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byneddiedingo · 11 months

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Veruschka von Lehndorff and David Hemmings in Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

Cast: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin. Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond, based on a story by Julio Cortázar. Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma. Art direction: Assheton Gorton. Film editing: Frank Clarke. Music: Herbie Hancock.

Back in the day we would discuss for hours the significance of Thomas (David Hemmings) fetching an invisible tennis ball after having photographed an invisible murder. Then later we scrutinized the thematic relationship of Blow-Up to Antonioni's great trilogy of L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962). More recently, Blow-Up has figured large in discussions of the "male gaze." But lately it has become a historical artifact from the "swinging London" of the mid-1960s. And there I think it best belongs. What perhaps needs to be discussed is the tone of the film: Is it a document, or a celebration, or an exposé, or a satire? I think it is a bit of all of these, but mostly the tone is satiric. Thomas's aesthetic detachment, not to say voyeurism, makes him the perfect vehicle for an exploration of the era, from the grim flophouse he spends a night photographing to the home of the drug-addled wealthy, by way of a fashion shoot, a glimpse of what seems to be adulterous affair but may be a murder, a mini-orgy with some teenyboppers, a peek at two of his friends making love, and a performance in a rock club. All of it viewed with the impassive gaze of Thomas, Antonioni, and Carlo Di Palma's movie camera. Is it meant to be funny? Yes, sometimes, as when Thomas encounters the model Veruschka at the party and says, "I thought you were supposed to be in Paris," and she replies, "I am in Paris." Or when we see the audience watching the performance of the Yardbirds in the club, showing no signs of enjoyment, but then going crazy when Jeff Beck smashes his guitar and flings it into the audience. Thomas escapes from the club with a piece of it, eludes the pursuing crowd, but throws it away when he realizes it's worthless. (A passerby picks it up, looks it it, and tosses it away.) It's a portrait of a cynical era in which people, as Oscar Wilde put it, know "the price of everything and the value of nothing." Hemmings, with his debauched choirboy* face, is the perfect protagonist, and Vanessa Redgrave, at the start of her career, is beautifully, magnificently enigmatic as the woman who may or may not have been involved in murder. I'm not sure it's a great film -- certainly not in comparison to Antonioni's trilogy -- but it will always be a fascinating one. *Almost literally: Hemmings started as a boy soprano who was cast by Benjamin Britten in several works, most notably as Miles in the 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw. He can be heard on the recording made that year with Britten conducting. .

#Blow-Up #Michelangelo Antonioni #Veruschka von Lehndorff #David Hemmings

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greatbighopingmachine · 2 years

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Playlist (16): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), Sept 18 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM

Tom Barrett "Let Clementine Run" You Are and You've Always Been

Florist "Feathers" Florist

Ash Devine "How You Been?" Bird Must Fly

Passion Fruit Boys "Looking for a Friend" S/T

Lydia Loveless "Say My Name" Daughter

Girlpuppy "When I'm Alone" When I'm Alone

Cary Cooper "Good Girl" single

Jim Garrett "My Baby Makes Me Biscuits" Nowhere to Go

Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards "Little By Little" Road May Rise

Steve Lundquist "Simple and Silly" My Life In Song

Peter Lehndorff "Nothing Could Change" Don't Be Discouraged

Friendship "Chomp Chomp" Love the Stranger

Stillhouse Junkies "Never Going Back Again" Small Towns

Watchhouse "Belly of the Beast" Watchhouse (Duo)

The Tallest Man on Earth "Tears Are in Your Eyes" single

Brady Rymer "Mail Myself to You" Keep Hoping Machine Running: Songs of Woody Guthrie

#americana #woody guthrie #radio #roots #folk #playlist #internet radio #country music #curators #folk music #art

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onthecoverofamagazine · 3 years

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Kathleen Madden Fall 2001

Tatjana Patitz, Nadja Auermann, Veruschka von Lehndorff y Heidi Klum ~ Foto: Peter Lindbergh

#Peter Lindbergh #Tatjana Patitz #Nadja Auermann #Veruschka von Lehndorff #Heidi Klum #Kathleen Madden #2000s #Campañas #Fashion #2001 #Supermodelos #Modelos favoritas #Kathleen Madden fw 2001 #Mis cosas

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fashionbooksmilano · 3 years

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Veruschka The Ultimate Collection

