Greenaway Immerses Viewers in Art

Posted on by

By Tim Misir

The St. Petersburg Times

Published: April 23, 2014 (Issue # 1807)

Greenaway entertains the press at the opening of his exhibition with Dutch director Saskia Boddeke in Moscow last week. Photo: Valeriy Belobeev / British Council Russia

The Soviet Union in early 20th century, a time of social and political upheaval, was also an artistic utopia, and saw the interplay of suprematism, constructivism and futurism separate but connected art movements.

Collectively known as the Russian avant-garde, theater directors like Sergei Eisenstein, poets like Mayakovsky and designers such as Alexander Rodchenko, composers, architects and artists like Kandinsky, Malevich and Lizzitsky were just a few of the many who tried to pushed the boundaries of culture and its possibilities.

A new exhibition in Moscow by Dutch theater director Saskia Boddeke and British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, The Golden Age of the Russian Avant-Garde dramatizes these characters and immerses viewers in the context of that period, exploring the lives and works of its key figures through the language of theater and cinema. Twelve pivotal figures from the period of 1910 to 1930, played by Russian actors, are used to tell the story of this period of cultural experimentation and innovation.

More than 1,000 artworks, sourced from galleries and private collections around the world, are displayed as part of the exhibit, but Greenaway and Boddeke add to that by showing the context in which these masterpieces were created, the exchange of ideas between artists and the debates that surrounded them, pieced together from memoirs, manifestos, newspaper articles, published works and personal artifacts.

The characters are shown on multi-screen projections fused with photos, film reels and film clips. They interact with each other, speaking and arguing across screens, and move from one screen to another. They are not presented in a fixed order, running in 15-minute loops, and one can move randomly from viewing one platform to another.

You may be surprised by this exhibition. It is very subjective, Greenaway said at a news conference prior to its opening on Apr. 15, adding that he hoped presenting the works this way would allow them to be viewed in a new light, and that other, previously hidden dimensions of well-known pieces, would be discovered.

View post:

Greenaway Immerses Viewers in Art

Sd Laika – That's Harakiri

Posted on by

Harakiri: a ritual Japanese suicide of disembowelment reserved only for samurai. Seems horrifying, but witnesses insist it was a profoundly impressive sight to behold.

Its an apt title for Milwaukee producer Sd Laikas long-awaited debut album then, as aural demonstrations of ultra violence are carved into something texturally exquisite.

Meshes (below) splits the seas: an Afro-futurism night terror that forces tribal rhythms into industrial hip-hop contortions. Throughout the album, he takes a dark, fast-paced and aggressive grime framework and expropriates it for his own brand of bastard brain-dance. Case in point: I Dont has those choppy, pitch-bending grime synths but batters them with pneumatic percussion thats as brilliant as it is brutal.

Sometimes these obscure noise releases with their morbid artwork and darkened press shots can mask their complete lack of listenability behind a protective black veil of excessive complexity, and the desperation of its listener to feel exclusive. Sd Laika defeats this. His music marries complexity with club-ready thump, resulting in a dystopian dancehall of morbid booty shaking.

8/10

Words: Joe Zadeh

- - -

- - -

Buy Clash Magazine Get Clash on your mobile, for free:iPhone/Android

Go here to read the rest:

Sd Laika - That's Harakiri

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite | Episode 146 | Revenge on MR. Frothy Breath | Terra Ceanataur – Video

Posted on by


Monster Hunter Freedom Unite | Episode 146 | Revenge on MR. Frothy Breath | Terra Ceanataur
Death of a frothy breath Next Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tD7t3Im9A Previous Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4r7m_30lw.

By: Luserk

Read the rest here:

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite | Episode 146 | Revenge on MR. Frothy Breath | Terra Ceanataur - Video

Freedom in the Word Ministries – Why Heaven Celebrates Our Resurrection – 4/20/14 – Video

Posted on by


Freedom in the Word Ministries - Why Heaven Celebrates Our Resurrection - 4/20/14
We are a Non-Denominational church that believes the Denver area Word of Faith revival of the early 80 #39;s is about to begin again and we are already enjoying ...

By: Pastor David Talbert

Read the original:

Freedom in the Word Ministries - Why Heaven Celebrates Our Resurrection - 4/20/14 - Video

Andy Murray Cries As He Is Granted Freedom Of Stirling (PICTURES)

Posted on by

Andy Murray struggled to hold back tears as he was granted the freedom of Stirling on an emotional return to his home town.

The Wimbledon champion was overcome with emotion as he thanked local officials for the honour during a ceremony held in his former school, Dunblane High.

Murray, 26, had to pause and wipe his eyes several times during his speech when he told those gathered in Murray Hall - including girlfriend Kim Sears - "It feels good to be home".

Mother Judy, father William and both sets of his grandparents watched as Stirling Provost Mike Robbins handed the star a framed scroll with his full title, Andy Barron Murray OBE.

Murray, his voice cracking at times, told the audience: "I'm going to keep this very short because there's a good chance I'll get emotional.

"I'd like to thank the council for voting me in - I was expecting a few nos. I was thinking, 'there's got to be one of you who doesn't like me'.

Wimbledon champion Andy Murray signs autographs after he was presented with the Freedom of Stirling, at a special council meeting at his old school, Dunblane High, in his home town this morning.

