Zulu Parade 2010 King Jimmie L Felder; Eliot Kamenitz, Times Picayune
Here’s two videos with a bit of Mardi Gras spirit. First, from the Alan Lomax Archive Channel, comes this footage shot by Alan Lomax and his crew in 1982: “Big Chief Jake Millon…
Category Archives: Art, Poetry and Musings
Rural Poetry Series: C.D. Wright
I’m country but sophisticated. I’m particular and concrete, but I’m
probing another plane. . . . There are many times when I want to hammer
the head. Other times I want to sleep on the hammer.
– C. D. Wright
C.D. Wri…
Saturday Song: R.L. Burnside At The Juke Joint
Here’s legendary Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside performing “Dust My Broom” at Junior Kimbrough’s Juke Joint. We found this footage, from the early 1990’s, via the excellent Deep Blues site:
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M12 Collective: Ornitarium
Ornitarium photograph by Richard Saxton
Next week sees the opening of Spaced – Art Out Of Place, the International Biennial of Socially Engaged Art. Members of the M12
collective will join the exhibition and its related symposium to speak
about…
Update: The Black Hills Are Not For Sale
Mural Installation on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles; Honor The Treaties Facebook Page
Last year we discussed Honor The Treaties, a promising collaboration between photographer Aaron Huey, the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and a host of u…
Almanac For Moderns: Rejoicing In The Noon Mercy
[More information on our Almanac For Moderns project and the work of Donald Culross Peattie can be found here.]
January Twenty-First
I wonder how much of fatality has come to the birds in the past week that I have been house-bound, while sto…
A Jetsonorama Panorama
Many thanks to Gary O’Brien for contacting us and sharing this interactive panorama from Jetsonorama’s wheat paste installation in Cameron, Arizona.
What’s striking about this technology is that it not only gives depth and dimension to Jetsonor…
New Multitudes: Singing Woody Guthrie’s Lost Lyrics
The cover art for New Multitudes; Rounder Records
As we’ve mentioned previously, 2012 marks the centennial of Woody Gutrie’s birth.
We’ve just learned more about one of the birthday year’s most anticipated releases: New Multitiudes, an effort t…
The People Speak: New Work From Jetsonorama
Wheat paste of CJ at the Tuba City, AZ, rodeo grounds on fair day; Jetsonorama
Where else would you find a black guy applying wallpaper to the
outside of an outhouse at 7 in the morning at a rodeo on an indian
reservation? Only in Ameri…
What’s The Matter With Iowa? [Part 1]
Stephen Bloom in the classroom; Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada Reno
I’m sorry; this is the way I do it. This is called satire. This is called parody.
– Stephen Bloom, interviewed on NBC’s Rock Center
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