Spark : Everything Old is New Again

Not long ago I was watching the movie All That Jazz and remembering how amazing it is. All That Jazz, is a movie written, directed, and based on the life of Bob Fosse. Starring Roy Scheider as the Fosse-carbon-copy, Joe Gideon, Jessica Lange as the mysterious maternal-figure, Angelique, and Ann Reinking as Kate Jagger, the adoring girlfriend of the philandering Gideon, this movie is filled with all of drive, decadence, and destruction that always seems to be the story of great genius. This movie is an injection of pure passion, creativity, and excitement. My favorite part is a dance between Gideon’s daughter and Kate Jagger to Peter Allen’s “Everything Old is New Again”. This dance exhibits Fosse’s ability to present movement that looks so simplistic, but bears the depth and complexity of a true artist.His style, much like the man himself, embodied a contradiction. A contradiction I just can’t get enough of. This dance just keeps you fixated and smiling. It is so good!  I hope you like it!

‘Til we meet again,

Simmon

Spark : Poker Face

So I don’t know about everyone out there but I love me some Lady Gaga. No matter what you want to say about her she can sing and play. She is very talented no matter how outrageous she dresses or how she behaves. I really enjoy watching her sing her songs with just a piano. This is a really interesting arrangement of Poker Face she did for a live radio performance on 95.8 Capital FM. I think it is always interesting to see an artist take their song and toy with it. Enjoy!

‘Til we meet again,

Simmon

Spark : Stereoscope

This is a still from William Kentridge’s animated film Stereoscope. This is one film in a series involving the character, Soho Eckstein (pictured in the drawing below). I thought this was such a striking image. What I think is most intriguing about the image is his expression. Water is filling the room and he shrugs. His expression is one of sadness but not impassioned at all. There is complete surrender in his sadness, a helplessness, a complacency. Pretty cool. If you are interested in checking out more of Kentridge’s work, the MoMA has an exhibition of his work that is open until May 17th, 2010.

‘Til we meet again,

Simmon