DFO Art Week: Request Line / Radio

Welcome to the final installment of DFO Art Week.  Today I’m combining the art theme with Request Line / DFO Radio to showcase some of my favorites of the many images I’ve put together for the series over these four years. The theme for today’s Request Line is “Music as Art”, and that can be as abstract as you like it to be.  Feel free to post songs that fit your personal definition of “art”.  The example I’ve included at the bottom is from an art installation I’ve seen a couple of times at the Broad called “2nd Hand Reading” by a South African artist named William Kentridge.  The music is produced by a composer named Neo Muyanga, a fellow South African.  I’ve mentioned this piece before; the theme of “tear and repair, end with love” is something that really speaks to me personally, the way that all great art does.  Thanks for following along this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
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ALXMAC
yeah right

Your artwork is phenomenal.

yeah right
Don T

Worth it just for the guitar: Silvio Rodriguez- Óleo de mujer con sombrero
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dr5WhK446hk

Don T

One of the very top works (IMHO) about the least interesting subject for art: the creative process. The Who – Guitar and Pen

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xp9EdWnSX-c

ThurberHerder

A love song to music. Worse places to be than on a rooftop groovin along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQCRVwjyZo

ThurberHerder

Composed to be played indefinitely while waiting for the Dalai Lama to appear. The quiet intersecting polyrhythmic melodies symbolize peace; the tight coordinated percussive sections war. I think it special to have an instrumental piece say something about the nature of societies in both war in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr6B43ll-4U

King Hippo

Closing montage of Parks and Recreation? DEFFO ART:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD6_QXwKesU

King Hippo

This is, without question, FUCKING ART!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLvqvLvUIY

Brick Meathook

Did something happen in Canada today? Did the queen die? It seems all the Canadians are on edge.

Fear not Canada! You still live next to the United States of America! We are armed to the teeth, from the largest thermonuclear tipped 7000 nautical mile range missiles to the smallest concealable assault weapons, we got your back. As long as you don’t piss us off you’re safe as baby seals.

DRINK!

SonOfSpam

Would be remiss if I didn’t congratulate Rikki on this week’s art posts – great work!

Brick Meathook

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SonOfSpam

That is so stupid. I love it.

SonOfSpam

In which Andy Partridge sings “Miro Miro on my wall…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoT9SbBgzgE

theeWeeBabySeamus

Shake it like a Polaroid pictrure….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw

scotchnaut

Anyone remember when art was specifically created for a song? The Tom Tom Club does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht6J5stphHs

scotchnaut

a-ha remembers… Really guys, stop dropping your balls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

scotchnaut

Peter Gabriel remembers…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

SonOfSpam

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scotchnaut

This isn’t a Family Guy redditt thread. SHOO!

SonOfSpam

Fine, I’ll go back to my subreddit where we talk about how great white people are and everything feels safe and normal.

scotchnaut

Very obvious I’m in a bad spot right now. I’m checking out.

SonOfSpam

Title track to a really great album (warning: do not play immediately after a breakup).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRO9ZPbAEQ

SonOfSpam
scotchnaut
scotchnaut

Shoutouts to Elvis, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Chris Marlowe among others. I was into The Blue Aeroplanes way before they never became relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36S254FvANA

Brick Meathook

they spelled “airplanes” wrong

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scotchnaut

It was intentional. Back off.

SonOfSpam

Heir plains?

Brick Meathook

i think i hit a nerve

scotchnaut

I think you hit a guy that had a really shitty Friday. I’m so pissy I can’t apologize yet even though that’s the right thing to do.

SonOfSpam

GET THIS GENTLEMAN SOME SCOTCH, STAT!!!

Brick Meathook

GET THIS GUY A GIMLET BEFORE HE GOES FULL CANADIAN AND STARTS APOLOGIZING FOR NOTHING

SonOfSpam

Calling Mona Lisa “a basic bitch” is definitely art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D3NN6M_DYk

scotchnaut

Best tune referring to photographs belongs to A Flock of Seagulls? It’s true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkzgLMH5MA

SonOfSpam

Gonna go see him in concert on 9/11. Never forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tRgYfQ48A0

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Why isn’t this whole post Art Garfunkel’s music?

SonOfSpam

Art Schlichter will give you 3 to 1 on that possibility.

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK, that made me laugh.

SonOfSpam

I’ll bet.

theeWeeBabySeamus

So would he.

SonOfSpam

Now I KNOW Derek Carr has this on repeat…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcw94ntkD4

theeWeeBabySeamus

Good thing, considering what I just posted below.

yeah right

holy crap that was almost synced.

yeah right

Specifically for Derek Carr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UR2TFUp8w

Game Time Decision

forgot that you can downvote stuff still.

yeah right

I mean, dude, you could have gone this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dHr8evt6k

yeah right
SonOfSpam

This was definitely on the shortlist.

SonOfSpam

A pretty and literate-to-the-point-of-pretentious song from Paul Simon? Quelle surprise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUk8L17A8Q

SonOfSpam

Gonna take this literally; this song title refers to a stretch where Picasso painted almost entirely in shades of blue, even though the song’s about feeling blue (depressed). Of course, it could also be about why Smurfette won’t go swimming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vQ_fnlvvr8

scotchnaut

This is a great take.