Insomniac's Corner

[gotsnowgotslush]

Where did I pick up this expresson from? Not from my Ogre Husband. (He contributed many other, interesting phrases to my vocabulary.)

Intermediate School ? Someone's brother ?

"Fuckin' A!"


I had absorbed the gist of the expression.
Something positive had happened.
Fuckin' A was a good expression, if you were in agreement with what was being expressed.


A return to the instructive quote from Alice in Wonderland. What have I been saying, in all actuality ?


Had I shouted Fucking Arse," all of this time, without knowing it ?
(I suppose that someone thinks Fucking Ass is a delightful activity, and a wonderful thing to shout. But I was not experienced in any manner, when I enthusiastically used the phrase to agree to a statement.)

"...fucking A grounds the expression in the 1940s, especially as used by US soldiers during World War II to express emphatic, intensive assent. The first citation Jesse Sheidlower provides in his sweary essential, The F-Word, comes from a passage in Norman Mailer’s 1948 The Naked and the Dead: “‘You’re fuggin ay,’ Gallagher snorted.” (This fug has its own interesting story to tell.) Here, the character is conveying a sense of You’re totally right or absolutely correct."

"Speaking of affirmative, there are yet other suggestions for its origin. Two also root the expression in the US military: one argues that the A stands for affirmative, used in aviation; the other that the A stands for able, which named the letter A in the US military radio alphabet used during Wold War II. Another, fucking amen, underscores the expression’s sense of “heartfelt agreement,” as the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang glosses the expression. Fucking aye and fucking A-OK have also been proposed."

(Our little, sweet, mysterious language viruses)


"Ultimately, we’re not absolutely sure what the A in fucking A is. But, if Sheidlower’s suggestion is correct, the A could be just that: the letter A."


https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/what-the-fuck-is-the-a-in-fucking-a/

 

[jezzilee]

I'm insomniacing today!!

 

[Saint Peter]

Where did I pick up this expresson from? Not from my Ogre Husband. (He contributed many other, interesting phrases to my vocabulary.)

Intermediate School ? Someone's brother ?

"Fuckin' A!"


I had absorbed the gist of the expression.
Something positive had happened.
Fuckin' A was a good expression, if you were in agreement with what was being expressed.


A return to the instructive quote from Alice in Wonderland. What have I been saying, in all actuality ?


Had I shouted Fucking Arse," all of this time, without knowing it ?
(I suppose that someone thinks Fucking Ass is a delightful activity, and a wonderful thing to shout. But I was not experienced in any manner, when I enthusiastically used the phrase to agree to a statement.)

"...fucking A grounds the expression in the 1940s, especially as used by US soldiers during World War II to express emphatic, intensive assent. The first citation Jesse Sheidlower provides in his sweary essential, The F-Word, comes from a passage in Norman Mailer’s 1948 The Naked and the Dead: “‘You’re fuggin ay,’ Gallagher snorted.” (This fug has its own interesting story to tell.) Here, the character is conveying a sense of You’re totally right or absolutely correct."

"Speaking of affirmative, there are yet other suggestions for its origin. Two also root the expression in the US military: one argues that the A stands for affirmative, used in aviation; the other that the A stands for able, which named the letter A in the US military radio alphabet used during Wold War II. Another, fucking amen, underscores the expression’s sense of “heartfelt agreement,” as the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang glosses the expression. Fucking aye and fucking A-OK have also been proposed."

(Our little, sweet, mysterious language viruses)


"Ultimately, we’re not absolutely sure what the A in fucking A is. But, if Sheidlower’s suggestion is correct, the A could be just that: the letter A."


https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/what-the-fuck-is-the-a-in-fucking-a/

Very informative.

Thank you!

 

[Bookishleigh]

While insomniacing last night/this morning I found The Crow on Netflix. So many good lines. I forgot how much I love that movie (and graphic novel).

Albrecht: Are you gonna vanish into thin air again?
Eric Draven: I thought I'd use your front door.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

to Saint Peter

A!

Fonzie from Happy Days, said A! with his "two thumbs up gesture."
(I received my bad influences before Fonzie arrived on the scene.)

