- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Your Daily Vid
Your Daily Vid: Walt Whitman
December 13, 2007 – 12:41 pm
If you want to see the spirit of American arts and letters, track the life and work of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace. Among their many differences, there is one strong similarly: a fetish for language. But it all started with Walt Whitman. According to this source, this is the [...]
Your Daily Vid: Anthony Bourdain
December 11, 2007 – 11:35 am
Anthony Bourdain is the host of No Reservations but also a terrific writer (and drinker, eater, and smoker, too). He has a great sense of humor that can sometimes overshadow a sharp intellect. Here he is at Google’s Author Talks series in California.
Your Daily Vid: The Man Who Shot God
December 10, 2007 – 1:19 pm
John Barnhardt wanted to make an inspiring movie.
So he decided on a story about hope.
Naturally, it was a horror flick.
About the world’s cataclysmic end.
The Man Who Shot God, to premiere at the American Theatre on Dec. 14 at 7 and 9 p.m., took only 18 days to shoot but a year to plan, edit, and [...]
Your Daily Vid: Nico Muhly
December 7, 2007 – 12:13 pm
Nico Muhly is an exciting young composer whom I got to know this year. His latest CD, Speaks Volumes, is among the best new music works of 2007. In my view, anyway. It’s enormously varied and exciting, looking back on the dominant trend in minimalism but looking forward to a return of melody and tonal [...]
Your Daily Vid: Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway
December 6, 2007 – 9:37 am
Here’s a wonderful example of the artistic potential of the internet. Four Season Productions combines music, documentary footage, and poetry that achieves a kind of power none of the three media could accomplish by themselves. This video below features footage of Cab Calloway dancing to the melodic musings of Langston Hughes, a superb poet and [...]
Your Daily Vid: Miles Davis
December 4, 2007 – 12:56 pm
I should tell you that I love Miles Davis. I have my reasons. But they’re personal, as all passions are. So you’ll likely see a few vid clips of Miles along the way. Here’s the man with the best quartet of the 1960s: Ron Carter on bass, Herbie Hancock on piano, and Tony Williams on [...]
Your Daily Vid: Creating a Creative Workforce
December 2, 2007 – 2:39 pm
Arts education is a particular interest of mine for personal and historical reasons. I don’t know you that well yet, so I’ll give you the impersonal historical reasons for now. We’re a country that’s increasingly becoming de-industrialized. It used to be true that society needed competent factory workers and office personnel. That’s becoming quickly less [...]
Your Daily Vid(s): The 2008 Comedy Fest
November 28, 2007 – 5:19 pm
You want video, we got video.
For complete line-up, times, dates, venues and more of the 2008 Charleston Comedy Festival, go here.
HARVARD SAILING TEAM
INFO: Thurs. Jan. 17, 8 p.m.; Fri. Jan. 18, 8 p.m., Charleston Ballet Theatre, 477 King St., $12.50, (843) 723-7334
I EAT PANDAS
INFO: Fri. Jan. 18, 8 p.m.; Sat. Jan. 19, 9 p.m., [...]
Your Daily Vid: Steve Reich in the Heartland
November 26, 2007 – 6:15 pm
I tend to see the breakdown of mainstream media and the continue pace of globalization as part of the general breakdown of cultural divides and geographic monopolies. Thanks to the ubiquity of internet technology, talent, intelligence, and creativity are no longer solely concentrated in the traditional hubs of culture, like LA and New York.
Of course, [...]
Your Daily Vid: Billy Collins
November 24, 2007 – 10:38 am
Here’s an example of what this newfangled media called the Internet can do for the old arts like poetry. Billy Collins is a former U.S. Poet Laureate. His poetry is lyrical, elegiac and wonderful to speak aloud. He appears regularly on A Prairie Home Companion and collaborates with other artists, like this animator Juan Delcan.
This [...]
