I came across this wonderful clip from BBC’s Life on Earth from 1979, featuring a young David Attenborough, while searching for samples of Edward Williams music for the program, which has recently been released for the first time by Trunk Records.
Author Archives: Jeff Kinkle
Wang Bing’s Crude Oil at Light Industry
November 4, 2009 – 10:32 am
From today until Sunday, Light Industry in Sunset Park will be showing Wang Bing’s Crude Oil – a 14-hour long film installation tracking a 14-hour workday of crude-oil extraction in northwest China – in its entirety. It will be on view from 9am until 11pm each day. Tonight at 7:30 Lucy Raven and the Center [...]
Halloween at the White House
November 3, 2009 – 10:38 am
Click image for larger version. Found at Dazed.
Stick Figure Theatre
November 3, 2009 – 7:48 am
From MTV’s Liquid Television from the early nineties. Thanks Tom Bunyard. Click “Read More” for more.
Seahorses
November 2, 2009 – 8:04 am
A fascinating article on the sex lives of seahorses in The Guardian today. Above is Jean Painlevé’s brilliant The Seahorse (1934). In this version Painlevé’s enthusiastic scientific-poetic narration is replaced with a soundtrack by Current 93. I prefer the original but still worth watching.
Hari Kunzru on Michael Haneke
November 1, 2009 – 7:22 am
There was an excellent article in Saturday’s Guardian on the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s oeuvre – Cache, Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, etc. – by writer Hari Kunzru. Haneke’s next film, The White Ribbon, opens in London on November 13th, where the BFI is also showing all of Haneke’s films between the 5th and 30th.
What’s in the basket?
October 30, 2009 – 11:20 am
Halloween costume idea. From Frank Henenlotter‘s Basket Case (1982).
Headlines and Hypocrisy
October 29, 2009 – 7:58 pm
An excellent, illustrative post at The Enemies of Reason cataloging the English tabloids’ reactions to the appearance of the BNP‘s Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time. A glance at some of their front pages from the past few years leads one to think their outrage is contrived, to put it mildly. What seems certain [...]
