Filmmaker, sculptor, poet, essayist and doodler Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He was always searching, always experimenting with the relationship between our physical and sensorial experience and the epic trip-out of “art.” One time, he got kicked out of Australia for living in an indigenous community as a white person. He set his work to music, like Don Baretto and His Cuban Orchestra. He worked his way to London trimming coal on a steam ship, and started making experimental films by painting onto the film itself and scratching into black emulsion to make dancing sky shapes and aura explosions — this is his Swinging the Lambeth Walk. He was a quiet and dexterous master of his arts, and we salute him.
Quite possibly the best video on the internet. Skate Witches, 1986, by the one and only Danny Plotnick.
Alona is racing through the dry golden plains on her way to Desert Gold’s second weekend. We still have a handful of rooms available, and a schedule full of Balkan Brass, African luminaries and top secret guest performers.
The Pittsburgh Photo Fair is the first PGH’s first photography art fair in recorded history, and it runs this weekend, April 21-22, at the former East Liberty YMCA ballroom. See more information about open hours, exhibitors and directions here.
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