Monday, January 31, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Lately Musick
BLACK SWAN + Black Swan (in 8 Movements)
ULAAN KOHL + III
EYVIND KANG + Virginal Co Ordinates
THE MEN + Immaculada
SIGRBLOT + Blodsband (Blood Religion Manifest)
STEVEN R. SMITH + Tableland
SILVESTER ANFANG + Kosmies Slachtafval
IMYNVOKAD + Ad Ordines Descendens
SWANS + Holy Money
GRINDERMAN + Grinderman 2
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Love Is A Stream
NO JOY + No Joy
POPOL VUH + Coeur de Verre
VINCENT GALLO + When
HIGUMA + Den Of The Spirits
YOGA + Megafauna
DAI + The Advent
ANAHITA + Matricaria
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
City of A Thousand and One Churches
ANI.
Though technically located in modern day Turkey, the city of Ani has spent many centuries changing ownership hands with just about every major power in that region. It was originally inhabited by Armenians, who very bitterly came and went during an endless war-torn drama in which entire cultures, populations and cities were liquidated over and over again. Though decidedly impossible to imagine now, this place was once one of the most thriving metropolises of it's heyday. The historical specifics of this region are mercilessly bloody, greedy and convoluted. As always, the church played a constant background to the madness. In fact, as different peoples and religions took over, the region became a growing patchwork of temples. Curiously, though rulers have occasionally attempted complete genocide and architectural annihilation, there are still today a number of partial structures left standing in this uninhabited land. All of them churches. All of them abandoned.
Though technically located in modern day Turkey, the city of Ani has spent many centuries changing ownership hands with just about every major power in that region. It was originally inhabited by Armenians, who very bitterly came and went during an endless war-torn drama in which entire cultures, populations and cities were liquidated over and over again. Though decidedly impossible to imagine now, this place was once one of the most thriving metropolises of it's heyday. The historical specifics of this region are mercilessly bloody, greedy and convoluted. As always, the church played a constant background to the madness. In fact, as different peoples and religions took over, the region became a growing patchwork of temples. Curiously, though rulers have occasionally attempted complete genocide and architectural annihilation, there are still today a number of partial structures left standing in this uninhabited land. All of them churches. All of them abandoned.
All images from these flickr sets: Here, here, here, here & here
The much more informational Original Source Inspiration.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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