Charlie Chaplin
John Coltrane Quartet. Ballads. 1963.
Critic Gene Lees stated they had never played the tunes together before. "They arrived with music-store sheet music of the songs, and just before recording they would discuss each one, write-out copies of the changes, semi-rehearse for a half hour and then do it." All the pieces were recorded in one take except for "All or Nothing at All"...(holy shit)
Stevie Wonder. Fufillingness' First Finale. Tamla. 1974.
Nikola Tesla. The Magnifying Transmitter. 1900.
Magnifying Transmitter
The “Magnifying Transmitter” was the product of labors extending through years, having for their chief object the solution of problems which are infinitely more important to mankind than mere industrial development.
If my memory serves me right, it was in November, 1890, that I performed a laboratory experiment which was one of the most extraordinary and spectacular ever recorded in the annals of science. In investigating the behaviour of high frequency currents I had satisfied myself that an electric field of sufficient intensity could be produced in a room to light up electrodeless vacuum tubes. Accordingly, a transformer was built to test the theory and the first trial proved a marvelous success. It is difficult to appreciate what those strange phenomena meant at that time. We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences. When my tubes were first publicly exhibited they were viewed with amazement impossible to describe. From all parts of the world I received urgent invitations and numerous honors and other flattering inducements were offered to me, which I declined. -Nikola Tesla
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess. Alone Together. Prestige. 1958.
William Blake. Frontispiece. America a Prophecy. ENG.1793.
The first of three illuminated books which as a group are called the Continental Prophecies– and along with all of Blake's work in this era, also known as the Lambeth Books, because all aspects of the work - the writing, the composition of the designs, the printing of them, the colouring of them, and the selling of them, happened at his home in the town of the same name.
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Jimi Hendrix Experience . The Wind Cries Mary/Purple Haze [EP] Barclay Records {France} 1967
Examine yourself my dear Wolfgang. Millions have not received the tremendous favor, which God has bestowed on you. You are confronted with far more dangers than those millions who have no talent.
Letter To Mozart.
23rd February 1778
Leopold Mozart
Diaghilev, Nijinsky and Stravinsky. Anonymous. 1914.
Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Tony Smith. Hans Namuth. 1951.