Pavilion Reunion
Hey, Alage! Let’s all meet up in the Belem park again next week. I’ll bring pictures from the last week of last year (and we can make better ones this time). You’ll probably think they’re fine, but there was a horrible mistake in the making of the negatives, so… let’s do “take 2.” Check your e-mail for dates.
Update: the parcel arrived, after two months.
Hope Springs Eternal
–Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1938; by 2014, we arrive at this:
http://patch.com/illinois/palatine/golf-nation-palatine-closing-0#.VCQP00voa2w
The 36th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival
It’s this week, until Sunday, in Millennium Park!
You match the names with the faces. The first one to get ’em all correct wins… an appropriate prize of some sort.
Jason Adasiewicz, Dee Alexander, Marshall Allen, Terence Blanchard, David Boykin, Gary Burton, Ravi Coltrane, Ernest Khabeer Dawkins, Liberty Ellman, The Elmhurst College Jazz Ensemble, Kevin Eubanks, George (and Bruz, and Chico) Freeman, Mary Halvorsen, Tom Harrell, Tootie Heath, Dave Holland, Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Rufus Reid, Tomeka Reid, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Matt Shipp, Esperanza Spaulding, Chad Taylor, Corey Wilkes, The Chicago Yestet.
(A dilemma: the Tootie Heath Trio is playing at the same time as the Yestet.)
P.S. All the performances listed here have no admission charge. You get “in” for nada.
http://jazzinchicago.org/jazzfest/
Update: the prize has been claimed by surfer Erin W., of Algoma, a self-proclaimed “L7” who googled everybody and who writes, “Why don’t they all just learn the melody better?”
William Eggleston Is 75
Instead of our usual practice of playing catch-up, this post acknowledges Bill’s birthday a day in advance.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/happy-birthday-mr-eggleston
W. o’ W.: Edward Kennedy Ellington
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.”
Prez, 105 Today
Here’s Lester, less than six months from the end. Watch him resuscitate over three minutes’ time.
So; start.
Everyone has a favorite video or two. Try to do someone a favor by forwarding a link, and they’ll match your enthusiasm with another, for you (usually unrelated to yours). These, below, are solid for conceptual reasons. The first is an explication of Joseph Herscher’s work, with a discrete video at the end.
Next, the innovative Dylan music video from earlier this year–it’s never the same twice.
http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html
Finally, the latest from the band known more for their videos the for their compositions, OK Go. This production relies on clinically specific points of view, not unlike some of my pictures (except one might never know it in still photographs. I counted 15 or 16 examples on the other pages of this blawwg; also, they aren’t gimmicks).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU&safe=active
What else belongs on this elite list? Shorewood Lip Dub? Not really. What else?
(…)
So. This is what a hiatus is like. Unplanned, dissequential. Whelming, and whelmed as well.
At some point: ICCI, MOM, Viv, news, kicking, screaming, Trane, journalistic hubris, uber mentors. Maybe even Sharon Gless. OK, go.
Separated At Birth?
“Bud” Selig & Donald Fagen?
Creative Camerawork 