#i already have my own shot which ones of the cd will have highest two voters

[koenosekai]

Vote For the Next Translation is Now Open!

Hello, Icchan is here! I decided to create a poll for the next translations. I will take 2 drama CDs with the highest voting to be translated. I will open the vote from today until 2nd February 2018 3:00 PST

I will give a little summary and my thought about this CDs. Please DON’T JUST CHOOSE THE DRAMA CD BASED ON THE SEIYUU X’D /and that’s what exactly what Icchan would do/ 

Okay, here we go!

There are 5 Drama CDs I’m willing to translate. Out of this five, I will take 2 highest votes to be translated. Please read this before choosing!

Notes:

- Please inform me if there are any drama CDs that were already being translated by other people. I will take it down right away.

- The Summary is not related to the official summary for the CD— I summarized this by myself after hearing the entire CDs.

1. Yappari Tame (Dōkyūsei) no Koibito ga Suki! ~ Fujisawa Minato hen ~ (Vol. 2)

Japanese: やっぱりタメ（同級生）の恋人が好き！

Voice Actor: Domon Atsushi (Satou Takuya)

~ Office Romance, Fluff ~

 Summary: You are in the secret relationship with superior in your company, Fujisawa Minato, who is in the same age with you. There are lots of reason for both of you to hide your relationship, even though there are no rules to forbid relationship with the worker from the same company. You both choose to stay that way before misunderstanding and love rival come into your relationship.

My Thought: This drama CD is good the smut scene. Minato is a hard-working guy who is insensitive— he doesn’t realize the way he speaks caused misunderstanding for the MC, he doesn’t even realize he is quite popular with the company. Well, I could say that Minato is my type of someone ‘manly,’ I could say he is one of my type of ‘perfect kind of guy.’ No, no. It’s not only because Takuyan voiced him— NO! Well, the reason I choose to listen for the first time was that, alright— but Minato is also cool by himself! You will understand if you listen to this drama CD!

Also, STELLAWORTH TOKUTEN FOR THIS CD IS SO CUTE.Should I add this for the next, next next (?) in line? Well, if there are someone who request this, I will translate it next time!

 2. Damenzu Sensei ~ Moto Akogare no Kōkō Kyōshi ~ 

Japanese: ダメンズ先生～元憧れの高校教師

Voice Actor: Chasuke (Katou Masayuki)

~ Teacher x (ex) Student, Fluff, Ore-sama Character, Comedy (I’m not joking, I laughed so hard when hearing this CD) ~

 Summary: Ooshiro Takashi, 31, High School Physics Teacher (or should I say ‘was’?). He was once your homeroom teacher— crush from your high school era. A serious and smart teacher, but very refreshing, good-humored and pleasant gentleman. Very popular teacher, so many girl students longed for him— one of them was you. Well, it was a long time ago— you are now matured adult with a job when you meet Ooshiro-sensei once again...

.. But why does he look so different? Is he really ‘Ooshiro-sensei’ you knew back then? The serious teacher was staggering around on the street, drunk?! Then he asked you to ‘take care of him.’ A different side of the teacher you once longed for!

My Thoughts: This is one of my favorite Drama CDs! Ooshiro-sensei is kind of funny person for me. He was the one who built the image of ‘serious and cool teacher, but very refreshing and pleasant,’ then he admitted to you “Yeah, right— like the perfect human being such as that exists!” I’m dying of laughter. 

He is also an ore-sama character— he spoke what was on his mind and it sounded a little bit rude, but that what makes me love him. Masayuki-san’s way of speaking is really funny— you should listen to this CD, I recommend you! Well, he spoke a little bit fast so it will be a little hard to translate the whole sentence— but since this drama CD is very funny (for me), so I’m willing to translate this!

  3. Mibōjin to Aigan Shounen ～ Vi Et Animo ～ 

Japanese: 未亡人と愛玩少年～ Vi et Animo ～ 

Voice Actor: Yataro Matsutake (Enoki Jun’ya)

 ~ Slave x Master, One-Sided Love ~

 Summary: After your husband who is old enough to be your father died, you became a young widow with enormous inheritance. You, who accumulated lots of lovers, grew tired of them. One day, a slave with beautiful eyes caught your eyes, so you decided to buy him and made him your ‘lover.’ He didn’t have a name, so you name him ‘Viridis.’

Viridis, who learned kindness and lots of things he never knew when he was still being treated as a slave, slowly began to fall in love with you, despite knowing very well he was just a toy for his mistress, you.

