tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3806755458834692735..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: D. H. Lawrence: Things Made by IronUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19851218926303979152013-06-02T05:44:04.146-07:002013-06-02T05:44:04.146-07:00Wooden Boy
you ought to take a slow train ride th...Wooden Boy<br /><br />you ought to take a slow train ride through Detroit !<br /><br />now Cadillac is building a plant in China.... must be a reason, eh ?<br /><br />the people in the film looked less frail than the folks living in Appalachia.... or on the streets of EVERY city and town in the U.S.A.<br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85977099432534914842013-06-02T03:41:50.775-07:002013-06-02T03:41:50.775-07:00And then, on the other hand (so to speak):
D. H. ...And then, on the other hand (so to speak):<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/d-h-lawrence-things-men-have-made.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Things Men Have Made</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44356569795336419392013-06-01T18:14:36.475-07:002013-06-01T18:14:36.475-07:00What a beautiful bouquet of turquoise. Iron and st...What a beautiful bouquet of turquoise. Iron and steel under that form, I see them as a legacy from the past. Things made by iron / things made of iron. Is iron making us? In a certain way it is. Iron made all those who worked in an iron factory. And they made iron. <br />And yet, this turquoise is so beautifully soothing..Marie Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787850063283960703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36027991253723912802013-06-01T12:57:47.968-07:002013-06-01T12:57:47.968-07:00Rust is eternal, ever-vigilant,
rust is that whic...Rust is eternal, ever-vigilant, <br />rust is that which sleepeth not— <br />so sayeth the ad man<br /><br />That long train ride that opens Wang Bing’s film has a melancholy sense of leaving rather than arriving—until the last few minutes of the clip. As the train enters the copper smelter, one wonders suddenly, What circle of Hell is this?Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87344644613990891882013-06-01T09:50:30.231-07:002013-06-01T09:50:30.231-07:00The clip is incredible. It's as if there are n...The clip is incredible. It's as if there are no fences between the railway and the factories and the homes and the streets. <br /><br />People look so frail, walking against the snow. The single last figure at that brute of a table, ready to be chewed up...<br /><br />The rise in industrial accidents in China is horrifying.<br /><br />Living and dead tools. The lifelessness, done up as life itself, of the machine I'm using to type up these words - a new species of shroud.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28389342642076420762013-06-01T09:13:25.430-07:002013-06-01T09:13:25.430-07:0010 years ago on a train-ride to Chicago
things ju...10 years ago on a train-ride to Chicago<br /><br />things just about everywhere along the way looked much like this in the film.<br /><br />one needs only to turn on the tv or go visit a museum<br />to see how things "really" are:<br /><br /> pristine and beautiful and everybody producing beautiful art and poetry<br /><br />where deer freely roam spreading Deer Ticks and Lyme Disease<br /><br />maybe I could get one of those buildings and turn it into a $5 million loft ?Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70999861692358531902013-06-01T07:53:25.955-07:002013-06-01T07:53:25.955-07:00The decline and demolition of the age of things ma...The decline and demolition of the age of things made by iron is the subject of a monumental, heroic nine-hour non-narrative film shot in the layered ruins of the northeastern Chinese industrial city of Shenyang.<br /><br />I saw this film ten years ago, and have seen no cinematic work since then of anything like its historical magnitude.<br /><br />You can check out the first part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVk-Qyf35cM" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com