Art & Design – In accompaniment to the classic Pachelbel's Canon (J. S. Bach)Spadecaller's video presents excerpts from speeches by Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. along with a montage of original art and some masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh.
Hi Spadecaller!
Sorry to tell you that the link doesn't work perfectly...But, nevertheless what I saw and what I heard (with a lot of difficulties)was powerful...Above all, you chose the right music(magnificent Johann Sebastien Bach music). Thanks for having added Mahatma Gandhi, and as always the small flame, the usual paintings and "We the People"
IT is not our wealth or our military might that should make our nation stand out; it should always be our commitment to human rights and the freedoms affirmed in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our respect for the international rule of law, as outlined in the Geneva Convention.
Honorable leaders insist on being accountable to this higher calling. Without that kind of leadership, without adherence to the rule of law, it is our duty according to our Constitution to demand redress from our government.
If our government refuses to respond, we should bring it to the United Nations; let the world judge Bush and his misuse of power.
So Powerful.beautiful music and graphics.Best presentation yet. BUT.How do I put this?To place Obama alongside such great figures as shown is very premature. He is already a "historical figure" but is he a great?It's way to early.
But I do sincerely pray that it be so if he becomes president or not.I do hope this is understood correctly and not taken as being insulting or condemning but honestly do believe his actions would make him a "figure."I hope I said this right:)
I guess I'm saying it's was a powerful and moving message but Obama in there taints it because the jury is still out.But let this be made clear that this is in no way denial of our current administrations tradgedies.
I understand your feelings rdy.
Obama has already beat the odds; has already contributed to the improvement of life for many in South Chicago. He was the first Black to achieve the honor of heading up the Harvard Law Review. He could have chose just about any lawfirm in the country to work for after graduating from Harvard, but he chose public service. To guage him by the standards of greed and dysfunction common among many politicians is a mistake,imo.
He came from a broken home, raised by a single mother, lived on foodstamps, and how anyone can say that he is not an inspiration might be "tainted" by pure politics.
I believe he will be the next President, if he is not gunned down by some racist hired by an oil company.
Intuition tells me that Obama is not an ordinary candidate. He is a rare individual; I hope that people will give him the chance to prove this without prejudging him as an ordinary run-of-the-mill-politician.
I'm glad you understand spade.Being gunned down is a very big concern for me and I do pray although not supporting him he would become a hero.I guess in short I'm saying to put him with such greats is premature.But if elected I will pray like I do as any president that they will rise above the muck. We need one now.
But it was very,very, well done:) I wanted to honest but not turn your beautiful efforts into a political free for all.
Understood rdy and much appreciated. Thanks for sharing that.
Your welcome. But heroes are hard to pick sometimes.Look how close the Kennedy/Nixon election was and we all know what happened to both.
It certainly is not a black and white issue. I took what you might call "artistic license" from my own intuition when creating this video. I hope others can also see past the present circumstances and politics to enjoy the message. I think the old saying; "don't throw the baby out with the bad bath water," might make for the best possible attitude. ...just a thought.
Oh my, the beginning with the Kennedy's brought a flood of memories! My parents had moved to the Dallas,Texas area a couple years before the President was shot. I heard the news as I was leaving the cafeteria at HS, everyone was in shock. We spent the day going from classroom to classroom, listening to the PA system that allowed everyone to listen to the news.
The Statue of Liberty partly submerged was a horrifying thought, as I watched the Planet of the Apes.
The candles makes me think of the question, 'When will we as human beings ever see the light and leave the darkness?'
Beautiful paintings along with a wonderful choreography. And the music was fantastic!
Thanks so much for using your God given talents to shine a light on the world! Excellent, Spadecaller!
Just echoing rdy2rck's point that, at least IMO, it's rather premature to put Obama in the same catgeory as some of those people.
Good work tho Spade, especially the artwork, is there a name for that style?
I played the baritone in grade school and I had the most BORING part in that song to play....
Spadecaller:
Very well done sir. The beginning tore at my heart as once again I wondered just how different this world might be. Had JFK, MLK, and RFK not been murdered by the sick crazy psychopathic losers. How we might have avoided so many deaths uselessly.
Thanks for a nice glimpse back.
Although Obama may well become the president he has not yet earned the honors the others did. Lets see what he can do before anointing him with the mantel the others earned.
Once again nice work of blending the music and art. The candle almost seemed to flicker for me.
Nice work and moving. My problem is portraying Obama while MLK is speaking. The black liberation theology (BLT) that his pastor and he holds to would be repugnant to MLK. MLK's vision is for an America where the color of skin means nothing. BLT on the other hand views everything through the lens of blacks fighting oppressive whites. At this point in our society we are almost where MLK was dreaming. There are a few KKK, Nazi, etc. wackos and some subtle discrimination but that is what is left. BLT doesn't look at how far we have come but act like there have been no advancements.