 My Thoughts: I love the plot— where a slave learned lots of things and began fall in love with his master because of the kindness she showed to him. But, well… I feel sorry for Viridis— this is a one-sided love story. The climax is a little bit ambiguous and the end of this drama cd is a little bit disappointing for me. Even so, I love Viridis— he is not that polite, to begin with (on the first track, he learned to use polite words, but you told him not to force himself.) I feel sorry for him, really. Viridis deserves better. ;_;

 4. Domon Atsushi Darake: Chotto Daitan Ni Natte 

Japanese: 土門熱だらけ ~ ちょっと大胆になって?? ~

Voice Actor: Domon Atsushi (Satou Takuya)

Part 1: Deliveryman x University Student

Part 2: AV Actor x AV Writer

 Summary: Do we need one, really? The sentences above describe almost the whole summary too well. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Basically, this CD has more daring plot than usual. This CD contains two different stories-- part 1 is from Track 1 until 3, Part 2 is from Track 4 until 6.

 My Thoughts: Oh yes. I approve this CD. So much. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) You will not be disappointed.

 5. Salaryman, Hiroimashita. 

Japanese: サラリーマン、拾いました。

Voice Actor: Yotsuya Cider (Okitsu Kazuyuki)

 ~ Fluff, Cats (meowing in the story— this is important notes) ~

 Summary: One day back from work, you saw gentleman was playing with a cat in the park. After some questions to this gentleman, you learned that he was the victim of marriage fraud. On top of that, he was forced to leave company’s dormitory because he burdened himself by his senior’s mistake. To summarize it all, he didn’t have a place to get back and he decided to stay the night at the park. You feel like you just can’t leave him alone, inviting him to stay at your place for a while until he got the job. This kind man named Asano started to live at your place, starting to fill up your live.

 My Thoughts: The first thought went to my head after reading the summary was, “… w, wait is that dangerous?! Inviting a man to your place?!” But after listening to the CD, I can summarize that Asano is a kind and decent human being. It was very easy for Asano to fall in love with the heroine— you in the story is very kind and gentle girl. I don’t think anyone would not feel the way Asano feels for her after being treated with such gentleness. Also, the cat meows in the story is cute (this is important).

YOU CAN VOTE FOR THESE DRAMA CDS HERE >> http://poll.fm/5wj74

P.S

~ You can vote for more than one drama CD, but remember that I will only take 2 (two) highest voting to be translated! ~

~ I’m sorry for the anonymous-chan who recommended me to translate Hen’ai Kareshi. I don’t think I’m mentally (?) prepared for the dirty talk for now X’D I think I will translate Hen’ai Kareshi after the two out of these five drama CDs are done being translated. <3

~ Don’t forget the deadline and enjoy the poll~! <3

[watusichris]

A Bob Dylan Story, or Two

WARNING: The following may contain spoilers. Yes, spoilers.

In Martin Scorsese’s 2005 documentary Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, which takes in Dylan’s youth and the first five years of his recording and touring career, the late Izzy Young, the founder of Greenwich Village’s Folklore Center, picks through an early Dylan bio. He notes some of the singer’s more outrageous accounts about his early travels, and his claims of learning songs from blind Chicago street singer Arvella Gray and Texas songster Mance Lipscomb.

“I should have figured out right away he was bullshitting me,” Young says.

From the very first, bullshitting was an important, even preeminent part of Dylan’s self-manifestation, and some of the recent acts of archival curation on the musician’s behalf have also involved no small amount of manure spreading. (cf. my piece on the gospel set Trouble No More, here: https://watusichris.tumblr.com/post/167349872212/a-dylan-a-day-annex-narrow-is-the-way).

Scorsese’s new film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, which premieres on Netflix June 12, is being described in some quarters as a “documentary,” but it is animated in no small measure by large servings of highly entertaining mendacity. Its subject gives a bit of the game away in its early minutes: Dylan takes a stab at explaining what the subject of the film might be, then halts abruptly and says, “Ah, bullshit.”

The movie, which is being accompanied by a 14-CD boxed set of music (my Variety review: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/bob-dylan-rolling-thunder-revue-live-box-set-review-1203235093/), is a major reclamation project. The copious documentary footage of Dylan’s titular tour of 1975 was shot for his maiden project as a film director, the excruciating, nearly four-hour Renaldo & Clara. I had a hand in launching that self-indulgent disaster in 1978, and to say the grosses were nightmarish is an understatement -- it flopped on arrival. It’s still a chore to view this addled junior-high stab at Children of Paradise. Watching it today at its full length on YouTube, I wanted to remove my brain from my skull with my own hands.

Dreadful as Dylan’s movie was, some astounding performances by Dylan and his many Rolling Thunder co-stars and cohorts could be found amid its stupor-inducing dramatic improvisations by Dylan and his cast of non-professionals (who included his wife Sara, whom he was trying to woo back into his good graces, and his former paramour and singing partner Joan Baez).

Wisely pretending that Renaldo & Clara never existed, Scorsese organizes the blazing footage of Dylan, his immense and febrile RTR band, and his co-stars into a chronological account, augmented by new testimony, of what the late poet and tour fellow traveler Allen Ginsberg calls “a con man carny medicine show” in a vintage interview.

Since Renaldo & Clara has been officially buried in the vaults for four decades and never officially released on home video, and the concert material that hasn’t been scrubbed from the Internet is not of the highest quality, the vibrant, newly cleaned-up footage in Scorsese’s feature will most assuredly blow minds.

