Kris Rowland

30, A Live Artist With interests in Film, Music, Philosophy, Activism, Gender Politics, Patrick Wolf and Carnal pleasure. This is a little blog of inspiration, ideas and cultural wonderings.

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Stormzy - being an icon at the Brits 2023

Yo I think I got my smile back The last time I linked depression was a while back Me and loneliness kick it from time to time She knows the deal, that I ain't hers and she ain't mine Me and Joy got tighter, that was overdue Paranoia doesn't shout me, but I know the truth That nigga doesn't feel me since I quit the weed I shout my nigga Purpose, that's my realest G I told Love we should build a home I told Self-Doubt, you better watch your tone Stop shoutin' down my line, like you gon' do shit You was my old friend, but now we on some new shit Me and suicidal thoughts, we haven't spoke for years You know all my deepest secrets, you know all my fears I pray that I don't ever see your face again Now me and peace of mind became the best of friends

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The Love Eterne (1962)

The story about the life of the students at a university in Hangchow. Chu Ying-Tai is a female who has to be disguised as a man in order to gain entry into the school.

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Duniya Mein Hum Aaye Hain , Mother India (1957)

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.

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Pyaasa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJK45r-j6TU Pyaasa (1957) Starring : Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Tun Tun. Producer: Guru Dutt, Director: Guru Dutt

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Genius: You know something? I love him too.

Danny McGuire: Yeah?

Genius: You know why?

Danny McGuire: Why?

Genius: Because he's dumber than me.

Danny McGuire: Dumber than I.

Genius: Okay. Then he's dumber than the both of us.

[Danny winces]

Cover girl (1944) film

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𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓦𝓮𝓮𝓹 is an infinitely performed text that examines the relationship between interiority and exteriority in an era where our practice of consuming and producing online relentlessly influences our sense of self. It features excerpts from articles, books, essays, personal journals over a span of 10+ years, as well as text fragments (I call them "internet trash") observed and collected throughout my time spent scrolling. The work layers these snippets to mimic our habit of overwriting our identities on screen again and again and again.

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Maya Man is a New York City based artist, programmer, and dancer.

Secrets From a Girl presents a collection of Maya Man’s generative, browser based work focusing on identity, femininity, and the internet.

The exhibition highlights social media’s role in encouraging the curation and cultivation of an aspirational self. Working primarily with custom software, Man comments on internet culture by algorithmically remixing and collaging it into her own websites as art objects.

The pieces FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT and 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓦𝓮𝓮𝓹 both appropriate text fragments found on social media, directing viewers’ attention toward the circulation of language within online platforms. Other works insert the image of the artist herself, always augmented or manipulated by digital filters and tools.

Transforming the gallery into a space reminiscent of her old bedroom, Man employs DIY aesthetics to develop an aura of intimacy and vulnerability. The bedroom acts as a “backstage” to where reality is performed. There, one spends time alone: scrolling, consuming, praying that someone on their small screen can tell them how to “be themselves” the right way.

With Secrets From a Girl, Man holds up a mirror to both ourselves and our social media feeds, revealing the inextricable link between what we believe and what we consume.

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Jubilate Agno (For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey)

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Endless Chat // #2 [draft] is an audio-visual collage exploring queer intimacy in rural spaces.  

declan wiffen is a writer and teacher based in Kent.

declan can be found on all socials @lichencamp

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Josephine Baker’s story of being a bad ass bitch - fucking phenomenal 

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Huh. Maybe being Mormon wouldn’t be so bad..

Photography: Neil Dacosta

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Goebbels, Hitler's propoganda minister, promoted the use of the raised-arm Sieg Heil salute because he had worked out that the forceful exhalation of breath combined with strenuous arm movements caused hyperventilation and exhaustion in the audience, which made them more susceptible to messaging, almost putting them in a trance-like state

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev

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the impressionistic, self obsessed narrator ends up subtly undermined. At the end you realise they have been so caught up in themselves that they don't notice what is going on around them, are losing touch with reality altogether

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev

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Alberto saw them differently, as something more abstract: little throbbing lines and dots, individual words emanating power outside the linear logic of full sentences. From the top of the screen something new emerged: many darting like bat-like shapes. These did not connect with each other; instead they descended separately on the ball, pecking away at it, pulling it apart. 'These' said Alberto ''Are the bots and cyborgs

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev

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Lindy: I'm so tired of you running off at your mouth it's getting me down honey. Why don't you just leave? And be an assassin? Or is the only thing you're good at shooting off is your big mouth?

Duane: Will you please get out of my face you sorry looking faggot.

Lindy: Who you calling sorry looking?

[Everybody laughs]

Duane: Can't ya'll see "she" aint funny?

[laughter stops]

Duane: She's just another poor example of how the system is destroying our men.

Lindy: Honey, I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get.

Car Wash is a 1976 American comedy film released by Universal Pictures. Directed by Michael Schultz from a screenplay by Joel Schumacher, the film stars Franklyn Ajaye, Bill Duke, George Carlin, Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, and Garrett Morris. Originally conceived as a musical, Car Wash is an episodic comedy about a day in the lives of a close-knit, multiracial group of employees at a Los Angeles, California car wash and their boss, Leon "Mr. B" Barrow

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“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.” ― Oscar Wilde, Salome

“Daughter of Sodom, come not near me! But cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes upon thine head, and get thee to the desert and seek out the Son of Man.” ― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

Salome  is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, step-daughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and her death on Herod's orders.  The first production was in Paris in 1896. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931.

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The clip from The Circus (1936) features flammable dancers,incredible rope work,  a real monkey shooting a gun and a cannon ball aerial act.

I guess Stalin got some things right.

Circus (Russian: Цирк; translit. Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film. It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov at the Mosfilm studios. In his own words, it was conceived as "an eccentric comedy...a real side splitter."[1]

Starring the glamorous and immensely popular Lyubov Orlova (Aleksandrov's wife), the first recognized star of Soviet cinema and a gifted singer, the film contains several songs which instantly became Soviet classics. The most famous is the "Song of the Motherland" (Широка страна моя родная). Full film : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAN0A6OWE4