Posts tagged with ‘Audio and Film’
A scene from Monty Python’s The Flying Circus poking a bit of fun at Oscar Wilde, the playwright George Bernard Shaw, and artist James McNeill Whistler.
Elbert Hubbard was a true American original: proponent and disseminator of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the U.S., a printer, publisher, artist, salesman, socialist, lecturer, and self-proclaimed philosopher. Hubbard started the Roycrofters in 1894, an artisan community in East Aurora, New York. His contoversial (and often paradoxical) opinions garnered much criticism and scandal throughout his life. PBS released a documentary in 2009 entitled Elbert Hubbard: An American Original
“Alice Wonderland”, 1903, directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow. (9 mins)
Music: ‘Till The End’ © Glenn Maltman. Images: a tribute to various artists in homage to the books ‘Dreamers of Decadence’ & ‘The Symbolists’ by Philippe Jullian. (via: Andy Paciorek).
A twenty second clip of two cats boxing filmed by Thomas Edison in 1894.
(via: tuesday-johnson)
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This is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Walt Whitman’s voice reading four lines from the poem “America.” It is estimated that this recording was made in 1889 or 1890. (via: whitmanarchive.org)
Reynaud: Autour d’une cabine (1895).
This is an early animated cartoon!
“Reynaud devised an elaborate variation of the Magic Lantern projector with the background on a static glass slide, and the moving figures painted on gelatin, mounted in individual casings arranged on a sprocketed belt much like the perforations of film. The belt was hand cranked and this large-scale slide show was projected to audiences from behind a translucent screen.” (via).
Erik Satie (May 17, 1866 - 1925) was a French composer who ranks among the oddest figures in late 19th C./early 20th C. music. He preferred to be called ‘gymnopedist’ or ‘phonometrograph’ rather than ‘composer’, and his pieces - often bagatelles for piano with whimsical titles - have a hypnotic and addictive effect on the listener. They sound simple but are actually hard to perform properly (not as pretty little ditties, but as complex and minute variations on a minimalist theme - Vexations for instance calls for 840 repetitions). Sequences such Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes foreshadow later ambient music, as do the later pieces that Satie himself dubbed ‘furniture music’…
Photo of Satie, dated 1911.
(via: turnofthecentury: i12bent)
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