Clipmarks | anatolant's clips

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clipper's remarks: The fact that they are color gives one a weird feeling. They don't seem so "historical". These are just a small sample. Wonderful stuff.

Clip Source: sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz

Exhibition of early color photographs from Russian Empire by S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky

Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack. Karelia.

1915

The village of Kolchedanskoye.

1912

Hut of a settler Artemii nicknamed Kot (cat) who has been living on this place for more than 40 years.

1912

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Laying concrete for a sluice dam.

1912

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Tea factory in Chakvi. Chinese master teagrower Lao Zhang Zhou.

1905 – 1915

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Mullah with schoolgirls at the Artomelin Mosque in the town of Artvin.

1904 – 1912

Armenian woman in national costume. Artvin.

1904 – 1912

Clip Source: sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz

Dagestan Types.

1904 – 1905

Dagestan Types.

1904 – 1905

Shamil's village. Dagestan.

1904 – 1912

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Emir of Bukhara.

1911

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Unidentified. No print in the albums.

1906 – 1907
Five inmates stare out from a zindan, a traditional Central Asian prison—in essence a pit in the earth with a low structure built on top. The guard, with Russian rifle and bayonet, is attired in Russian-style uniform and boots.

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Unidentified. No print in the albums.

1905 – 1915
Two prisoners in shackles. Bukhara.

Clip Source: sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz

A group of Jewish boys with the teacher.

1911

A Sart old man (babaika).

1905 – 1915

Bayga. Samarkand.

1906 – 1911

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Nomadic Kirghizs.

1911

1907 – 1915

Unidentified. No print in the albums.

1907 – 1915

Clip Source: sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz

Unidentified. No print in the albums.

1907 – 1915

Tags: history, russia, photography, anthropology

Disintegration of Love in Western Society

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:15:47 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.philosophicalsociety.com

Man's happiness today consists in 'having fun.' Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and 'taking in' commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies -- all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones -- and the eternally disappointed ones.

-- Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

"Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. He (or she) looks at people in a similar way. For the man an attractive girl -- and for the woman an attractive man -- are the prizes they are after. 'Attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market.

Tags: fromm, love, production-consumption ccycle, cultural values, self-other

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - 8 Short Films

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:45:27 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: traveling-light.stumbleupon.com

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams consists of eight short films based on actual dreams of the director:

"Sunshine Through the Rain," features a young boy sneaking off into the forest on a rainy day to watch a procession of enchanted foxes. [WATCH!]

The Peach Orchard," a slightly older boy witnesses tree spirits performing a delicate dance. [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

Weary travelers in "The Blizzard" face the elemental wrath of a snow enchantress. [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

The Tunnel" finds a military officer haunted by the ghosts of his dead regiment. [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

"Crows," an art aficionado literally walks into the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (played by Martin Scorsese). [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

"Mount Fuji in Red" is a fantastical cautionary tale about the hazards of nuclear power. [WATCH!]

"The Weeping Demon" portrays a similar story. [WATCH! Part 1 | Part 2]

"Village of the Watermills" brings the film to a quiet, pastoral end. [WATCH! Part 1 | Part 2]

Tags: akira kurosawa, kurosawa, movie, film, video, youtube, dreams

Wilde on Utopia

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:38:36 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: ieet.org

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.” Oscar Wilde

RIP: film director Michelangelo Antonioni

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:29:41 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: 2 great directors on the same day

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

RIP: film director Michelangelo Antonioni

The 94-year-old director died in Rome on the same day as Ingmar Bergman:

Tall, cerebral and resolutely serious, Mr. Antonioni harkens back to a time in the middle of the last century when cinema-going was an intellectual pursuit, when purposely opaque passages in famously difficult films spurred long nights of smoky argument at sidewalk cafes, and when fashionable directors like Mr. Antonioni, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard were chased down the Cannes waterfront by camera-wielding cineastes demanding to know what on earth they meant by their latest outrage.

Tags: movies, cinema

Buddhists, Existentialists and Situationists: Waking up in Waking Life

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:33:58 GMT

clipped by: overture
clipper's remarks: "Richard Linklater's 2002 film Waking Life is all about dreaming, and how we can sometimes control our dreams when they're lucid. Yet it's also about some broad philosophical issues, including one of the oldest philosophical conundrums, the distinction between appearance and reality."

Clip Source: publish.uwo.ca

This whole idea of "waking up" is a key idea in a number of philosophies explored in the film. In ancient Eastern philosophy - the Indian Vedanta philosophy of the Upanishads, Taoism, and Buddhism - the key to waking up is Enlightenment and a correct understanding of the relation of the self to the external world. In existentialism, we have to wake up to our personal freedom and our responsibility for creating our own selves and lives. And in the situationism of Guy Debord and others, we have to wake up from the sugar-coated spell of consumer society.

Our first wake up call is that from attachment to the past, to the ego as an individual and unconnected entity, and to material things over the spiritual unity of the universe. This call awakens us to our connection to everything around us, and to a meaningful life.⁽¹⁾

The second wake up call in Waking Life comes from existentialism, especially Jean-Paul Sartre's notions that we are condemned to be free, and that if we make excuses for our not having this freedom, we are living in bad faith. Sartre distinguished in-itself physical being, like that of rocks, which have no consciousness and thus no freedom, from for-itself conscious being, which we human beings have. As in-itself beings, we are fundamentally free to make our own choices, to chart our own course in life. Brute matter may frustrate our plans, yet we always have a choice. We are thrown into this world, and it's up to us to do the best job we can at creating our selves, much as an artist strives to paint an evocative painting, or a sculptor chisels away at a mass of rock to create a compelling statue.

