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Krimi magazine

KRIMI! - The new magazine for central european crime culture out soon.

https://krimimagazine.blogspot.com/

https://boriscreamviii.blogspot.com/2024/09/krimi-new-magazine-for-central-european.html

John Berryman

The Traveller by John Berryman

They pointed me out on the highway, and they said
'That man has a curious way of holding his head.'

They pointed me out on the beach; they said 'That man
Will never become as we are, try as he can.'

They pointed me out at the station, and the guard
Looked at me twice, thrice, thoughtfully & hard.

I took the same train that the others took,
To the same place. Were it not for that look
And those words, we were all of us the same.
I studied merely maps. I tried to name
The effects of motion on the travellers,
I watched the couple I could see, the curse
And blessings of that couple, their destination,
The deception practised on them at the station,
Their courage. When the train stopped and they knew
The end of their journey, I descended too.

Laurasbeatingart

LaurasBeatingArt

https://bio.site/laurasbeatingart

https://www.youtube.com/laurasbeatingart

NHK Let's Learn Japanese

There was also another Japanese language study series named NHK Japanese: how to survive in Japan?which was produced by the Japanese TV Network NHK in 1989. This 40-part series was about David Roberts (ostensibly an American but speaks with an Australian accent) who went to Japan for work. He was assisted by a beautiful girl named Yuko Goto, and in later episodes they are joined by David's wife, Cathy Roberts. David was going to introduce to Japan American culture and food with the American Train.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3OArGiAVZE

German Popular Cinema 1960s

When there is a critical appraisal of German cinema, it inevitably focuses on the Weimar period, with its Expressionism and Cabinets of Caligari and Metropolises, then the Nazi period films of Leni Riefenstahl and others, and finally the New German Cinema films of Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, and others and all their socially aware artsy films that often could barely draw an audience and were subsidized by the TV industry. Lost in this narrative is the German popular cinema of the 60's - the last truly popular movies made for mass entertainment before everyone stayed home watching television. The Wikipedia article on German Cinema just calls this era "cinema in crisis". What nonsense. 

This was a cinema hardly in crisis. It was a boom time of genre films that appealed to large audiences, not only in Germany but throughout Europe. It was the era of European coproductions, and stars that rose through these popular works were soon coveted by movie producers across the continent as a way to earn some money through the German market. It's why Klaus Kinski appears in so many Italian westerns, Gert Frobe became Goldfinger, Joachim Fuchsberger and Heinz Drache appeared in Fu Manchu. The Edgar Wallace series of Krimi led to the Italian Giallo. The Karl May series of Westerns led to A Fistful of Dollars and the Spaghetti Westerns. This period of film is almost entirely neglected by critics, which means that this is where all the good stuff is. Of course, it couldn't last. As more and more people bought televisions, movies turned to the one thing they couldn't still see at home - nudity. But even that was short lived, as the rise of hardcore cinema chipped away at that market from the other side, leading to the collapse of German popular cinema and the rise of cinema as a niche interest, pretty much where it has lived ever since. 

https://boxd.it/gc6bS

Francisco Solano López

Francisco Solano López - Argentine comic artist

Young Witches
Erotic comic series by Ricardo Barreiro and Francisco Solano López.

Degrading daliances in dungeons. " A lavishly illustrated European import that goes behind the scenes of a nineteenth century London feminist witches' coven." -Face London, in the last third of the 19th century. After bringing death to her mother in childbirth, and shame and suicide to her father due to her illegitimacy, young Lilian Cunnington is shipped off ther her aunts near Conventry. As it turns out, Lilian's aunts are the leaders of a coven of witches, whose twisted rituals frequently involve their nubile charges in grotesque exhibitions. 

Soon, Lilian, tapping into both her unsuspectedly powerful psychic abilities and her omnisexual potential, begins to uncover the darker secrets of the coven, and the resultant battle of wills ends in a climactic conflagration. 

Illustrated by the interationally renowned South American cartoonist F. SOLANO LOPEZ (creator of such acclaimed graphic novels as Deep City and Ana), Young Witches is a tale of magic and power, of sex and sadism, of witches and mutants - a supernatural thriller that will scare you and arouse you at the same time. As a special bonus, this expanded version of Young Witches includes extra pages of sizzling, explicit sex action created especially for this edition

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/24/francisco-solano-lopez

Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/paolozzi-eduardo/

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/eduardo-paolozzi