Being in the World Podcast 014: On Translation

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the issue of translation...would the world be a better place if there were only one language?

Being in The World Podcast 013: On Superstition

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss superstition, fate, and our need for connectivity, causality and narrative.

Being in the World Podcast 011: Meredith Winner

On public art and The Bombay Beach Biennale

Being in the World Podcast 010: On The Musically Beautiful

It turns out Dr. Patrick House understands everything except music...(on Flamenco, Neapolitan folk music, perception of sight and sound, and more.)

Being in the World Podcast 009: On Elegance

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli debate the concepts of social class, hierarchy, imitation and "elegance".

Being in the World Podcast 008: Rules of the Game

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the rules of the game (and what brains and cultures have to do with them.)

Being in the World Podcast 007: Daddies

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss absent/mythologized fathers, daddy issues, ecstatic truths, and the male gaze. (oh, and Tao's own father's surreal orgies with Salvador Dali.)

Being in the World Podcast 006: The Sisters

Jenna and Jordan talk sibling rivalry (or lack thereof,) metal organic frameworks, breakups, and what not to do on a first date.

Being in the World Podcast 005: On Authenticity

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli on ritual, addiction, tools, forgery, & the roles we play.

Being in the World Podcast 004: On Attention

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the tension of attention.

Being in the World Podcast 003: Melody Sample

A frank and intimate discussion about Japanese rope bondage, BDSM, kink, polyamory, and a surprising new triad. 

Being in the World Podcast 002: Janie Cowan

Bassist Janie Cowan discusses her 97 year old grandfather's attempt at assisted suicide.

Being in the World Podcast 001: Beginnings

Tao & Patrick discuss origin stories, swimming with Hubert Dreyfus, and the concept of Being In The (podcast) World.

‘Reely and Truly’ - a short film on photography (Director's Cut)

‘Reely and Truly’ is a new documentary from director Tyrone Lebon, the director for Frank Ocean's latest video release "NIKES". This 30-minute film is a visual poem on contemporary photographers and their practices.

Lebon’s intention is for the film to be a photographic object in itself. It is shot on all available celluloid formats (including 65mm, 35mm, super 16mm, 16mm, and super 8mm). The film has a free structure with an unconventional narrative, taking on the form of a visual poem.

This film is part of the ongoing ‘Reely and Truly’ project which will culminate in a book of photographs, texts and films about the practice of over 30 contemporary photographers to be published by DoBeDo in 2015. This 30 minute film is an extended trailer for that project.

Featuring (in order of appearance): Mark Lebon, Dick Jewell, Juergen Teller, Jack Webb, Sean Vegezzi, Jason Evans, Nigel Shafran, Fumiko Imano, Charchakaj Waikawee, Lina Scheynius, Nobuyoshi Araki, Takashi Homma, Ari Marcopoulos, Jill Freedman, Nick Sethi, Asger Carlsen, Arne Svenson, Petra Collins, Tim Barber, Renee Cox, Mario Sorrenti, and Lele Saveri.

Proust's muse, the most fashionable woman in the world

"After making a careful study of contemporary fashion plates, Baudelaire came to the conclusion that one couldn’t examine clothes apart from the individual wearing them. “You might as well admire the tattered rags hung up as slack and lifeless as the skin of St. Bartholomeu,” he wrote in his essay “In Praise of Cosmetics.” In order to “recover the light and movement of life,” clothes needed to be animated by a living body, and it was only on this living body that they were to be understood. One wonders what he would’ve made of the nascent trend of the fashion exhibition, in which the fashions of yesteryear appear on mannequins, those motionless abstractions of the human figure.

“La Mode retrouvée,” now at the Musée de la Mode in Paris, and coming in September to New York, uses clothes as a sort of Pompeiian ash in order to sketch the person who once filled them out. In this case, it’s the Comtesse Élisabeth Greffulhe (1860–1952), who was by reputation the most fashionable woman of her time. At her salon on the Rue d’Astorg, an integral part of the political and artistic milieux, she arranged for what was thought to be the impossible Russian-Franco alliance, as well as the reception of Fauré, Wagner, Isadora Duncan, and the Ballets Russes in Paris. Historians of the era have argued that no patron did more for music than she. And this at a time when, no matter the fact that she was married into wealth and rank, she had neither rights nor property as her own, as was the case for all women under the civil code of the Third Republic."

Read more at The Paris Review.

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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? - Dir by Michel Gondry

An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky.

The Terrorizers (1986)

Director, Edward Yang, who was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese new wave cinema.  His film "The Terrorizers", which drew inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up", challenges traditional culture and the way it's portrayed in film, abandoning conventional narrative structures where the story progresses at a pace that echoes real life.   

Happy Birthday Marcel Duchamp

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” - Marcel Duchamp

Kenneth Anger's Invocation of My Demon Brother

I first discovered the homemade films by Anger while living around the corner from the Westerfeld House in San Francisco, where he shot some of them (Invocation features Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and music by Mick Jagger).

Aside from being arguably the most beautiful house in San Francisco, the house has a fascinating history. It's been occupied by Czarist Russians (known for awhile as the "Russian Embassy"), jazz musicians like John Handy, a theatre collective, and was eventually owned by Anger, who held Satanic rituals and kept pet tigers there — the tower used to have a pentagram on the floor, and there are claw marks from the cats on the walls to this day. The Grateful Dead and Charles Manson were frequent visitors.

Now the home is owned by a charming Victorian structure restorer who has lovingly rehabilitated it. It will be featured in a documentary, House of Legends, debuting this fall.

Read more about it at Curbed.