Following the election results in Brazil has been a bit discouraging with the “Brazilian Trump”—Jair Bolsonaro—getting 46% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election. Perhaps a slight silver-lining to this dark news cloud is that thinking of things Brazilian reminded me of the fantastic 2006 video Tyger by the Brazilian filmmaker Guilherme Marcondes, inspired by William Blake’s poem of the same name. For those curious about how Brazil may be getting its own Trump, check out John Oliver’s take on Last Week Tonight. [Read more…]
Keb’ Mo’ – Put a Woman in Charge feat. Rosanne Cash (Official Music Video) | Video Worth Watching
From the Keb’ Mo’ YouTube page:
“My mother just recently passed at the age of 91. She was smart. She was strong. She was a leader. This video is dedicated to her and amazing women everywhere that are getting the job done.” -Keb’ Mo’
[h/t to Annie L] [Read more…]
Parkland Survivors Talk Gun Safety in San Diego
“What if” we cut gun deaths in half by 2025?
By Mary S. Johnson / San Diegans For Gun Violence Prevention
What if we could create a bipartisan coalition to prevent another mass shooting in the United States?
Four student survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting climbed onto buses, boarded airplanes, and juggled study time after traveling to California to work on preventing another mass shooting from taking place in the United States. On September 20 they brought their urgent activism to San Diego. [Read more…]
The Joke On Us | Geo-Poetic Spaces
The joke is
on US
when laughter
provokes tears
Good medicine
goes bad
Delivery
executed
with the slap of a stick
that punches
our original voices
into mimes [Read more…]
Los Angeles Celebrates First-Ever Indigenous Peoples Day | Video Worth Watching
Los Angeles celebrated its first Indigenous Peoples Day. Come on San Diego! What will it take to get support for this change here? [Read more…]
Yes! Some Good San Diego Architecture! | A Photographic Look
This month’s A Photographic Look is dedicated to architect Robert Venturi who died last month at the age of 93. While a vocal proponent for what became known as Post-Modern architecture, he (along with his partner Denise Scott Brown) made good buildings in other styles, too. I just hope he doesn’t try redesigning the pearly gates.
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While I have a definite partiality for Art Deco, I enjoy and appreciate all types or categories of architecture. For me, a structure just has to make design sense no matter what form or style the design might take. (Not being out of place in its location also helps a bunch.)
What I mean is that whatever form the design had in the architect’s mind, must have a reason, a functional basis in reality—not just be something different for its own sake, or something added-on just for the adding of it. I am not fond of Post-Modern architecture for this reason. Go look at The Aventine in La Jolla for an example. The tiny windows I understand (it’s more the perspective of the large wall area), but why are those little adornments there? That doesn’t mean a building can’t have some feature that is intended just for decoration. Just that it should be done well, not simply added-on as if from a catalog. [Read more…]
Talking Heads – Burning Down the House | Video Worth Watching
Music for our Times? Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (and maybe the Senate, too?) [Read more…]
Blues For A Warm Planet [Adagio from Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite] | Video Worth Watching
Here’s the Adagio from Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite, envisioned by Politesseo as a lament for a warming planet. [Read more…]
Mowing My Mother’s Lawn | Geo-Poetic Spaces
I still feel my fathers hands
on top of mine
guiding the push reel mower
over lawn
the satisfaction of sweat
put into each cleanly cut line [Read more…]
Willie Nelson – Vote ‘Em Out (Texas – Rally for Beto) | More Video Worth Watching
At an Austin rally for Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke that Rolling Stone reported drew nearly 60,000, Willie Nelson unveiled a new song aimed at encouraging his fans to exercise their civic duty and to vote. And not only to vote, but to “Vote ’Em Out”! [Read more…]
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (Live At Woodstock 1969) | Video Worth Watching
R.I.P. Marty Balin (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018). Marty Balin was one of the original founders of the Jefferson Airplane and in the early years was its signature voice. This YouTube clip features him performing “Volunteers” live at Woodstock in 1969. Rolling Stone obit: here; Washington Post: here. [Read more…]
Eric Satie : Gnossiennes 1 – 3 / Reinbert de Leeuw ( piano) | Video Worth Watching
Music for a bit of respite from the hectic and insanely tumultuous last few days: Satie’s Gnossiennes 1 – 3 performed by pianist Reinbert de Leeuw. Breathe slowly and deeply. [Read more…]
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