Vera Lehndorff and David Wills

Assouline, New York 2008, 128 pages, 39.37 x 6.99 x 49.53 cm, 7.62 kg, ISBN 978-2759402960

euro 1200,00

email if you want to buy :[email protected]

The life and work of the great supermodel, with images from the most famous fashion photographers

"This book is dedicated to Richard Avedon, Ara Gallant and Giorgio di Sant'Angelo"

Veruschka, the Russian born supermodel of the 6o’s, has teamed with author David Wills to write a book about her life and career that will appeal to fashion, history and photography enthusiasts alike. She was born into a very wealthy family, her father, a German count, was sentenced to death by hanging because of his involvement in a plot to kill Hitler, and she spent most of WWII in labor camps with her remaining family. Veruschka studied art in Hamburg and then, at the age of 20, was discovered by photographer Ugo Mulas. She then moved to New York to join the Ford Modeling Agency. She has worked with Salvador Dali and photographers Peter Beard, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. Published by French house Assouline, Veruschka is set for a limited-edition release in September 2008..

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#Veruschka #limited esition #The Ultimate Collection #Richard Avedon #supermodel #Irving Penn #rare books #photography books #libri di fotografia #fashion photography #Ara Gallant #Blow up #Michelangelo Antonioni #Giorgio di Sant'Angelo #fashion books #Assouline #fashionbooksmilano

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henk-heijmans · 4 years

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Trans-Figuration, 1986 / Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), German - by Peter Beard, American

#Peter Beard

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kattestrophe · 3 years

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Deine Fake Fanfic Titel machen mich so glücklich, pls more!!! Wie wärs mit "O Fortuna" oder "Never gonna see the sea" oder "The Masochism Tango" (ja, ich bin Team 'Songtitel als Fanfictitel, sue me!)

Du kriegst alle drei!

O Fortuna

Rated T, Major Character Death

Tags: Friedrich II von Preußen/Hans Hermann von Katte, Friedrich II von Preußen/Peter Karl Christoph von Keith, hurt no comfort, ich nehme das was wirklich passiert ist und mache es noch schlimmer

Wenn auch nicht wie geplant, so läuft doch zunächst alles wie gewünscht. Er schafft es erst über den Rhein, dann nach Den Haag, kann Keith wieder in die Arme schließen und denkt daran, wie sein Vater es hassen würde, ihn so zu sehen; ganz in Rot und Gold, glänzend, strahlend, geliebt, vom Glück geküsst.

Doch das Glück ist eine treulose Hure. - Friedrich und Keith gelingt die Flucht; doch Berlin ist weiter von der Grenze weg als Steinsfurt und Wesel und der Dritte im Bunde hat weniger Glück.

Never gonna see the sea

Rated T, No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Friedrich II von Preußen/Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, hurt/comfort, fluff, past relationships

Rheinsberg war nicht die Welt, die er zu sehen gehofft hatte, aber Rheinsberg war seine Rettung.

The Masochism Tango

Rated G, No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: One Sided Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff/Prinz Heinrich von Preußen, Prinz Heinrich von Preußen/other people, pining, friendship, Lehndorff you poor simp

Wieder war er den ganzen Tag bei Heinrich. Seinem Heinrich, dem liebenswürdigsten aller Prinzen, dem anbetungswürdigsten aller Fürsten. Seinem Heinrich, der in den Armen eines Anderen lag.

Also wenn die wer anders schreiben möchte, nur zu, ich hätte gern was zu lesen :D Die erste wäre aber RICHTIG schmerzhaft. Die letzte ist nur Lehndorffs Tagebuch aus anderer Perspektive. Obwohl bei dem Titel Henri und Kaphengst mein erster Gedanke waren.

#send me fic titles #sol-martell

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struppinator · 5 years

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Tagesstart 14.05.2019

Guten Morgen Freunde der gepflegten Morgenkonversation. 😃😃😃Heute ist der 14. Mai, der 134. Tag , somit verbleiben noch 231 Tage bis zum Jahresende.

Heute ist der Namenstag für Chris, Mattis, Casjen, Gema, Valmira, Kersten, Kristijan, Christian, Corona, Domenica, Tobias Christian, Mats, Kirsten, Matej, Theis, Christen, Matthieu, Maciej, Ismeria, Bonifacio, Kristian, Carsten, Krischan, Branislav, Karsten, Bonifatius, Matteo, Tine, Bonifaz, Hagen, Thies, Mathias, Cristiano, Thees, und Halvard.

