don't fall!

there's a certain irony to posting this video as my current mobility issues, i think, are directly related to me falling off a painting platform (house painting, not the other sort!) last week. that said, i've been putting more effort into core stability, proprioception and balance this last year as, along with so much else, it's becoming painfully (sic!) my body is entering its sunset years. even for things like small cuts, it will not heal itself like it used to and, as time progresses, as the video points out, a bony injury like a broken femur, for older people, can be life changing, if not ending. the video title is clickbait - there is no 'this exercise'. a range of movement is requirement. me, i do love my balance board but, at the same time, i don't love squats or single leg exercises. but i do them! 

doing a step up. this looks super easy and yet, despite by any measure being a lot fitter than my peers, i don't have great form doing these and it's something i'm working on

 

or try this. no gear required whatsoever. i've been doing these for years. great exercise! 

achilles and priam

i've hurt my back sufficiently that i can't do anything except read. not a burden (except for the sitting part!). i've been reading a lot of camus lately, with simone weil on the backburner so i'll be going back to read about the iliad sometime soon. as is the way, the yt algorithm kicks up books prof re achilles and priam. it never occurred to me, despite all the rereadings over the years, that the iliad is bookended by notions of possession of bodies! interesting!

barbie girl

 off the back of the barbie movie here's this that i find deeply pleasing. it's a battle which he gets past first - my skill evel or my music theory knowledge!

bbc history of photography

 don't know how this got on yt but an easy watch 

two lanes

old school sounding electronica. i'm not complaining 

lamagaia

 this is what happens if you had parents who listened to too much krautrock while you were in the womb 

the art of listening

 people talk about music. lovely 

william friedkin

william friedkin died last week. here he is doing the criterion thing. i remember a time, not so long ago, when you could see such films on terrestrial tv. now, with streaming, it's a struggle, and i have to wonder how people will develop a visual lexicon. differently is the kindest way i can imagine. but it seems a pity that the likes of netflix et al don't have a classics section 

here's another one. he makes some odd statements on birth of a nation (which you're unlikely to see nor, having seen it, unless you're a film-maker/historian, are you likely to want to more than once) and also buster keaton. even when i was young i never thought of buster keaton as just a comedian! lol 

plan b

 drama! 

camera obscura

 it was world photography day the other day (it was also world anthotype day but such has been the summer i haven't even made one image this year!) - i hadn't paid much attention but what i did do was make a camera obscura out of a box, an old phone and a horrible 'magnifying glass'. it worked, after a fashion, but i was intrigued enough that i'm going to give ity another go. here's the original video where i got the idea and then two more where it's done much more effectively! 

learning old english

 

i'm not going to lie, super handy as this wee vid is, starting with such an avalanche of grammar is offputting for one who suffered from an education that  put the value on fun rather than utility!

an abundances of resources here tho, from medievalists, for learning old english. if only there was something similar for middle english!

the story of technoviking

 more niche documentary. this time it's technoviking, a meme, if you were in any way into dance music, you'd need to have lived under a rock to have missed. which is likely why, whoever technoviking was, he doesn't want anything to do with it. interesting take on this type of art/documentary, the assumptions of the makers, and what responsibility they should have to their subjects. that's the interest of the doco for me. as for technoviking - leave him in peace 

The Story Of Technoviking - 2016 - Short Version - EN DE ES subs from Matthias Fritsch on Vimeo.

adrian street

i've only the vaguest memory of adrian street and i was never really into wrestling back in the day but, if you're of a certain age, or if you had a mate's dad who followed it, 'the wrestling' was unavoidable. jeremy deller on the other hand, i've lots of time for. so here's this on adrian street. despite living thru those times it looks very strange to me now and, as for street, massively transgressive. it's a shame street's partner, miss linda, doesn't make an appearance as it'd have been good to hear what she had to say. but, worth the watch whatever your views. 

Jeremy Deller, So Many Ways To Hurt You, 2010-2012 from jeremy deller on Vimeo.

julia andersson

 

fabrizio paterlini