Part of the Rolling Thunder Revue’s allure derives from the starry trek’s short run of remote ’75 dates in New England and Canada, and the movie delivers the goods in spades, offering up those obscure shows in all their forceful glory. The visually pristine sequences of Dylan and company hurling themselves through then brand-new numbers like “One More Cup of Coffee,” “Isis,” “Romance in Durango,” and “Hurricane” and high-watt rearrangements of oldies like “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” shook the theater at the screening I attended.

Dylan himself is especially intense onscreen in his whiteface and plumed, flower-bedecked, wide-brimmed hat, dashing around the stage and locking eyes with his band mates and duet partners Baez and Roger McGuinn. Customarily a non-presence in front of a camera (even in his own movie), he is ferociously alive behind the RTR mic.

No less exciting is material captured by the side of the road, like a version of Peter LaFarge’s  “Ballad of Ira Hayes,” about the Native American hero of Iwo Jima, played at a Tuscarora Indian reservation, or an impromptu run-through by Joni Mitchell of her new song “Coyote” (reputedly inspired by an affair with tour mate Sam Shepard) with Dylan and McGuinn in Gordon Lightfoot’s living room.

Despite its seemingly conventional contours, Scorsese’s look at the short, lively life of the Rolling Thunder Revue should not be confused with his relatively straightforward docs like No Direction Home, The Last Waltz (which also features Dylan), or his films about George Harrison and the Rolling Stones.

“Life is about creating yourself,” Dylan says, and Scorsese acts as an accomplice in the present endeavor. The results are enjoyably perverse.

The sleight-of-hand approach announces itself in the film’s first minute. It begins with a clip from an 1896 short by Georges Meliés, the subject of Scorsese’s 2011 homage Hugo, in which the French filmmaking magician makes a woman disappear. (Just as the director renders Sara Dylan invisible in the proceedings, it should be noted.) A title card immediately appears: “Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Revue.” The word “conjuring” suggests that some of what the audience will be seeing is at once something more than and somewhat less than the truth. (A lyric comes to mind: “All the people we used to know, they’re an illusion to me now.”)

Keener-witted viewers of Rolling Thunder Revue may have already started to wonder about the veracity of some of what they’ve been watching by the time they reach a segment, late in the film, in which former Michigan congressman Jack Tanner talks about a trip to a Rolling Thunder show in Niagara Falls that was facilitated by President Jimmy Carter.

After you realize that “Tanner” is the actor Michael Murphy, reprising his role in Robert Altman’s political mockumentary Tanner ’88, you may start to understand that some of what you’ve already seen is the purest fiction. You then find yourself second-guessing some of the talking heads who offer their recollections.

So was that “European film director” actually a part of the crew shooting the tour? Or is he possibly a former performance artist? How is it that one of the purported tour promoters shares the name of the current chairman of a major Hollywood studio? Nah, couldn’t be. Should we believe an assertion by Ronnie Hawkins, who played “Bob Dylan” in Renaldo & Clara, that Scarlet Rivera, the exotic violinist on the tour, was a major freak who invited him to her hotel room to watch her have sex? (“She had a sword,” both Hawkins and Dylan report, darkly.) Was Rivera’s boyfriend really Gene Simmons of KISS, whose makeup supposedly inspired Dylan’s whiteface? (That one’s a real hoot!) Should we trust Sharon Stone, the star of Scorsese’s Casino, when she describes joining the tour as a 17-year-old?

Not content to toy with his own reality, Dylan has obviously given license to Scorsese to toy with everyone else’s, too. Note the picture’s subtitle again: “a Bob Dylan story.” In this case, a good synonym for “story” is “yarn,” and a decent yarn it is.

I suppose it’s appropriate that Allen Ginsberg, making a poignant posthumous return to Dylan’s stage, is the beating heart of Rolling Thunder Revue. After all, he was a man who appeared in Jack Kerouac’s novels as fictional characters – Carlo Marx, Alvah Goldbook, Irwin Garden, Adam Moorad. Dylan calls him “the Oracle of Delphi” here, and he brings the picaresque rigor of the Beats to the film, as he declaims his hardcore elegy “Kaddish” to an audience of little old ladies at a mahjongg tournament, reads Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues at the novelist’s Massachusetts grave site, and dances ecstatically in a hotel ballroom.

The poet is granted the film’s final moments, in which he instructs the audience to  “pick up on some redemption of your own consciousness, and make it for your own eternity.” That line seems almost like a description of Dylan’s and Scorsese’s playbook for this unusual movie.

[lastchancevillagegreen]

Monday, 25 July, 2022:

Collected John Hiatt (Universal) (released in 2012)

I didn’t know such a three disc set as this even existed until I began investigating John Hiatt’s catalog last year and in more detail this year.  I’ve been listening to Hiatt’s catalog at the rate of one album a week, playing it daily for one week before moving on to the next album.  I began with his first band, White Duck’s second album In Season which came out on Uni in 1972 (Hiatt was not in the band when their first album came out in 1971).  I only have two more Hiatt albums to get through (The Eclipse Sessions and Leftover Feelings) and then I’ll close out with this three disc set, at the rate of one disc per week. 