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Brenda Larison, a biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues visited 16 zebra populations throughout Africa and studied their stripe patterns, in a project supported by National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration.


Larison said, there's evidence that heavily striped zebras have 5.4-degree Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) lower skin temperatures than other non-striped mammals in the same area.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...cience-africa/


Zebras' thick, black stripes may have evolved to help these iconic creatures stay cool in the midday African heat, a new study suggests.

http://www.livescience.com/49447-zeb...s-cooling.html


(Predators and prey have striped legs and patterned legs. What purpose do the stripes serve, for a striped hyena ? The big cats are patterned. The lion wears a large dark mane. Animals with black skin and light coloured fur ?)

At high temperatures, as I say, white is best at not transmitting solar/ambient heat to the skin when windspeed is zero (only barely better when fluffed).

However, with an increase in windspeed (again anything above 3 m/s), fluffed black plumage is the best at reducing the amount of heat transmitted to the skin. Flattened black plumage is the worst in terms of heat gain no matter what the windspeed.

What this means is relatively straightforward: black clothing absorbs sunlight and the heat radiating from your body, but if it is loose-fitting, and there is wind, the wind convects the heat away faster than it is absorbed.

White clothing reflects sunlight, but also reflects internal heat back towards your body, so the net effect under identical conditions is less cooling than if you wore black. While it's true you don't often find fluffy black animals in deserts, you don't find many white animals, either--typically you find animals that blend into the background.

So it appears that if heat gain and camouflage are in conflict, the need to avoid predation outweighs other considerations. On the other hand, desert-dwelling nomadic people such as the Tuaregs wear loose-fitting black clothing, and have been doing so for a very, very long time.

https://www.physicsforums.com/thread...k-robes.65287/


When we see white, we're seeing the combination of all possible visible light. This means that white clothing reflects a great deal of wavelengths of energy coming in. This means it should reflect the sun's rays back, instead of letting them cook us. And that's perfectly correct.

Except that this explanation is also incomplete.

Heat is not just coming in off of the sun. It's also coming off a person's own, sweating, warm-blooded, mammalian body, which is a lot closer than the sun is. When all that body heat hits the white clothing covering it, it gets reflected right back towards the body. When we wear white, we cook ourselves.

The best color to keep cool in the heat, it turns out, is to wear black. Black absorbs everything coming in from the sun, sure. But black also absorbs energy from the body instead of reflecting it back. Now, the helpfulness of black clothes depends on finding black clothes that are the same thickness and looseness as those summery white clothes. Black clothing also needs a little help from atmospheric conditions. Once it has absorbed heat, it has to have some way to radiate it away. If there's even a little wind, black clothing is the better choice for those who want to keep cool, like goths who understandably don't like sweating through their make-up.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5903956/the-p...ck-this-summer


Researchers have studied the heavy black robes worn by Bedouins in the desert. They say the key there is thickness. The outer layer of fabric does get hotter because the black color absorbs more heat. And that heat doesn't get transmitted to the skin because of the thick fabric.


Air circulation

Loose garments permit the cooler air to enter at the bottom of the garment
Heated air rises to the neck opening of the garment.

Hot, under the collar? Trapped heat, caused by a neck tie ?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A!

From the Brady Bunch show.
(Not, the Brady bunch associated with Patriots football.)

Mrs. Brady gives low grade to Mr.Brady's tepid,
perfunctory,and dry kiss.
Mrs. Brady requests another attempt.
Mr. Brady is not getting the message.
Mr. Brady provides lip to lip contact,
but it is just a friendly, neutral kiss.
The kiss receives a low grade.
Mrs. Brady insists on a third try.
Mr.Brady tips Mrs. Brady into the marriage bed.
Full body contact, loving embrace, and
a long ,involved, and sexually stimulating kiss.
Mr. Brady earns top grade!

A!

 

[BlackCashmere]

Wow...a thread I can call home...

 

[BlackCashmere]

Who is up and wants to chat...

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Galicia, an autonomous region on Spain’s rugged northwestern coast, is home to ancient relics, pagan myths and a vibrant, living history unlike anywhere else in the world.

22 January 2014

Celtic roots!

