http://bettylabamba.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bettylabamba.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] revolution_fr2007-06-26 10:48 pm

Can you smell it? The power o fart?

...Simon Schama's in the air.

PBS is airing a new eight part mini-series called Simon Schama's Power of Art. Artists covered include Van Gogh, Picasso, Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, !!!David!!!, Turner, and Rothko. You can read the propaganda on our man Dah-veed here on the pbs.org website. The David episode airs Monday, 16 July at 10.00pm EST. I saw the Van Gogh and Picasso ones, and I think the director and editor did a really good job. Very sleek for a PBS documentary.

Personally, I don't like Schama--though I really like his book Landscape and Memory. He's probably a nice guy in person, but he comes across as snooty and condenscending, and his phrasing on camera makes me hallucinate roaches crawling under my skin. Watch the teaser trailer here to see what I mean.

[identity profile] sunliner.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 03:27 am (UTC)(link)

(I guess I'm officially a David fangirl, then, which is kind of weird)

[identity profile] cat-empress.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
I have to say, you always have the best Fr Rev icons.

[identity profile] kurotoshi.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
*thumbs up* thanks for the info!

[identity profile] kurotoshi.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
LMAO!

Definitly! <3 (the mute button is a wonderful- wonderful thing XD)

[identity profile] kurotoshi.livejournal.com 2007-06-28 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
UUgggh man. I have to miss this one (ugh, work) but if you can get me a pic of it after, I'd appreciate it :D

[identity profile] kurotoshi.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
:D It's no prob! If not, thanks for the effort anyways! <3

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So, why do I like David? Well, I don't. He's a monster.

I now officially know why to hate that man.

I found out about that show two days ago, and since I didn't know Schama too well, apart that everybody ranted against him, I started to collect reasons for hating the "seemingly nice and charming British art historian."

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-06-27 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to punch him whenever I hear his British "Dah-veeeeed". I know it's better than the American "David", but I still want to punch him.

Did you check the program excerpts going with the analysis of the Marat painting on the site? You could read parts from the program, or from an interview, or from his books. Most of it being a bunch of nonsense. But this one part may convince you even further: "For Marat and Robespierre there could never be enough guillotine heads to feel safe." ...*tries to cold down the internal boiling*

[identity profile] maelicia.livejournal.com 2007-06-28 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Now, I fear. -_-; Though I love your Maahhhraaahh. XDDDD It does sound that way.

[identity profile] morgan-wang.livejournal.com 2007-08-09 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well MAH-RAHT is better than they way some people prounce Danton. Dant'n. like some town in Ohio. Has anyone seen The Black Book AKA The Reign of Terror? The 50's film Noir about the revolution. They butcher everyone's name in that movie.