This set contains 15 rarities (and I’m being generous in counting Don’t Go Away Mad from Little Village).  Why did I count that?  Well, if you only own Hiatt’s albums credited to him, you won’t have the song.  But I’m pretty sure if you are a John Hiatt fan you probably own Little Village.  Still, at the end of this entry, you will find the tracklist and where each song hails from originally.

This set was released in the Netherlands in 2012 on three discs.  Then it was reissued on vinyl in 2017 in Europe.  However, the vinyl version is only two LPs and omits virtually all of the rarities.  Therefore if you want this you need to track down the CD version.  I got mine from Sweden proving that the discogs want list is a good (and dangerous thing).  I had only just bought Velvet Elvis’ What In The World, landing the highest price sold on discogs for that album when five days later, this came up on my wantlist.  Once again, I landed the highest price for this item.  Record collecting in the internet age is an amazing thing and you can find virtually anything. 

My photos above show the front of the digipak.  The middle photo shows what it looks like when you open it once and the third shot shows the back of the digipak revealing the tracklist.  Below you see what this looks like when you lift the first folded panel.

And this next photo shows what it looks like when you lift the second folded panel. 

The third disc is inside the sleeve of that panel you see directly above.  I didn’t photograph it because it looks just like the other two discs.  At first I worried that the third disc wasn’t present, but that was just irrationality overrunning me for a moment’s notice.

The next two photo show you the essay found in the booklet.  I didn’t photograph the three pages of tracklist because they tell us nothing about where these songs come from.  You can see the tracklist on that third photo way at the top. 

Here is the tracklist written out with details where it all comes from.

Sure As I'm Sittin' Here (Hangin’ Around The Observatory)

Hangin' Around The Observatory (Hangin’ Around The Observatory)

I'm Tired Of Your Stuff (Overcoats)

Radio Girl (Slug Line)

Sharon's Got A Drugstore (Slug Line)

Pink Bedroom (Two Bit Monsters)

It Hasn't Happened Yet (Two Bit Monsters)

I Look For Love (All of A Sudden)

Something Happens (All of A Sudden)

Riding With The King (Riding With The King)

Girl On A String (Riding With The King)

She Loves The Jerk (Riding With The King)

The Love That Harms (Riding With The King)

Lovers Will (Riding With The King)

Say It With Flowers (Riding With The King)

The Usual (Warming Up To The Ice Age)

She Said The Same Things To Me (Warming Up To The Ice Age)

Living A Little, Laughing A Little (Warming Up To The Ice Age)

Memphis In The Meantime (Bring the Family)

Thing Called Love (Bring the Family)

Lipstick Sunset (Bring the Family)

Learning How To Love You (Bring the Family)

Have A Little Faith In Me (Bring the Family)

Thank You Girl (Bring the Family)

Tip Of My Tongue (Bring the Family)

Georgia Rae (Slow Turning)

Tennessee Plates (Slow Turning)

Slow Turning (Slow Turning)

Drive South (Slow Turning)

Already Loved (B-Side to Slow Turning)

One Step Over The Line (Taken from Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol II)

Stolen Moments (Stolen Moments)

Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder (Stolen Moments)

Real Fine Love (Stolen Moments)

Bring Back Your Love To Me (Stolen Moments)

Just Enough Ashland City (Taken from The Rest of The Dream by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Hiatt wrote it but doesn’t sing on it, which makes this an odd inclusion)

Don't Go Away Mad (Little Village)

Buffalo River Home (Perfectly Good Guitar)

Perfectly Good Guitar (Perfectly Good Guitar)

Cross My Fingers (Perfectly Good Guitar)

Something Wild (Perfectly Good Guitar)

They All Leave Town (from European three track EP Perfectly Good Guitar)

Little Goodnight (from Japanese CD single Perfectly Good Guitar and European CD single Cross My Fingers)

Perfectly Good Guitar (Acoustic Version) (from European CD single Buffalo River Home and US Maxi-Single Angel)

True Believer (from European CD single Have A Little Faith In Me (Live) & US promo CD single Cross My Fingers)

Too Live To Leave (from German CD single I’ll Never Get Over You)

Dust Down A Country Road (Walk On)

Cry Love (Walk On)

Graduated (Little Head)

Love In Flames (previously unreleased song on 1998 The Best of John Hiatt)

Don't Know Much About Love (previously unreleased song on 1998 The Best of John Hiatt)

Icy Blue Heart (Live) (Hiatt Comes Alive At Budokan)

Angel Eyes (Live) (Hiatt Comes Alive At Budokan)

Your Dad Did (Live) (from bonus disc on Australian pressing of Perfectly Good Guitar)