While Scotland and Ireland are most commonly associated with the Celtic people, the roots of the culture are spread throughout Europe. More than a millennium ago, a Celtic tribe known as the Gallaeci settled in an area north of the Douro River. The region became modern day Galicia, which is in northwest Spain and is today considered the seventh of the original Celtic nations, along with Eire (Ireland), Kernow (Cornwall), Mannin (Isle of Mann), Breizh (Brittany), Alba (Scotland) and Cymru (Wales).

The evidence is everywhere, from the Galician language – which contains a significant amount of words of Celtic origin and is spoken by more than three million people – to the pagan festivals and rituals that continue to flourish in the region. The pallozas, or round stone huts (pictured), date back 2,500 years and are believed to be of Celtic origin. (Jim Richardson/National Geographic Creative)

Throughout the province are thousands of hórreo, old stone or wood granaries, that were used to store cereals and animal feed. Though the word is derived from Latin, the structures are not an invention of the Roman Empire and many anthropologists consider them to be Celtic in origin. Although very few are still in service, they have become an unofficial symbol of Galicia, and wheat remains a staple of many local dishes, such as empanada gallega, a savoury pastry stuffed with tuna, pork or vegetables.


http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20131203-where-is-the-seventh-celtic-nation

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

12 October 2016

An area in Northern Ireland has been identified as a "giant hotspot" by scientists studying a gene defect which causes people to grow abnormally tall.

One in 150 people in Mid-Ulster were found to carry the gene, compared to one in 1,000 in Belfast and one in 2,000 in the rest of the UK.

The gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the "Irish giant", to grow more than 7ft 6in (2.3m) tall.

He became an object of curiosity after travelling to London to seek his fortune before his death in 1783.

Geneticists have identified that Mr Byrne and the living carriers of the gene shared a common ancestor who lived about 2,500 years ago.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-37622249

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Moby

Moby is a bit frustrated ?

New from Moby, this week.

Science tells us how we got here.

International conglomerate corporations

tell us where we are going.

Scandal

The Amercan Egg Board

Does Not Like Vegan Mayo

Neither Does an International Conglomerate Corporation


US government-appointed agricultural body tried to crush a Silicon Valley food startup after concluding the company represented a “major threat” and “crisis” for the $5.5bn-a-year egg industry, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/02/usda-american-egg-board-hampton-creek-just-mayo


"Hampton Creek was being attacked by its own government,” said Matthew Penzer, who serves as special counsel to the Humane Society of the United States, the animal-protection organization, and has an expertise in checkoff laws.


October 10, 2016


"...misappropriated government egg subsidy funds toward eliminating Hampton Creek as a competitor. "


"...resulted in AEB influencing the FDA to send a warning letter to Hampton Creek that claimed its use of the word “mayo” was in violation of federal identity standards of mayonnaise."

http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7119&catId=1

AMS review focused on nine allegations made against the AEB by Hampton Creek after 600 emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) revealed intent to conduct illegal activities against the vegan company. AMS reviewed allegations wherein AEB CEO Joanne Ivy—who retired early last October after the FOIA emails surfaced—threatened to “put a hit” on Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick, attempted to hire a third-party insider to remove egg-less Just Mayo from Whole Foods Market shelves, and hired bloggers to discredit Hampton Creek.

http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6946&catId=1


In 2014, Unilever—the makers of Best Foods mayonnaise—filed suit against Hampton Creek for allegations that Just Mayo’s label was misleading because of the product’s lack of eggs. While the AEB acknowledged they could not publically back Unilever’s suit, in a 2014 email, Ivy stated that she spoke with the counsel for Unilever and advised him to “make sure the FDA is aware.” If they weren’t, she said, “Maybe they need to be pushed.” On August 12, the FDA issued a warning to Hampton Creek stating that the company was in violation of regulations related to the identity of mayonnaise, stating that the product did not contain eggs and was therefore misleading to consumers.

https://lifeorlunch.wordpress.com/20...tacks-vegnews/


Senators Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) were prompted to write the Commodity Checkoff Program Improvement Act of 2016 after the American Egg Board’s attempts to damage Hampton Creek, makers of the popular vegan mayonnaise Just Mayo. But the Egg Board is part of the government’s commodity checkoff program, which is supervised by the US Department of Agriculture. Program participants are supposed to promote their commodities (ie, eggs, beef, or milk), but are prohibited from attacking competitors—as the Egg Board did by trying to damage Hampton Creek. If Booker and Lee’s bill passes, checkoff budgets would be made public, allowing people to know if these government-sponsored marketing bodies spend money on smear campaigns against competitors.