Wimbledon champion Andy Murray becomes emotional during a speech after the presentation of the Freedom of Stirling, presented to him at a special council meeting at his old school, Dunblane High, in his home town this morning.

Wimbledon champion Andy Murray signs autographs after he was presented with the Freedom of Stirling, at a special council meeting at his old school, Dunblane High, in his home town this morning.

View post:

Andy Murray Cries As He Is Granted Freedom Of Stirling (PICTURES)

Food Freedom cause grows with help

Posted on by

Farmers should have the right to milk a cow and sell a gallon of that milk to their neighbors, argue libertarian supporters of the food freedom movement. They should be able to slaughter and sell the meat of the livestock they raised directly to consumers.

Consumer advocates and Big Ag have fought successfully for years to keep strong federal and state regulations on the books to block such allowances, citing serious food safety concerns. But as buying local has become all the rage and concerns about industrialized agriculture more widespread, the right-leaning food freedom cause is gaining steam and increasingly finding allies on the left.

House legislation to legalize the interstate shipment of unpasteurized milk, which is illegal to sell in about half of the country, recently attracted more Democratic co-sponsors, including Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.). In years past, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) had few allies stand with him on the same issue.

(Also on POLITICO: Full agriculture policy coverage)

In another example of food freedom bipartisanship, Democratic Reps. Pingree and Peter Welch of Vermont teamed up with Republicans Steve Womack of Arkansas and Cory Gardner of Colorado to take on a regulation the FDA proposed under a 2011 food safety law that would impose new safety standards on spent grain, which brewers often donate or sell to livestock farms.

Small-scale producers have also had the support of Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), who gained major exemptions for them when the sweeping food safety overhaul was being considered in the Senate.

However, as the movement gains support inside and outside the Beltway, consumer advocates hope the trend to support small producers doesnt outweigh efforts to make food safer.

When you talk about food freedom and public health, you want food to be free of pathogens, said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America. You have to be very careful in how you look at this and craft those proposals because it could mean putting consumers at risk in order to alleviate some regulatory burdens for local farmers.

(Also on POLITICO: Beer, cows and happy hour)

But supporters of the movement, including Rep. Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who sponsored the two raw milk-related bills and is looking to take a leadership role in the food freedom movement, insist the food safety argument is moot because industrialized agriculture is causing more problems.

See the rest here:

Food Freedom cause grows with help

The German Doctor Is a Fictionalized Run-In with a Nazi Psychopath

Posted on by

Natalia Oreiro and Diego Peretti

The promise of perfection leads to disaster for an Argentinean family in 1960 Patagonia in The German Doctor, a fictionalized account of one clan's run-in with notorious Auschwitz psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele.

Adapting her own novel, writer-director Luca Puenzo keeps the evil physician's identity a secret for the first half of her story, in which Mengele (lex Brendemhl) meets and takes a liking to Lilith (Florencia Bado), a 12-year-old girl with a growth disorder, and consequently decides to stay at the hotel run by her father, Enzo (Diego Peretti), and pregnant-with-twins mother, Eva (Natalia Oreiro).

Soon, Mengele is experimenting on both Lilith and Eva, with Puenzo insinuating that Eva welcomes these hormone trials because her indoctrination at a pro-Nazi school has left her drawn, subconsciously, to eugenics-inspired ideals. Enzo is also eventually seduced by Mengele's ethos when he allows the doctor to finance his porcelain doll-making business (every figurine shall look exactly the same!), a symbolically on-the-nose development that builds to full-on melodramatic overkill.

Puenzo dramatizes her material with an overcooked sense of import that generates scant suspense, even once Israeli agents close in on their Nazi prey. Meanwhile, Lilith's hindsight narration, which plays over shots of the villain's twisted medical notebooks, merely further amplifies the action's borderline-tawdry mood of psychosexual ghoulishness.

View post:

The German Doctor Is a Fictionalized Run-In with a Nazi Psychopath

Anritsu adds GCF approved test cases to lead global roll-out of LTE-Advanced

Posted on by

April 22, 2014 // Jean-Pierre Joosting

Anritsu Corporation has announced that its ME7873L RF Conformance Test System has become the first GCF approved test system to achieve the key milestone of more than 80% test cases supporting Japanese (Band 1-18, Band 1-26), and US (Band 4-13) frequency band combinations for carrier aggregation.

This latest achievement, announced at the April 2014 GCF meeting, achieves a key milestone in the industry for the maturity of the eco-system to deliver stable devices ready for commercial use.

LTE-Advanced is the latest mobile communications standard, supporting higher speeds than LTE now being deployed by carriers worldwide, and uses carrier aggregation as the key technology in reaching higher data speeds of 300 MB/s. GCF validation is part of the certification for commercial release of mobile terminals, and more than 80% of test cases must be approved by GCF as a precondition for terminal certification. This 80% milestone is the trigger for certification to be made, and these carrier aggregation band combinations are being commercially deployed this year.

The ME7873L RF Conformance Test System already took the lead in January 2014 when it was approved by GCF for more than 80% of RF/RRM Conformance Test Cases for the combination of Band 1 and Band 5 used in South Korea, as well as for combinations of Band 3 and Band 8.

http://www.anritsu.com

See the original post:

Anritsu adds GCF approved test cases to lead global roll-out of LTE-Advanced