I came across this interview/performance during a search for a trailer of director, Mira Nair's', early movie: "Salaam, Bombay!" The movie is about the life of street children trying to keep body and soul together in a difficult terrain on their own.
I can't recommend this movie highly enough.
Most of the people in the movie have no previous acting experience - though I believe India has the 2nd largest movie industry in the world. The main actor, Krishna, is definitely a novice - though you would never know it - or maybe you would - as his performance is as real and heartfelt as any I've ever seen.
There's something to be said for a fresh slate.
I don't believe he has done any acting after doing this film.I stayed on the suggested link and listened to Ashwin Batish's song, though, and really liked it. Maybe you will too.
While this clip is clearly a promotion for his DVD, I want to find more of his music...
I only wish the percussionists and so on were there in the studio as well.
I feel I must include this information to use this clip:
Info and Commercial Bits:
"Ashwin Batish
was on tour when he was invited to perform his special brand of Sitar
Power for "Musique Plus" in Montreal, Canada. Ashwin is playing a live
version of the song Bombay Boogie from his album Sitar Power #1 - "a
fusion of rock and Indian music." Please read on with some of the
reviews this music has garnered over the years. Ashwin's
pioneering efforts have truly made a place for such fusions to be
considered a mainstay in today's musical world. This video
is an edited version of a 25 minute interview performance by Ashwin.
The interviewer is Natalie Richards. A DVD of the full program is
available through Batish Records. Please call us at 1-800-RAG-MALA to
order your DVD."
This might be considered a toss-away as we used to say in class... I was just surfing and couldn't help myself... love the gallery feature. More - better - different - next time. Was that an apology in there? Snuck right on through, didn't it? Happy Sunday to all and sundry.
Personally, I thought both were important when teaching, but I imagine it can be true some times and places. That would be a sad thing, though... half of the equation.
When I first read it, I thought it clever.... like so so many of the man's ideas.What is wit? I think that is the chief association with Wilde.Dictionary.com's first definition for Wit is:
"...the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure."Fun stuff. Thought provoking
and Silly at timesTime flies.
The first creative thing I remember my parents do in media was make a reel-to-reel shot of stop action shoes moving all over the apartment.I felt so proud of their accomplishment, and delighted as a tiny child in watching it over and over and over again.
This video is relentlessly upbeat music with neat half-animation effects and stop-action creativity that reminded me of my parents in their twenties. Comes in at about 3:26.Good for cheering on a dark and dreary night..
Just trying to make friends.... People - and periodic elements as well, seemingly - react to each other at times.Keep on trying as change is guaranteed. And some things never change
Which? Why? Never mind... Still in mind...
What a great space? To work? (Yes: See below!) I hope you have a good connection. It's a dubba day
Ah:
We did this video one night after work. We are a company called
Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo,
CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker. ... and, we're hiring: connectedventures.com/jobs.shtml
But the film, "Monsoon Wedding" is a wonderful creation, I think I can safely say.And this from a very shy recommender. I seem to be doing it more these days.Looking for balance... always.
"Monsoon Clouds Over the Houses of Gyantse Tibet"Here are a couple of songs from the soundtrack - one plaintive, the other jubilant, in that order.
"Banished" first, then, "Aaja Nachle (Come On Dance!)"Enjoy both or whichever. Hopefully at least one of them.... "~+~"Every year we clean out our gutters; every year the people of India and elsewhere scrub off the plant life that's grown on all the buildings.
It was a bright and sunny evening - the golden hour - perfect timing for joyful music, accompanied by various lively birds. Bedtime coming for them. And then these tones that had the power to take me back to a time in experimental audiophile cultural history I barely missed, but recognized all the same. Lovely, meandering, mysterious accented touch of melody and space time. 1992 to 1963... zip zoom flash.
This is one of the only professionally done videos for BJM's "When Joker's Attack," and there's a funny 11th hour story that goes with it, including such hijinks as losing the barely budgeted tape by driving away with it on top of the car, looking for an address to try to make it right, finding the wrong place with this distinctive woman hanging out alonem though she didn't live there, and agreeing to make a new quickly crafted video based on her.
