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July 2010

Monday 07/26/2010

Art Links For 07/26/2010

Ma Yanling (LDX) and Ma Yanling (Front Line)
From the Front Line Gallery description: "Ma Yanling is a conceptual artist who uses painting, photography and performance to explore a variety of themes." She's very creative and multi- talented too. I also included a picture of the beautiful Chinese actress Hu Die (Butterfly) from Wikimedia Commons.

Hu Die (Butterfly) (2008)

Hu Die (1946)

Tiananmen Square, No. 02, from the series Gun (2005)

Mitsuru Watanabe
New 2010 paintings. Naoko has her way with Bosch.

Naoko, exploring purgatory (2010)

Jungle Woman Posters (1944, USA)
Who does she remind you of?

The Calendar Girls
I love pinups! Nice big scans too.

Zhou Yanjun
Nice Buddha.

Glorification No.2 (2008)

The Batik Guild via Scout Report
"The art of decorating cloth in this way, using wax and dye, has been practised for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there. The word batik originates from the Javanese tik and means to dot."

Autumn by Marina Elphick

Chemistry Sets via Everlasting Blort

Chemistry Lab

Hispanic Batman

Hispanic Batman Parody Comic Cover

The Japanese Tradition – Apologizing

Shazai

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Music Video Links For 07/26/2010

Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (1974)
I love this Ethiopian jazz sound.

Mulatu Astatke

Pharoah Sanders - You Got To Have Freedom
Indeed...

Pharoah Sanders

Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (1975)
The King of Afrobeat.

Fela Kuti

Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #6 via Motel de Moka
Great stuff.

Motor City Drum Ensemble

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing

Suzanne Vega

Zazie - Zen

Zazie

Zoot Woman - We Won't Break via Motel de Moka

Zoot Woman

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Monday 07/19/2010

Art Links For 07/19/2010

Sunset Magazine Covers
Sunset magazine which was originally published in San Francisco is now over 100 years old. There are more covers here.

Sequoia National Park

Variorum of Classic Tracts and Pamphlets
This is an interesting and somewhat odd set.

Kissing Manual

The Capitalist Pyramid

William Fulton Soare (1896 – 1940)
I love the Egyptian Dancer.

Egyptian Dancer

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Music Video Links For 07/19/2010

John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
This is a great and more recent electric version of his classic blues song that I had not heard before.

John Lee Hooker

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu
Great Ethiopian Jazz!

Mulatu Astatke

Bama The Family - Feeling Good
Afrobeat-like sound.

Bama The Family

Dengue Fever - Ethanopium
This group mixes Cambodia pop with psychedelic music to create a great earthy and surfy sound. I need to get a copy of their first CD - Denque Fever. Woot!

Dengue Fever

The Bamboos - The Witch via SFMOMA Blog
Play that funky music - Aussie Boy!

The Bamboos

Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
They were ahead of their times.

Cabaret Voltaire

Sun Kil Moon - Heron Blue (Music used in Gears of War 3 Trailer) (HD)
Great band!

Sun Kil Moon

Shai No Shai - Sweet Scented Fantasy
Nice sound with Middle Eastern spices.

Shai No Shai

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Monday 07/12/2010

Art Links For 07/12/2010

Aya Takano
These are new Superflat works from one of my favorite living artists - Aya Takano.

Funny Faces (2010)

A Very Good Room (2010)

Umberto Boccioni
This is a beautiful painting from 1912. I love the colors and theme.

Simultaneous Visions (1911/12)

Gita Smite via Cgunit

Emiliga

Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography
This is the first of a three volume set of Twain's autobiography, which includes many of Twain's observations that were filtered out in early editions. I definitely plan to read all of them. Twain is one of heroes.

Twain’s opposition to incipient imperialism and American military intervention in Cuba and the Philippines, for example, were well known even in his own time. But the uncensored autobiography makes it clear that those feelings ran very deep and includes remarks that, if made today in the context of Iraq or Afghanistan, would probably lead the right wing to question the patriotism of this most American of American writers.

Mark Twain