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If you need some thing to make you smile check this out.
Live footage of Marvin Gaye reclining on a couch Roman-style while singing ‘I Want You’ along with his Rick James-ified bass player.
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“A controlled burn of an oil slick 10 miles from the Deepwater Horizon drill site. A controlled burn, or in-situ burn, is one method to eliminate crude oil in a very small area at sea. U.S. Coast Guard video by Chief Petty Officer Robert Laura.”
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in the Gulf in the Air in the Water. It’s every where.
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The Ohio Players playing ‘Fire’ on The Midnight Special in 1975.
Although ‘playing’ isn’t a strong enough word. More like ‘blowing your funking mind.’
Bedazzled denim. Afro bangs. Video flames. A shout-out to the band members astrological signs. Audience dancing on stage. Old-school lockers. This feels so good it should be illegal.
And also also: The Bar-Kays - ‘Son Of Shaft’ 1972
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"It's hard to set aside time for art on a regular basis in this culture if you aren't immediately getting money to do it," says Arsem. "But to develop as an artist, you need to trust that it's going to be worth it eventually." →
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Jackson Five - ‘Can You Feel It’ 1980 (via Sarah)
Wherein luminescent giant Jacksons roam the land sprinkling bukkake-like sparkledust on multiethnic ecstatic fans, create rainbows, and fix infrastructure.
Directed by Bruce Gowers, who also directed Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and Prince’s ‘1999’ and Rod Stewart’s ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’
Visual effects by Robert Abel, who later worked on the original Tron.
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It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
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'The Wire' Creator David Simon on His New HBO Series, ‘Treme’ →
“the Treme crew and Spike Lee’s HBO documentary crew were simultaneously filming the Zulu parade, and the result was a strange cinematic game of chicken, with Lee’s cameras filming the filming of Treme as theTreme crew tried to avoid filming them back.”
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“We know more about what Huey Long represented and the emptiness at the core of American political culture from reading Robert Penn Warren than from contemporary journalistic accounts of Long’s reign. We know more about human pride, purpose, and obsession from Moby-Dick than from any contemporaneous account of the Nantucket whaler that was actually struck and sunk by a whale in the nineteenth-century incident on which Melville based his book. And we know how much of an affront the Spanish Civil War was to the human spirit when we stare at Picasso’s Guernica than when we read a more deliberate, fact-based account. I am not comparing anything I’ve done to any of the above; please, please do not presume that because I cite someone else’s art, I claim anything similar for anything I’ve done. But I cite the above because it makes the answer to your question obvious: Picasso said art is the lie that allows us to see the truth. That is it exactly.”
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year after the flood in holy cross high school. their new building is open and flurishing
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
– Wallace Stevens (via claytoncubitt)
