Archive for December, 2019

Tsundoku, Picking Up a Book & not Reading

Wednesday, December 25th, 2019
  • Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them

    Little Free Library Little free library


  • (Screenplay-Hidden Life)


  • (Screenplay- Jojo Rabbit)

  • Brief interview

    Picked up a book today. David Foster Wallace – Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2019/12/25/tsundoku-picking-up-a-book-not-reading/

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Saturday, November 23, 2019

    Found this book “Archive Fever” – A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida.. from neighbor’s friendly book recycle box, this morning. Now I am curious about the former owner of this book.

    “Derrida, convincingly argues that, although the archive is a public entity, is nevertheless is the reposittory of the private and personal, including even intimate details” – Choice_

    Found this book "Archive Fever" – A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida.. from neighbor's friendly book recycle…

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Monday, October 7, 2019

    Winter’s Tale – 2019

    Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
  • AATaleofWinter
    Eric Rohmer

  • Brick Eiffel or Brick Xmas Tree – Dec 24, 2015.

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Thursday, December 24, 2015

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  • Todd Haynes on Cate Blanchett, Saul Leiter and Queer Cinema
    Carol – Todd Haynes

    Baba Ram Dass died peacefully at home in Maui on December 22, 2019

    Monday, December 23rd, 2019
  • Richard Alpert
    (Photo via Tell Truth Love Everybody )

  • Thank you for everything Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert).
    Attended his lecture and shook hands with him. I recommended his Grist for the Mill to a troubled teenager.. the book changed his life around..he got it.

  • Wiki

    Tricycle

    Edgard Varese Frank Zappa Connection

    Sunday, December 22nd, 2019

  • Letter to Edgard Varese, Zappa was 16 years old

    Dear Sir:

    Perhaps you might remember me from my stupid phone call last January, if not, my name again is Frank Zappa Jr. I am 16 years old … that might explain partly my disturbing you last winter. The reason for my letter at this time is that I am visiting relatives in Baltimore and as long as I am on the East Coast I hope I can get to see you.

    It might seem strange but ever since I was 13 I have been interested in your music. The whole thing stems from the time when the keeper of this little record store sold me your album “The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Vol.l.” The only reason I knew it existed was that an article in either LOOK or the POST mentioned it as being noisy and unmusical and only good for trying out the sound systems in high fidelity units (referring to your “IONIZATIONS” [sic]). I don’t know how the store I got it from ever obtained it, but, after several hearings, I became curious and bought it for $5.40, which, at the time seemed awfully high and being so young, kept me broke for three weeks. Now I wouldn’t trade it for anything and I am looking around for another copy as the one I have is very worn and scratchy.

  • Frank Zappa – Birth date, December 21
    Edard Varese – Birth date, December 22

  • Soviet Santa

    Thursday, December 19th, 2019

  • (Snegurochka and Ded Moroz crossing a Moscow street in 1968)
    Soviet Santa

    How Santa Survived the Soviet Era
    Of all the variations on the beloved character, Russia’s Ded Moroz might have the strangest history.


  • (Actor Alexander Khvylya plays Ded Moroz at a New Year performance the Kremlin in 1969.)

    Ded Moroz emerged around the late 19th century. One of the first major cultural introductions of the character was in the 1873 play The Snow Maiden, by Alexander Ostrovsky, one of the most important playwrights in Russian history. Ostrovsky was often a political writer, and The Snow Maiden is an odd entry in his oeuvre. It’s a fairytale, based in part on obscure and largely forgotten pre-Christian pagan mythology, and designed to promote a different kind of Russian patriotism than the Imperial government’s brand. The play was published—not necessarily a given for Ostrovsky, who had many of his plays censored or banned—and eventually rewritten as an opera, which was performed many times.

  • Christmas sounds like Kurushimimasu (suffering in Japanese)
    Homeless Person’s Guide to Homelessness

  • RIP Panamarenko (5 February 1940 – 14 December 2019)

    Sunday, December 15th, 2019

  • RIP Panamarenko

  • Artist, Engineer, Poet, Physicist, Inventor and Visionary, and has for thirthy years pursued a singular course of exploration of space, movement, flight, energy and the force of gravity.

    More images from Artnet

    Web Gallery panamarenkoThermo Photovoltaic Energy Convertor

    The name Panamarenko is supposedly an acronym for Pan American Airlines and Company.

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    Raven’s Variable Matrix, 2000.

    Adieu Anna Karina

    Sunday, December 15th, 2019

  • Anna Karina French New Wave actress (Rolling Stong obit)

  • Anna Karina Day (Dennis Cooper Blog)


    (Anna Karina directed by Jacques Rivette)

    Anna Karina French New Wave Icon a Life in Pictures
    In addition to working with Rivette, Ingmar Bergman directed Anna Karina on stage Anna Karina in After the Rehearsal Renaissance Theatre in Paris in September 1997. ..(scroll way down to see the photo from the link above). She also worked with Fassbinder, Visconti (The Stranger based on Albert Camus, starring M. Mastroianni), Karina was not just a muse for Jean Luc Godard.