Kommen nur nun zu den geschichtlichen Ereignissen, die sich am 14. Mai zugetragen haben:

1264: Durch die Schlacht von Lewes wird Simon V. de Montfort „ungekrönter König“ von England. König Heinrich III. und sein Sohn Eduard geraten in Gefangenschaft.

1389: Die freie Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main erleidet in der Schlacht bei Eschborn während der Kronberger Fehde im Städtekrieg die schwerste Niederlage ihrer Geschichte gegen Ruprecht II. von der Pfalz, Ulrich V. von Hanau sowie die Ritter von Kronberg.

1607: Auf einer Insel im James River in der Kolonie Virginia gründen 104 britische Siedler Jamestown, die erste dauerhafte Siedlung der Engländer in Amerika.

1610: François Ravaillac ersticht Heinrich IV., König von Frankreich und Navarra, als dieser gerade einen Krieg gegen das Heilige Römische Reich plant. Damit wird ein europäischer Krieg anlässlich des Jülich-Klevischen Erbfolgestreits abgewendet. Nachfolger wird sein neunjähriger Sohn Ludwig XIII., für den seine Mutter Maria de’ Medici die Regierungsgeschäfte führt.

1706: Franzosen und Spanier beginnen im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg die von Piemontesen und Österreichern gehaltene Stadt Turin zu belagern. Erst mit der Schlacht bei Turin fällt am 7. September eine Entscheidung gegen die Belagerer.

1811: Paraguay erlangt die Unabhängigkeit von Spanien durch Loslösung aus dem Vizekönigreich des Río de la Plata.

1869: In Österreich-Ungarn wird mit der Verabschiedung des Reichsvolksschulgesetzes unter Minister Leopold Hasner von Artha die achtjährige Bürgerschule eingeführt.

1940: Die niederländische Stadt Rotterdam wird im Zweiten Weltkrieg von der deutschen Luftwaffe bombardiert. Am Abend erklärt die niederländische Armee ihre Kapitulation im Mutterland.

1948: Israel unter Ministerpräsident David Ben-Gurion erklärt seine Unabhängigkeit, womit das britische Völkerbundsmandat für Palästina endet. Der letzte britische Hochkommissar Alan Cunningham verlässt am gleichen Tag das Land. Noch in derselben Nacht erfolgt die Kriegserklärung der arabischen Nachbarn an den neu gegründeten Staat Israel.

1953: Das Zentralkomitee (ZK) der SED beschließt eine Erhöhung der Arbeitsnormen in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik um zehn Prozent. Der daraus entstehende Unmut in der Arbeiterschaft bildet einen Keim für den Volksaufstand am 17. Juni.

1955: Acht Staaten des so genannten Ostblocks unterzeichnen während des Kalten Krieges in der polnischen Hauptstadt Warschau den Warschauer Vertrag zur Gründung eines Militärbündnisses als Reaktion auf die Aufnahme der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in die NATO.

1997: Der Neubau der Deutschen Bibliothek in Frankfurt/Main eröffnet offiziell. Der für 250 Millionen Mark errichtete Bau bietet Platz für 20 Millionen Bücher.

Sehen wir uns jetzt mal die Geburtstagskinder des heutigen Tages an.

1984 - Mark Zuckerberg (35), amerikanischer Unternehmer, Gründer von Facebook

1969 - Cate Blanchett (50), australische Schauspielerin («Blue Jasmine»)

1949 - Klaus-Peter Thaler (70), deutscher Radsportler, sechzehnfacher deutscher Meister, drei Etappensiege bei der Tour de France

1944 - George Lucas (75), amerikanischer Filmregisseur und Filmproduzent («Star Wars», «Indiana Jones»)

1939 - Vera Gräfin Lehndorff (80), deutsche Schauspielerin («Blow Up», «Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse») und Model

Das war der Tagesstart für heute. Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Tag. Bis morgen im nächsten Blog.

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saharienne-ysl · 4 years

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Left | Veruschka von Lehndorff photographed by Franco Rubartelli for Vogue Paris 1968

Right | Gisele Bundchen photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Harpers Bazaar 2009

Bottom | Barbie in famous saharienne outfit

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somervillesongwriters · 5 years

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Interview with upcoming artist (November): Domenic Botolino

You have a solidly rock background; who are your major songwriting influences?

