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10 details, not 8. short film from 1983 by Jame Campion who is probably most famous for directing ‘the piano’ which won some oscars.

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beatrice braun-fock, illustration for das mannlein mittentzwei (1937) [via]

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overdue as usual. a mix for winter. with any luck it’s still cold where you are.

wordthecat – winter 10 mix

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tracklist

[bed] recording from 10th floor. honjo-higashi. osaka.

goldmund – ba (type)
world’s end girlfriend – 誕生の日に (human highway)
annelies monsere – rue de la croix (morc)
terre thaemlitz – love theme from ai no bakudan (comatonse)
kiyoshi mizutani – field recording. west tanzawa in rain, nishizawa and nakagawa river. [buried] (and/oar)
oren ambarchi – trailing moss in mystic glow [buried] (southern lord)
mary ann paterson – reverie for roslyn (sunbeam)
tujiko noriko – let me see your face [aus remix] (nature bliss/kurage)
kiyoshi mizutani – field recording. birds at yozuku path. [buried] (and/oar)
christian fennesz & ryuichi sakamoto – haru (touch)
AGF – alone in the woods (the fox, the skunk, the rabbit) (AGF producktion)
harp on mouth sextet – 六仙迎火 (imagined)
joakim skogsberg – jola från stensäte [buried] (gump/tiliqua)
maxmillion dunbar – loveloop (ramp)

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sounds like… comic book colours display on a black and white tv…

gappy ranks rides swizz beatz’s riddim…

gappy ranks – nothing from them

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transformer riddim

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asparagus

aeroplane to london

stamina udon

swamp water

beard trimmers

cross breeze

no coat

parasite – strong like a lion // detail

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jumping fish

dogs wearing trousers

naked dogs

a man burning plastic

writing group

dead languages

the birds that followed them out to sea

Desire – Colorless Sky // detail

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the olympic opening ceremony

re-building

the passage of time as felt by children

letter writing

flammable sportswear

nail scissors

Tara Cross – TempusFugit // detail

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greek pistachios

optimism

super 8 camera with broken focus

rhubarb crumble

guitars with chorus pedals

fairytale as spectacle

pointed boots

broadcast and the focus group – i see so i see so // detail

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Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis is a british documentary maker whose films tackle his high concept obsessions with power, rationality, identity and cold war psychology. all of his films are on archive where you can stream and download them. of the more recent ones, the trap deals with the political use of the idea of freedom and the power of nightmares deals with terrorism. both are brilliant, but i’ve just been pouring over the mayfair set which charts the rise to dominance of the free market in britain and america. Curtis is a fantastic storyteller, you often hear him directing interviews from behind the camera and he is not shy to contextualise things with amusing tangential details. episode 3 of the mayfair set about the insanity of wall street in the 80s is a case in point (no spoilers here).

most of Curtis’ documentaries were made for the bbc, whose archives of footage are one of his main sets of source material. now he blogs (and embeds archive footage from and) for the bbc too. he’s been writing about afghanistan’s history with the west. it’s good – you should read it.

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montage of images of musician Ahmad Zahir.

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the second blog is

A Journey Round My Skull

A Journey Round My Skull is curated from america but takes in design and illustration from around the world. there’s a heavy focus on book covers and children’s illustrations. frequently amazing. here’s a sample:

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Takeo Takai’s birds (this image 1974)

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Carlo Farneti, illustrations for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, published 1935

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Peter Barker-Mill, wood-engraving for A Voyage round the World by Sparrman, 1944

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Long Neck Deer by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (from a third post of illustrations from Iranian childrens’ books)

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Russian elementary school textbook on The Miracle of Life, 1992

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Augustus Pablo – Eli’s Move

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image – ‘Von Hinten’ by Via Lewandowsky

Shed is based in Berlin. He has one foot in the ostgut ton camp. He makes very good music. He has a new mix up which is full of UK productions. It’s here for the next couple of weeks.

Tracklist:

Moving Ninja – Uranium – Tectonic
Distance – Empire – Hotflush
Peverelist – Esperanto – Punch Drunk
Elemental – Metal Funk – Runtime
Moderat – Rusty Nails – Bpitch
Black Pocket – U’re A Sta (Martyn Remix) – Fat City
Skream – One For The Heads – Tempa
Elemental – Shiner – Urban Graffiti
Aphex Twin – Digeridoo (Live in Cornwall) – R&S
Drexciya – Water Walker – Submerge
Link – The Augur – Evolution
UR- The Seawolf – UR
Surgeon – Dry – Dynamic Tension
Joy Orbison – Wet Look – Hotflush
Loefah – Twisup Vip (RMY by Youngsta & Task) DMZ
Pan Sonic – Vampina 2 – Blast First
MDR – Rerun – MDR
Zomby – Strange Fruit – Ramp
Shed – Supa – Soloaction

House, Garage, Shed. The Domestic Architecture Continuum™ (or da nuum™). This tune is from ‘Shedding The Past’. buy.

Shed – Estrang

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Releases also occasionally appear under the name equalized. Drums buried in the wake. 2009.

Eqd – Untitled

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also interview here:

“[Ostrich Mountain Square] is a kind of field recording. I was hanging out the mic of my window and record what happen on the street. That’s it. I love to play with sounds and technical devices. Always having a 4 to the floor drum makes me bored.”

Shed – Ostrich Mountain Square

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