Picasso - Fernande with a black mantilla (1905)
Toulouse Lautrec - Au salon (1893)
Kirchner - Head of a woman (1909)
Kupka - Plane by colors / Large Nude (1909-1910)
Jawlensky - Helene with coloured turban
Mary Cassat - The letter (1890-1891)
Orazio Borgianni - Head of a woman (circa 1610)
Fragonard - Portrait of a woman with a dog
Anthony Van Dick - Study head of a young woman (circa 1618)
mamma’s pride.
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From the TV series First Person by Errol Morris.
Richard G. “Rick” Rosner (born May 2, 1960) is an American television writer and media figure known for his high intelligence test scores and his unusual career. He is reported to have achieved some of the highest scores ever recorded on IQ tests designed to measure exceptional intelligence. He has become known for applying his high IQ to activities not usually associated with geniuses. Rosner claims to have used fake IDs to re-enroll in high school repeatedly, and he has worked as a stripper, roller-skating waiter, bouncer, and nude model. He has appeared in numerous documentaries and profiles about his activities and views. He has also appeared in a Domino’s Pizza commercial and sued the quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire over an allegedly flawed question he missed as a contestant in 2000. He writes and produces for quiz shows and for several programs produced by Jimmy Kimmel, including The Man Show, Crank Yankers, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
— Critchley, Simon
Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life — hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans. Most of his work is centered on Deadwood in the late 1880s and 1890s. He is most often cited for his photographs in the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
(via Plog - photo blogs from the Denver Post)
Half hour documentary from 1967 about the great Bluesman by Les Blank …NOTES “…A short film about the Texas blues singer Lightnin’ (Sam) Hopkins. Built around what I gather was the return of Hopkins to his home town for a visit sometime in 1967, as much a celebration of a mode of life as it is a study of a kind of music. It is also fairly conventional film making (the conventions of documentary poetic realism), but in Hopkins and his friends it has a quality of life rather than a fabricated group image for a subject. Almost everybody in “Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins” seems to be a performer. But Hopkins himself controls the film’s moods. Not so much in his exposition of the meaning of the blues as in what he makes of them when he sings and plays his guitar.” New York Times, 1967
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Compilation of music and dialogue from series 1 and 2 of Eastbound and Down.
The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs’s “systems adviser” Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter’s book, The Living Brain.
In the dreamachine’s original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides. The cylinder is placed on a record turntable and rotated at 78 or 45 revolutions per minute. A light bulb is suspended in the center of the cylinder and the rotation speed allows the light to come out from the holes at a constant frequency of between 8 and 13 pulses per second. This frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations normally present in the human brain while relaxing.
Genesis P Orridge tripping.
The Dreamachine is the subject of the National Film Board of Canada 2008 feature documentary film FLicKeR by Nik Sheehan.
A dreamachine is “viewed” with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brain’s electrical oscillations. The “viewer” experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed eyelids. The patterns become shapes and symbols, swirling around, until the “viewer” feels surrounded by colors. It is claimed that viewing a dreamachine allows one to enter a hypnagogic state. This experience may sometimes be quite intense, but to escape from it, one needs only to open one’s eyes.
A dreamachine may be dangerous for people with photosensitive epilepsy or other nervous disorders. It is thought that one out of 10,000 adults will experience a seizure while viewing the device; about twice as many children will have a similar ill effect.
