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Rembrandt Self-portrait as an Oriental Potentate with a Kris

As in other works, Rembrandt makes himself the model and dons exotic apparel. A kris is an Indonesian sword but this one is unusual because there is only a wavy blade on one side. Rembrandt used a kris in other works. In his large painting The Blinding of Samson, Samson's eye is pierced with a kris. ject was that word we were using on the first tour this summer, sensing the inner meanings...?

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Kenzo Okuzaki's wedding speech from the documentary "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On" by Kazuo Hara

"This is the wedding of Mr. Otagaki & Miss Sano. My name is Okuzaki & I'm delighted to act as go-between... After graduating from Kobe University, the groom fought the establishment. He was subsequenly arrested. I the go-between, killed a (real estate) broker, shot a sling at Emperor Hirohito, then scattered obscene flyers denouncing him. I served 13 years & nine months in solitary confinement. Three convictions for accounts of murder, assault, & obscenity. This match was made possible because the groom & I both fought against the Establishment. This is a rare wedding... For many of you this country might mean alot, but judging from my experience, not only japan, but any other countries... Nation is a wall between men. It's a big wall that prevents us from joining together. I also consider family a wall. It isolates human beings from eachother & cuts ties. In othr words, it's against divine law. So I intend to continue attacking it. Happy Wedding!"

Guston

...late era Philip Guston paintings! watch "philip guston: a life lived" by michael blackwood. good good.

(thanks sonya)

cloaca

it don't Costa lot

Pedro Costa retrospective at Amherst Cinema.


"Where does your hidden smile lie?" = film-makers Straub and Huillet locked in deep process in the editing room. the arguments & ruminations are over apparent minutae, which always spills over into core stuff. spilled milk becomes the flawed dairy industry, or so this metaphor goes.

it's illuminating to watch old friends/collaborators spar in such confines and oddly reaffirms our often-frustrating 5-way-fwoe-process. maybe we are not such knuckleheads afterall.

Cloaca (please somebody else, drop a blog)

ultimate frisbee bandshell shop ahoy

littered fields with disconnected group-derived tidbits. i propose a new compositional strategy for compressing these loads of detritus we inherit from editing.


cloaca

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