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Liquid Sky and Eugène Atget

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Liquid Sky trailer via Dennis Cooper‘s today’s Video Nasties special .

Liquid Sky is a 1982 science fiction film produced and directed by Slava Tsukerman that has become a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit and to electroclash afficionados. The film would make an ideal double bill with Café Flesh.

Also, GmtPlus9 (-15) has a post on perennial favorite French photographer Eugène Atget, whose work can be compared to E. O. Hoppé‘s cityscapes of London.

Rue de la Colonie (1900) – Eugène Atget
Image sourced here.

On micro-blogging and macro-blogging

Micro-blogging is a relatively new term that has been used in connection to new social networking applications such as Twitter (What are you doing?). Today, it’s also being used in connection to Flickr and YouTube. A good post on the subject here and here.

I’ve only been ‘properly’ blogging since August 2006. With properly I mean using blogging software, I used to imitate the style of a blog in simple .txt files here. First I tried blogspot, which I disliked so much that I thought I’d return to my old ways, but then I tried WordPress and have stuck with it.

But when I compare the ease of editing at WordPress with those found at Flickr, Flickr is clearly the winner. Many times when I started with a post I’d compose it first at Flickr and than copy it and continue with it here (WordPress).

Now the main –how do you say it in English (overall tendency or purpose)? — is:

to praise Flickr’s writing environment.
to praise WordPress and especially its SNAP extension
to raise the question whether there is a Flickr-like application for MP3s
to question whether there is content management system in the making which is as elegant as Flickr, and which also includes content from Wikipedia and YouTube, sort of the meta-approach to internet publishing and where I could re-publish the content now hosted at Jahsonic.com
to introduce the term macro-blogging referring to the process listed in the bullet point above

In order to spice up what is perhaps an uneventful blog entry I give you Chesty Morgan in Fellini’s Casanova:

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Breast fetishists may want to scrub to two minutes and 23 seconds.

Credit where credit is due: I think it is Nils Geylen who first led me to the concept of micro-blogging.

So many blogs so little time

There has been an inundation of swell posts by the usual suspects but also by some relative newcomers.

A survey:

Proving that the first and foremost achievement of culture journalism is selection is Wet Streets [a film blog] which I discovered via Mike’s excellent Esotika… . Recent entries include:

I had been wild about The Five Obstructions, I had loved Water Drops on Burning Rocks (I recently posted a clip of it) and The Pornographer and Porcile have been on my to-see-list for some time. Wet Street’s reviews are well written and imaginative. Recommendation to film buffs: subscribe.

Mike, who runs the aforementioned Esotika… continues to surprise as to the kind of material he succeeds viewing, one title appearing more exotic than the other but at the same time totally relevant to modern tastes. Most recently the top post was a review of a 10-minute short film by Bouxyou (a fave French film critic and occasional filmmaker who is so obscure that he isn’t even listed on the French Wikipedia pages). The 1968 short is titled Satan bouche un coin and stars the cult erotica celebrity Pierre Molinier (1900 – 1976) and lots of fetishistic imagery. Esotika has a number of screen shots here, here and here.
Another gem of a film blog is the Spanish language Sharunas Bartas se levanta para ir a comprar. Recent entries include the list below. Note how Sharunas sometimes photoshops the screen shots to a grainy effect:

BIZARRE (nouvelle série, n° 29-30, 2e trimestre 1963)– L’Alamblog (Tarzan issue)