TOPES ILUSTRES "So Get Up"

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· 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/

"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.

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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photo: Ithaka Darin Pappas © 1988

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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 #nwa #drdre#icecube #beatsbydre #hiphop#gangstarap #straightouttacompton#themiraclemileshot#musicphotography#Dodgers#hiphopphotography#westcoast #compton #LA#raplegend #rapper#goldenagehiphop #hiphophead#thegodfatherofgangstarap#streetknowledge #streetart #biggie#hiphop_life #tupac #nas#fuckthapolice

#ithakadarinpappas

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

Surf na Ilha da Madeira - Ithaka Darin Pappas (Large Wave)

Os primeiros surfistas encontraram a Surf na Ilha da Madeira nos anos 70 e revelaram o potencial do arquipélago para o mundo. Múltiplas circunstâncias mantinham o surf na Ilha da Madeira escondido e inexplorado, apesar das temperaturas mornas e das excelentes condições, a ilha manteve relativamente inexplorado até os anos 1990s. Em 2001,  um concurso World Big Wave foi realizado na Madeira.

Ithaka Darin Pappas surfing na Madeira Jardim do Mar (1995)

Então muitos australianos, americanos e brasileiros começaram a aparecer. Muitos turistas começaram a aparecer na Ilha da Madeira com o surf como objetivo, e a partir desse momento o surf tornou-se um desporto conhecido, e as pessoas começaram a aceitá-lo como um desporto normal, como qualquer outro.

Foto: João Valente / Revista Surf Portugal

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"The Miracle Mile Shot" mini-documentary as told by Ithaka Darin Pappas

About the mini-documentary: "The Miracle Mile Shot":

"The Miracle Mile Shot" is an experimental, non-dialogue short-subject documentary film by Greek-American artist-photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas. This is the third in his series of hip-hop Photomentaries almost entirely relying on his own archival imagery of West Coast rap artists.

"I begin seeing these incredible documentaries randomly at different times and places around the world, on planes, at friends houses etc. And it took me a minute to realize that all of this compelling story-telling; Jazz, The Civil War, and The National Parks: America's Best Idea were coming from the same source, Ken Burns. His projects can tell an entire story with only still photographs if necessary, it's amazing.

I realized that I was the creator of much of the kind of raw still photographic material that Mr. Burns uses for his projects, and it has inspired me to begin to edit and present these images in a film format to tell a story. The Miracle Mile Shot is my third short-subject film festival project. I have already completed earlier this year "Eazy E & Venice Locals (A Historic Day in the Brotherhood of Hip Hop and Skateboarding".

I call these projects Photomentaries, meaning at this point I am only using still photographs in movement, with sound and text to vocal communicate ideas. I am not sure I will ever incorporate narration, I am enjoying the closed-mouth communication direction of it all and think I'd like to take it to the next level and even try a much longer project, of up to an hour.

Ithaka's "Lust The Power Supreme" art film/music video directed by João Paulo Simões

J.D. – Para além destes dois projectos, estás também envolvido como referiste um pouco atrás, nas filmagens do videoclipe do Artista, Ithaka, “Lust – The Power Supreme”?

J.P.S. – Sim, “Ithaka” é o projecto de hip-hop do norte-americano Ithaka Darin Pappas que viveu em Lisboa cerca de seis ou sete anos e que teve inclusive um contrato com a Valentim de Carvalho (lançou dois álbuns), no entanto penso que uma das razões que o trouxe a Portugal foram as ondas, porque ele faz surf. Aqui está mais uma mente brilhante que se expande por várias áreas. Ele é um fotógrafo genial, é escultor entre outras actividades a que se dedica. Quando saiu de Portugal, foi para Los Angeles e depois foi para o Brasil onde reside. Neste momento lança os seus próprios álbuns e é também ele que controla e gere a sua própria carreira. Ao longo do seu percurso e como alguém que cresceu e viveu em Los Angeles que é um sítio com muita cultura, teve sempre pessoas muito experientes e muito boas a trabalhar consigo.

