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Masking

January 7, 2015 by fritztucker

The holiday season ended with my brother, who went to high school with Azealia Banks, showing me her 212 video, which is amazing, but which was inevitably followed by my first Iggy Azalea video, which was less so. Iggy Azalea’s behavior, for anybody who’s watched or listened to Fancy, is obviously problematic. Nevertheless, it’s important to discern between what we can and can’t blame on Iggy. Musically, Iggy Azalea is merely the latest in a long line of white musicians to borrow heavily from black musicians. If […]

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Moliere (one of the films)

December 26, 2014 by William Eaton

Wishing to re-watch Ariane Mnouchkine’s rightly famous film, 1978 film Molière, I accidentally bought a copy of Laurent Tirard’s rather less well known 2007 film: Molière. Months later, a Friday evening, back home from Paris, I put the DVD in the machine and stretched out on my couch, prepared to lose myself in film A, only to find myself watching this alien film B. Which turns out, and notwithstanding some uninspired reviews, to be fabulous, one of the greatest films about acting that […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: acting, Molière, movies, Shakespeare, theater

Lights in the Dark and Random Thoughts

December 24, 2014 by William Eaton

During the holidays one of the pleasures of my childhood was the night when my parents drove us around Sacramento to see the decorated houses. There was one street called “Christmas Tree Lane” with every house in a blaze of lights in strange and wonderful configurations. It was spectacular. I appreciate the creative efforts that these industrious house-decorating artists take to enliven our ordinary landscapes with bright, warm, good cheer once a year when dark descends early. On my […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, New York City

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Forgotten Books

December 19, 2014 by William Eaton

I fear this post will seem, or indeed be, advertising for a particular company: Forgotten Books and its Classic Reprint Series. They do seem to provide a useful service: selling on-demand copies of old books. My particular interest here, however, is in the look of these books, and hence this post’s inclusion in our nascent “Zeteo is Looking and Listening” series. The company states that it “utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of the historically important writings.” At least […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: books

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Holiday Mix

December 18, 2014 by William Eaton

A sight we have come to dread during the holidays is the invasion of Santas and Mrs. Santas for their annual drinking “pub crawl.” SantaCon 2014 took place this past Saturday, December 9, and, according to news reports, it was supposed to be saner and more sober. It did start out less boisterous in New York City, perhaps because the same day 25,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park to march against Police Violence. These two radically different populations intermixed in […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, civil rights

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The Known

December 16, 2014 by fritztucker

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive My curiosity piqued by the newly released Senate report on CIA torture, I just watched Errol Morris’ The Unknown Known. The part where Donald Rumsfeld metaphorically chalks up a victory to himself is a pretty good metaphor for the entire documentary (2:46-3:46 above). Morris asks Rumsfeld about torture memos, but not the testimonies of Guantanamo detainees that have been public for nearly a decade, many of which make torture […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: crime, death, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, film, Guantanamo, History, politics, torture, war

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Steven Hirsch, Photographs of the Contemporary Sublime

December 11, 2014 by William Eaton

(Note: For clarity and focus of the photographs described, and at the request of the photographer, we refer you to his website and the individual links to see images for this piece: stevenhirsch.com.) The Gowanus Canal The recent exhibit Gowanus: Off the Water’s Surface of Steven Hirsch’s photographs, at Lilac Gallery in New York City, reminded me of Edmund Burke’s famous definition of the sublime in the 18th century: The passions which belong to self-preservation turn on pain and danger; […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: photography, Steven Hirsh

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Joy in a Police State

December 9, 2014 by fritztucker

Although the video of this young girl’s spontaneous dance party has been viewed by millions, energetic outbursts by young children on the subway are more typically followed by a parent threatening or abusing the child if he or she doesn’t sit still. I witnessed one such scene on a nearly empty E train the other day. I’ve observed scenes like this regularly since I began riding the subway daily as a teenager. More often, I noticed public child abuse at the […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, anthropology, education, ethics, History, New York City, police state, politics, sociology, subway

Dirty Cookies

December 8, 2014 by William Eaton

Dust, Dialogue and Uncertainty, an exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York, includes Julia Mandle’s piece Dirty Cookies, a version of a project first conceived in 2008. The Pratt Gallery piece might quickly be described as a long dinner table mostly covered with a large pile of dirt, with, down at one end, some place settings, a bit dirty and offering dirt food. I quote from Mandle’s “Project Summary“: Like many of Mandle’s projects, the inspiration for Dirty Cookies was a news article and […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: art

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Category Archives: ZiLL

Masking

Moliere (one of the films)

Lights in the Dark and Random Thoughts

Forgotten Books

Holiday Mix

The Known

Steven Hirsch, Photographs of the Contemporary Sublime

Joy in a Police State

Dirty Cookies