Tags: buddhism, existentialism, situationalism, lucid dreams, dreaming, film

The exploratory films of Andrei Tarkovsky

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:06:29 GMT

clipped by: Torley
clipper's remarks: I've never ever seen any of these, but it's on my to-do-someday; which is why I'm clipping it! Apparently, I found out the Richie Hawtin video for We(All)Search, which features telekinesis and an unsettling vibe, uses footage from Tarkovsky's Stalker. He's also known for the earlier cinematic adaptation of Solaris.

Clip Source: tarkovsky01a.webcindario.com

Tags: film, movie, andrei, tarkovsky, sci-fi, cinema, director

Art or Porn: Can you tell the difference?

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:00:07 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: I correctly answered 7 out of 10. That'll do, I guess.

More film quizzes can be found here: http://film.guardian.co.uk/games/ This site is so much fun!

Clip Source: film.guardian.co.uk

The Good Old Naughty Days is a smorgasbord of amateur porn from cinema's infancy. But can you tell it apart from the highest expressions of the seventh art? Have a look at these ten pictures, and for each case answer one simple question: art, or porn?

		1. A young filly, glimpsed in her undies through the keyhole. Is it art (Claude Chabrol's 1959 À Double Tour)? Or porn?

			Porn
			Art

		2. More through-the-keyhole fun. Is it art (Jacques Tati's 1953 film M Hulot's Holiday)? Or porn?

			Porn
			Art

		3. A convivial scene, and no mistake. Again: art (Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality, 1923)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

		4. A glimpse of stocking. Is it art (Marlene Dietrich in 1930's The Blue Angel)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

		5. Bad habits. Art (Audrey Hepburn and Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story, 1959)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

		6. Can this sort of thing really be art (Kurosawa's Scandal, 1950)? Or is it porn?

			Porn
			Art

		7. Is this saucy young lady the silver screen icon Louise Brooks? Or is this just yet more porn?

			Porn
			Art

		8. Do you recognise this lady as the great comic actor of silent cinema Mabel Normand? Or is she a dilettante of the early porn scene?

			Art
			Porn

		9. Nothing too scandalous here ... yet. Is this about to degenerate into art (Pandora's Box, 1929)? Or porn?

			Porn
			Art

		10. A femme-bot with pointy conical breasts. Art (Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

Tags: art, porn, quiz, film

Russia - Georgia Conflict in Cartoons

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:30:21 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra

Clip Source: datuna.blogspot.com

Tags: conflict, crisis, cartoons

French Mime Marcel Marceau has passed away

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:30:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

(AP) Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.

Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, the world-famous Marceau played the entire range of human emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word. Offstage, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop," he once said.

A French Jew, Marceau survived the Holocaust - and also worked with the French Resistance to protect Jewish children.

His biggest inspiration was Charlie Chaplin. Marceau, in turn, inspired countless young performers - Michael Jackson borrowed his famous "moonwalk" from a Marceau sketch, "Walking Against the Wind."

Tags: entertainment, mime, stage, french, emotion

History of Cinema by Decade

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:09:15 GMT

clipped by: clipette

Clip Source: www.filmsite.org

The History of Motion Pictures
- By Decade -

Pre-1920s Film History

Early Cinematic Origins, the Infancy of Film

1920s Film History

The Pre-Talkies and Silent Era

1930s Film History

The Talkies, the Growth of the Studios and 'The Golden Age of Hollywood'

1940s Film History

The War and Post-War Years, the Beginnings of Film Noir

1950s Film History

The Cold War and Post-Classical Era, the Era of Epic Films and the Threat of Television

1960s Film History

The End of the Hollywood Studio System, and the Era of Independent, Underground Cinema

1970s Film History

The Last Golden Age of American Cinema (the American "New Wave"), and the Advent of the Block-buster Film

1980s Film History

Teen-Oriented Angst Films, and the Dawn of the Sequel, with More Blockbusters

1990s Film History

The Era of Mainstream Films and Alternative or Independent ("Indie") Cinema; and the Rise of Computer-Generated Films; also the Decade of Remakes, Re-releases, and More Sequels

2000s Films

The New Millenium, an Age of Advanced Special Effects, and the Search for the Perfect Blockbuster

Tags: film history, film, cinema, cinema history

Rastafarianism: Essence of Reggae

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:55:15 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Re-clipping my old stuff as promised.

Clip Source: religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu

Rastafarianism

The original Rastas drew their inspiration from the philosphies of Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), who promoted the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the 1920s. The organization's main goal was to unite black people with their rightful homeland, Africa. Garvey believed that all black people in the western world should return to Africa since they were all descended from Africans. He preached that the European colonizers, having fragmented the African continent, unfairly spread the African population throughout the world.

After spending nearly a decade in the United States and Great Britain, Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1927, where he spread his political views among the black working class.

In 1930, Prince Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned the new Emperor of Ethiopia.

This announcement was a monumental event that many blacks in Africa and the Americas saw as the fulfillment of Garvey's prophecy years before.

Tags: religion, rastafarianism, culture, reggae, africa, ethiopia, jamaica

Anton Chekhov Quotations

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:45:57 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.llywelyn.net

Anton Chekhov Quotations

Any idiot can face a crisis -- it's day to day living that wears you out.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Tags: anton chekhov, quotations, opinion, sayings