Georgia Rae (Acoustic/ 2 Meter Sessies) (from Netherlands compilation De Beste 2 Meter Sessies Allertijden)

What Do We Do Now (Acoustic/ 2 Meter Sessies) (from Netherlands compilation 2 Meter Sessies Volume 10)

Have A Little Faith In Me (Acoustic/ 2 Metter Sessies) (only found on Netherlands three CD Collected)

And no, this is hardly complete for Hiatt rarities.  There isn’t any sign of Snake Charmer, the song that appears on the soundtrack for White Nights nor does it include Spy Boy from the soundtrack for Cruising.  To be really inclusive, I would have preferred Sail Away or You Caught Me Laughin’ from In Season by White Duck as opposed to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band singing a John Hiatt tune or perhaps a few less tracks from Riding With The King and Bring The Family (both great albums without a doubt).  Then there are the various tribute albums he appears on: Love For Levon where he covers Rag Mama Rag or how about My Dog and Me from the 2003 compilation Broadcasts Vol 11?  This list can go on and on and I’ve included nothing that came out after this three disc set was released in 2012.

[richard-md-scott]

Technical Methods, Materials, Workshop Practices

The original idea when considering photograms was to try and recreate some of the ink drawings I’ve done over the last few months partly as a way of seeing what it’s like to try a totally different method to theoretically “do the same thing” and partly to see what possibilities are created specifically by doing it in a non-linear or non-time-orientated process (as distinct from the very linear nature of drawing). These are three drawings from the series:

The pictures were all outlined in pen at first, using a circular stencil, and then the circles were filled in with acrylic ink, using a paintbrush. The size of the gap between circles was as carefully controlled as possible - using the stencil allowed me to place each one next to the last at a distance precise to a fraction of a millimetre just by eye. I built the perimeter of each hexagon, progressing anti-clockwise from the top centre until I met the beginning again and then continued inwards from the perimeter to fill the shape. The natural impossibility of arriving back in line with the initial circles (even carefully controlled parameters only go so far when applied to the human hand and eye) resulted in fractures in the shape which were then “ironed out” when building in from the edge. The idea was that the same process applied a number of times will always be different and that the series will map out a collection of snapshots from the range of space-filling possibilities.

The photogram recreations are going to be done by arranging pennies on a glass plate between the photo paper and the light source. The reason for the plate was so I’d be able to take a shot, then swap the exposed sheet for a new one, then rearrange the coins slightly and do another shot, etc. This process will differ from the hand-drawn method in a number of ways, and, structurally, the resulting images would be less tied to the procedure of following the perimeter round and committing each circle to its position on turn because the coins won’t be fixed in place - they will be dependent on larger movements of groups of coins pushing against each other with a knock-on effect.

During my first session in the dark room I shot a handful of small sheets and adjusted the settings on the enlarger a bit, so I could get a feel for the effects my adjustments were having.

I started by raising the glass plate off the backboard with a penny under each corner so as to get the shortest possible distance between the glass and the photo paper beneath, then arranged some coins in the middle. I then took my first two shots, adjusting the contrast in between them.

It seemed that I was right about getting the crisp edges - the ratio of the distance between light source and glass to the distance between glass and paper is related to the question of focus when enlarging negatives, but in the case of photograms, as there is no negative, the closer the glass suspending the coins is to the paper, the crisper the edges will be, (when enlarging a negative, the two distances need to be proportional to one another). Also, changing the contrast slightly made no visible difference, I think because the black areas of the paper was already getting really pretty saturated with light and couldn’t get much blacker.

I was very pleased with the level of clarity I managed so quickly - I felt I had already sort of immediately found my ideal way of producing these, but I wanted to get an idea of the sort of effect playing around with these distances would have, and some interesting things started happening...

The second pair of images were shot when the glass was raised off the board by a CD case on either side, instead of pennies (so, approximately 6x higher). It’s hard to tell with the quality of the scans I was able to upload to Tumblr but there are actually some thin black lines near the edge of the white circles, as if the adjacent circles have outlines a couple of millimetres from their own edges which are only visible in the white areas (they’re clearest just within the top of the upper of the two central circles). The only variable I changed before making this second pair was the height of the plate, so I am guessing this is caused by refraction through the glass.