  • Murmuration Squidsoup at Scottsdale Contemporary Museum

    Saturday, December 14th, 2019

  • Murmuration

    Squidsoup returns to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) with a site-specific artwork that uses a networked data system to connect hundreds of lights and audio sources, creating a responsive data swarm. During the daytime, “Murmuration” offers a harmonious auditory experience, but when the sun goes down, a dynamic audiovisual experience swirls around SMoCA like its namesake—a term for a flock of starlings whirling in unison through the sky.

    Image credit: “Murmuration” rendering by Squidsoup

    Counter-Landscapes-Performative-Actions from the 1970’s


  • Digital image by Fung Lin Hall

  • Exhibition includes works by Allora Calzodilla
    (See part i and parti)

    And Rebecca Horn

  • Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now presents a group of artists working in both natural and urban environments whose work exploits the power of place to address issues of social, environmental, and personal transformation. Through a focused selection of key works made between 1970 and 2019, which extend beyond traditional categories, Counter-Landscapes illuminates how the strategies created by women artists in the 1970s and 1980s are employed by artists today. Developing a practice of performative actions, these artists countered the culture that surrounded and oppressed them by embodying the live elements of performance art in order to push for social change.

    Featuring photography, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, performance, and installation centered on performance in the landscape, the exhibition initiates a dialogue across generations, locations, and genders. It brings the work of an innovative generation of women artists—Marina Abramović, Eleanor Antin, Agnes Denes, VALIE EXPORT, Rebecca Horn, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Mendieta, Adrian Piper, Lotty Rosenfeld, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Beth Ames Swartz, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles—together with more recent work by artists who have adopted and extended their methods. These artists, both male and female, include Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Angela Ellsworth, Ana Teresa Fernández, Maria Hupfield, Saskia Jordá, Christian Philipp Müller, Pope.L, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Zhou Tao, and Antonia Wright. Counter-Landscapes shows how, in the process of overcoming the extraordinary obstacles they faced as women, artists working in the landscape in the late 20th century developed inventive methodologies that have profoundly influenced younger artists and changed the face of the art world. Ultimately, the works underline and emphasize the pervasiveness of the feminist legacy, which is too often neglected, marginalized, and undervalued.Counter-Landscapes-Performative-Actions from the 1970’s

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe

    Thursday, December 12th, 2019
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe

    Pope Leo XIII granted the venerated image a canonical coronation on 12 October 1895.

    Untitled.. (digital photo by Fung-Lin Hall)1)Our Lady – (possible title).2)Noli me tangere (Max Reed) 3)Mercy Mercy…

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Sunday, September 23, 2012

  • A mini Retrospective for ailing Alain Delon

    Monday, December 9th, 2019
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    (L’eclipse – Antonioni)


    Delon’s Love Letter to Romy Schneider

  • Alain Delon on Dick Cavett show

  • Le Samurai

  • Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Thursday, November 8, 2018

  • Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand, A Timeless Classic

    Friday, December 6th, 2019
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    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock (5871098d)
    Peter Fonda
    The Hired Hand – 1971
    Director: Peter Fonda
    Universal
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    Scene Still
    Western
    L’Homme sans frontière

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    Fonda was drawn to a scenario by Alan Sharp (Night Moves, Ulzana’s Raid), which he read in one sitting during a restless night while promoting Easy Rider in Italy. “I felt I had to do this one,” he said, “because there were no clichés in this script, just western mythology.”

    Martin Scorsese personally selected the 1971 western for a revival screening at the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival in Manhattan. Clint Eastwood has acknowledged its “gritty realism” as a major influence on his own Unforgiven. Quentin Tarantino treasures his copy of the movie’s original theatrical trailer.

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  • (Verna Bloom played a strong, independent woman brilliantly)

  • Japanese Poster

  • A “Western” Masterpiece Hollywood couldn’t sell

    On Vilmos Zigmond

    Fonda had gotten to know his chosen cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond during the filming of Easy Rider, as Zsigmond had been a close friend of that feature’s cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs. Upon receiving the green light to make The Hired Hand, the young director knew exactly who he wanted to be his cinematographer.

    The same year he shot The Hired Hand, Zsigmond had also been employed by Robert Altman to create the gorgeous photography on his own unorthodox western, the aforementioned McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Early in his amazing career, Zsigmond proved far more than capable of producing painterly images through his camera lens.

    Peter Fonda (Feb 23, 1940-Aug 16,2019)
    Peter Fonda (previous post)

    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera

    Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
  • Great News for Milan Kundera (Guardian)

    Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship restored after 40 years

    Milan Kundera wiki
    More from here

    Czech premier proposes restoring writer Kundera’s nationality

    Brno daily

    In Photos: Exhibition “Milan Kundera (Not Lost) in Translation”

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    (Kundera, Vera Kundera and Roth)
    With Philip Roth