Mmmmm, hypocrisy

Hampton Creek countered that its product is labeled “mayo” and not “mayonnaise” and pointed out that Unilever also uses the word “mayo” to describe products that do not meet the FDA definition of “mayonnaise.” In addition, Hampton Creek argued that it actively markets the absence of eggs as its products are created with the health-conscious in mind and it therefore is not creating any false impressions.

http://www.natlawreview.com/organiza...er-hampton-llp

When Bread and Circus became Whole Foods, it became a corporate game.
Whole Foods became the shark that ate New England's mom and pop organic markets.

Whole Foods is a 9 billion dollar company.
The shark must keep eating and swimming.

There are alternative brands of mayo, because the egg industry had problems with egg contamination. Many people became ill because of poor oversight.


56,000 people.
Seven million dollar fine was paid by corporation.
$100,000.00 fine from personal account, for each offender.


Just Mayo's strength, especially in a functional setting. On a tomato sandwich or in potato salad, that velvety tang is lovely. It tastes like it was made from real ingredients in a way that Hellmann's salty white gloop doesn't. I'll be reaching for it from now on, partly because of taste, but mostly because of ingredients.

And this is where Unilever's gripe about "unfair competition" seems especially absurd. Making an eggless emulsion that tastes and performs like mayonnaise isn't unfair competition; it's a technological breakthrough. Imagine if the Carriage Manufacturers of America sued Henry Ford because the Model T didn't have a horse attached to it.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/great-mayo-smackdown

The mayo war did not end.

Much like the persecution of Hillary and Bill Clinton doe not end.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

New York, New York

Thank you, Charlie Rose

I had forgotten, all about this.

http://www.stonesexhibitionism.com/exhibition/p

Exhibitionism tells the story of the most influential rock ‘n’ roll band in the world, allowing visitors to experience their incredible journey through this immersive exhibit, from their early days living together in a tiny flat, to headlining the biggest stages in the world.

STYLE & FASHION GALLERY

Spanning from the 1960's to the present, with fashions from Alexander McQueen, Prada, Dior, Gucci, Hedi Slimane, Ossie Clark, L’Wren Scott, Jean Paul Gaultier, Mr Fish and many more, with contributions from Anna Sui, John Varvatos and Tommy Hilfiger.

OVER 500 STONES ITEMS
Vintage guitar gallery, rare instruments and lyric books, backstage and touring paraphernalia, album art, photography, stage designs and personal diaries and letters.

OVER 190 ORIGINAL ARTWORKS

By Andy Warhol, David Bailey, John Pasche, Walton Ford, Shepard Fairey, Michael Cooper, Christian Piper, Robert Frank and many more.

INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY & IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES

Including sound mixing desks, interactive displays, a screening cinema narrated by Martin Scorsese and video experiences throughout.

THE EXHIBIT CULMINATES IN AN IMMERSIVE BACKSTAGE RECREATION, LEADING INTO A SPECTACULAR 3D CONCERT FINALE.

 

[y=mx+b]

I agree with whatever parts of that I may have read.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

As Perg was known to quote-

The world moves on a woman's hips
The world moves and it swivels and bops
The world moves on a woman's hips
The world moves and it bounces and hops
A world of light, she's gonna open our eyes up
A world of light, she's gonna open our eyes up
She's gonna hold it, move it, hold it, move it, hold it, move it, hold it, move it
A world of light, she's gonna open our eyes up

- Talking Heads

 

[y=mx+b]

I nodded off during that portion of the program. You know how insomnia is. Never fully asleep at night. Never entirely awake during the day.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sorry, There Are No Mogwai For Sale In Chinatown

December 23, 2016

Recently, we spotted the above photo on street artist Hanksy's Instagram feed, but it turns out Chinatown proprietors aren't putting the signs up because of a nostalgia-driven uptick in requests for the creature. The drawing was simply a little joke from Hanksy himself, for any passersby who still have one on their holiday wish list. He tells us he put up three along Canal Street, and this one was near Orchard Street.

http://gothamist.com/2016/12/23/no_gizmo_for_christmas.php

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Waiting, to her these words, during the American showing of the Sherlock Christmas Special


"The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped.

"Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face.

"See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand.


(Read the missing paragraphs, at the link.)

"Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise."

"Very. But will he see it?"

"Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers."

"In which, sir?"

"Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you."


"Very well, sir. And this stone?"

"Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place of the one which your family is now devouring."

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/AdveBlue.shtml

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sadly, star fish have not been plentiful since the 1970s.
I chalk it up to fuel oil spills, huge amounts of water pollution dumped in the ocean, and just maybe, climate change is making everything cozier for diseases to spread.
Scientists have caught up to the die offs.

Starfish larvae create complex water whorls to eat and run
Date:
December 19, 2016
Source:
Stanford School of Engineering
Summary:
Tiny starfish larvae employ a complex and previously unknown survival mechanism involving whorls of water that either bring food to them or speed them away to better feeding grounds.

Caption for illiustration-

A starfish larva is shown here to the right of a vortex of water. Stanford research reveals that starfish larvae evolved a mechanism that can either stir the water to bring food closer or propel the organism toward better feeding grounds.

Tiny starfish larvae -- each smaller than a grain of rice -- spend 60 days and 60 nights paddling the open ocean, feeding to accumulate the energy needed to metamorphose into the familiar star shape.


We have shown that nature equips these larvae to stir the water in such a way as to create vortices that serve two evolutionary purposes: moving the organisms along while simultaneously bringing food close enough to grab," said Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering and recent MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant winner.


Imagine that the cilia on a starfish larva are like the oars that might be used to row an ancient galley -- except that each larva has about 100,000 oars, arranged in what researchers call ciliary bands that gird the organism in a pattern far more complex than any galley's oars.

The rowing metaphor hints at the complexity the researchers found as they studied how these 100,000 eyelashes paddled the larva through water.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161219134506.htm

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Was it real, or was it a CGI creation, inserted into the film you are watching ?

http://www.movie-locations.com/places/usa.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin...on-isn-t-a-secret-extra-episode-a3447076.html


Apple Tree Yard viewers outraged that BBC drama wasn't a 'secret fourth Sherlock episode'

Some were convinced that the new thriller was an extra instalment of Sherlock

This past weekend,
January 21, 2017 January 22, 2017


Some Sherlock fans were convinced that, in keeping with the show’s tricksy nature, Apple Tree Yard was actually a code name for an extra episode of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s present-day mysteries.

It is currently unknown if Sherlock will return for Series 5, with Moffat saying it’s ‘possible’ that the show might be finished.

“If this was the last time – we’re not planning it, but it might be, it’s possible – we could end it [at Series 4],” he told the Radio Times.

“We couldn’t have ended it on any of the previous series because they always ended up with whopping great cliffhangers.”

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Small beginnings for humanity




"...fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved".

The microscopic sea animal is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path that led to fish and - eventually - to humans.

Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and is thought to have lived between grains of sand on the sea bed.

The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.

Saccorhytus was also covered with a thin, relatively flexible skin and muscles, leading the researchers to conclude that it moved by contracting its muscles and got around by wriggling.

The researchers say that its most striking feature is its large mouth, relative to the rest of its body. They say that it probably ate by engulfing food particles, or even other creatures.

Also interesting are the conical structures on its body. These, the scientists suggest, might have allowed the water that it swallowed to escape and so might have been a very early version of gills.


http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38800987

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

HAARP

“One of the projects will create an artificial aurora,” Mitchell said. “It will not be visible by the naked eye but should be able to pick it up with cameras."

"The rate for running HAARP runs about $5,000 an hour,” Mitchell said. “The generators are very expensive. It’d take a lot of fuel to run per hour, so that’s the main cost.”

*planetary energy provides spectacular aurora dsplays, in full color*


http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/02/...-uaf-takeover/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Everyday Practice and Tradition:
New Directions for Practice Theory in Ethnology and Folkloristics


Works Cited

Bennis, H.J. 2006. “Dynamic Traditions: Research Plan, 2006-2010.” Meertens Instituut. Amsterdam: Meertens Instituut.

