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copyright, media, illusion, and pop culture.
Art of
AstaireLover, YouTube Tue 2020-Sep-22 1:59pm
Eric Blore & Edward Everett Horton from Shall We Dance
Eric Blore and Edward Everett Horton appeared in many of the early Astaire and Rogers films, but rarely had the limelight to themselves.
Art of
mateus levi, YouTube Sun 2020-Sep-13 2:01pm
Mahler Symphony No 4 G major, Leonard Bernstein Wiener Philharmoniker
On this day in 1910, the Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand") of Gustav Mahler had its premiere in Munich. It's just about the only work of Mahler's that doesn't scream, "OMG! I'm dying!"
Posted on A♠ by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2020 10:06 AM
Well...although it is about a child's view of heaven.
Mahler's 4th is just charming as all get out.
Esp. on the rare occasions when it snows here, I feel the need to put it on.
Here's a nice version…
Posted on A♠ by: naturalfake at September 12, 2020 10:10 AM
Art of
Jan Hammer, YouTube Mon 2020-Aug-31 2:50pm
City of New Orleans" is a folk song written by Steve Goodman (and first recorded for Goodman's self-titled 1971 album), describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife's family. He performed the song for Arlo Guthrie in the Quiet Knight, a bar in Chicago, and Guthrie agreed to add it to his repertoire. The song was a hit for Guthrie on his 1972 album Hobo's Lullaby, and is now more closely associated with him, although Goodman performed it until his death in 1984. The song has also been covered by Willie Nelson, John Denver, Johnny Cash, The Country Gentlemen, Judy Collins, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Sammi Smith, Hank Snow, Gerard Cox, Rudi Carell, Joe Dassin, Richard Clayderman and others.…
Art of
Blake | Ace of Spades Fri 2018-Dec-7 9:58am
Saw the what I would say is the end of an era last night with my lovely bride.
Went to see Petula Clark. Petula is 86 and still has a pretty good voice. Little rough in the beginning but got stronger as she progressed. She did an almost ninety minute set.
Petula could just as easily sat there and told stories about people she'd met and worked with over the years of her life and done some singing as sort of an afterthought. She is a very engaging performer.
Anyway Miss Clark has quite the singing, stage and film resume and I believe she represents the last of a bygone era.
In fact, she closed with a song that gave me the impression she knows this is her last tour and that she went on tour to say good bye.
Pop Culture
Nicholas Hautman | Us Magazine Fri 2018-Sep-28 3:55pm
…The Bachelor… The Vietnamese version of the reality series went viral across the world when contestants Minh Thu and Truc Nhu found love with each other while competing for the affections of lead Nguyen Quoc Trung.…
Mass Media is Dead
MJA, IOTWReport Sun 2018-Sep-2 1:11pm
AT: The Village Voice, the first alternative weekly newspaper that began publishing in 1955, will no longer be posting any new stories.
The paper stopped publishing a print edition a year ago, only being available online. Owner Peter Barbey announced to the staff yesterday that “business realities” were forcing him to close shop completely.…
Amber Athey, Daily Caller Sun 2018-Sep-2 10:02am
…“That’s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?” Sinatra asserted. “What a rotten spin to put on a harmless joke.”…
But is it Art?
Kris, Ace of Spades Sat 2018-Aug-11 12:56pm
…The Parthenon is the single most influential building in Western history, if not world history. As simple as it looks, it is a really complex piece of architecture. Just the art historical concepts alone could fill an entire class lecture. A great introductory video is NOVA's "Secrets of the Parthenon".
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GGE, Ace of Spades Wed 2018-Jul-11 8:47pm
…Some of you may have seen that Gal Gidot (Wonder Woman) did a surprise visit to a hospital in NoVa this past week. It's been all over the news, Entertainment Tonight, ect. The baby with the ladybug sticker on her cheek that she's holding is my niece Karalyne, the one who is in the prayer list for her infant leukemia. The good news is she is also responding well to treatment, at the last report she is waiting for her neutrophil counts to come up so she can have her bone marrow transplant and finally be done with all of this.