For the third pair I added another 4 CDs on each side so at this point the plate was a good 3 or so inches higher then the paper. I also lowered the lightbulb to its maximum to push that ratio as far as it would go the other way. I knew there would be some form of blurring but I was quite surprised at how they came out:

It seemed to me that the lines in the second pair probably were indeed refraction and now in the third, the angle of that refraction has increased so the black circle outlines are wider and the edges are more spread out. Also, there is bleeding where the white circles touch each other; the small amount of light that can get past blurs the points of contact. The one on the left is darker because I increased the exposure time. I’ll have to do some practice balancing the contrast and exposure time because I’m interested first of all in heightening the clarity of the pictures, which I think will be done with maximum effective contrast (simply setting the light to its highest contrast level - with yellow at 0 and magenta at 100 - in practice I think won’t do it as it has to be relative to the exposure time)

Second of all I’m interested in the emergent nature of these fragments of outlines, and would really like to try and push that a little further. Those last two photograms reminded me strongly of particular works by two very interesting people, both of them among my favourite artists but between whom I hadn’t really seen a connection before: The American Linda Francis (1943-) and the Dutch artist and sculptor - and I think also architect/designer - Arie Jansma (1907-1992). I’m not sure because there’s almost nothing written about him online and little more offline it seems. But he appears to have been interested in crystal-like formations of small circles too and I think they might even have been photograms. Below are two of his pictures from the late 60s on the left, and an untitled drawing from 1992 by Linda Francis on the right:

The comparison with Francis’ drawing is, in a way, superficial because my blurred refractions came about in a very different way to her erased charcoal lines, but I did find the compositional similarities striking! A central part of her work at the time was about time-orientated processes, and in a sense that’s the very factor I’m trying to bypass by making photograms, but my drawing practice certainly owes her a lot.

The relevance of the Jansma pictures to mine, I think, is more significant because with his it’s the focus level, or ”resolution” and the positioning of the circles which together determine the individual shapes and cumulative effect of the “circles” themselves, and this I find very interesting (c.f. my last #technical methods 2017 post where I spoke about seeking to make work whose content is intrinsically also its method of creation).

I’m going back into the dark room tomorrow and if I’ve got time would like to try and do some recreations of drawings and also some refraction experiments, but first I’ll do some testing to get the contrast/exposure time balance clearer in my mind.

[bestmarleylove-blog]

Bounce Marley Biography and Top 10 Songs

Ganja Grower

Bounce Marley has been one of my preferred craftsmen for quite a while. I most likely claim more Bob Marley CD's than some other band or craftsman except for Wu-Tang. My companions mum D, is somewhat liable for my tuning in to Bob throughout the years since when I was little I used to like the tune Jammin' and used to play the 45 single I had, all things considered, the time and I had got the single off her. I would state I have a Bob CD in my stereo 90% of the time (it can have 3 in at once). Weave made great music as well as the messages that the verses were about were of harmony and opportunity. 

Robert "Sway" Nesta Marley was conceived in Jamaica on February sixth 1945 and is the best of any Reggae craftsman ever. The collection Legend has sold more than 12 million duplicates around the world. At the point when Bob was a youngster he lived in the ghettos of Kingston's Trench town and had gained notoriety for "self-protection" which earned him the title "Tuff Gong" which he and the Wailers used to make their very own record mark in 1970. 

Bounce and a portion of his companions (Bunny Livingston, Junior Braithwaite, Peter McIntosh, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith framed the Wailers in 1963 however by 1966 there was just Bob, Bunny and Peter left. The Wailers discharged their first collection (Catch A Fire) in 1973 to enormous accomplishment after their marking to JAD Records in London, England. Solid Jungle being the best melody from the collection. Before long to follow was the arrival of Burnin' which had a portion of the Wailers most well known melodies I Shot The Sheriff, Get Up, Stand Up and Small Ax. Eric Clapton additionally had colossal accomplishment with a front of I Shot the Sheriff which raised Bob into people in general eye. Learn more Ganja Grower

In 1974 the Wailers separated, each to seek after their very own performance vocations however Bob still kept on recording as "Sway Marley and The Wailers" with his new sponsorship band which comprised of Carlton and Aston Barrett, Junior Marvin, Tyrone Downie, Al Anderson and Earl Lindo. Support vocalists were Rita Marley (Bob's better half), Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. 

The new line-up had their first worldwide hit with No Woman, No Cry which was on the Natty Dread collection discharged in 1975 close by different hits, Lively Up Yourself and Rebel Music. The collection Rastaman Vibration was discharged in 1976 in the US and was at the highest point of the Billboard graphs for about a month. 

Two days before Bob Marley would set out on his Smile Jamaica visit Bob, Rita and their chief were harmed during a shootout inside Bob's home. The assault was accounted for as being politically persuaded the same number of individuals felt the visit was a help rally. Despite the fact that all concerned got genuine wounds they all made full recuperations and the visit went on as arranged with a harmed Bob performing in front of an audience. 

Before the finish of 1976 Bob Marley left Jamaica and moved to London, England where he recorded two collections (Exodus, which had the hits: Exodus, Three Little Birds, Jammin', One Love and holding up In Vain, and Kaya which gloated: Easy Skanking, Kaya, Is This Love, Satisfy My Soul and Sun Is Shining among its singles). While in London Bob was captured for ownership of cannabis. 

In 1978 Bob came back to home for the One Love Peace Concert to help with the harmony exertion and to help quiet the warring gatherings in Jamaica. At Bob's solicitation both political pioneers (Manley and Seaga) went along with him in front of an audience and shook hands. Babylon By Bus was discharged additionally in 1978 which was a live twofold collection, the melody Jammin catches the groups wild and furious power to Bob's presentation. 

