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On January 1, 1984, PBS aired Nam June Paik's "Good Morning Mr. Orwell." The entire concept, of PBS airing a series of bizarre happenings with artists ranging from Salvador Dali to Oingo Boingo, is pretty hard to imagine nowadays. Actually watching clips from the program is even stranger. A collection of clips from the program can be seen here , and gives a slight taste of what it must have been like to watch the program back in the day. John Cage plays amplified cactus with Takehisa Kosugi, Oingo Boingo is...Oingo Boingo, and Allen Ginsberg chants a sing songy tune with Arthur Russell on cello.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog - Mozilla Firefox
The Substance of Style, Pt 1 by Matt Zoller Seitz - Moving Image
This is the first in a five-part series of video essays analyzing the key influences on Wes Anderson’s style. Part 2 covers Martin Scorsese, Richard Lester, and Mike Nichols. Part 3 covers Hal Ashby. Part 4 covers J.D. Salinger. Part 5 is an annotated version of the prologue to The Royal Tenenbaums .
The Spirit of The Sixties - Yesterday TV New Series Yesterday TV's Spirit Of The Sixties season returns this week with an explosion of music, fashion, culture, era-defining political struggle and British greatness. With a host of new, exclusive programming, Spirit Of the Sixties features films that lift the lid on some of the decade’s most iconic people, places and events, telling the story behind the headlines and revealing the truth about those momentous ten years. WAGs Of ‘66 tells the story of England’s iconic World Cup victory through the eyes of the women who knew the players best and also reveals what life was really like as a footballer’s wife in the 60s. Meanwhile, two episodes of Teen Spirit (narrated by Suggs) focuses in on two subcultures – the Mods and the Rockers – to find out what made them both tick, how both of them had the establishment running scared and how an iconic confrontation was always going to happen.
Sixties City - Bringing on back the good times - Mozilla Firefox
The songs in the links posted below are from an old 45 of quirky but charming music originally heard as part of 'The Love Song of Barney Kempinski' , a one-hour teleplay that aired on September 14th, 1966 as the premiere episode of an anthology TV series, ABC Stage 67 . For his performance in the title role, actor "In the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney goes off to tour the city and sing his love song - - exuberant, irresponsible and frequently dangerous - - to life, love and the city of (An item of note for those of who've never had the pleasure of seeing this production is that there's no listing of anyone in the cast playing the role of Barney's fiancé, Francine.
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I would imagine that nobody hates the expression don’t judge a book by its cover more than an actual book cover designer . Obviously, the metaphor isn’t really about books – but still, that’s gotta sting a little. Let’s face it, if people didn’t actually “judge books by their covers”, there would be a lot of graphic designers out of a job. The need for company branding, attractive packaging or promotional material of any kind would be non-existent; thus leaving the lowly graphic designer nothing short of obsolete. So in the spirit of judging books by their covers, I’ve compiled a list of 45 beautifully designed book covers that I find inspiring.
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Et bah, ça pousse pa bien les arbres chez toi! by Mandy Mar 1
Nan mais c'est vrai, je sais bien que c'est l'hiver mais quand meme; bisous anna karina by Mandy Mar 1