Here’s a virtual movie of the great Walt Whitman reading his poem Space and Time”” From Leaves of Grass Published in 1900. This edited segment of Section 33 and 46 of “Leaves of Grass””Song of myself” is read by Orson Welles in a recording he originaly made for BBC Radio in 1953. All rights are […]
2010 Berenice Abbott Prize Winner – Christopher Capozziello
The Berenice Abbott Prize for an Emerging Photographer is an international competition administered by The Julia Dean Photo Workshops in honor of Julia Dean’s mentor, famed photographer Berenice Abbott. Each year, one person is selected for this prize and is given a one-person, all expenses paid, exhibition at an LA gallery, an exhibition book, a […]
Jazz Is: 11 – Last Tango in Paris
If you were a cineaste living in New York City in 1972, in the fall of that year what you spoke about was the New York Film Festival, Last Tango in Paris, and Pauline Kael’s New Yorker review of the film. Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris was presented for the first time on the […]
How We Lived on It (25) – Dreams of Kirina (Baaba Maal)
Beginning in Santa Monica, California in 2005, “Playing for Change is a movement to connect the world through music.” Through 2009 it has produced 34 videos from locations around the world. Here, the great Senegalese musician Baaba Maal performs in Kirina, Mali. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has […]
Eating Poetry (XXII) – my cold mad feary father
The conclusion of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, as Anna Livia Plurabelle, the lady of the river, returns in her flow to the sea… I am passing out. O bitter ending! I’ll slip away before they’re up. They’ll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me. And it’s old and old it’s sad and old it’s sad […]