Ornette Coleman: last of the jazz giants
Free radical.
Author: John
Arabesque by John Whitney
I made the complaint in November last year when writing about James Whitney’s Lapis that few of the classic works of abstract cinema have yet to find their way to YouTube. Happily, things change fast in the online world and you can now see a clip of Lapis here. Another recent addition is the whole of Arabesque by James’s brother, John, a very early (1975) example of using computer graphics to create animations. This is necessarily crude by today’s standards—coloured lines and shapes—but it was made at a time when computers frequently filled entire rooms and recording their visual output meant pointing a camera at a monitor. Arabesque has a suitably Arabian santur soundtrack by Manoochehr Sadeghi.
Update: link changed to a better copy.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The abstract cinema archive
Les Farfadais
Some of the talented (and sexy) acrobats from Les Farfadais circus troupe. YouTube has several clips of their performances.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Guillaume Bijl’s buried church
Archaeological Site (A Sorry-Installation) by Guillaume Bijl.
A work for the Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. More views on Flickr.
William Burroughs by Ira Cohen, 1967
An eBay auction. All proceeds, after costs, will benefit Arthur Magazine.
“What else can I say? William Burroughs & his Gilded Cobra…. it’s actually my cobra ….”
Ira Cohen.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda