piece examining Downey's experience living w

The Laughing Alligator by Juan Downey is a video art piece examining Downey’s experience living with the Yanomami people of the Amazon Rainforest. Juan Downey (May 11, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was a Chilean artist who was a pioneer in the fields of video art and interactive art.

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Blessed Buddhapurnima. Sharing the words of American saints. This video is from the Brockport Writers Forum 1972. The Writers Forum is still going strong at SUNY Brockport.

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“Skeleton Frolics”

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Once upon a time, this was television.