The Underworldlive.com thread

[dubman]

haha, hogarth.

i just had to take a final on british art from 1700-1860. if art history wasnt my minor i would have been toast since it was a very... arduous class.
but i now i can talk yer ears off about it. we started with him and gainsborough so memory isnt so great but i do recall that hogarth wanted to
a. make money, but also wanted to do history painting. so to support that unprofitable medium he did stories within engravings.
b. tell those that werent aristocratic to stop putting on aristocratic airs
c. teach as many people as possible about what he called the most beautiful line in the world, which was really just an elongated 'S'

man.
i dont know how this benefits me but i like it anyway.

[holden]

Originally Posted by dubman

haha, hogarth.

i just had to take a final on british art from 1700-1860. if art history wasnt my minor i would have been toast since it was a very... arduous class.
but i now i can talk yer ears off about it.

Good stuff! Before i became a full-fledged geologist, i did a double major in art and geology (just to confuse my breain and avoid making up my mind). Once took a class called History of Graphic Arts, which spend a lonnng time on Hogarth.

Engravers, etchers, printers...i have a lot of respect for these guys, because of the tremendous effort of the process of creating. the natural talent's one thing, to make a lovely picture, but to execute each line into wood, metal, whatever, and then have it turn out as a print is tremendously difficult. Many of my etchings were smudge-tastic!

p.s. Karl et al., are you fans of M.C. Escher? His engravings will do your head in! I went to the Escher museum while in Den Haag, Holland...seeing the clasics up close was amazing.

[rudydaduck]

regarding the current status of the acetate:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/..._on_eBay#40203

[crank]

hmmm..
this is like picking the plot apart in a movie. It just doesn't do because it's too easy.

Nonetheless...thanks for the mp3's.

crANk!

[Flywaver]

Nice UnderworldLive link to Geir Jennsen. That chap has done some amazing sounds under his alias of Biosphere. The Albums our worth the purchase http://www.biosphere.no/

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Flywaver

Nice UnderworldLive link to Geir Jennsen. That chap has done some amazing sounds under his alias of Biosphere. The Albums our worth the purchase http://www.biosphere.no/

I have "Substrata" which is amazing! I've had an undescribable moment lasting 1 minute (during "Kobresia") listening to this album. It was a moment I'll never forget.

[Flywaver]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have "Substrata" which is amazing! I've had an undescribable moment lasting 1 minute (during "Kobresia") listening to this album. It was a moment I'll never forget.

Is that the track with the guy talking in Russian? Ill get my G/F to translate it. That album is the definative Arctic sound! What a major change in direction from Patashnik too! But the right one!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Flywaver

Is that the track with the guy talking in Russian? Ill get my G/F to translate it. That album is the definative Arctic sound! What a major change in direction from Patashnik too! But the right one!

Yes that's the track!

Although -what I think counts for most ambience albums- you have to listen to the whole thing to really feel the vibe. But at the point Kobresia came in, it was amazing. Litterally beyond words.

[sanakan]

did you all see the new stop-motion movie in the archive?

look out for karl in shorts posing with a surfboard

[dubnobasswithme]

it should also be noted that the south american tour diary movie thing features the extended mix of 'ancient phat farm coat' that is only available from the japan itunes store! good good stuff.