Originally posted on March 21, 2011:
UbuWeb is one of our most favourite sites on the whole of the Internet. It was started all the way back in the '90s by a New York City poet, Kenneth Goldsmith, as a place to host multimedia files from the history of the avant-garde. It has 100 year-old recordings of Dadaist sound poets. Books written by computers. Surrealistic Luis Vuitton commercials made by legendary Japanese directors. It's crazy.
So, as a way of justifying the hours we spend on UbuWeb (and in a transparent attempt to bathe ourselves in the reflected glow of its awesomeness), we've decided to start posting some of the most interesting stuff we come upon while we're surfing through its depths.
UbuWeb is one of our most favourite sites on the whole of the Internet. It was started all the way back in the '90s by a New York City poet, Kenneth Goldsmith, as a place to host multimedia files from the history of the avant-garde. It has 100 year-old recordings of Dadaist sound poets. Books written by computers. Surrealistic Luis Vuitton commercials made by legendary Japanese directors. It's crazy.
So, as a way of justifying the hours we spend on UbuWeb (and in a transparent attempt to bathe ourselves in the reflected glow of its awesomeness), we've decided to start posting some of the most interesting stuff we come upon while we're surfing through its depths.
First up! Salvador Dali, best known as the artist dude who did those melty clocks and as the curator one of the twentieth century's greatest moustaches. This is a conversation he had with Irish actor Edward Mulhare in 1960, while Mulhare was on Broadway playing the world's most famous fictional phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, in My Fair Lady. Dali figures he still has a thing or two to teach the actor about proper Surrealist English diction. You can download the MP3 (right-click save as) or stream it below. And learn a little more about it on UbuWeb here.
Photo: Salvador Dali
UbuWeb is one of our most favourite sites on the whole of the Internet, host to multimedia files from the history of the avant-garde. It has 100 year-old recordings of Dadaist sound poets. Books written by computers. Surrealistic Luis Vuitton commercials made by legendary Japanese directors. It's crazy. Visit it here. Or see all of our "Best Of UbuWeb" recommendations here.
Posted by Adam Bunch, the Editor-in-Chief of the Little Red Umbrella and the creator of the Toronto Dreams Project. You can read his posts here, follow him on Twitter here, or email him at adam@littleredumbrella.com.
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