Thank you one and all for the prayers.…
Art of
D.D. Degg, Daily Cartoonist Tue 2018-Jul-10 2:45pm
…Artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with Stan Lee, has died at age 90.… found dead in his apartment on June 29 and it is believed he died about two days earlier.…
Glen Weldon, NPR Tue 2018-Jul-10 2:32pm
…Steve Ditko… encomiums… bubbled up across the usual social media platforms… reactions tended to focus on various, discrete, highly specific aspects of his legacy… Me, though? I thought of his sparkles.…
Art of
Karen Matthews, Andrew Dalton, Fox/AP Sat 2018-Jul-7 12:24pm
Steve Ditko, the Marvel Comics artist who gave the world the woven webs and soaring red-and-blue shape of Spider-Man and the other-worldly shimmer of Doctor Strange, has died, authorities said Friday. He was 90.
Ditko was found June 29 in his Manhattan apartment and was pronounced dead at the scene, police Lt. Paul Ng said. No further details were immediately available.…
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Rick Wells, News on 6 Sat 2018-Jun-30 11:15am
…A soon-to-be eighth grader at Carver Middle School has done something not many 12-year-olds have. She’s written, illustrated and published a book that's now available on Amazon.
“I self-published it through Amazon,” Jada Monae Silvers said.
The “it” she’s referring to is her book Kayla and Her Friends.
Jada published her first book in April then celebrated her 13th birthday in May.
Like most authors, it wasn't an overnight process; she actually wrote the original story a couple of years ago and she's been writing and rewriting since, and working on the illustrations.
Rick: "Do you like writing or drawing better?"
Jada: "Drawing."…
Mass Media is Dead
Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator Wed 2018-Apr-25 8:29am
…Henceforth, all practicing journalists in the United States must fill out a required Form for Transparent Journalism and file with the U.S. Office of Journalism that the Trump Administration has now established by executive order within the Department of Justice, retroactive to April 1, 2018. It is known informally as “The Hannity Rule.”…
Mass Media is Dead
Ian Hanchett, Breitbart Sun 2018-Apr-15 11:50am
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski stated President Trump is “using our country’s national security as a way to deflect from his personal problems, or his personal anger.”…
Art of
Bigby, Ace of Spades Fri 2018-Apr-13 1:34pm
Help me! I am trapped
In a haiku factory
Save me - before they
Mass Media is Dead
Ann, Political Insider Tue 2018-Mar-27 5:19pm
CNN …gathered a panel of conservative Christian women who voted for President Donald Trump to watch porn star Stormy Daniels’ “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night. …
“You can throw all that stuff up in our faces as many times as you want,” Dr. Lynette Bryant said, “but that means that we’ll work harder for Trump. Is that not so, ladies?”
“That’s correct,” replied Sylvia Guzman. “This is the media defining the narrative. The people — we, the people — are ready to define the narrative. And it’s not about tawdry sexual peccadilloes.”…
Mass Media is Dead
Nickarama, Weasel Zippers Wed 2018-Mar-14 3:24pm
Check How CNN Tries To Spin Hillary Insulting Most Of America…
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Neo-Neocon Tue 2018-Mar-13 2:23pm
The man who could do everything… Well, maybe not everything. But an extraordinary number of things. And boy, could he do them well.…
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Russ Burlingame, ComicBook Sun 2018-Mar-11 1:46pm
Last week, forty years to the day after their journey began, the husband-wife creative team of Wendy and Richard Pini attended a signing at Things From Another World in Portland, to say goodbye to Elfquest.…
Pop Culture
rickb223, Ace of Spades Wed 2018-Feb-21 11:52am
Thank you God for giving me food to sustain my body,
Tide Pods to clean my clothes,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Long Underwear Heroes are Dead
Jamie Lovett, ComicBook.com Mon 2018-Feb-19 1:42pm
…Fans in the audience at the 10:15 showing of Black Panther were treated to an unexpected romantic gesture. A man dressed in a Black Panther costume came into the theater before the movie started. He found his girlfriend and proposed to her.
The proposal was accepted.…
Mass Media is Dead
Matthew Cooper, Politico Thu 2018-Feb-8 12:26pm
It was 3 a.m. on Saturday, and I was seething. Staring at my phone, I saw that my company, Newsweek Media Group, had put out yet another story that would require a correction if not a retraction. This time it was a story ripped from The Onion.……
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Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News Sun 2018-Jan-28 10:07am
…Walker was part of more than a half-dozen comic strips in his career, including "Hi and Lois," ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But his greatest success came from Beetle, his hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy, which he drew for nearly 70 years.
