Art(sy)

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

For English subtitles, click on CC. (to make this screen bigger ctrl-+)

2020 (Fantastiche Frauen) Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo

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2015-2016 (Sturm-Frauen) German Art Review (1910-1932) (museum page)

News of the Weird

The Great Colour Conspiracy, BBC

Bansky, on lockdown, artsy-graphs the family bathroom in April 2020.

Rats & bat poxes

Vanessa Aigue (2017), "Weird Classical: The History of Black Death Music Parties", secular innovations in 14^th century European music.

Yuki!

Kwaidan. Ghost stories, captured on film. The story of snowwoman Yuki-onna reminds me of the snow-white cat named Yuki in Miyazaki's The Cat Returns. ^^.

Youtube Disney animation critic Lindsay Ellis

For English subtitles, again, CC. (She talks fast.)

I found it particularly interesting in these days of bat-viruses that Robin Williams' first role in a Disney animation was playing the starring bat in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest.

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3.5 million views just can't be wrong... this is a very watchable -- though really long ^^ -- analysis of why Hercules: Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess just didn't work. (Ellis promises to save you thousands of dollars in film school education, and, IMHO, delivers.) caveat lector: I've never been to film school.

Spam!

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One might think this was paid for by Hormel... ^^

Has anyone ever seen a can of spam in France? I'll admit I've never looked...