Bruce Springsteen is my hero as a writer performer, artist and human being. My greatest inspiration. I was 14 when Born in The USA came out and my life was never the same. I have always been drawn to singer songwriters ..Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Steve Earle. The stories and the melody always captured my attention. I wanted to write songs that share common experiences and told a bit of a story..still trying to do that.

You perform both solo and with a band; how do the different lineups influence what songs you write or perform? What do you like about either configuration as a performer?

I was strictly part of a band until the last couple of years when I started performing solo on occasion. My band consists of some of my oldest and best friends who are all much more talented than me so it's a pure joy to write my songs and have them add their talents to bring those songs to life. I write mostly solo and then bring the acoustic version to the band. I love the energy and power our band brings to songs I wrote. John McGah also writes for our band and we share vocals. Performing solo allows me to experience the stories in a more intimate setting which I enjoy. Its new for me but it has been rewarding.

How does a song begin for you -- music, lyrics, idea? What's your general songwriting process?

I write from inspiration...there is a,story I want to share and make sense of...i often have some guitar chords I've been strumming and i will add my lyrics to it.

Domenic will be playing on Saturday, November 2nd, 7:30 p.m., in the Somerville Songwriter Sessions, along with Peter Lehndorff and host Kirsten Manville, at the Somerville Armory Cafe, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville MA. (Great music, great food, free parking.) The show will be preceded by a 30-minute open mike: [email protected] to reserve a slot.

#somerville #somervillema #artsatthearmory #somervillearmory #songwriters #songwriting #livemusic #domenicbotolino

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cinema-tv-etc · 7 years

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Blow-Up (1966)

A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni (story), Julio Cortázar (short story "Las babas del diablo") (as Julio Cortazar) | 3 more credits » Stars: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles |

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/

'Blowup' is frequently mentioned as one of the most influential movies of the twentieth century. And I believe it is. But it is no dry and dull document that the viewer must force himself to "appreciate" while he stifles his yawns. Like 'Citizen Kane', 'Breathless' and 'Psycho' it is not only an important movie milestone, it is still a living and breathing work of art that will fascinate and impress any movie lover who approaches it with an open mind. 'Blowup' lures you in with its snapshot of swinging 60s London, and it's tease of being a murder mystery, which it really isn't, but by then you're hooked. This movie is a puzzle with no solution, a text with any interpretation the viewer cares to bring to it. That may sound heavy going and off putting, but this is a surprisingly watchable movie. Even the "boring" sequences are interesting! Anyone who enjoys David Lynch, Dario Argento (whose 'Profundo Rosso' deliberately referenced this), Nic Roeg or Jim Jarmusch, movies where atmosphere and visual images are more important than characterization, plot or dialogue, will appreciate this 60s classic. I think it gets better with every viewing.

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A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together. Written by Anonymous

