Musings and miscellaneum of Ali Madad, principal at scty.orgTumblr (3.0; @alimadad)http://ali.scty.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rb8ktolT1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23961622018http://ali.scty.org/post/23961622018Mon, 28 May 2012 19:43:31 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4quhbMfAU1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23938830713http://ali.scty.org/post/23938830713Mon, 28 May 2012 13:41:33 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4qi87RCOB1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23926841111http://ali.scty.org/post/23926841111Mon, 28 May 2012 09:16:53 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46zblPyq21r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23259375806http://ali.scty.org/post/23259375806Thu, 17 May 2012 20:14:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m456n7hUcp1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23199574480http://ali.scty.org/post/23199574480Wed, 16 May 2012 20:57:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42qxkvTqf1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23110141555http://ali.scty.org/post/23110141555Tue, 15 May 2012 13:22:31 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40ytlPcc61r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/23047339963http://ali.scty.org/post/23047339963Mon, 14 May 2012 14:17:42 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3z4nbba6D1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/22983821415http://ali.scty.org/post/22983821415Sun, 13 May 2012 14:28:22 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3z2skdEZX1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/22981291989http://ali.scty.org/post/22981291989Sun, 13 May 2012 13:48:18 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3z0b6QE1r1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/22978036023http://ali.scty.org/post/22978036023Sun, 13 May 2012 12:54:42 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2waqv7ehL1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/21590493786http://ali.scty.org/post/21590493786Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:13:42 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w9efnzON1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/21588230356http://ali.scty.org/post/21588230356Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:44:38 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w8doW8iS1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ali.scty.org/post/21586524942http://ali.scty.org/post/21586524942Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:22:35 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0baz8IUeU1r6d0qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2005/10/CartoonCreativity">A Cartoon—By Mr. Fish in Harper’s Magazine</a></p>http://ali.scty.org/post/18660948721http://ali.scty.org/post/18660948721Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:01:55 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2pDjT1UNT3s?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Björk interviews Arvo Pärt</p>http://ali.scty.org/post/16323495032http://ali.scty.org/post/16323495032Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:54:36 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q9MZUeeg2Ug?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Harry Escott’s score to Steve McQueen’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nelnMXW3M">Shame</a> is a work of painful intensity—of the lingering kind. The ‘coo inducing crescendo’ pathos of <em>Unravelling</em>, when paired with the exquisitely taunt and drawn out sequences featuring Michael Fassbender’s Brandon preying in the subway and later running in desperation, is a work of cinematic brilliance.</p> <p>The comments in the YouTube clip will lead you to the work of Hans Zimmer, for an apparent homophonic analogue in his score for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4">The Thin Red Line</a>.</p>http://ali.scty.org/post/15825855543http://ali.scty.org/post/15825855543Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:03:00 -0500“Porn reflects back the cruelty of a culture that tosses its mentally ill out on the street, warehouses more than 2 million people in prisons, denies health care to tens of millions of the poor, champions gun ownership over gun control, and trumpets an obnoxious and superpatriotic nationalism and rapacious corporate capitalism.”<br/><br/> - <em>Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion</em>http://ali.scty.org/post/15485081515http://ali.scty.org/post/15485081515Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:29:34 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcbo2CTWC1r6d0qxo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://youmightlikethis.com/2011/12/essential-kubrick-animated-gifs/">Essential Kubrick animated .gifs</a></p>http://ali.scty.org/post/15355461936http://ali.scty.org/post/15355461936Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:33:37 -0500<iframe width="400" height="271" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w9-c1vfykhw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The scholar W. J. T. Mitchell, editor of <a href="http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/">Critical Inquiry</a>, has taken as his subject the intersection of literature and visual arts, which leads him to <em>visual culture</em> and<em> media studies</em>. The above interview, following his lecture <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqb8eTK1aMs&feature=relmfu">Cloning Terror</a>, is a good introduction to a recent history of the subject.</p> <p>A practitioner, taking cues from Mitchell and particularly his call for <em>a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil</em>, is<a href="http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/"> @williambanzai7</a>. William Banzai, of <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/">Zero Hedge</a> notoriety, strives for a contemporary polemical image activism in his critique of money, power and institutions. Watch his year end <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lj1JkJUr7NA">YULE-POCALYPSE NOW!</a></p>http://ali.scty.org/post/15132612108http://ali.scty.org/post/15132612108Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:14:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="271" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TjKwdWJsTk0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>In the mid-90’s I was introduced to the work of Noam Chomsky through his seminal <em>Manufacturing Consent</em>. This interview, from 1988, with Bill Moyers is one of the best I have seen.</p>http://ali.scty.org/post/15081130746http://ali.scty.org/post/15081130746Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:15:48 -0500