(link via the right honourable minister ‘jean louis d’)
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entr’acte
…entr’acte (1924) is René Clair’s Dada-influenced 20-minute short, commissioned for the interval of Francis Picabia’s new ballet, Relâche, in Paris in 1924. The original music for the film was composed by the famous composer Erik Satie, who makes a cameo appearance along side surrealist photographer Man Ray… (link via philosopher, poet & friend ‘jean louis denis’)
the sea of pianos
… a short film about Marc Manceaux, the owner of the oldest piano shop in Paris… (link via professor ‘jean louis denis s’)
the revolution will be copy / pasted
doctored images of stalin and mussolini are well-known and often cited examples of early image manipulation and it is no surprise that the largest nations (russia & america) were some of the first to use this form of propaganda
however it now transpires that the best known (& therefore iconic) portrait of abraham lincoln (shown above) is also one of the very first images (perhaps even the first?) to have been modified to deliberately alter the context of its subject
(link via the right honourable, doctor ‘martin de waal’)