Christian Stories in the Paintings of Caravaggio

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas 1601
The Sacrifice of Isaac 1603
The Stigmatization of Saint Francis 1596
Judith Beheading Holofernes 1598

Coney Island Babies 1903

Born in Alsace, France, and trained in Berlin, Dr. Couney began his work when premature babies were pretty much expected to die. He displayed incubators developed by his mentors at the Berlin Exposition of 1896, and though they caught on in Europe, acceptance was slower in the United States.
Using babies from New York hospitals that lacked the facilities to care for them, Dr. Couney mounted a display at Luna Park, a Coney Island amusement park, in 1903, soon adding another at a second Coney Island park, Dreamland.
The babies were lined up under heaters and they breathed filtered air. Few of them weighed more than three pounds. They shared the Boardwalk there on Coney Island with Violetta the Armless Legless Wonder, Princess WeeWee, Ajax the Sword-Swallower and all the rest. From 1903 until the early 1940's, premature infants in incubators were part of the carnival.

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Funniest Movie Chase Scene Ever

Colour

The history of The United States of America still being written

Democratic Party Convention
August 28, 2008
(45 years to the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have dream" speech.)

Michael Powell for the NY Times sends this dispatch from Invesco Field:

Crouching amid the Tennessee delegation on the floor of the stadium, I noticed him, this tall black man standing behind me. His face was as broad as his shoulders. And as Barack Obama finished his speech, as fireworks shot off and red white and blue confetti fell, tears rolled down his cheeks.
What emotions are running barreling through right now?
“So much, I see so many things,” replied Keith Norman in a rich baritone. “I see my earliest dreams as a child. I see a man being given a fair chance because of his talent.”
His chest heaves; he is looking at the stage and the Mr. Obama hugging his wife and his two daughters.
“I see his faith in God. And I see the hand of God,” he said, “And it makes my heart glad.”
A friend, a barrel chested black man in a black Obama beret comes over and puts his arm around the midsection of Mr. Norman and asks another man to take a picture of them together.
Both men are crying and smiling.

U.S. politics and history has always seemed more interesting to watch in the making or learn about than Canadian politics for the most part anyway. I think that's probably a good thing but just not an exicitng thing.

Black Smoke

Glen Gould plays Bach

Insects and a Snake Eating a Fish

Hukkle 2002

This dialogue free movie from Hungary has some amazing visuals. The title means hiccup I think.

Waiting

Black Dice in NYC 08

After all that beauty, some insane hard noise, experimental rock but if you listen there is some method in the madness.

Sunflowers

Cattle at dusk

At the water's edge

The Five Deadly Venoms 1978

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Under the Bridge

Summertime Janis Joplin

64th Avenue

Bande à part Godard 1964

Paintings by Walton Ford

Loss of the Lisbon Rhinoceros, 2008. In 1515, Sultan Muzaffar II of Cambay gave a rhinoceros to King Manuel of Portugal, who in turn gave it to Pope Leo X. The rhino was sent by boat to Rome but was lost in a shipwreck. A crude sketch of the drowned beast was sent to Albrecht Durer, who made a woodcut that became the basis for all depictions of rhinos in Europe for 300 years.
Hyrcania, 2007 Hyrcania, an ancient kingdom in present-day Iran, was once the home of tigers. According to a medieval bestiary, if a man should wish to steal a tiger cub, he must take with him glass balls, and after stealing the cub throw the spheres in the path of the pursuing tigress. Taken in by her own reflection, the mother would curl herself around the ball to suckle her cub, thus losing both her revenge and her baby.

A Monster from Guiny, 2007 From the Diary of Samuel Pepys - Saturday 24 August 1661
At the office all the morning and did business; by and by we are called to Sir W. Batten’s to see the strange creature that Captain Holmes hath brought with him from Guiny; it is a great baboon, but so much like a man in most things, that though they say there is a species of them, yet I cannot believe but that it is a monster got of a man and she- baboon. I do believe that it already understands much English, and I am of the mind it might be taught to speak or make signs.

GREASE in the Plaza

Solicitation

A casting call posted in February to the website of Donna Belajac Casting, in Pittsburgh.

CALL FOR EXTRAS FOR FEATURE FILM!!!

Shelter, starring Julianne Moore, will begin shooting in the Pittsburgh area in March 2008. Men and women of all races, eighteen and older, who are interested in being paid extras are invited to register.
In addition to regular folks for the scenes in and around Pittsburgh, we are looking for people to populate a West Virginia "Holler." People who have any of the following attributes should attend:
--Extraordinarily tall or short
--Unusual body shapes, even physical abnormalities, as long as there is normal mobility
--Unusual facial features, especially eyes
We are also looking for a Caucasian girl, nine to twelve years old, with an otherworldly look to her. Could be albino or something along those lines - she's someone who is visually different and therefore has a closer connection to the gods and to magic. "Regular-looking" children should not attend this open call.

I put a spell on you Screamin Jay Hawkins

In an Unusual Postion

Blood on the Tracks

Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash

Three Frames

Kid Koala Sentimenturntablist