Eu conheci o Ithaka Darin Pappas cá em Portugal, ainda antes de ir para Inglaterra, faz agora uns 15 anos, e ele tem vindo desde sempre a acompanhar a minha carreira, todo o meu progresso e a minha profissionalização, e sempre dissemos que gostaríamos de fazer coisas juntos. O trabalho dele na minha opinião transcende o hip-hop comum, e ele quis que eu filmasse este tema em particular, por causa do que já conhecia do meu trabalho e do que ele conhece da forma como abordo a questão da sensualidade. O Ithaka como não tem medo de qualquer tipo de controvérsia, que possa advir da forma como eu possa filmar a sensualidade que é um tema no qual ele expressa várias vertentes da luxúria nas relações humanas incluindo o devorar da espiritualidade que no fim de contas todos nós temos, deixou-me expressar livremente. O tema chama-se “Lust – The Power Supreme” e eu apresentei-lhe uma ideia com influências de banda desenhada japonesa (Manga), em termos de estética, mas filmado com pessoas reais, ideias das quais ele gostou muito. O vídeo era para focar períodos da vida de uma jovem e da sua evolução para o estado de mulher madura em que ela deixaria a sua luxúria tomar conta da sua vida, dentro do que é aceitável socialmente, mas depois acabei por (como já fiz no passado, por exemplo para o projecto Sieben no videoclipe “He Can Delve In Hearts”), de abordar múltiplas personagens em segmentos mais ou menos ligados e que neste caso mostram várias vertentes da luxúria. Não posso deixar de referir a presença numa parte deste trabalho de duas actrizes portuguesas fabulosas, a Sandra Rosado e a Sara Belo entre outras presenças. Começámos a filmar há cerca de um mês e a maioria já está feito. Trabalhar com certos actores tem sido um processo muito especial porque em alguns casos já trabalhei com eles no passado.

Fonte: https://www.jornaldinamo.com/entrevista-joao-paulo-simoes/2/

English Translation:

J.D. - In addition to these two projects, are you also involved as you mentioned a little while back, in the filming of the artist Ithaka's video clip "Lust - The Power Supreme"?

J.P.S. - Yes, "Ithaka" is the American hip hop project Ithaka Darin Pappas who lived in Lisbon forsix or seven years and even had a contract with Valentim de Carvalho (he released two albums here), however I think that one of the reasons that brought him to Portugal were the waves because he does surf. Here is another brilliant mind that expands through various areas. He is a brilliant photographer, he is a sculptor among other activities. When he left Portugal, he went to Los Angeles and then went to Brazil where he lives. At this moment he releases his own albums and he also controls and manages his own career. Along the way and as someone who grew up and lived in Los Angeles who is a culturally rich place, there are always very experienced and very good people to work with.

I met Ithaka Darin Pappas here in Portugal, even before going to England, it's been around for 15 years, and he's been following my career, all my progress and my professionalization, and we've always said that we would like to do things together. His work in my opinion transcends ordinary hip-hop, and he wanted me to film this particular subject because of what I already knew about my work and what he knows about the way I approach the issue of sensuality. The Ithaka as he is not afraid of any kind of controversy, which may come from the way I can film sensuality which is a subject in which he expresses various strands of lust in human relationships including the devouring of spirituality which in the end all of us we have, let me express freely. The theme is called "Lust - The Power Supreme" and I presented to him an idea with influences of Japanese comics (Manga), in terms of aesthetics, but filmed with real people, ideas of which he liked very much. The video was to focus on periods of a young woman's life and her evolution into the mature woman state where she would let her lust take over her life, within what is socially acceptable, but then I ended up (as I did in the past, for example for the project Sieben in the music video "He Can Delve In Hearts"), of approaching multiple personages in more or less connected segments and that in this case show several slopes of the lust. I can not fail to mention the presence in a part of this work of two fabulous Portuguese actresses, Sandra Rosado and Sara Belo among others. We started filming about a month ago and most of it is already done. Working with certain actors has been a very special process because in some cases I have worked with them in the past.

Source: https://www.jornaldinamo.com/entrevista-joao-paulo-simoes/2/