The plot is 24 hours in the life of a glamorous fashion photographer named Thomas (David Hemmings), inspired by the life of an actual "Swinging London" photographer, David Bailey. In the opening scene, Thomas wakes up after spending the night at a doss house where he has taken pictures for a book of art photos. He is late for a photo shoot with Veruschka von Lehndorff (playing herself) at his studio, which in turn makes him late for a shoot with other models later in the morning. He grows bored and walks off, leaving the models and production staff in the lurch. As he leaves the studio, two teenage girls who are aspiring models, a blond (Jane Birkin) and a dark-haired brunette (Gillian Hills) ask to speak with him, but the photographer drives off to look at an antiques shop. Wandering into Maryon Park, he takes photos of two lovers making out. The woman (Vanessa Redgrave) is furious at being photographed and demands that Thomas hand over the film, but he refuses. When she walks away to rejoin her boyfriend, he is gone and she runs away with Thomas taking photos of her as she runs. Thomas then meets his agent for lunch, and notices a man following him and looking into his car. Back at his studio, the mysterious woman from the park arrives asking for the film, but he refuses. The woman introduces herself as 'Jane' and tries to seduce Thomas by removing her top to entice him to hand over the film and negatives. Thomas agrees without going any further, but he deliberately hands Jane a different roll of unused blank film. She in turn writes down a telephone number to give to him. After Jane leaves, Thomas begins work on developing his photos that he took that day. His many enlargements of the black and white film are grainy but he finds something strange. In the Maryon Park photos, Thomas notices a figure hiding in the bushes near Jane and her boyfriend and upon enlarging them in a series of 'blow-up' shots, sees that it is a man with a gun (the same man he saw following him earlier). In the shots where Jane is running away with her back to the camera, Thomas also notices something on the ground in the distance. The blow-up shots of the blurred figure on the ground that Jane is running to appears to be a body in the grass. Thomas gets the feeling that he just witnessed the before and afterwards of a murder. Thomas is disturbed by a knock on the door, but it is only the two girls again, with whom he has a group-sex romp in his studio and falls asleep. Awakening, he finds they hope he will photograph them but he tells them to leave, saying, "Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" As evening falls, Thomas goes back to the park to investigate and finds a dead body (Jane's dead lover), but he has not brought his camera and is scared off by a twig breaking, as if being stepped on by someone unseen watching him. Thomas returns to his studio to find that someone (possibly Jane and her gunman accomplice) has broken into his place and all the negatives and prints from the park are gone except for one large, very grainy blowup showing the body (which proves nothing). He tries to call the phone number Jane gave him, but learns from the operator that the number does not exist. After driving into town, he sees Jane and follows her into a club where The Yardbirds, featuring both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck on guitar and Keith Relf on vocals, are seen performing the song "Stroll On." A buzz in Beck's amplifier angers him so much he smashes his guitar on stage, then throws its neck into the crowd, the photographer makes a grab for it as a souvenir. Thomas grabs the neck and runs out of the club before anyone can snatch it from him. Then he has second thoughts about it, throws it on the pavement and walks away. A passer-by picks up the neck and throws it back down, not realizing it's from Beck's guitar. Thomas then goes to a drug-drenched party in a house on the Thames near central London. He finds a strung-out Veruschka, who had told him that she was going to Paris, and when confronted, she says she is in Paris. Thomas then meets his agent Ron (Peter Bowles), whom he wants to bring to the park as a witness to show the dead body. However, Thomas (after taking a few puffs from a joint given by a party guest) cannot put across what he has photographed. Ron invites him to stay and they take LSD. Waking up in the house at sunrise after the party, Thomas takes a spare camera from Ron's house with film in it and goes back to the park alone to take photos of the murder victim, but the body is gone without any trace. Befuddled and emotionally defeated, Thomas (aware that someone has just gotten away with murder), begins walking out of the park when, he watches a group of mimes arrive and play a mimed tennis match. Thomas is drawn into it when the mimes beckon him to retrieve their imaginary tennis ball that they have "lost". Beat and deciding to play along, Thomas picks up the imaginary ball and throws it back to the two mimes playing. While he watches the mimes, the sound of the ball being played is heard. Thomas walks out of the park as his image fades away, leaving only the grass as the movie comes to an end.

During the 1960’s, life was all about sex, music, drugs, and night life. People loved expressing their life through their own freedom. The 60’s photography was booming and sex was selling and films were being told in very different ways through the use of cameras. Carlo Di Palma’s Blow-Up was a film that broke all the rules in cinema, which is exactly what people loved. His cinematography is legendary when it comes to taking chances.

Director Michelangelo Antonioni had to have every shot perfect. He is noticed as one of the most successful and visionary directors of his time, if not the best. He would change the whole environment of his films, where he would even end up having structures built. Antonioni had wonderful ideas, but would have had masterpieces if his ideas were not matched with expertise cinematography. The way he illustrates the 60’s in London in this film makes in a living time capsule of the era. The scenes and angles make the film provide a feeling for the viewer as if one was there.

Di Palma said that “there was a lot of preparation for [the film].” He used four cameras to shoot the movie sequence, which was the first time director Antonioni has ever done that in his movies. The lighting was very crucial to the film. They had so many different lights for the movie to look well. Since they had four cameras, it was hard to hide all of the lights in all of the different shots that would happen. The four cameras all had different size lenses, and some of them were moved ways they have never been moved before on cranes and dollys. “We did things that we had never seen before,” Di Palma said about the lightening and cameras.

