Planet Ithaka: July 2019

Monday, July 29, 2019

On The Way To Ithaka - a documentary about artist Ithaka Darin Pappas (original title: Em Direção à Ithaka)

@_ithaka_ [][][] On The Way To Ithaka (Em Direção à Ithaka) artist documentary about Ithaka Darin Pappas made in Rio de Janeiro in 2006 #RioDeJaneiro #ContemporaryArt #IthakaDarinPappas

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@_ithaka_ [][][] On The Way To Ithaka (Em Direção à Ithaka) artist documentary about Ithaka Darin Pappas made in Rio de Janeiro in 2006 #RioDeJaneiro #ContemporaryArt #IthakaDarinPappas ´´Em direção à Ithaka´´ é um documentário sobre o multiartista californiano, Ithaka Darin Pappas (rapper, escultor, surfista e fotógrafo). O filme fala sobre o encontro do seu processo criativo com a cidade do Rio de Janeiro. “On The Way To Ithaka” is a documentary about California multiartist Ithaka Darin Pappas (rapper, sculptor, surfer, and photographer). The film talks about the meeting of its creative process with the city of Rio de Janeiro. «На пути к Итаке» - документальный фильм о калифорнийском мультиартисте Итаке Дарине Паппасе (рэппер, скульптор, серфер и фотограф). Фильм рассказывает о встрече своего творческого процесса с городом Рио-де-Жанейро.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Ithaka Darin Pappas photographed with Marlin Cranium in Ensenada, Mexico

Ithaka Darin Pappas photographed with marlin cranium (fish head) in Ensenada, Mexico.

Friday, July 12, 2019

"Urban Nektar" a short-subject art film by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

Another short subject film in the series of fotomentaries under ten minutes utilizing images of existing flat art to tell stories.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/69363540

https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/Ithaka2

https://www.instagram.com/_ithaka_/?hl=en

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5225987/

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka

http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ithaka-2/

Thursday, July 11, 2019

"Taro Reef" surf-oriented photo surrealism by Californian artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

"Taro Reef" photo surrealism

by Californian artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

"TARO REEF" - a surrealist photography series by artist: Ithaka (plant waves photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas in Brazil) The featured images were all photographed at Taro Reef during a single winter season. Taro Reef is located at AkahtiLândia, Ithaka's mini-ranch and art studio situated in the Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Rainforest) in the State of São Paulo (Brazil). Although multiple attempts were made to continue the series, the taro patch at AkahtiLândia (Taro Reef) never again received ideal lighting conditions, nor did the curves of the leaves again emulate ocean waves as they had that one winter. The "Taro Reef" project is uniquely comprised only of the images on this presentation.

Galleries: WOA-Way Of Arts (Europe) Coffin Alley Gallery (North America) Individual works (in order of appearance): "Taro Reef #8" "Taro Reef #9" "Taro Reef #1" "Taro Reef #4" "Taro Reef #5" "Taro Reef #11' "Taro Reef #6" "Taro Reef #3" "Taro Reef #7" "Taro Reef #10" "Taro Reef #2" _____________________________________________________ For prints, exhibits or licensing inquiries please contact: ithaka.official@gmail.com Direction and edit: Ithaka ©2019 Sweatlodge Films Song: Ithaka "Liquid Harmonics" album, Voiceless Blue Raven II Note: all images in this presentation are under U.S. Federal and international copyrights ©2015, ©2019 #Ithaka #IthakaDarinPappas #fotografiasurreal

TOPES ILUSTRES "So Get Up"

TOPES ILUSTRES - AMÍLCAR RODRIGUES | GIN PARTY SOUNDSYSTEM

· POR BODYSPACE · 23 DEZ 2014 · 10:05 ·

"So Get Up" de USL com Ithaka Darin Pappas (letras e voz)

foto: João Barbosa

Os meus trinta pessoais:

01. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

02. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness

03. Caribou - Our Love

04. Marissa Nadler - July

05. Linda Perhacs - The Soul Of All Natural Things

06. Future Islands - Singles

07. Kanding Ray - Solens Arc

08. Ought - More Than Any Other Day

09. Gala Drop - II

10. Roll The Dice - Until Silence

11. FKA twigs - LP1

12. Hauschka - Abandoned City

13. The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream

14. Norberto Lobo - Fornalha

15. Jessie Ware - Tough Love

16. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused

17. D'Alva - ‪#‎batequebate‬

18. Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament

19. Perc - The Power & The Glory

20. Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate

21. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited

22. Shellac - Dude Incredible

23. Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean

24. Clark - Clark

25. Joan Shelley - Electric Ursa

26. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden

27. Taylor Swift - 1989

28. The Body - I Shall Die Here

29. Swans - To Be Kind

30. Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels

A lista dos GPSS:

1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

2. Caribou - Our Love

3. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

4. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness

5. Swans - To Be Kind

6. Ought - More Than Any Other Day

7. Taylor Swift - 1989

8. Todd Terje - It's Album Time

9. Ariana Grande - My Everything

10. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down

11. Moodymann - Moodymann

12. Rio Shock - Rio Shock EP

13. Ben Frost - A U R O R A

14. Sensible Soccers - 8

15. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun

16. Marissa Nadler - July

17. Gala Drop - II

18. Black Bombaim - Far Out

19. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams

20. D’Alva - #batequebate

Outras cenas que curtimos em 1994:

2 Unlimited - Real Things

2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - Dreams

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

Gigi D'Agostino - A Journey into Space

Paul Van Dyk - 45 RPM

Snap! - Welcome to Tomorrow

DJ Bobo - There is a Party

E-Type - Made In Sweden

Fun Factory - Nonstop! - The Album

USL - So Get Up featuring Ithaka Darin Pappas (lyrics & vocals)

Citação favorita do ano:

Haters mandam ódio mas em três tempos dançam na pista

Fonte: https://bodyspace.net/arquivo/ultimas/2014/12/

Saturday, July 6, 2019

"Urban Nektar" A Surrealist Photographic-Art Series by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) - Giant Hummingbirds In Mexico City

"Urban Nektar"

"Urban Nektar" A Surrealist Photographic-Art Series by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) - Giant Hummingbirds In Mexico City.

