A clip of Slavoj Zizek talking about the classic musical The Sound of Music. I need to see the film again but let me think about this for a moment. The film was a Broadway remake, I wonder if there was an evolution of the imagery. A classic carnival persona is Mikhail Bakhtin’s cultural mirror image. Here Zizek claims that the mirror image itself is just a metaphor, it’s a bit of a cheap shot. Because in reality Nazis were impersonating the Jews all along. Look, here is the basic Nazi idea – the Jews want to dominate the world, the are in control of the European politics, music, art, banking, culture, etc. So instead of denouncing the very idea of the cross border domination, the Nazis said that’s exactly what we Germans want to do. We want to forcibly cross-dress as the Jews and dominate all aspects of the European culture and there could not be two nations playing this role at the same time. You see how it becomes easy to reverse engineer Nazis into Jews even in the film. Except Zizek is not telling you that this was always the Nazi ethos to become the Jews and the bucolic agricultural nationalism versus the cosmopolitan industrial, rootless domination was the central stage of the horrible conflicts. And of course Hitler himself being an Austrian from a small beautiful village makes the role reversal complete. Check it out: ►►►read more
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Butchers having a drink after work at Pied du Cochon
Jason links to flickr/tompalumbo/Paris 1962 set: “the Images from Paris cafés and nightlife in 1962, the same week Yves St. Laurent’s runway show vaulted Dior to new heights. Many scenes around Les Halles [meatpacking district] (which no longer exists as it did then).” Someone said the Christian Dior show that saved the house of Yves St. Laurent was really in 1958. More importantly I am trying to find out the name of the photographer. ►►►read more
Defensetech reports about the new US Army combat pants. The pants have stretchy, elastic fabric above the knees and in the back (where plumbers have the crack problem), knee pads are built into the pants, improved fire resistant fabric. Army plans to issue 7, 000 pairs to the 101st Airborne, the “Screaming Eagles” heading to Afghanistan. But you don’t need to wait for the testing, you can get your own pair, in four complimentary colors, for you weekend projects from Crye Precision (“knee pads sold separately”). I imagine they change the color pattern for the actual Army order.
Speaking of Afghanistan, there is moving New Year’s Eve report and haunting photos from Arghandab, Afghanistan by Michael Yon – Into Thine Hand I Commit My Spirit.
Rotterdam-based Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek “provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity.” Take a look at the collection, it’s a one off.
As I watched thousands of bright colored revelers I was asking myself, where are they hiding during the week? And then of course the fringes always appear numerous when they come out to dance. Everything important is always at the fringes. ►►►read more
I have been looking at this and thinking, when no one is reading this post, is the machine still sewing? It punctures and ties at the same time, this must be the secret. But thread and needle already stitched the way for that. ►►►read more
This is an amazing photo. Notice the different expression on men’s and woman’s faces
I continue to research the vast collection of photos from the LIFE Magazine. I like to collate photos thematically or select photos from a series by one photographer. I noticed very interesting photos by Paul Schutzer, most of them as a Life correspondent in the early 1960s. Here are the photos from single fashion show (except the last one). There is not location or date. Like most Paul Schutzer’s photos these must be from the early 1960s and by the looks of it definitely must be New York. Here some I really like. ►►►read more
What do you get if you cut five bras in a half? Ten yarmulkes with a chin strap. I guess that was the idea here:
Photo taken today on a Tevl Aviv stroll by Y. Beeri.
