Laurel, Hardy and the girl

Adds new information on the featured singer, Ilhama Gasimova, the history of the song and a video on how the video was made.

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Note architecture in clip from Laurel and Hardy film. (emmanuelevening.org) Note architecture in clip from Laurel and Hardy film. (emmanuelevening.org)

My friend Lee Juskalian sent me a video that reminds me of a video from Gizmodo.com that I posted as “Painted girl evolves,” with the excuse that the stop-motion painting of the face of a girl named Elvis Schmoulianoff had something to say about art and beauty, if not necessarily architecture.

Lee’s video, ILHAMA feat. DJ OGB, (whatever that means), had similarly strange music and I think the girl may be the same, but I can find no conclusive evidence that she is Elvis. Still, the video is striking, sort of a mix between the Elvis girl opus and another video, a string of clips of Rita Hayworth dancing to the BeeGees’ “Stayin’ Alive.” Except that ILHAMA features clips from Laurel and Hardy films, with what might be the same Elvis girl dancing intermittently between L&H clips…

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This blog was begun in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal, where I was on the editorial board and wrote a weekly column of architecture criticism for three decades. Architecture Here and There fights the style wars for classical architecture and against modern architecture, no holds barred. History Press asked me to write and in August 2017 published my first book, "Lost Providence." I am now writing my second book. My freelance writing on architecture and other topics addresses issues of design and culture locally and globally. I am a member of the board of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, which bestowed an Arthur Ross Award on me in 2002. I work from Providence, R.I., where I live with my wife Victoria, my son Billy and our cat Gato. If you would like to employ my writing and editing to improve your work, please email me at my consultancy, dbrussat@gmail.com, or call 401.351.0457. Testimonial: "Your work is so wonderful - you now enter my mind and write what I would have written." - Nikos Salingaros, mathematician at the University of Texas, architectural theorist and author of many books.
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