After an initial lack of popularity, the cartoon eventually succeeded, which Walker attributed to Beetle’s indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
"Most people are sort of against authority," Walker said once during an interview with the Associated Press. "Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it."…
SMOD, Ace of Spades Sun 2018-Jan-28 12:06am
'Beetle Bailey' cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94…
Art of
Anna Puma, Ace of Spades Wed 2018-Jan-24 12:09pm
…science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K Le Guin has passed away at the age of 88.…
But is it Art?
Kate Brown, ArtNet News Wed 2017-Nov-15 3:51pm
A Very Fancy Grasshopper Was Found in the Paint of a Van Gogh Masterpiece
The discovery of the critter is a by-product of significant research underway at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.…
Mass Media is Dead
Red Square, The People's Cube Thu 2017-Nov-9 4:20pm
…This sparked a lively discussion on Twitter, with over two thousand commenters asking where they could buy a chainsaw bayonet, or proposing other useful attachments, such as, a pencil sharpener, a pizzawheel, a banana named "apple," and Kevin Spacey's head for converting your firearm into a sexual assault rifle.…
Cartoons Count
Mark Evanier, newsfromme.com Wed 2017-Nov-1 8:20pm
…Brazilian animator Ivanildo Soares decided this cartoon should be remade. The soundtrack remained exactly the same but he handed its scenes out to a bevy of South American animators…
Long Underwear Heroes are Dead
Brian Cronin, CBR Thu 2017-Jan-5 2:23pm
COMIC LEGEND:
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby both appeared as models on comic books.
STATUS:
True…
Cartoons Count
Meagan Damore, CBR.com Thu 2016-Dec-15 8:25pm
When “Riverdale” arrives on The CW next month, K.J. Apa’s Archie Andrews and his friends will bring life to the beloved cast of Archie Comics characters.…
Mass Media is Dead
Jeff Poor, Breitbart Mon 2016-Oct-24 10:04am
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Randall Stephenson, the chairman and CEO of AT&T made an appearance with current Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes to promote the merger of AT&T and Time Warner.
Stephenson pledged an “independent” CNN, one of Time Warner’s properties, should the merger proceed.…
Art of
Bluebird of Bitterness Fri 2016-Oct-21 9:37pm
…This dance sequence from the 1943 film Stormy Weather has Fayard and Harold doing their unique amalgam of tap, gymnastics, and acrobatics to “Jumpin’ Jive” by Cab Calloway. No less an authority than Fred Astaire called this the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen.…
Pop Culture
Ladyfingers Fri 2016-Oct-21 11:20am
…There are a number of things that annoy me about the proliferation of tattoos.…
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Christopher Mele, Seattle Times / NY Times Mon 2016-Oct-3 9:38am
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I’d truly like to be
’Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Mon 2016-Oct-3 8:13pm
Cartoons Count
James Delingpole, Breitbart Mon 2016-Sep-26 4:17pm
…join Jo Nova and William Briggs in humiliating the author of this utterly misleading cartoon so as to prick his bubble of pompous, ignorant, self-regarding, passive-aggressive, pontificating greenery.…
Mass Media is Dead
Trey Sanchez, Truth Revolt Mon 2016-Sep-19 7:07pm
To the 29 people of New York City that were injured in the Islamic terror blast: You were very lucky it was a bomb and not guns, says MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.…
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David Ng, LA Times Sun 2016-Sep-18 10:15pm
Charmian Carr will always be 16 going on 17 for fans of "The Sound of Music." In the movie… she played the rebellious Liesl von Trapp… Carr died Saturday in Woodland Hills of complications from a rare form of dementia, according to a statement from her family. She was 73.…
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Robert Simonson, Playbill Fri 2016-Sep-16 8:23pm
Edward Albee, the author of dozens of bitingly funny and scabrously caustic dramas, and one of the most important American playwrights for much of the last fifty years, died September 16 at age 88. He passed away peacefully at his home in Montauk, NY, following a short illness, according to his longtime personal assistant, Jakob Holder.…
Ann Althouse Fri 2016-Sep-16 6:45pm
Listen to the oldest melody in the world — 3400 years old.
