Barbra Streisand: For The Love of All That is Good and Glamorous

The first time I watched this film, I had to rewind the intro and watch it again, because it was so delicious. Watching it now feels like a missive to wrap up in something soft and walk the streets of New York, cherishing all that is unique and idiosyncratic and beautiful and sad-- these things that, added up, make for a special brand of swag that I think you can only grow into with your old, old soul. 

And there's this. An empty theatre is a holy ground and I don't think they called that lone light down front a ghost light on accident. There's a river of good energy in there.

Have a Look: Batsheva and Bob Dylan

There is a game that is played, in different variations, wherein two competitors are given a set of significantly dissimilar objects, people, or ideas, and must race to connect them to a center point, usually via Wikipedia. Clementines and the Empire State Building. An Achilles Tendon and Jennifer Aniston. The color Magenta and the River Nile. 

I think, in certain cases, you'd be allowed to modify the game and use your imagination in lieu of a computer. Let's try it now?

One:

There's not much to say about the first video clip except that it makes me BELIEVE. 

Enjoy this electricity: 

Two:

The next thing for your eyeballs is a clip of Andy Warhol's 1965 Screen Test of Bob Dylan. Maybe what's really got my wheels, once I finish taking this all in, is the question of where exactly we go when we know we're being only-sort-of watched? It's a tricky thing to record someone in their natural state, but humans are adaptable, this is a fact. How long then before we forget that we are not alone?

And also, to bookend the week, see how much actually gets done in the pursuit of doing nothing!

...while we're on the topic of ANDY W. and his Screen Tests, we might as well (read: should definitely) watch this:

Start your engines and connect these dots why don't you? I think I will too. 

Sam Cooke: On Making It Look Easy

Yancy here, with a present for you. This was shared with me by a stranger in the night, a human with an incredibly chill vibe, so it fits. And I'm a Louisiana girl, so it fits twice. To start this week off right, I give you easiness, brought to you by Sam Cooke. And, as it applies to performing at a high level in all artistic mediums, this has me wondering. Is the trick learning how to make it look easy, or is the trick that it was really easy to begin with, and we've all been overthinking it?

Happy Monday.

Have a Look: Ralf Hildenbeutel

Hi hi hello. Ready for some beauty? So many good layers coming together in the below video it gives me the tingles. Approximately 1250 paintings on paper were hand drawn for DISCO by RALF HILDENBEUTEL, for the EP MOODS- RETOUCHED THEMES. Have a look, have a listen, and call me later.

Have a Look: Adieu

This Friday has me watching some very interesting work from two French directors, known to me via the cyberspaces as the Jullien Brothers. Apparently one of them doubles as music artist The Coward, and the following is a music video for his song Adieu. 

Here is the thing that I can't stop thinking about while watching: THAT CLOCK. Totally fascinating. Take a gander?

See more of their (admittedly, pretty strange-- but we love strange!) stuff here. 

Have a Listen: Bonobo

If Mondays are old school, then Fridays are contemporary, and this Friday is dedicated to Bonobo, and the below track, which my ride or die roommate Katherine Roarty and I used in the fall of 2015 to make some sweet sweet moves for the Professional Semester students at Broadway Dance Center. The video is as good as the track, so consider this a teaser for the video of our work, coming later this month. Enjoy/express/engage yourself.