"In a March 31, 2008 interview with Terry Gross for NPR's "Fresh Air," Professor Cone explains black liberation theology's roots in 1960s civil-rights activism, drawing inspiration from both the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, as "mainly a theology that sees God as concerned with the poor and the weak." "
This is how most Black theologians approach Liberation Theology, just as Oscar Romero approached it in a South American setting.
You shouldn't say what BLT means according to what FOX tells you. You should do your own research on Liberation Theology and then move on to Black Liberation Theology and view some examples other than the extremes like Wright who are easier to find because they're blown out of proportion.
"At this point in our society we are almost where MLK was dreaming"
This shows your ignorance. Racism and discrimination based on many other surface differences are more than alive and well in America. There is blatant discrimination as well as the subtle discrimination you mention and frankly the subtle discrimination is often the more dangerous.
We haven't come far from Imperial Rome, much less from MLK's time.
Garbage. The BLT was created by James Cone and fleshed out by 51 black pastors that met July 31, 1966. Everything is looked through the lens of blacks fighting the oppression of whites.
MLK's wish was that people would ignore color of peoples skin. These two concepts are diametrically opposed. Is that so hard to understand?
Here is a quote about the result.
The overall result, says McWhorter, is that "the remnants of discrimination hold an obsessive indignant fascination that allows only passing acknowledgement of any signs of progress." Jeremiah Wright, infused with victimology, wielded self-righteous indignation in the service of exposing the inadequacies Hilary Clinton's world of "rich white people." The perpetual creation of a racial identity born out of self-loathing and anxiety often spends more time inventing reasons to cry racism than working toward changing social mores, and often inhibits movement toward reconciliation and positive mobility.
Obviously you have bought into their diatribe. I lived through the time of MLK. I remember black only schools, drinking fountains, rest rooms, etc. The laws were changed. I remember in Boston a school bus loaded with children trying to be overturned by protesters. I remember a restaurant in South Bend serving a black and then going out of business. In the South it was more overt and they were refused to be served and thrown out.
Today there is no discrimination like this. What is left is the overt discrimination of the KKK, Nazi, etc. groups and the subtle discrimination that some individuals have. Legally and morally this nation has embraced the concept of MLK.
Endo, I think you are wrong to pretend to know what MLk would or would not have thought about Wright's current theology. You need to really read about black liberation theology before you comment on it. If you did, it would enlighten you. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a proponent of BLT. He and Wright had a lot in common.
ML2007,
I agree!
Most of the politicians ( and many others) who came to honor MLK were his enemies and harshest critics before he was killed. This is a conveniently overlooked fact.
Some people of great conviction and fine characters have to be murdered or assisinated before they are understood or appreciated.
That is most likely because when they are dead, they are no longer perceived as a threat.
Very inspiring. I hope Obama will live up to the likes of the Kennedys and King. Time will tell.
Unless Obama picks Clinton as his running mate, I don't look for physical harm to come to him. I think the mafia and politicos had the Kennedys and King killed, and I don't think Obama has crossed the mafia yet. Too many strange things have happened to the Clinton's associates to make me suggest he ought to stay as clear from that group as possible. She wants to become President awfully bad.
Another very fine offering Spade; your powerful message brought forth some excellent comments and exchanges among the members.
The juxtaposition of images and choice of musical accompaniment is immaculate, and the fact that you stick around to "steward" the thread through until the end makes it an all the more worthwhile contribution. Thanks always, time on your threads is time well spent.
(Odd to see those two lonely "negs" among the comments, isn't it).
So, we have another offering from the 'wannabe Leni Riefenstahl" of this message board... ...by now, it is my hope that open-minded people are on to 'Spadecaller's' routine: trying to sound reasonable and 'above it all', while spewing out some of the most vile, hate-filled propaganda imaginable, trying to link Christians to Hitler and Nazism.
BTW, please stop attributing Johann PACHELBEL'S Canon in D to JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH! There is absolutely NO connection between J.S. Bach and this piece, just as there is NO connection between the Florentiner March, by the CZECH composer Fucik, and Nazism.
'Spadecaller', your work reminds me of the efforts of those 'scientists' in 'A Clockwork Orange' who used Beethoven's Ninth as the soundtrack for their twisted mind control experiments. Nothing more than guilt by association.
You may have a doctorate in musicology for all I know, svensun -- on that I have insufficient knowledge to comment, but I do have adequate sense to know your tone is inappropriate, your level of civility is low, and your outrage entirely misplaced.
Any interesting information your post may contain is entirely obscured by the offensive and judgemental manner in which it is presented.
blinkers,
I have tried in the past to avoid calling 'a spade a spade', to borrow a pun, but after experiencing enough of 'spadecaller's' work, I have come to the realization that he is not what he pretends to be, and that instead, he posits some very hateful and hurtful things with his videos.
This particular one is not so much offensive as inane, attempting to link Obama to other civil rights leaders, but it reminds me again of the dangerous use of video as a form of propaganda, and it seems clear to me that is precisely what 'spadecaller' is attempting.
To borrow another phrase, 'that dog just don't hunt.'
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Great Video and most heartfelt.
Thanks SC