Europe
The Ether Orchestra
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 19, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Music, 1930s, Europe
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 18
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 15, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Europe, United Kingdom, Nineteenth Century
Money Card
No need for a subliminal hook for future customers in this one--it's all explicit! Buy American Express Traveler's Cheques.The entry at Board Game Geek.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 04, 2024 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Games, Money, 1970s, Europe
The Art of Orlan
Her Wikipedia page.Her website.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 03, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Europe
Le Microphone Bien Tempéré
Let us know when you tap out.From the composer's Wikipedia page:
Henry was born in Paris, France,[3] and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music, now called noise music
The rest of the album is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 26, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1970s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Trapp Family
Before there was The Sound of Music there was...Die Trapp-Familie?!? The whole movie is below, with English subtitles.The Wikipedia page for this 1956 German production.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 09, 2024 -
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Category: Movies, Debuts, Christenings, Launches and Reboots, 1950s, Europe
Les Fo’Plafonds
Somewhat, ah, unique instruments.Their YouTube channel is here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 23, 2024 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Inventions, Music, Europe
Follies of the Madmen #590
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Hygiene, Advertising, 1980s, Europe
RIP Günter Brus
This video is a little gross, but hardly much by contemporary horror cinema standards.From his Wikipedia entry:
Brus was a co-founder in 1964 of Viennese Actionism (German: Wiener Aktionismus) with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. His aggressively presented actionism intentionally disregarded conventions and taboos, with the intent of shocking the viewer. At the Kunst und Revolution event at the University of Vienna in 1968, Brus urinated into a glass then proceeded to cover his body in his own excrement, and during the performance Brus also sang the Austrian National Anthem while masturbating. Brus ended the piece by drinking his own urine and inducing vomiting, and was subsequently arrested. Through this piece and his other performance works, Brus hoped to reveal the still fascist essence of the nation. This performance created a public outrage at the time and the participants were dubbed by the media as uniferkel or "University Piggies." Sentenced to 6 months in prison after the event and subsequent public reactions, he fled to Berlin with his family and returned to Austria in 1976.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 14, 2024 -
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Category: Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Performance Art, Outrageous Excess, Europe, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
The Belgian-Colombian War
A short essay here has a few more details.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 13, 2024 -
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Category: War, Europe, South America, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Love & Romance
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