Tag: art
Trustfall – P!nk
An occasional post of my music choices. No analysis, or explanation, maybe just a few words to say why!
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This is a BBC video so may not be available except in the UK, or may disappear in due course. I have included a second video of this song for that reason, although the BBC one is (In my opinion [who writes that in full nowadays?] by far the best!
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You can view more of the performance artist Yoann Bourgeois here:
Messy Misfits Club & Truthtellers #Publication — Sunra Rainz
Nina is a talented lady who ends her “about” with these words – “I hope something wonderful happens to you today.” I think some of the wonderful things include reading her words, seeing her art, and listening to some of her music choices. Have a look for yourself and see what you think!
I had a little arts publication recently with Messy Misfits Club, which I’m delighted to tell you about. I’m unable to share the whole issue but I’ve attached screen shots of my work for you. I originally created these paintings for an arts challenge I did in 2021 (Inktober). Meander was a response to the […]
Messy Misfits Club & Truthtellers #Publication — Sunra Rainz
Peter’s Pondering Pipes #9
This is the ninth post in the series. Previous posts can be found by clicking on #PETER’S PONDERING PIPES.
The Festival interceltique de Lorient (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France. It was founded in 1971.
The following performances, when I found them, were labelled as Spanish bagpipes. However, if someone asks people in Asturia, Galicia or Cantabria if they are Spanish they answer: “We are Celts!”
Here we see two performances from Lorient 2006, both are Asturian pipers, playing the Gaita. The CELT name for bagpipe is GUY-TAH (gaita)…bagpipe is a Saxon word!
The Festival of Lorient includes Celtic music and dance and other arts such as painting, photography, theatre, sculpture, traditional artisanry as well as sport and gastronomy.
Participants come from Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, Wales, Cumbria, the Isle of Man, Cape Breton Island, Galicia, Asturias, Acadia, and the entire Celtic diaspora.
To give you an idea of the size of the festival here is the final night parade from 2010.
A classical journey
Sit back and smile!
The Knife Angel
We have been experiencing increasing knife crime in the UK, with the majority of cases affecting our young men and boys. Deaths are increasing and there are few towns that have not experienced death or serious injuries. The police have regular knife amnesties, and seize weapons when they find them.
As part of the campaign to draw attention to this useless waste of life and the seriousness of carrying knives, a huge sculpture, made of blades of all shapes and sizes that have been handed in, or seized, has been created. It is called The Knife Angel.
You can read about the Knife Angel here or see the inspiration behind it, its creation, and its current location in Derby in the videos below.
Incidentally, the little map of Derby, shown in the link above, shows MHA “Methodist Homes for the Aged” , where I worked for 17 years prior to retirement.
Twittering Tales #138 – 28 May 2019
It’s time again, for Kat Myrman’s wonderful challenge, to write a story, inspired by her picture prompt, in 280 characters or fewer.
Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution.
Check out all the fabulously creative entries here and, if you’ve never had a go, why not try a story of your own? You may surprise yourself!
Photo by Moritz 320 at Pixabay.com
My mind was a complete blank for this prompt. Not unusual for my mind to be blank, but I can normally dream up some weird linked tale. Well, not this week, so I let my mind run a little bit wilder and came up with this little poem which is, I hasten to add, entirely a figment of my weird imagination. HONESTLY! Also, it fails miserably to come within the correct count.
All is ready, what a lark
hands unsteady, oh it’s dark
tripod mounted, camera fixed
film all counted, cocktails mixed
off with tops and let’s get snapping
I love swaps but not the slapping
All gone home, the films are printed
all alone I stared and squinted
Some may say I’m sad and lonely
Come and join us, ah, if only!
(311 characters)
Who Paints The Sky? — Gloria Smud
Over at Gloria Smud, Debbie’s Dad has been busy, as usual, helping to paint some really glorious skies. Pop over and hear all about it. You will not be disappointed.
Who Paints The Sky? Who has the job of painting the sky, Who owns the ladders to reach up so high, Who knows which colourful palletes delight, Perpetual artwork designed to excite! A fracture appears at the breaking of dawn, A slither of pink cracks; the new day is born. A blank canvas waits for…
Song Lyric Sunday Theme for 14/04/2019 – Glitter Freeze
Thank you to Jim Adams, who hosts Song Lyric Sunday, and gives us the chance to share lots of favourite, and some not so familiar, songs.
The theme for this week is Freeze/Cold/Ice
If you fancy sharing one of your favourite songs you can find out how to participate, and also listen to all the great entries, here.
I’ve previously shared songs on SLS where I couldn’t find the lyrics. Never before have I offered a song by a group that doesn’t exist!
Well, there’s a first time for everything because Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. The band primarily consists of four animated members: 2-D(lead vocals, keyboards, melodica), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitars, occasionally keyboards and vocals), and Russel Hobbs (drums and percussion). Their fictional universe is explored through music videos, interviews, and other short cartoons. In reality, Albarn is the only permanent musical contributor, and often collaborates with other musicians.
In March 2001, Gorillaz played their first show at the Scala in London before embarking on a UK tour later that summer, with one date in Paris and two in Japan. During this tour the live band played behind a giant projector screen which covered the whole stage, on which was projected various visuals and images created by Hewlett. After taking a short break over the holidays, the tour resumed with a North American leg in February 2002
The song I’ve chosen, released in 2010, features Mark E. Smith of the Fall, and includes some Morse code at the beginning. After Mark asks “Where’s North from ‘ere”, the code answers “ Plastic Beach” which is the name of the album.
Apparently, Mark wanted to do his part facing north and asked ‘Where’s North from ‘ere?’ They left the words in!
Like ‘Punk’ on the first album, and ‘White Light’ on ‘Demon Days’, this is the album’s rawkus section of chaos. Every album’s got to have one.“ – band member Murdoc Niccals in an interview with NME
The song is Glitter Freeze – I hope you enjoy it.
There are very few lyrics, and, unless you want to analyse them in detail, they probably are purely incidental.
[Intro : Mark E. Smith]
Where’s North from here?
[Morse code for Plastic Beach]
[Interlude : Mark E. Smith]
It was
The glitter freeze
Doctor F
Listen
You wouldn’t credit
Or believe this
Aha ha ha
Ship him far!
Here are a couple of alternative recordings:
Iron Nick — Little Fears
Pete, from Little Fears, was kind (or silly) enough to invite me to guest write for his fantastic site Little Fears. here is my feeble attempt to be half as funny, or punny, as Pete is. Pop over to his site to see his regular laughs by following the link below.
Thank you for this opportunity Pete!
To view the video you will need to go to the Little Fears site via the link at the bottom.
Iron Nick By Peter Matthews Iron Nick was really quite cheesed off. His boss kept badgering him to work harder. He was getting pretty steamed up about it all. Lucy, meanwhile, was egging Nick on. She advised him to tell the boss where to stick his lousy job. It became so heated that the three…
Peter's pondering 
