#12th dec

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An Old Gangster’s Molls - Milenky starého kriminálníka (1927)

Dimensions of Dialogue - Možnosti dialogu (1982)

Motions of Plants - Pohyby rostlin (1928)

Hands in Tuesday - Ruce v úterý (1935)

The Thaumaturgic Eye - Divotvorné oko (1939)

 The final lecture of the semester! With special guest: Kipling’s Frosty Fancies

Cue The Final Countdown.

Our last lecture today was in the afternoon instead of the morning like it usually is as we were scheduled for a Christmas quiz but sadly it was cancelled.  However, this lecture more than made up for it as it was very intriguing for me. I’d looked into the Italian Futurists during my A-levels though I never knew there was a similar movement in the UK: The Vorticists which is who we looked at today alongside the Futurists as well as the influence of machine and war on the art world and film.

These two movements feel very intense when looking at their art and reading their manifestos. It’s all about war and speed and movement and breaking down everything to create a new start. It’s almost frightening to think that these people actively wanted war to happen as they believed it would be for the best for the world a restart button almost and then war did happen and it changed the world though not in the way they believed it was going to.

Helen Saunders ‘ Abstract Multicoloured Design’ (1915)

I think what draws me into this theme so much is that all this technology that we are so used to today was so new and had just started to integrate itself into society so they had all these ideas about what technology would be like in the future and how human and machine would coincide, including the prospect of humans becoming mechanised which we looked at today. I think also it’s similar to how the Romantics looked back to the simple time of their idyllic landscapes we look back now to the early 20th century at the beginnings of technology in the same quaint way, it was simple compared to the all-encompassing role machine plays in our lives today. 

The main takeaways I got from this lecture were that machinery greatly influenced society in Europe and that can be seen within these movements. It revolutionised how people thought and saw the world, you can still see this happening today with all developments happening so quickly in technology, we don’t know when to stop. 

Just before the dying of dawn

Tranquil songs of beguiling birds will imbue the air

And the rise of the soulful sun will paint the eastern sky orange.

The beads of dew on grass will forget to roll down the blades

Thus their fractured glitter will leave a sour taste in your mouth

Almost reflecting back the splendour of the mourning morning

While the air, hazy and almost tangible, will massage your…

Awesome photos of thursday night at sebright arms with Her name is calla + Flies are spies from hell + Rumour Cubes

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Behind door number 12 it's those NAUGHTY SONICS.