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Post by mirages on Feb 24, 2015 17:32:21 GMT -5
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Post by mirages on Feb 23, 2015 19:39:41 GMT -5
I have just finished watching The Birdman. You two are poets and I would love to hear your insights on the film and its self-reflexivity. Have you seen it? Nice to see you, mszue! I haven't seen The Birdman yet, either, but intend to ... will post my thoughts, too, and hope to hear yours! toramenor, that man is a marvel. I can't wait to see "Five Dances" -- haven't yet had time to sit down with it. I love how dance can communicate so much without words ... mszue mentions poetry, and what I've always found interesting is how such a verbal medium requires me first o f all to abandon my usual defenses and deep attachment to words and dip down into this deeper well of wordlessness. And then you surface and try to arrange words around the edges of what you encountered there. More paradox!
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Post by mirages on Feb 22, 2015 17:33:53 GMT -5
Actually, Ryan Steele, the dancer from the movie, reminds me of Nureyev somewhat in his effortlessness of technique. If you like him, you might want to check out this video as well - it's not the best camerawork, but the dancing is flawless: (that moment at around 3.13 (the jump out of nowhere) is so unexpected and absolutely incredible... and shows how important stillness is to the artform, just as much as movement is - both are essential to get the desired effect) Wonderful, thank you! And from the sublime to the ridiculous ...
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Post by mirages on Feb 22, 2015 1:58:57 GMT -5
toramenor, thank you so much for the link tot he HuffPost article -- enjoyed the thoughts on creative process and what the struggle is or may be in the creative process. I enjoyed the Carol King video and LOVED the trailer for "Five Dances" -- the emotional vocabulary these dancers can express physically is stunning. I found a few more clips on Youtube and just now discovered the whole film on Netflix -- can't wait to watch it! In a bit of synchronicity, the brief clip of the principal dancer cradling a collection of Christmas lights reminded me strongly of a short clip from one of Rudolf Nureyev's performances in the biography I watched recently ... the beauty and light, fragility, love and fear of loss conveyed wordlessly in both was so similar. Here's the Nureyev video, and the segment I'm referencing starts a little after 9:15: I had another bit of synchronicity pounce on me last night, too -- a friend invited me to a lecture by the C.F. Jung Society on Adam and Eve, what the male and female principles have to give each other and the world. In this conception, Adam is seen as spirit and Eve soul/instinct. The speaker was using an alchemical formula as a corrlary of the psychoanalytic process: First comes the One. The One Becomes Two. Two Become Three, and out of the Three comes the One.
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Post by mirages on Feb 21, 2015 15:10:01 GMT -5
lol, it's ok - at least I got a tiny insight into Yoko Ono's mind... I honestly had no idea about her as an artist... About that article, wow - I loved reading about the author's experiences during the recreation of Yoko Ono's performance art - I understand wanting to ask other people "What are you feeling right now?" but also why that question is irrelevant, because each of them was experiencing the moment in a unique way -- the sharing was that moment, it did not require explanations... I also liked the author's description of the "rebel" artists and this in particular struck me as being very poignant: We said, and showed, what one doesn’t, shouldn’t, can’t. What we were aiming for, crudely, was to elicit that split-second realization that anything is possible, that anything you were told may be a lie, and that anything you haven’t thought of yet may be the truth.Oh, I'm glad you found something of value in both links -- I have only a passing familiarity with Yoko's work myself, largely because her music (at least, that to which I've been exposed) is so dissonant and, to me, distressing. That distress is the point, or one point, so this only exposes my own lack of capacity to hold it, work with it the way this article and author does, so I appreciated the piece as interpretation and a way of opening to something I'd previously been fairly closed to. There is another kind of distress, the ability to hold paradox without attempting to resolve it, and the ability to sit with uncomfortable feelings of my own, that I'm getting better at, but it takes work. Or, rather, it takes not-work and not-distraction ... which is why the article author's comments about how we protect ourselves with information struck home to me. I guess all humans have their times of grappling with this stuff and their times of running from it, and we all have our different ways of running (which is one of the reasons I love Runnin' from TP so much ... we all have our drugs/distractions of choice to keep us from coming to terms with the uncomfortable). I also like to ask, "What are you feeling right now?" in order to share another's experience, so as not to make assumptions or project my own onto theirs. But I also liked her take on allowing the experience to be what it was for them adn for herself, too ... it reminded me of Lauren Harris' (Canadian painter) annoyance at people asking him what a painting was "about" or "meant," and Freddie's refusal to interpret his lyrics. As with most things, I want it both ways: I want to be free to have my own relationship, dialogue or experience with a work of art, but I'm also really interested in its origin and context, what it meant to the artist. One does tend to colour the other, though. I also liked the passage you quoted about art and artists exposing and doing what they shouldn't/can't, and in so doing revealing the possibility that something other than the status quo is possible. I've been reading Bruce Cockburn's autobiography and he spent a lot of time in places where artists were the first to disappear when governments began clamping down on civil unrest -- Nicaragua, Guatemala and elsewhere. It's hard for someone in a country like mine to imagine that a poet could be threatening to the powers that be, because here poets and other artists are mostly ignored, which is a shame. I had a friend who ran a flower shop in a trendy Vancouver neighbourhood -- his wife did the arrangements, he did the logistics and wrote poems and essays which he offered free on a little rack outside the shop's front door. He once told me that about 100 of his sheets were taken each week, and I always thought rather ruefully that that probably made him the best-read poet in Canada. In a way, peace and prosperity with all the attendant distractions have accomplished what force in other countries could not: rendering the poet irrelevant, unheard and impotent. "Beware when you enter the land of milk and honey," indeed!
