Crowds outside the Lafayette Theater in Harlem, waiting for a performance by Johnny Hudgins and the Cotton Club Band, 1920s.
Photo: E. Elcha Collection/GettyImages/seeoldnyc.com
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Crowds outside the Lafayette Theater in Harlem, waiting for a performance by Johnny Hudgins and the Cotton Club Band, 1920s.
Photo: E. Elcha Collection/GettyImages/seeoldnyc.com
Like most folks in certain parts of the country, we're getting excited for next Monday's total Solar Eclipse! Certain parts of our state will be among the best places to view it.
To commemorate this once-in-a-lifetime event for our fellow Kentuckians, we've created this *very* limited edition screen print. Prints are available through our etsy shop and we will have them with us at this weekend’s Woodland Art Fair.
Total Solar Eclipse 2017 in Kentucky
Poster Details: 3-color screenprint 16″ x 20″ Edition of 50
🏳️🌈I enjoyed my first pride🏳️🌈
Gay by Birth Pride by Choice
Sangre de pista
No es que yo imagine que Robert Bresson viese nunca, ni siquiera en su juventud —por entonces tendría 18 años y ni pensaba en hacer cine—, aunque tampoco sería imposible, esta muy poco conocida y nada apreciada película de John Ford, pero cuando se contempla después de 1966 no hay remedio: uno se asombra de su curioso parecido con algo tan peculiar y aparentemente único como Au hasard Balthazar (1966), aunque también haya, por supuesto, notables diferencias. Para empezar, el más celebrado y pesimista film de Bresson —que para mí está lejos de ser uno de sus máximos logros— carece por completo del sentido del humor que abunda, por el contrario, en el de Ford, y se centra en un burro en lugar de elegir como punto de vista el de una yegua, y Kentucky Pride —lejos de ser un gran film sonoro— es completamente silente y ajeno a toda alusión o pretensión tanto mística como metafísica, metafórica o moralizante.
Tampoco es el de Ford un caballo parlante como varios posteriores del cine soviético ni como la aún muy futura mula Francis arduamente cultivada por Arthur Lubin en Hollywood, pero sirve una mirada irónica —desde los rótulos que trascriben sus pensamientos gestos, no por mudos menos elocuentes— sobre los seres humanos que son sus propietarios, jinetes, amigos, ya que es la yegua la encargada de narrar todo lo que cuenta la película, que es, por ello, sumamente original, tan dramática como divertida, sin duda un encargo un poco loco —no siendo Ford un gran aficionado a las carreras de caballos—, que probablemente aceptó con cierto ánimo experimentador, y que le salió tan bien que, por supuesto sin pretender Ford hacer nada extraordinario, para mí es la primera cronológicamente —es decir, la más antigua— de sus más grandes obras maestras, la mejor de las mudas que conozco (que son las que sobreviven) y tristemente una de las menos vistas, comentadas y valoradas, hasta tal punto que ni siquiera Janey A. Place, que dedicó a la filmografía fordiana dos tomos muy notables, y única exégeta que ha abordado con la atención que merecen sus numerosas e importantes incursiones en el género “Americana”, le dedica a Kentucky Pride el capítulo que le correspondería en su muy valioso (y más original que otros textos más populares o respetados) “The Non-Western Films of John Ford”. Conviene ir revisando ya el “canon” fordiano. Hay muchas de sus máximas cumbres que aún pasan por ser fallidas o menores, mientras que la pereza mantiene otras que lo merecen mucho menos.
Miguel Marías
Libro “El universo de John Ford”, editorial Notorious (2017)
Escaneo: @AitorL_
Adventures W/Spokhette #26: Covington Pride
Hi Gang!
June is Pride Month! Although, I try to celebrate LGBTQA's, everyday including myself, I have actually never attended a pride parade. I knew I was going to be stuck working during the Cincinnati Pride, so I decided to hop over the river and visit Covington's. Originally, I thought I would just hop into the parade but once I got there and saw all the people that I didn't know, I decided that I would just get some great shots!
I filmed the entire thing, including me getting lost and then just happening upon the front of the parade, but I'll just put pictures in this post, and I'll upload the video to youtube later. I've already got a video set up for this week, so it might be next week.
Here are a couple of my favorite shots. I'll be posting more of them on the photography blog and in my portfolio so make sure you check it out!!
Have you ever been to pride?! Give me your tips on Twitter!
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Beautiful Blank Slates
I saw this post on Michelle Visage’s Twitter feed as I was heading out the door to go grocery shopping this evening.
I do not know this young man, but I wept for him as I drove to the store.
As the mother of a gay young man, I hurt to see things like this. How can this brave young man be disowned in an instant?
Aren’t we supposed to be able to tell our parents anything?!
This one moment in time will change every part of his life from this point forward. Sure, he will go on to do great things, but that will forever be a memory that haunts him.
As parents, we are promised nothing more than a blank slate when we decide to bring a child into this world.
Not a straight slate.
Not a blonde-haired, blue-eyed slate.
Some of those blank slates will grow tall, some will be athletic, some will be born with disabilities, and yes, some will be gay.
We can’t choose what we get, but we can choose to fill the slate we get with love.
I wish I had a magic eraser that could erase what that parent just wrote on that young man’s slate.
Since I don’t, I will just choose to be even more aware of the one’s around me who might need a little extra love today.