While searching on Youtube for old school electronic music, I came across a series of mixes on vinyl called “Bits and Pieces” from the 80′s and early 90′s. Some are better than others. Nevertheless, I wanted to share one remix by Todd Terry from the “Summer of Love” at the height of Acid House.
Launch the video here (be sure to wear your best headphones and turn up the volume!)
During my visit to NYC, I took time out to visit the Chelsea Gallery District. Of all the shows I took in, the most interesting was David Hockney’s Exhibit at Pace Wildenstein. In this exhibit he presents a body of work of large rural landscapes, using non local colour on a mural scale. The canvases, like his photographs are individual square segments merged together to make the whole. The paintings are his trademark pictures of loosely painted images layered on top of each and very flat. The only sense of depth is created through overlapping and relationships of scale. There is little sense of depth created through colour tempurature and and atmospheric perspective. However, there are about three massive paintings that stand out more than the others. They come across as a new and refreshing direction for the artist. They have more depth and an almost surreal sense of representation (there are strange multiple vanishing points). The colour relationships and the tensions they create are captivating and have the ability, for such large pictures, to draw you in. So much so, that you become part of the painting. I think the works shown above are some of the best by the artist I have seen in a long time. I look forward to seeing more. View work at Pace Wildenstein here.
After the defeat of equal marriage legislation in the State of New York last week and the amount of disappointment felt by many progressive Americans I have witnessed on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, I wanted to share a story told by the Greatest Canadian – Tommy Douglas (Canada’s creator of Universal Healthcare) with my American friends. As early as the 1940s, he travelled the province of Saskatchewan using the story of Mouseland to illustrate the problems with political duopoly between two old line parties that exist to compete against each other in an outdated system for power. Most often at the expense of the average citizen. I have posted a video from the CBC series “Prairie Giant” that shares this story with you. It just might give you some inspiration and something to seriously consider in your sad state of political affairs. Not that Canada’s is any better at the moment.
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