I came across a site, The End of Being, a while back that specialises in finding eclectic, obscure and 'difficult' material and presenting it almost like a museum of strangeness.
Then I got immersed in other things and didn't check it for a while. But here are some recent weirdnesses that are food for thought, for different reasons:
- Aleister Crowley (yes, the occultist) reciting a poem 'The Pentagram' - originally recorded circa 1910 on a wax cylinder.
- a discussion of a French novel from 1665, which was republished in translation 1901: “La Vie des Dames Galantes” (The Lives Of The Gallant Ladies). The gallant ladies apparently were subjected to, and enjoyed, a range of corporal punishments.
- some inspirational stuff from painter and video artist Almagul Menlibayeva, born in Kazakhstan and now resident in Berlin, blurring cultural boundaries in her video works that are described as a kind of cross-cultural 'punk shamanism'.
So now you know what I've been entertaining myself with these last few days.
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A strange site indeed -- I registered -- have you? I left a comment about Aleister Crowley...
ReplyDeleteI didn't register because you don't need to just to see the stuff. Some of it is gathered in from the further reaches of YouTube and Vimeo, but some comes from less-known sources. And it's not a high-traffic site that posts dozens of things a day so it's easy to keep track of and pretty much everything on there has some appeal to those of us who like our culture a bit off-the-wall.
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