{"id":25907,"date":"2025-01-12T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T06:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25907"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:50:17","slug":"misc-media-the-webs-we-weave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25907","title":{"rendered":"MiSC\/MEDiA: The Webs We Weave\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2895-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25904\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2895-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2895-1-248x300.jpg 248w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2895-1-768x929.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canada Lee, Native Son, 19??.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst trying to find online versions of several movies &#8211; <em>The Stone Killer<\/em>, <em>Truck Turner<\/em> &#8211; I stumbled upon an iconic scene from <em>Superfly<\/em>, featuring Priest (Ron O\u2019Neal) and Eddie (Carl Lee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking into Carl Lee\u2019s life (and death; drug-related, alas), lead to his father \u2018Canada\u2019 Lee, pictured above. And that in turn lead to Orson Welles\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_1714-736x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_1714-736x1024.jpg 736w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_1714-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_1714-768x1068.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_1714-1104x1536.jpg 1104w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_1714.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Orson Welles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The above portrait is just, er, well\u2026 Awesome! It kind of puts me in  mind of this early Picasso self-portrait:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"760\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2897-1-760x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25906\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2897-1-760x1024.jpg 760w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2897-1-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2897-1-768x1035.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2897-1-1140x1536.jpg 1140w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2897-1.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Picasso, Self-Portait, 1901.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if Welles\u2019 photographer knew of and was referencing the Picasso painting? The photo is actually the better or more dramatically framed composition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst trying to find online versions of several movies &#8211; The Stone Killer, Truck Turner &#8211; I stumbled upon an iconic scene from Superfly, featuring Priest (Ron O\u2019Neal) and Eddie (Carl Lee). Looking into Carl Lee\u2019s life (and death; drug-related, alas), lead to his father \u2018Canada\u2019 Lee, pictured above. And that in turn lead to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25907\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MiSC\/MEDiA: The Webs We Weave\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6JR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25925,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907\/revisions\/25925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}