"The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians’ goddess of the orchards Nikkal...."
The clay tablet text, which was discovered alongside around 30 other tablet fragments, specifies 9 lyre strings and the intervals between those strings – kind of like an ancient guitar tab..... The notation here is essentially a set of instructions for intervals and tuning based around a heptatonic diatonic scale.…
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BBC News Tue 2016-Sep-6 11:30am
It was 50 years ago, on 5 September 1966, that the cameras rolled for the first time in the Italianate village of Portmeirion as filming got under way for the cult 1960s adventure TV show The Prisoner.…
Art of
ghettofunk13, YouTube Thu 2016-Sep-1 6:06pm
I wanted to try cleaning an LP with wood glue. It made for quite an improvement - and I've read that multiple cleanings continue to clean up the snaps crackles and pops.…
Cartoons Count
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs Thu 2016-Sep-1 5:59pm
Former Muslim and Muhammad cartoon art contest winner Bosch Fawstin spoke at the AFA conference I spoke at last weekend.
Listen to his powerful presentation. He discusses something few know about: how mainstream, comic books, in particular Marvel and DC Comics, have become propaganda tools for Islam.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Fri 2016-Aug-26 7:55pm
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Mon 2016-Aug-22 1:58pm
Long Underwear Heroes are Dead
Observer-Dispatch Fri 2016-Aug-5 9:40pm
A rare copy of Superman's 1938 comic-book debut sold at auction for almost $1 million.…
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Jimmy Johnson, Arlo and Janis Thu 2016-Jul-28 10:30pm
This is the nerve center of my home, the coffee station. It is where I spend my first conscious moments every day. Above the coffee pot is an original drawing by Jack Davis. Its subject, Alfred E. Newman, and his words are familiar, but this particular rendering has been seen by few. I will tell you its story.…
Hollywood Reporter Thu 2016-Jul-28 3:36pm
The Rocketeer is ready to blast off once again.
Walt Disney Studios is developing a reboot of the 1991 action adventure movie, hiring Max Winkler and Matt Spicer to pen the script, which is being titled The Rocketeers.
The project, in the early development stages, is considered a sequel-reboot and, in a modern-day twist, will be headlined by a black female character.…
War News Updates Thu 2016-Jul-28 3:35pm
Actor Jerry Doyle, best known for his role in the sci-fi series Babylon 5, has died at the age of 60.
Doyle appeared in all five series of the 1990s show as Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi.
He also made guest appearances on other popular shows, such as Beverly Hills 90210, NYPD Blue and Martial Law, and was the host of a nationally-syndicated daily radio show in the US.
A spokesman for Doyle's family said the cause of his death was not yet known.…
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Jamie Lovett, ComicBook.com Wed 2016-Jul-27 7:01pm
Revered cartoonist Jack Davis died today at the age of 91. Davis’s art career spanned several mediums, from comics, to movie posters, to advertising. One of his first jobs was drawing a Coco-Cola training manual in 1949.… one of the founding artists of Harvey Kurtzman’s Mad Magazine…
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Mark Savage, BBC Mon 2016-Jul-25 11:45am
…The singer appeared, uncredited, on many of the biggest movie musicals of all time - dubbing the voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
She also sang the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend; and "ghosted" Natalie Wood's vocals on West Side Story.…
Print is Dead
Bluebird of Bitterness Thu 2016-Jul-14 4:21pm
Music industry is dead
Jerome Hudson, Breitbart Thu 2016-Jun-30 2:48pm
Legendary folk-rock singer Paul Simon says, after making music for more than 60 years, he’s ready to “let go” of the limelight and “see what happens.”
“Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” Simon told the New York Times in a recent interview.…
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Sun-Herald Wed 2016-Jun-29 12:02am
Mack Rice, the composer of '60s hit "Mustang Sally" and co-writer of the Staple Singers' landmark "Respect Yourself" has died in Detroit. He was 82.