Endurance which was discharged in 1979 was a political explanation about the enduring of the African populace. The collection contained some dubious tunes, for example, Africa Unite, Wake Up And Live and Zimbabwe. Weave was additionally welcomed to perform at Zimbabwe's Independence Day on April seventeenth. 

Uprising which was discharged in 1980 was to be Bob's last studio collection and is one of his most strict collections. The collection contained Could You Be Loved, Forever Loving Jah and Redemption Song (his celebrated verses being: Emancipate yourselves from mental bondage, none yet ourselves can free our minds...). 

Weave passed on May eleventh 1981 from malignancy which had begun in his toe (because of a soccer mishap) in 1977. Weave would not have his foot excised on account of his Rastafarian convictions which state that the body must stay entirety. After some time the disease had metastasized into Bob's stomach, liver, lungs and cerebrum. 

Encounter was discharged after Bob's demise and contained the unreleased tune Buffalo Soldier and melodies already just accessible in Jamaica (Jump Nyabinghi and Rastaman Live Up). 

My Top 10 Bob Marley Songs are: 

01. Vivacious Up Yourself 

02. Little Ax 

03. Channel Town Rock 

04. Duppy Conqueror 

05. Might You be able to Be Loved 

06. Jammin' 

07. One Love 

08. Reclamation Song 

09. Holding up In Vain 

10. Wild ox Soldier 

View the full blog for my top music audits of groups tunes and specialists and offer with me your remarks and your top melodies.

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Review: Mid90s

A fairly good coming-of-age film that you have most likely seen earlier than

I’ve very distinct reminiscences of my twelve years attending an all-boys college within the Philadelphia suburban space and although it is a radically totally different state of affairs than what’s introduced in Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s, I could not assist however suppose again to that have. For that lengthy chunk of my life, I used to be surrounded by younger boys aspiring to be masculine in a fairly short-sighted method. That’s one in every of a number of themes and throughlines in Mid90s, which acts as Hill’s ode to 1990’s Los Angeles, skate tradition, hip-hop, and the struggles of adolescence.

It is a acquainted story, and anybody who’s ever adopted the indie film scene for nonetheless lengthy has undoubtedly seen movies of its ilk earlier than. Regardless of its familiarity, and what I felt was an abrupt ending, I discovered myself drawn to the way it depicted dynamics between youths, familial dysfunction, and abusive relationships. Mid90s can also be a wonderful showcase for 13-year outdated lead actor Sunny Suljic, who the gaming neighborhood will acknowledge as Atreus from God of Struggle. The boy’s obtained a vibrant future forward.

Mid90s Director: Jonah Hill Launch Date: October 19, 2018 (Restricted) Score: R

Stevie (Suljic) is not in one of the best household surroundings. Whereas he has an affectionate relationship along with his single mom Dabney (Katherine Waterston), he’s continuously subjected to bodily and verbal abuse from his hot-headed older brother Ian (Lucas Hedges). It is not till he observes a bunch of skater children that Stevie is impressed to go a distinct course, away from his unsatisfactory home life.

Regardless of the prominence of 90s L.A. skating tradition within the movie’s plot, it is not the first focus of the story. It is a car for Stevie’s coming of age story and an incredible and handy visible method to monitor his progress as he weaves his means deeper into the social circles of this sub-culture. Hill shot the movie in 16mm, with the picture having a grainy high quality to it and the facet ration being a boxy four:three, which at first looks as if a way-too-obvious technique to make the movie look “classic,” however is justified by the ultimate scene.

Lengthy story quick, Jonah Hill proves that he is aware of direct a movie with Mid90s. The visuals and modifying have been deliberate punchy, and complimented decently with a well-curated soundtrack and a musical rating composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; it is a brighter and optimistic rating from their typical darker David Fincher fare. Regardless of the story itself delving into some acquainted tropes, the performing, dialogue, and general characterization as written and directed by Hill is what gave this movie some added texture.

I am prepared to guess that the majority People, no matter East Coast or West Coast, will discover no less than a number of the loosest and fundamental parallels with their childhood buddy teams and the group of skater boys in Mid90s. Stevie is introduced on by Ruben (Gio Galicia), who comes throughout as probably the most guarded and insecure one of many group. “I smoke, I fuck bitches,” this little child tells Stevie. We see his exterior start to peel off when Stevie goes towards a few of his items of recommendation and wins the approval of his friends, just like the timid filmmaker “Fourth Grade” (Ryder McLaughlin), the impulsive (and infrequently self-destructive) “Fuckshit” (Olan Prenatt), and Ray (Na-kel Smith), the de facto chief, who just isn’t solely probably the most expert skater of all of them, however probably the most mature of the group.

