Damfinos: there’s a new cut of Steamboat Bill Jr.
Also, there’s a new DVD of all the Educational Pictures pictures
For those of you who don’t know, Houdini is credited with naming Buster. He was visiting with the Keatons, who were a vaudeville troupe, when infant/toddler Buster fell down a flight of stairs and landed with that stone face. Houdini, looking on, said “that’s quite a buster,” & thus, Buster Keaton was born. Houdini was born here in Appleton, and the Keatons used to summer in Muskegon, Michigan, where the annual Damfino conference takes place. So apparently I’ve come to some version of the right part of the world.
The Keaton link isn’t working for me.
I mean the picture one.
Have you ever seen Keaton in Samuel Beckett’s “Film”? You don’t see his face until the very end, but you know who it is from the first frame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yws4Rty2kXw
darya – i’ve owned a copy for years, when it was brutal to find them. of course. i first heard about it the weekend after Beckett’s death, when a gallery in NYC did an entire weekend of Becket’s video & audio work, TV, film, radio, etc. i went for 3 whole days so i could see it all.
but i’m pleased to see it on YouTube & accessible, finally!
my two favorite artists, really.