Laura Rice told The Associated Press that her husband died at their home Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.…
Long Underwear Heroes are Dead
ComicBookResources Thu 2016-Jun-23 6:52pm
Mass Media is Dead
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., Breitbart Mon 2016-Jun-20 10:40pm
The New York Times’ sloppiness when reporting on Christianity is proverbial, but perhaps none of its prior errors equals its claim this week that the apostle Saint Paul commanded Christians to kill the homosexuals among them.…
Mass Media is Dead
Mollie Hemingway, Federalist Sat 2016-Jun-18 11:17am
Religious illiteracy among journalists is reaching crisis levels.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Wed 2016-Jun-15 7:34pm
Cartoons Count
Mark Evanier, NewsFromME Tue 2016-Jun-14 9:46pm
Janet Waldo, whose career in entertainment stretched from motion pictures to radio to television to the world of cartoons, died this morning. The cause was a brain tumor and her age… well, no one's quite sure how old Janet was but she sure never looked or sounded it. … She appeared in more than two dozen movies but established herself in radio, mostly notably as the star of Meet Corliss Archer. Her most memorable role in television was probably the episode of I Love Lucy in which she played Peggy, a teenager with a crush on Ricky Ricardo.
In 1962, she spoke for Judy Jetson in the animated series, The Jetsons. It was her first cartoon but it launched an entire new career in that area, mainly working for Hanna-Barbera. She was Josie in Josie and the Pussycats, Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Granny Sweet in the Precious Pup cartoons and was heard in hundreds of other roles.… And as I said, I don't know how old she was. But I can tell you that well into her nineties, she could still sound like the teenage Judy Jetson. I think I'll just assume she was always that age.
Art of
Christian Toto, PJ Media Sun 2016-Jun-12 4:35pm
…The album is a Frankenstein's monster of sorts, stitched together from material originally written decades ago as well as new songs… And it's good!… Why are The Monkees, on the road in support of their signature show's 50th anniversary, suddenly hitmakers when they should be cashing their Social Security checks?…
Mass Media is Dead
AWR Hawkins, Breitbart Fri 2016-Jun-3 10:55pm
Days after Katie Couric apologetically admitted misrepresenting pro-gun voices via the insertion of a pause in Under the Gun, director Stephanie Soechtig took a different tack and said she stands by the pause.
In fact, Soechtig suggested the pause is only getting coverage because the NRA fixated on it.…
But is it Art?
Christopher Hooton, Independent (UK) Thu 2016-May-26 7:56pm
Several visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week were fooled into thinking a pair of glasses set on the floor by a 17-year-old prankster was a postmodern masterpiece.…
Mass Media is Dead
ReasonTV, YouTube Thu 2016-May-26 8:01pm
Katie Couric Responds to Deceptive Editing Charges in Gun Documentary
Mass Media is Dead
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs Tue 2016-May-10 12:53pm
Earlier this morning, I reported on the bloody rampage at a railway station in Munich by a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar.” This is undeniably an Islamic attack. Well, not for CNN.
They have scrubbed all reference to the jihad murderers motive and mission. Despite the lack of evidence, CNN speculates that the murderer might have mental problems.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Wed 2016-May-4 5:01pm
Art of
Jeff Giles, Ultimate Classic Rock Mon 2016-May-2 12:23pm
…Paul McCartney brought his One on One Tour to Little Rock on April 30, and paid tribute to two of the women who inspired the Beatles classic “Blackbird” while he was in town.
As McCartney explained during a Nashville show in 2010, the band was moved by the American civil rights movement during the ’50s and ’60s, and McCartney composed “Blackbird” while thinking specifically of the Little Rock Nine…
Kelly West, Cinema Blend Mon 2016-May-2 12:17pm
…The two events may seem mostly unrelated, however, for the writer of this story, perhaps there really is a balance that must be struck. She spared Arthur Weasley, but exchanged his life for another character’s, whose end would come near the conclusion of the series.…
Music industry is dead
Vic, Ace of Spades Wed 2016-Apr-13 2:36am
… speaking of idiot judges a judge has allowed a civil suit between the heirs of a Spirit band member and Led Zepplin over the opening notes to Stairway To Heaven has been allowed to procede. Any idiot with half a brain recognizes those notes as being from Beathovin's Moonlight Sonata.