Berger, Harris M. 1997. “The Practice of Perception: Multi-Functionality and Time in the Musical Experiences of a Heavy Metal Drummer in Akron, Ohio.” Ethnomusicology 41(3):464–89.

———. 1999. Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience. Music/Culture Book Series. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Berger, Harris M., and Giovanna P. Del Negro. 2002. Bauman’s Verbal Art and the social organization of attention: Reflexivity and aesthetics in music and display. Journal of American Folklore 115(455):62–91.

———. 2004. Identity and Everyday Life: Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music, and Popular Culture. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Bronner, Simon J. 1986. Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America. 1st ed. University Press of Kentucky. http://www.jstor.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/stable/j.ctt130jj5w.

———. 1988. “Art, Performance, and Praxis: The Rhetoric of Contemporary Folklore Studies.” Western Folklore 47(2):75–101. doi:10.2307/1500125.

———. 2012. “Practice Theory in Folklore and Folklife Studies.” Folklore no. 123 (1):23-47.

Del Negro, Giovanna P., and Harris M. Berger. 2001. “Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade): Interpretive Frameworks and Expressive Practices from a Body-Centered Perspective.” Journal of American Folklore 114(451):1–15.

***, Billy, Orvar Löfgren, and Richard Wilk. 2015. Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Löfgren, Orvar, and Billy ***. 2010. The Secret World of Doing Nothing. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Margry, Peter Jan, and Herman Roodenburg. 2007. Reframing Dutch Culture: Between Otherness and Authenticity. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Schatzki, Theodore R., K. Knorr-Cetina, and Eike von Savigny. 2001. The practice turn in contemporary theory. London ; New York: Routledge.

Žižek, Slavoj. 2014. Event: A Philosophical Journey through a Concept. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House.



http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume15/vol15_introduction.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Tue, 28. March 2017


The Vienna Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, both celebrating their 175th anniversaries this year, present an unprecedented joint exhibit of archival material from throughout the venerable orchestras’ histories at the Haus der Musik in Vienna beginning on March 29, 2017.

Regarding this exhibit, Philharmonic Chairman Andreas Großbauer states, "Many objects, such as the founding documents, concert programs, orchestra and tour photos, musical scores, and letters from Gustav Mahler, will be available for viewing by the public for the very first time.”


The documents selected illustrate various highlights and reveal similarities as well as differences in the histories of these two venerable orchestras. In addition, the relationships of both ensembles to composers such as Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler are explored, along with their collaborations with such conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta. Another key aspect of the exhibit is the focus on the ramifications that the National Socialistic era had for both the Vienna Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic

http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/orchestra/philharmonic-journal/blogitemid/1242


Citing Austria's history of coming to terms with its Nazi heritage in fits and starts, Swiss historian Fritz Trümpi told DW that "public pressure on the orchestra became so great that it had to open up its archives."

An ongoing, exhaustive review of the era, including primary sources with the disturbing stories of several individuals, is published on the Vienna Philharmonic's website.

To mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of both the Vienna and New York Philharmonics, an exhibition with documents of both orchestras - concert playbills, founding declarations, photos and musical scores - opens at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York on February 23. The exhibition will then move to Vienna to be shown in an expanded version at the "Haus der Musik" beginning on the Vienna Philharmonic's 175th birthday, March 28.

http://www.dw.com/en/myth-and-tradition-of-the-vienna-philharmonic/a-37668848


The oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world, celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2017


New York Philharmonic has meticulously cataloged information on every program it has ever performed since that first one on December 7, 1842. More than 170,000 pages of historic material are now available online, with many more on the way.


The display is a collaborative effort with that other great orchestra celebrating 175 years in 2017: the Vienna Philharmonic.


Marking the centennial of the New York Philharmonic's first recording on January 20, 1917, a set of 65 CDs is being released on Sony Classical. And later this season, the orchestra will begin a retrospective of the music of Leonard Bernstein, jumpstarting the centennial of the birth of its most beloved maestro in 2018.


http://www.dw.com/en/new-york-philharmonic-sounding-young-at-175/a-37692091