Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri (The Occult Experience)
Luigi Scattini, Italy, 1969, 95 min
A mondo style report of satanic rites from around the world. Includes devil worshipping, voodoo cults, church of satan, black magic, naked exorcism and pagan rituals.
March 24, 2011 on Fox News
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John Joseph (Cro-Mags) fait apparemment parti du nombre (hashtag léger malaise):
John Joseph on Japan disaster: « Killing is killing »
Punknews.org, Saturday April 2 2011
In a new interview with Approaching Oblivion, John Joseph of Cro-Mags was asked his thoughts on the recent Japan earthquake/tsunami, and had some interesting things to say about it to say the least:
« Let me say this. Collective karma exists and Japan has been going all over the world cutting the fins off of sharks, killing whales, dolphins, and absolutely bleeding the ocean and over fishing. You know what? The ocean came back ashore, man. Killing is killing. Let’s get down to the basics. It’s the universal law of karma. All the countries maintaining slaughterhouses, killing billions of animals every year this is just one big pressure cooker that is getting ready to go off.
I’ve always been an outspoken dude and people may or may not agree with me, but I can’t please everybody. I just got to speak what I know to be truth. »
Joseph has been vegan for 30 years and has been involved with the Hare Krishna movement for some time.
Godflesh ‘Crush My Soul’ de l’album Selfless (1994)
Vidéo réalisé par le (subtil) photographe ANDRES SERRANO …
How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels
Craig Welch, Canada, 1996, 11 min 5 s
The main protagonist of this short, surreal film is a man obsessed with control. In an automated world drained of all emotion, he is tortured by vague longings.
Trouvé sur le Morbid Anatomy :
On view until May 15th of this year at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, a new exhibition of relics and reliquaries entitled « Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe«
To get a sense of the kinds of treasures that await, check out the Treasures of Heaven « Digital Monograph » (from which these images were drawn) by clicking here.
… ‘Reliquaries proclaimed the special status of their sacred contents to worshipers and pilgrims, and for this reason, were often objects of artistic innovation, expressions of civic and religious identity, and focal points of ritual action. This exhibition will feature 133 metalworks, sculptures, paintings and illuminated manuscripts from Late Antiquity through the Reformation and beyond. It will explore the emergence and transformation of several key types of reliquary, moving from an age in which saintly remains were enshrined within closed containers to an era in which relics were increasingly presented directly to worshipers’ …
… « As early as the second century AD, the relics of Christian saints – including their bones, ashes and other bodily remains – were thought to be more valuable than the most precious gemstones. They were believed to be a conduit for the power of the saints and to provide a direct link between the living faithful and God, » said Martina Bagnoli, Robert and Nancy Hall associate curator of medieval art and exhibition co-curator. « These remains were treated with reverence and often enshrined in containers that used luxurious and precious materials to proclaim the relics’ importance. »
Treasures of Heaven
Feb. 13, 2011 – May 15th, 2011
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