Compare for yourself:
Spirit (YouTube 2:40)
Led Zeppelin (YouTube 8:03)
Beethoven (YouTube 15:01)
Art of
Naja Rayne, People Thu 2016-Apr-7 2:38am
…The chair that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling sat in while writing the first two books of the wizardry series was sold at a New York City auction on Wednesday for $394,000…
Art of
Rolling Stone Wed 2016-Apr-6 8:54pm
"He was my brother, my friend. I will miss him," writes Willie Nelson in a tweet, accompanied by a photo of himself sharing a laugh with the late Merle Haggard and a link to view their iconic "Pancho and Lefty" video. Nelson and Haggard were indeed as close as family, with their musical and personal bonds dating back to long before that first collaboration, and spanning through Haggard's death today at the age of 79.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Fri 2016-Apr-1 12:29am
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Duane Byrge and Mike Barnes, Hollywood Reporter Tue 2016-Mar-29 10:18pm
Patty Duke, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and starred as two cousins on her own sitcom, died Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 69.…
Dalya Alberge, Guardian (UK) Tue 2016-Mar-29 10:15pm
…Previously unpublished documents have revealed the scale of a plot by the media mogul William Randolph Hearst to discredit Orson Welles and destroy Citizen Kane, the 1941 film about the rise and fall of the fictional newspaper proprietor Charles Foster Kane.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Wed 2016-Mar-23 2:36pm
Print is Dead
Karen Eng, Ted.com Thu 2016-Mar-10 6:48pm
The ancient al-Qarawiyyin Library in Fez isn’t just the oldest library in Africa. Founded in 859, it’s the oldest working library in the world, holding ancient manuscripts that date as far back as 12 centuries. But modern life had taken a toll on the library, with its buildings falling into disrepair. That’s why in 2012, the Moroccan Ministry of Culture asked TED Fellow and architect Aziza Chaouni to rehabilitate the library…
Long Underwear Heroes are Dead
Matthew Mueller, ComicBook.com Thu 2016-Mar-10 10:44pm
The Tick might be on his way back to television if new reports are to be believed. Amazon has ordered a pilot for the new series, with Ben Edlund back in the fold as writer and producer and Barry Josephson as executive producer.
Unfortunately actor Patrick Warburton, who played the big blue lug in the previous live action series is not going to be reprising his role, as he has a new series, Crowded, on NBC. He will be included as an executive producer, and hopefully, they can find someone to fill his big blue shoes.…
Art of
Blazing Cat Fur Wed 2016-Feb-24 10:30am
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Jamie Lovett, ComicBook.com Wed 2016-Feb-17 10:43pm
Two previously unseen poems by The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien have been discovered in a school magazine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. …Tolkien is believed to have written the poems while he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon as Oxford University. Published in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire… first poem…is an early version of a poem Tolkien would late publish as part of the 1962 collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. …second poem, “Noel,” is a Christmas poem full of fantasy imagery.…
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Wed 2016-Feb-17 10:47pm
Art of
An Poc ar Buile, Ace of Spades Tue 2016-Feb-16 5:42pm
You just have to love the Duke of Wellington… "so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains…"
Print is Dead
Breitbart London Fri 2016-Feb-12 11:48pm
The Independent newspaper, a standard bearer for Britain’s left-wing media establishment for 29 years, has announced that it will close its print section and go “online only” from March 2016.…
Long Underwear Heroes are Dead
Jamie Lovett, ComicBook.com Thu 2016-Feb-11 11:50pm
On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel transferred the rights to the character to Warner Bros. in 2001.…
Art of
Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone Sun 2016-Feb-7 11:11pm
Dan Hicks, a longtime Bay Area music figure and the lead singer of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, passed away Saturday following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 74. Hicks' wife CT confirmed the singer-songwriter's death on his official website. "He was true blue, one of a kind, and did it all his own way always," she wrote. "To all who loved him, know that he will live forever in the words, songs, and art that he spent his life creating. He worked so hard on each and every detail – they are all pure Dan."…
Art of
Clark Leonard, Gainesville Times Sat 2016-Feb-6 6:48pm
Jack Elrod Jr., a Gainesville native who spent 64 years working on the nationally syndicated outdoor comic “Mark Trail,” died Wednesday. He was 91.