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Post by mirages on Feb 21, 2015 13:12:28 GMT -5
toramenor, a friend sent me a link to this article last night, and I thought it might interest you -- see what you think: www.brainpickings.org/2012/10/30/yoko-ono-grapefruit/I found the second-last paragraph striking and (as a former journalist and life-long information-hound) challenging: Finally, at the next-to-last show, I realized that asking others about their experience, their perceptions, was how I protect myself from immersion (and fear of drowning) in my own. Journalism had provided me with the sensation of being in control of the situation; if I was feeding on and exploiting information, that meant I must not be filling the only other role I’d known: that of the exploited.
I couldn't find this article you quoted - is this a different link? - this link you posted here only led me to quotes from Yoko Ono's book, which looks really interesting and I loved some of the little gems she shares... but the above quote in itallics wasn't there... what am I missing? Here's a link to a piece I've just read about the artistic process: www.huffingtonpost.com/george-heymont/a-star-is-torn_b_4541765.htmlI think anyone might find it really interesting. The article is about the process of creating art and then talks about two recent projects that explore this theme: the movie Five Dances (which I've watched 5 times or more, it is so stunning and beautiful!) and the Broadway musical Beautiful - The Carole King Musical. toramenor, you're not missing anything -- it's me who's missing a few neurons. Here's the correct link -- that'll teach me not to click and check it myself after posting! www.lionsroar.com/thanks-to-yoko-march-2014/Yours worked, though -- looking forward to reading and watching that material later today. I just watched a documentary on Rudolf Nureyev yesterday and am looking forward to the dance pieces especially.
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Post by mirages on Feb 19, 2015 22:34:06 GMT -5
TALCvids @talcvids 56s57 seconds ago Holy Vocals! >> Zurich STL IG VID: caopio Somebody to love #queen #adamlambert #zurich #hallenstadio #switzerland http://instagr.am/p/zS6DvXxQpg Okay, THIS! This I love ... how when he starts to power out that last long LOOOOOOOOVE, he does not bunch up and force it out with sweat and strain, he relaxes, leans back and releases it, almost unfurls -- watch how his right hand extends and opens. Gorgeous.
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Post by mirages on Feb 19, 2015 16:30:31 GMT -5
LOVE augenpoesie's work -- thanks for brining it over, 4EverAdam!
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Post by mirages on Feb 19, 2015 15:48:17 GMT -5
Today I think WWTLF stands for "Who Wants to Listen Forever?"
That would be ME!
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Post by mirages on Feb 19, 2015 15:45:10 GMT -5
mixlr.com/goldenspikehell/mixlr.com/glampam80/SETLIST 01. One Vision 02. Stone Cold Crazy 03. Another One Bites The Dust 04. Fat Bottomed Girls costume change - bell bottoms, tank, & fringe sleeves 05. Lap of the Gods....Revisited 06. Seven Seas of Rhye 07. Killer Queen Adam spurts champagne and pays tribute to Freddie. 08. I Want To Break Free Who is in love? I'm not. Find me - 09. Somebody To Love (and he takes us to church!) 10. Love of My Life (short version, Brian singalong with Freddie video) Sterioscopic Selfie Stick Brian talk and band intro. 11. '39 (Brian) 12. These Are The Days of Our Lives (Roger) 13. A Kind of Magic (Roger) Bass Solo (Nevermore, DTS, DA) Drum Battle costume change - gold pants, lace shirt, vest 14. Under Pressure 15. Save Me 4Ms, thanks so much for posting the updated set list and current working stream links frequently -- allowed me to come in late and get hooked up right away! And thanks, wal and adamrocks for the lightning-fast tweet retrieval and posting! Great audio stream -- WWTLF!
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