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

UNSEEN 1988 PHOTOGRAPH of Ice Cube & Dr. Dre by Ithaka Darin Pappas

NEVER BEFORE SEEN image of Ice Cube & Dr. Dre just discovered in my deepest archives. Although we were mostly shooting black & white, this was from a lone color roll shot on a Hasselblad 500CE. It was November 11th 1988, the same day we made "THE MIRACLE MILE SHOT" ( aka the official press image for Straight Outta Compton "). This now historic session was made in my old apartment in The Miracle Mile area of LA when my roommates were out at their classes at UCLA

{watch vid here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1HApBPD6U }[][]

Image is copyrighted: Please contact ithaka.official@gmail.com for more info:

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This was one of many shoots

That I did of Ice Cube and NWA for

Priority Records Between 1988 and 1991.

For more information about this image

Please contact: ithaka.art@gmail.com - Also see: @_ithaka_

Note: This image is not Public Domain, it is Necessary to acquire authorization

thru my Representatives at the Tack Artist Agency Group in Los Angeles

before reproducing in print, online or merchandising ... thank you.

Interview in Mass Appeal (Contact High Project)
http://massappeal.com/contact-high-ithaka-darin-pappas-on-photographing-a-bulletproof-vest-wearing-skateboarding-riding-eazy-e/

Interview in The Hundreds:
http://thehundreds.com/ithaka-interview/

Interview in Gerneral Admission:
https://www.generaladmission.us/blogs/news/eazy-e-and-ithakas-iconic-photo

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#ithakadarinpappas

Monday, July 1, 2019

N.W.A - Backstage In Phoenix (1989) The Last Photographs of N.W.A. - Very Rare Photos by Ithaka Darin Pappas

BACKSTAGE IN PHOENIX - The Last Photographs of the Real N.W.A. (photographed and directed by: Ithaka Darin Pappas) The following images (all from a single roll of film) were taken early evening in Phoenix, Arizona about an hour before Eazy-E and N.W.A would perform one of the most powerful concerts on their 1989 U.S. tour. At the time, I was a regular freelance photographer for Priority Records and was flown out from Los Angeles that afternoon to document a private backstage ceremony. DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube and MC Ren were to be presented RIAA certified Platinum Records for their albums N.W.A."Straight Outta Compton" and Eazy-E "Eazy-Duz-It" which had been released almost simultaneously in August and September of 1988. Ironically, it was there in Phoenix later on this very same night, that Ice Cube essentially quit the project, ending The World's Most Dangerous Group as we knew it. These are the last photographs of N.W.A. together as a quintet. - Ithaka Darin Pappas 2019

________________________________________________ The good times couldn't last. Ice Cube was the first to discover all was not right with N.W.A. - at the height of the group's popularity in 1989 when the tour hit Phoenix, Cube stopped the show. Pat Charbonet, then publicist for Priority Records and Cube's future manager had been asking Cube some questions about his financing...How much money had Cube been making off the songs he had written for Straight Outta Compton? Where was the money...and when would Cube get it in his pockets? Cube didn't have any answers - so he stopped the group dead in its tracks. - Dr. Dre: A Biography (2007) page 48
___________________________________________________ At Eazy's request, N.W.A. manager Jerry Heller flew to Phoenix with new contracts in hand and $75,000 for those who signed. The rest of the group complied, but not Cube. He told Heller he wanted a lawyer to review the contract.The others in the group ridiculed him for turning down so much money. Cube in fact discovered he did have good reason to feel he was getting ripped off. According to Rolling Stone magazine, N.W.A. grossed $650,000 for their 1989 U.S. tour, but Cube only received $23,000. By the end of the year, Straight Outta Compton and Eazy-Duz-It had sold a combined three-million copies. Although Cube had written or co-written about half the songs on both albums, he earned a total of $32,000. - Sager 1990, page 166

_________________________________________________________ Royalties, which typically take months to work their way from shops to distributors to record labels and on to artists, weren't arriving fast enough to keep tempers from boiling over. At a gig in Phoenix, Arizona each member was given a check, but only if they signed a contract. I refused to take my check, because I felt I would be admitting that I agreed with what I was being' paid, Cube told me in 2006. They thought I was crazy!, saying, '$75,000 is more money than we've ever seen'. - NME August 25th 2015 Photography, edit and music: Ithaka Darin Pappas
Songs: "Afflicted", "Warm Budweiser", "Butterly Boogie" from the upcoming album, Ithaka Voiceless Blue Raven II Text sources: Sager (1999), Dr. Dre: A Biography (2007), NME Magazine (2015) Executive producer: craig raidor dahl Note: all images in this presentation under U.S. Federal and international copyrights. ©1989, ©2019 Thank you. https://nwafotosbyithakadarinpappas.b... https://www.instagram.com/nwa_photos_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo97z... https://www.facebook.com/NWAandEAZYEp... #NWA #HIPHOP #IthakaDarinPappas

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