Blow-Up took the win for the 60’s visionary cinematography. It did, and still is, inspiring both producers and directors through it’s cinematography. Di Palma stated how fortunate he and Antonioni were to complete this film with all of the struggles and problems they faced. Antonioni ended up being the first European director to shoot a film with four cameras. Their hard work paid off and Di Palma and Antonioni became the most looked up to when it came to directors and cinematographers. At this point in time, they were the best the world had to offer. If you watch any movie today, there is a great chance that you will find something that was based off of Anonioni’s ideas and Di Palma’s cinematography.

Whether you love the movie or hate it, you can not deny the fact that the picture of this film opened up a new world for filmmakers. People loved that fact that this photographer was seducing women, and at one point, almost rapes two girls but ends up having a threesome. There are many affairs happening in this movie, whether it be with Thomas and all of the models, or with Jane and her men. Overall, I think that this was a good movie and had even better cinematography. The reason why it became so popular in 1966 is still one of the reasons it is popular today.

https://dollar26.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/blow-up/

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greatbighopingmachine · 2 years

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Playlist (12): Great Big Hoping Machine on Radio Plastique, July 3 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM / LABEL

Caroline Spence “Clean Getaway” True North (Rounder)

David Childers “Edge of Town” Interstate Lullaby / Lost but Found (Ramseur)

Roland Roberts “So It Goes” So It Goes (Happy Life)

The Be Good Tanyas “Light Enough to Travel “ Blue Horse (Nettwerk)

Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards “Honey Bee” Road May Rise (Nobody's Favorite)

Indigo Girls “Ozilline” Come on Now Social (Epic)

Pharis & Jason Romero “Pale Morning” Tell 'em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tiffany Williams “All Those Days of Drinking Dust” All Those Days of Drinking Dust (Blue Redbird)

Steve Lundquist “Ol' John Prine” My Life in Song (self-released)

Just Roxie “We Missed You” We Missed You (self-released)

Riley Pierce “Nostalgia” The Water & The Rough (Nettwerk)

Peter Lehndorff “Nothing Could Change” Don't Be Discouraged (self-released)

#radio #folk #americana #roots #playlist

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somervillesongwriters · 5 years

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Interview with upcoming artist (November): Peter Lehndorff

You've achieved every songwriter's dream of having songs placed on NPR's "Car Talk." Which songs? How did that come about?

I had parts of several songs from my album Love on the Line played in the segments between the main parts of the show. I was actually surprised that cars were a fairly constant character in my songs. Some were obvious like my songs "Peugeot" and "Yellow Datsun". "Peugeot" was selected for their first compilation called Disrespectful Car Tunes and was their music on hold for a while. "Yellow Datsun" was a duet with Dar Williams.

Other songs were used as well. "East Longmeadow" is about commuting in a station wagon; "Everything Takes Longer" has a verse about getting your car fixed at Sears; "All the Money in the World" mentions Mercedes and Ferrari. There is an instrumental called the "McPherson Strut" named after the car part, but I'm not sure it was played.

People compare you to classic songwriters from Tom Lehrer to John Prine: Who do you consider to be your primary songwriting influences?

I will leave someone out but early on I loved hearing and singing funny songs by Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger and the Weavers. And I was really influenced by Tom Rush and Peter, Paul and Mary records. But I loved watching folks like Allen Sherman and the Smother's Brothers on television. My dry satiric songs were compared to John Prine when I started out. Now I am writing some sad or serious songs, too. One person heard one of my songs, "So Far, So Good" and said "Is that a John Prine song?"

Your songs range from hilarious to tender; how do you decide whether a topic will yield a funny song or a serious one?

I am a slow writer but I think my songs decide for themselves which way they are going. And some have both humor and sadness in them. One song "It Just Depends" started out as a funny song about starting to date again (after more than 40 years). But since I had lost my wife a few years before, it became a letter to her. Another song "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud" started out as a funny song about how we all have good luck and bad luck. But it morphed into a song about survivor guilt. A few songs were started twenty years ago as throw-away funny songs but I liked the melody or a few lines and rewrote them as something else.

Peter Domenic will be playing on Saturday, November 2nd, 7:30 p.m., in the Somerville Songwriter Sessions, along with Domenic Botolino and host Kirsten Manville, at the Somerville Armory Cafe, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville MA. (Great music, great food, free parking.) The show will be preceded by a 30-minute open mike: [email protected] to reserve a slot.

#somerville #somervillema #artsatthearmory #somervillearmory #songwriters #songwriting #peterlehndorff

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