We liken adolescence to a time the place “issues have been easier” with fewer cares on the earth, however this movie actually goes into the center of advanced social dynamics between youthful people. I felt like each mixture of the characters amongst the skater group had a definite relationship to trace via the movie, and Hill crafts them with a subtlety that enables them to organically evolve. It felt extra restrained than one thing you’d see from a Concord Korine movie, however the unfastened, pure dialogue did have shades of Youngsters and Gummo. I did not understand this till studying up on the movie after watching it, however Korine did certainly make a cameo as a one-night stand for Stevie’s mom.

Talking of, my touch upon each mixture having their very own little arc additionally applies to Stevie’s household. Waterston comparatively would not have an excessive amount of display time as Dabney, however there was nonetheless a lot to extrapolate from our time together with her. We see Stevie mendacity down on his flooring, his mom on his mattress, as the 2 are proven to have common, presumably satisfying and profound conversations; she seems to be the opposite means although she is unsure of her son’s new crowd, which is all principally silently conveyed, and he or she solely intervenes when a sure threshold is crossed. With Hedges as Ian, there may be all the time a storytelling issue in portray abusive characters as too sympathetic, however the best way Ian is dealt with feels sensible, and the character is extra multi-faceted than I anticipated.

Below the layer of the coming-of-age story is one other throughline of a cycle of abuse. It is not precisely stated per se, however Dabney was not all the time the motherly determine she presents herself now, in response to Ian—there’s an implied abuse, or on the very least, dangerous negligence in direction of Ian by Dabney earlier than Stevie was born. It is evident that Ian’s aggressiveness in direction of his youthful brother stems from each the harm introduced on by their mom and a resentment for the higher remedy that Stevie is receiving. However regardless of his powerful exterior and his shows of machismo, there’s a temporary and stunning second of vulnerability, the place verbal jabs from Stevie have a significant impact. I am somebody who thinks that we have seen an excessive amount of Lucas Hedges recently, however I used to be welcoming in direction of this very totally different efficiency.

Mid90s depicted abusive relationships fairly realistically—regardless of some stunning photos (to not point out the sound results each time Ian might beat his brother), you see that their relationship nonetheless forces a co-dependency on one another. Stevie continues to be obligated to present a birthday present to his older brother, he nonetheless asks him for assist (although the recommendation is commonly questionable), and also you watch the 2 play PlayStation and Tremendous Nintendo video games collectively. Going with my earlier declare that the ending felt too abrupt, likewise, I additionally felt that this story thread wrapped up too cleanly.

On the heart, the movie is in regards to the want for acceptance, and Sunny Suljic shows a lot maturity in his efficiency as a child maneuvering his means into this skate group—it begins off as remark, then nervousness and uncertainty when he makes it into the circle. There are an entire lot of close-ups of his face, and I do not bear in mind the final time I noticed a younger performer specific glee, confusion, strife, and generally a sure darkness as effortlessly as Suljic. He undoubtedly has much less to say than he does in God of Struggle, and it’s clear from the get-go simply how helpful a software his facial expressions are for conveying emotion. It helps that the remainder of the performers for this skater group, who I discovered later have been principally composed of real-life skaters and non-professional actors, add a particular sort of authenticity and genuineness.

Regardless of my reward, I am not sure precisely rating this movie. Having gone to some unbiased movie festivals, notably Sundance two years in a row, there was some extent the place I felt like I used to be watching too-similar movies repeatedly, and the inner reviewer in my head ended up frizzled as a result of I had a tough time distinguishing totally different indies with overlapping themes. Though I am unable to spout too many titles off the highest of my head that provoke this sense of deja vu (the one ones I can consider is one known as As You Are, and possibly even Dope) I felt like I would seen such a film earlier than.

Heck, I really feel like I’ve even seen 90s nostalgia like this too. The aforementioned Dope, whereas it had a distinct vitality and did not truly happen within the 90s, was stuffed with 90s-ness. This movie is stuffed with acquainted posters, classic recreation consoles, CD circumstances and covers, and a scene the place Ian is straight-up sporting a Invoice Clinton rubber masks, in case you by some means forgot what decade you have been in. Should you’re already affected by 1980s fatigue, no less than the last decade after is ripe for the choosing. Fairly quickly, we’ll have a resurgence of mainstream movies like The To-Do Checklist.

However that is an excessive amount of of a tangent, I suppose. I hesitate to present the movie too excessive a rating as a result of I do not suppose it should relate to everybody who will see it—I discovered it very particular and relatable primarily primarily based by myself experiences grappling and battling ideas involving masculinity, abuse, and social acceptance. It is a male-dominated movie, and whereas there are characters who really feel very actual, their relatability will fluctuate in several levels relying on who you ask and what experiences that they had. I’ll say, nonetheless, that the film is entertaining and humorous at occasions, and even so, Jonah Hill exhibits promise as a storyteller—he is undoubtedly matured from Superbad.

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      Mid90s reviewed by Chris Compendio

7.5

GOOD

Strong and undoubtedly has an viewers. There may very well be some hard-to-ignore faults, however the expertise is enjoyable. How we rating:  The destructoid opinions information

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