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Author Archives: Jeff Kinkle
Harry Clarke’s Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations
November 25, 2009 – 1:04 pm
Taken from A Journey Round My Skull where many more images can be found, via but does it float.
Man at the Crossroads and Man, Controller of the Universe
November 21, 2009 – 4:14 pm
The cover of Fredric Jameson’s latest, The Valences of the Dialectic, made me realize I don’t think I had ever seen an image of Diego Rivera’s infamous Rockefeller Center mural, destroyed before ever being unveiled in 1934 for its inclusion of Lenin. An image of the original mural is above (top), with a recreation he [...]
Yayoi Kusama – Flowers That Bloom at Midnight
November 19, 2009 – 4:44 am
Yayoi Kusama’s new sculptural ensemble Flowers That Bloom at Midnight (2009) will be installed in the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami from Dec. 5th – May 30th 2010. Rendering by Spine 3D, Artworks courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.
Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1962)
November 17, 2009 – 7:50 pm
The House is Black is the only film made by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This short documentary about a leper colony has been called “the greatest of all Iranian films” by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Taken from UbuWeb.
Blackout in Brazil
November 11, 2009 – 5:51 pm
Images from yesterday’s blackout in Brazil taken from the slideshow at UOL Notícias, who also posted a video that captures the blackout from above. Thanks Hugo Timm.
Mark Powell’s Meat Orchestra
November 11, 2009 – 4:52 am
Mark Powell is an artist based in Melbourne. These images are of his Dream Diorama 2 – Meat Orchestra and are taken from his Flickr page.
Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1935
November 9, 2009 – 7:02 am
The outstanding “Lullaby of Broadway” performance, mass ornament, montage from Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1935.
Drumming in the Wilderness
November 6, 2009 – 10:54 am
From 1990: The Bronx Warriors (Castellari, 1982)
From Week End (Godard, 1967)
