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Lynch’s films, in particular, are nearly every bit as powerful and disturbing if you close your eyes and just listen to them. Sure, the bizarrely deformed baby in Eraserhead (“Mother, they’re still not sure it is a baby!”) looks repulsive and vulnerable, but its incessant mewling is what truly shreds Henry Spencer’s nerves, and the audience’s. Even when Henry is just walking the streets of Philadelphia at the outset of the film, he’s doing so within an evocative aural landscape that mirrors the visual one. And then there’s the scene that most thoroughly creeps me out, in which Henry has dinner at his girlfriend’s house. In its broad strokes, this is essentially the same idea as Meet The Parents—awkward young dude does his best to make small talk, encounters darkly comic weirdness at every turn—but Lynch’s conception of “darkly comic weirdness” has its own flavor. And a uniquely discomfiting soundscape to match.

(via David Lynch shows how audio can be creepier than any image in Eraserhead | Film | Scenic Routes | The A.V. Club)

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The Presidents Of The United States Of America

Performing Their Classic Self-Titled Album…

The Presidents Of The United States Of America

Eternal Summers, You Scream I Scream

Wed, April 10, 2013

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm

Union Transfer

Philadelphia, PA

$22.00 – $75.00

With THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES PEOPLE, THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA have delivered an inventive, uplifting and often brilliant rock & roll album. From the opening, celebratory blast of “Mixed Up SOB”—which embraces the spirit of the band’s 4 million-selling eponymous debut—to the warm, Shins-like lilt of “Loose Balloon,” the group commandeers your attention with fourteen contagious winners.

(via Union Transfer | Philadelphia Music Venue » The Presidents Of The United States Of America – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – April 10th, 2013)

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Saturnia at The Trestle Inn

Public · By The Trestle Inn

Saturday

10:00pm until 2:00am

Clear  57°F / 41°F

Saturnia at The Trestle Inn 

Every Saturday. 10PM-2AM. No Cover. 

A far out disco dance party featuring some of our city’s hottest DJs, bringing you a fierce blend of classic disco, boogie & proto house to get you moving on a Saturday night. 

APRIL SCHEDULE: 

4/06: JULIAN PROCESS & TONY MODICA

4/13: LES PROFESSIONNELS

4/20: SHEARN 

4/27: ED BLAMMO

The Trestle Inn

339 North 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-1307

(via Saturnia at The Trestle Inn)

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The Art of Still Life
Carlo Russo 
June 17 – 21 
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 
$550

This five-day still life painting workshop is dedicated to working directly from life. Each student sets up an individual still life arrangement and works on it throughout the week. The instructor discusses and demonstrates his approach, in various stages, to creating his paintings. Subjects discussed include the sight-size method for drawing/painting, composition, object selection and determining the optimum format for the subject, materials, etc.

Students first do a pencil drawing of the still life set up. They then transfer the drawing onto canvas and complete a thin underpainting, gradually moving to thicker paint over the next few days until they complete a finished painting. The instructor does daily demonstrations to help the class achieve a thorough understanding of the process and techniques involved. All levels are welcome.

Guest Instructor Carlo Russo exhibits regularly at the Anderson Gallery in St. Simons Island , GA and has shown his work in galleries in NYC , Long Island, Laguna Beach, CA and Santa Fe. His paintings appear in private collections in the US, Canada , Europe and Asia. collections.

See Carlo’s work at www.carlorussoart.com

(via Studio Incamminati – Summer Workshops 2013)

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The six Philadelphia casino proposals are about to get a report card from an organization of Philadelphia architects, urban planners and other design professionals.

According to an analysis by the Philadelphia Design Advocacy Group’s Casino Committee, Market East Associates Market8 leads the class with an A for its Market and 8th streets location and an A- for design. Tower Entertainment’s The Provence, at Callowhill and Broad streets, got the second-highest marks: B+ for location and a C for design.

The DAG Casino Committee will present its analysis and report card to the rest of DAG Thursday during an 8 a.m. meeting at the Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street. A final draft of the document will be presented to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board at its public hearings on the proposal next week.

(via PlanPhilly | Proposed casinos to get report card from Design Advocacy Group)

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Featuring 40 programs and almost 100 screenings at theaters throughout the city and greater Philadelphia area, the Cinedelphia Film Festival was created three years ago to—you guessed from the name, right?—showcase films related to the City of Brotherly Love. For the next three-plus weeks, local cinephiles can expect to see not only everything from documentaries, new films from around the world and cult classics, but there’ll be a number of wonderfully weird parties going on around the city at which to watch said movies. Like, say, an ‘80s shindig at PhilaMOCA coinciding with a horror movie double-feature: Blades and Girls School Screamers, both grindhouse flicks about, respectively, lawnmower mutilation and girls hunted down in a remote house. Or there’s the 1991 Kathryn Bigalow-directed, Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves-starring crime thriller Point Break, which will feature accompanying surf rock music from the White Caps.

(via Cinedelphia Film Festival | Events | Philadelphia Weekly)

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Many observers will compare future elevated parks to the High Line in New York City. As the first such green space to open in the U.S. — the Promenade plantée in Paris predates it by almost two decades — the High Line has set an inevitable, though perhaps unfair, standard. While the designers of the Bloomingdale Trail have said they will focus on transportation and neighborhood connectivity, the High Line functions primarily as a tourist destination and a magnet for investment. Indeed, $2 billion has reportedly gone into the surrounding West Side Manhattan area since the park opened in 2009.

(via Photos: The Differing Destinies of Elevated Urban Parks – Next City)