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Sex shop entrepreneur, artist, Sex Pistols Svengali, and new wave child pornographer Malcom McLaren has died, reports the UK's Independent. He was 64; cancer was the cause of death.

Alongside Vivienne Westwood, McLaren was responsible for the early look and feel of punk rock, managing the New York Dolls, the Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants, and Bow Wow Wow--whose underaged frontwoman/child, Annabella Lwin, McLaren posed naked on the cover of the group's 1981 debut LP.

McLaren's many fights with the Sex Pistols since the dissolution of the band have both obscured or heightened his crucial role in shaping the drugged-out, sex-fashion vibe and sound that you can still spot and hear on St. Marks and every other street on the planet like it. On the list of people who matter in the annals of 20th century pop music, his name ranks very, very high. He was also an unrepentantly caustic man who alienated almost everyone he ever worked with, though he seemed to mellow later in life, again becoming the prankster and raconteur he was back before anyone had heard the words "Sex Pistols." He died in New York. "We are expecting his body to be brought back to London," his spokesman told the Independent, "and buried in Highgate Cemetery." Farewell.

Thank you, Village Voice
 
There's a girl I simply dote on
She has no single flaw
A simple skirt and coat on
And a sailor hat of straw
Yet she looks more splendid
Than all the world today
She'll soon be my intended
Perhaps that's why I say

It's you I love
Not your hat, your frock or your glove
I like you in velvet
I love you in plus
In satin you are just
Like your own lovely blush

You're charming in silk
Or a plain woolen shawl
But you're simply delightful
With nothing on at all
Maybe you'll be in your balldress
Or you perhaps I'll find,
Dressed in your "What'd you call dress?"
You're oh well, never mind

Malcolm McLaren
 
BBC news, said that Malcolm McLaren died in Switzerland, where he was receiving treatment, for his cancer. (not New York?)
 
Like The Kinks? Doc film 8:00 PM Sat, Apr 24, 2010
Boston Independent Film Festival

Do It Again
Somerville 1, 8:00 PM Sat, Apr 24
55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144


Do It Again
Robert Patton Spruill

NEW ENGLAND FOCUS

Every real music fan has a favorite band—but it’s a very rare fan who single-handedly attempts to reunite them years after they’ve packed it in. In director Robert Patton Spruill’s DO IT AGAIN, that rare fan is Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe staff writer and dedicated follower of the Kinks. Edgers was driven to embark on a risky and time-consuming quest to get the Davies brothers and their old bandmates back in the same room to play some songs.

In film-festival shorthand, this film will likely be known as “The Kinks Doc,” but it’s equally “The Geoff Edgers Doc,” chronicling an uphill battle that is as much about the journey and its impact on Edgers’ life as it is about the musicians themselves. Along the way, Edgers enlists an impressive assortment of talented fellow Kinks admirers, including Robyn Hitchcock, Sting, Paul Weller, Peter Buck, and Zooey Deschannel. After hearing these individuals’ thoughts on the seminal U.K. quartet, as well as their takes on some classics, even those who don’t appreciate the Kinks nearly as much as Edgers does will be hoping his mission succeeds

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Thank you, Chronicle HD and Bradley Searles
 
They Saved Hitler's Brain is a 1966 science fiction film that was adapted for television from a shorter theatrical feature film, Madmen of Mandoras, directed by David Bradley. The film was lengthened with about twenty minutes additional footage shot by UCLA students at the request of the distributor. As the original footage was shot several years earlier, the differences in costumes and production values are rather obvious. (1955 was when they filmed the first part)

World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler's living head and hide it in the fictional South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.

Thank you, Off Beat Cinema and wiki
 
Shimon, Jeff and Mel jamming @DLD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6Gti3cWsY

Shimon, the marimba playing robot jams with Jeff Pulver and Mel Rosenberg at DLD 2010 in Munich, Jan 25 2010.

(I find it sort of charming, to see the robot "crane his neck" to look at what
Jeff and Mel are doing, and then look down and very intently, at the marimba)
 
This film sticks with me. It was a serious film. It seems like it is even older, than it's true date.

Greek director Mihalis Kakogiannis used Euripides' play (in the famous Edith Hamilton translation) as the basis for his 1971 film The Trojan Women. The movie starred American actress Katharine Hepburn as "Hecuba", British actors Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Blessed as "Andromache" and "Talthybius", French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold as "Cassandra", Greek actress Irene Papas as "Helen", and Patrick Magee, an actor born in Northern Ireland, as "Menelaus".
 
I saw the 3D sculpture, when I was 13 or 14. Four shining and smooth, featureless white plastic balls.
Two at one end of the sculpture. Two at the other end. A middle piece, that looked like a waist,
to hold them in place. Four balls and four ball sockets. Ball joints. The museum had it displayed upright.

The original sculpture, that was used for inspiration, is in this video.

'La poupée' de Hans Bellmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzbE__8-a5U

Hans Bellmer's sculpture is explicit, in it's depiction of anatomy.

The sculpture made during the 1960's, mimics the original.
It is posed in the same manner. It has the same structure.
But the message that is imparted, is different.

A representation of a human female. Reduced to the most simple elements.

Four breasts? Four backside cheeks? Two breasts and two backside cheeks?
If I took it off of the sculpture stand, would it roll like a toy car?

Ball Doll.

Years later, I read Germaine Greer's book, The Female Eunuch. That lead to reading other women's books, on the subject of feminism.
That is where I saw the source of the sculptor's inspiration. Hans Bellmer.
 
Recreating a 13th century castle, takes a long time, when you insist on building the castle the way it was done in the 13th century.
They started in 1998. They might be finished, in 2030?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/10440300.stm

The *Chateau de Guedelon was started in 1998, after local landowner Michel Guyot wondered whether it would be possible to build a castle from scratch, using only contemporary tools and materials.

Today, the walls are rising gradually from the red Burgundy clay. The great hall is almost finished, with only part of the roof remaining, while the main tower edges past the 15m (50ft) mark.

Builders use sandstone quarried from the very ground from which the castle is emerging.

Modern cement did not exist in the 13th Century, so mortar is made from slaked lime and sand. For tools they have basic ironware.
 
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