31 مارس 2014

Dreams

William S. Burroughs
Gilt and red plush. Rococo bar backed by pink shell.  The air is cloyed with a sweet evil substance like decayed honey. Men and women in evening dress sip pousse-cafés through alabaster tubes. A Near East Mugwump sit naked on a bar stool covered in pink silk. He licks warm honey from a crystal goblet with a long black tongue. His genitals are perfectly formed — circumcised cock, black shiny pubic hairs. His lips are thin and purple-blue like the lips of a penis, his eyes blank with insect calm
Book Covers

29 مارس 2014

NB -TIME LAPSE

NB
كغریض ساریة أدرته الصبّا
من ماء أسجر طیّب المستنقع
ظلم البطاح به انهلال حریصة
فصفا النّطاف بها بعید المقلع
لعب السیّول به فأصبح ماؤه
غللا تقطّع فی أصول الخروع

TURN TURN TURN

A time to plant a time to reap
A time to kill a time to heal
A time to laugh a time to weep
A time of love a time of hate
A time of war a time of peace

Portraits in Afrika 1948-1953

Hector Acebes Portraits Africa

شيء تفعله ، وشيء تحبه ، وشيء تأمله

Miguel Claro
شيئان هما الأكثر رهبة ، سماء مرصعة بالنجوم فوقي والقانون الأخلاقي في داخلي – ايمانويل كانت
Two things fill the heart with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me - Immanuel_Kant

مغامرات الأمير احمد

The Adventures of Prince Achmed
 
ياحرقة الدهر كفي    إن لم تكفيفعفي     فلا يحظى أعطي
ولا يصنعه كفي     خرجت أطلب رزقي     وجدت رزقي توفي
كم جاهل في ظهور وعالم متخفي

NIGHT LIGHT

Project Nightflight
Space - ancients a celestial timelapse of the darkest skies on earth

Collectivization 1930s

Vera Korableva: Comrade, Join us in the Kolkhoz 

THE EAST - MUSLIM

V. U. K.: Our Soldiers Will Protect Our Workers1918-1920

MIDDLE EAST - ARAB

19Th C Middle East Photos
19th C. and Pre-Revolutionary Collection and PostCard

HISTORY -REVOLUTION

Viktor Deni: Constituent Assembly 1921
Poster ridiculing the Constituent Assembly with a banker, an officer, French military figure, and Chernov in boat with vultures above.

الباحثين عن السعادة

Based on soviet propaganda film "Seekers of Happiness" 1936

1934s


The Moscow Metro

Comrade Workers! (1917-21)

If you don't want the old yoke back, join the ranks of the communists. A fat and ugly capitalist sits a top supporters of the old regime, naked save for his bowler hat and diamond ring. Workers in chains file by before him.

"Come on, girls!"

Avenues open to us everything,       
And his bow brings us the land.        
Grow flowers and children are happy   
Fertile fields and ears.                 

And the cities and factories, and fields -           
All this and our home sweet home!          
Let the new day overtake the day yesterday 
His cheerful, joyful labor

Propoganda

WORKS
propaganda poster for distribution in the occupied territory of the USSR. Germany, 1941

Are droids taking our jobs?

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Archive Sem Presser
2013 Sem Presser Lecture
Racing Against the Machine

sem 1959

advertisement 50s

shake dancer

Blcak and White HEAT
Cotton Club Dancers Bust Some Moves

Hot Art

Howard Sochurek
Dior models in Moscow, 1959. Life
LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960
Howard Sochurek Egyptian Actress Om Kalthoum

llinois Jacquet
Jazz At The Philharmonic crowd favorite in the 1940s and 1950s

22 مارس 2014

WHEN A MAN LOVES

E.O. Hoppé
''The Master'' of Photography 1878-1972
The fascination of portrait photography lies in the fact that, like medicine, it brings one into touch with almost every phase of human nature. The Society photographer touches the heights of comedy and the depths of tragedy.
E.O. Hoppé, One Hundred Thousand Exposures: The Success of a Photographer (London/New York: Focal Press, 1945)

GENERATION

سئمتُ تكاليفَ الحياة ومَنْ يعِش ثمانينَ حولاً لا أبا لكَ، يسأَمِ
The path to catharsis 2014

Not Anymore +18

 
 
Syrian Revolution  by Matthew VanDyke

کخط زبور في عسیب يماني

Full - Yosemite HD II by Project Yosemite

I Bless You

I bless you, forests, valleys, fields, mountains, waters
I bless freedom and blue skies.
I bless my staff and my humble rags
And the steppe from beginning to end
And the sun’s light, and night’s darkness

And the path I walk, pauper that I am
And, in the field every blade of grass
and every star in the sky

O! if only I could encompass all life
And join my soul with yours
O! if only I could embrace you all
Enemies, friends and brothers, and all nature
And enfold all nature in my arms!

 'I Bless You, Forests', a poem by Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Spirit

Arctic Light Photo
Dynamic Perception
shainblum.smugmug
دان مسفّ فويق الأرض هيدبه يکاد
يدفعه من قام بالراح
ينزع جلد الحصی أجش مبترکّ
کأنه فاحص أولاعب داح

PAPER

Pre-Revolutionary Poster early. XX century
russian-style

21 مارس 2014

Dramatic Fairy Tale

Carl Nielsen's Aladdin
Opus 34/FS 89

Proletarian

University of California
on the left: Advance against USSR: On the Right: The defense of USSR: Proletarian! [sic] the preparation of [sic] ousts for war: On May 1, We shall form our ranks closer in the struggles for Soviet Union and the world proletarous revolution
 Imperialists cannot stop the triumphal success of the 5 years plan

CHINESE PICTURE 30s

Picture Morning News
Entrance 1, 2, 3