Elrod began his time with the comic strip alongside its creator, fellow Gainesville native Ed Dodd, in 1950 and took over the strip in 1978 before retiring in 2014. He also won numerous conservation awards from agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Dodd began the comic in 1946.…
Art of
Fox News / AP Mon 2016-Feb-1 2:00pm
Signe Toly Anderson, a vocalist and original member of the Jefferson Airplane who left the band after its first record and was replaced by Grace Slick, has died. …Thursday at her home in Beaverton, Oregon… was 74 and had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Anderson, who survived cancer in her 30s, died on the same day that another Airplane member, Paul Kantner, died.…
Art of
Kory Grow, Rolling Stone Thu 2016-Jan-28 10:17pm
Paul Kantner, founding member, guitarist and singer for Jefferson Airplane and Starship, died Thursday of multiple organ failure and septic shock. He had suffered a heart attack earlier in the week,… Kantner is survived by three children: Gareth, Alexander and China.…
Art of
Mike Barnes, Hollywood Reporter Tue 2016-Jan-26 8:33pm
…Abe Vigoda, who earned Emmy Award nominations in three straight years for his portrayal of the world-weary Det. Phil Fish on the 1970s ABC sitcom Barney Miller, has died. He was 94. …died on Tuesday morning at home in New Jersey. …also is remembered for his role as hulking mob boss Sal Tessio in Francis Ford Coppola’s first two Godfather films. …
Daniela Deane, Wash Post Tue 2016-Jan-26 4:07pm
…A lost story by famed British children’s author Beatrix Potter — “The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots” — has been discovered among her memorabilia and will be published this year more than a century after she wrote it.…
Art of
Tackk Mon 2016-Jan-25 5:53pm
Pop Culture
Zombie, Ace of Spades Fri 2016-Jan-15 3:35pm
I just heard a Bowie story that no one knows because it happened to someone I know who just recounted it to me personally. …
Pop Culture
@AlxSavage, Twitter Tue 2016-Jan-12 11:40pm
The last picture taken of David Bowie by his wife Iman, on his birthday, January 8th 2016.
Kelly West, CinemaBlend Tue 2016-Jan-12 9:06pm
This week marks the ninth anniversary of J.K. Rowling’s completion of the Harry Potter series. Well, her completion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, at the very least. To honor the occasion, the author shared a photo of the graffiti she left in the hotel where she completed the book… worth noting that those Harry Potter fanatics wishing to stay in the room would have to shell out a whopping £1,415 for the night. That’s more than $2,000 U.S. dollars.…
DavidBowieVEVO, YouTube Tue 2016-Jan-12 8:42pm
"'Lazarus" off David Bowie's album Blackstar
Pareidolia
Bluebird of Bitterness Fri 2016-Jan-8 2:55pm
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NY Post / AP Mon 2015-Dec-21 8:09pm
Sheet music written by Ludwig van Beethoven and found in a Connecticut home has fetched $100,000 at auction. appraiser Brendan Ryan… recognized Beethoven's handwriting in the German words, directions and symbols on the page… Research authenticated the music and determined it was from a sketchbook dating to 1810 and used by the composer for brainstorming. …
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Graeme McMillan, Hollywood Reporter Sat 2015-Nov-21 3:28pm
…"I was able to wing it, right up until the point that I had to start shooting this very intricate battle, and I couldn't wing it on that, really," he continued, discussing the decision to postpone the sequence. "We had allowed two months of shooting for that in 2012, and at some point, when we were approaching that, I went to Zane and Carol, our producers, and ultimately talked to the studio and said: ‘Because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing now, because I haven’t got storyboards and prep in this three months that we have now got this battle, why don’t we just finish earlier?' "…
I quit watching the first one when Doctor Who with bird dung dribbling down his face was racing along on a sled pulled by giant bunnies. Just like in the book!
Alex, Weird Universe Sat 2015-Nov-21 3:09pm
Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta was the first-ever do-it-yourself or interactive novel. It was published in French in 1962, and an English translation followed a year later. The novel came in a box, as a set of looseleaf pages. Readers were instructed to "shuffle them like a deck of cards" before reading, so that chance would decide the order of events in the narrative.…
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Adelle Platon, Billboard Mon 2015-Nov-16 7:29pm
Music is mourning the death of esteemed singer-songwriter P.F. Sloan (Phil), who passed away on Sunday night (Nov. 15) at his Los Angeles home after fighting pancreatic cancer for several weeks, according to a release. He was 70 years old.…