“Some three minutes of Shôhei Imamura’s Black Rain (1989) have elapsed before the first entrance of Toru Takemitsu’s original score. The credits have rolled, the principal characters…
The Goons - A Russian Love Song
“That’s right comrade Elvis … Go on, shake your hips while we listen to the blips of our glorious Russian satellite moon”
Listen to this 1957 tribute to Sputnik from Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers - with a delightfully prescient guitar solo from a certain Mr. Derek Bailey at the end. (via @marcellocarlin, @pawboy2 on Twitter)
“If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.” Author and robotic engineer Daniel H Wilson’s description of How to Survive a Robot Uprising seems like it is straight out of a robot disaster movie. From Terminator and Blade Runner to Transformers and Star Trek, robots are coming and the impending apocalypse is almost upon us. (via BBC News - Fast Track - Why are humans scared of robots?)
Rise of the Machines….
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TweetOne more of my (probably never actually utilised) Dandelion Radio jingles.
“… The challenge for Robyn Orlin then becomes how to make a piece of theatre which re-tells the story of, and pays tribute to, Baartman, without in the process exacting the same…
“… There is a kind of whig history of the music video in which early performance based clips, such as Jan & Dean’s ‘Surf City’ on the Pacific Coast Highway and the minimalist cool…
Catherine Deneuve in opening titles for Repulsion (1965, dir. Roman Polanski) Title designer: Maurice Binder
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TweetFinal Dandelion Radio jingle (I’m sure there were four originally but I seem to have lost one).