‘all made on whiteboard so…no undo/redo’
… enjoy
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Monthly Archive for November, 2006
it’s getting dark really early these days. it feels like winter has been a long time coming, but it’s just cold, windy and dark outside.
more importantly, I saw Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (¡Átame!) at the Bytowne thursday night, again with morgan and dhebi, and it was a great film. I think the graphic-ness of it was over hyped (or perhaps I was numbed desensitized by Shortbus) and probably scared a lot of people away from what was really a feel-good kidnapping movie, it’s calculated clichés were really great fun and I think they actually do a good job of subtley showing Almodovar’s genius. very easily a thumbs up
in other news, I’ve been catching up on my extended essay work this extended weekend which is really good. In going through my countless (but now counted) interviews, it’s really interesting how I’m remembering each everyone (without the help of my photographs), but everyday I can’t remember when I promise to go out with someone until I’m already late. I suppose some things really stick with you. Even the borrowers I spoke with in Bangladesh, more than a couple years ago now, I can remember them very clearly. I think some things are just harder to forget. I’ve been doing some research into my gap year and I’m getting quite excited about it. I’m probably going to join a habitat project, most of the other NGOs I’ve seen seem more like hotels for karmawhores than actual charity work. Also, most of the other programmes aren’t really long-term and hence very immersive, I want to go somewhere, elsewhere, for long enough to justify buying a one-way ticket. Obviously I’ll be coming home again, and going to university, but I think it’d be nice to get out of this surreal world I’ve been living in for too long.
I’m pretty disgusted to hear that there have been more than a few violent crimes across the united states related to the recently released gaming consoles.
o yea and Al Jazeera International has been turned down by all major US cable and satelite.
also rather interesting, a great read, courtesy of The Guardian
This week environment minister Ben Bradshaw urged shoppers to teach supermarkets a lesson by dumping wasteful packaging at the cash till. It’s not often a member of the government recommends direct action. What would the big chains make of it? We sent three writers to find out …
Hello everyone who was photographed by Christina on the night of the Anniversary Party at La Petite Mort Gallery. [that’s us]
This is to formally invite you to see the photographs exhibited at the gallery on November 24th, Friday evening from 7-10pm.
The prints will be available for sale. Tunes by Big Mac Daddy. Be there!
Christina Riley: ‘Did Halloween’
My statement? I like to take pictures. I don’t like to consider myself an artist because it makes me feel funny. I take pictures because it’s something I love to do. There is a moment when shooting where everything else in the world doesn’t matter… so it must be love.
This Halloween party was exciting but also very challenging. All of the people…all of the poses…over a span of 4 hours. I am not used to shooting with an audience of 30 people but it turned out to be quite fun. I’m pretty sure that I stepped on everybody’s toes in that crowded basement. xoxo
Thanks,
Guy Berube / director / www.lapetitemortgallery.com
(not me)
it’s on upcoming.org, I’ll see you there
don’t go anywhere, you can expect another bit of refreshing reading here on 77percent later on tonight, up in just under an hour if you feel like waiting around, as usual, there will be drinks served in the interim. If you’ve got to jet, be sure not to wash the stamp off your hands otherwise the good man at the door might not let you in again.it’s about films and stuff.
the bytowne has got a few films showing in the near future (unfortunately probably too near) that sound like something I want to see, so here’s a list of them if you’re looking for something to do one weekend (link to Lullaby by The Cat Empire [an only slightly relevent song - mp3]) :
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon : Artist. Humanitarian. National Threat.
It’s a pretty interesting looking documentary on John Lennon and the efforts of the FBI & Co. to suppress him during his humanitarian publicity days. btw, unfortunately, the John Sinclair mentioned having served a 10-year sentance for handing two joints to undercover narcs is not my father John Sinclair. (right, lawrence?) either way, it looks like a pretty well put together piece and, well, it made the (my) list, didn’t it ? so try to see it if you can and if it sounds like your thing.
- Shortbus : Be Warned of graphic sex throughout
A really impressive film. It’s about people and interpersonal relationships, but it uses sexuality as a medium and it does it beautifully albeit graphically. This film is not pornographic (to start with, orgasms and the like are not faked, unless intentionally so), but, as the bytowne warns, there is graphic sex throughout.
- The Science of Sleep : Dare To Dream
This is not a documentary on sleeping or REM or anything scientific, methinks. By the director of Eternal Sunshine, for this one I’ll just offer an excerpt from the bytowne’s teaser : No doubt highly personal and yet as effervescent as sparkling water, this fanciful dive into the imaginative world of an insecure young man, and his haphazard attempts to establish a connection with a female neighbor, has all the visual excitement of the director’s previous work … Bernal is charming and unafraid to appear immature, while Gainsbourg allows her shell of indifference to evaporate in favor of a certain innocence and curiosity. Chabat provides sterling comic relief. — Todd McCarthy
- Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down : “All About Almodóvar” Series
I’ve failed to mention Borat mostly because I failed to see it last weekend, you needn’t worry I’m not boycotting it or anything, I just wasted too much time watching deleted scenes from it on youtube to get around to getting tickets early enough and the plans fell through and well yea … until next weekend : In related news, rumour has it the joke/not-joke scene with the (professional) humour teacher was filmed in the econ room back at WIS. When I say that it’s a rumour, it’s actually a confirmed rumour, more of a fact, a rather funny fact.
Stranger Than Fiction (with Will Ferrell) sounds like it could be great, I’d like to see that too.
thanks guys
keep it chilly
many thanks to melly for dragging along her camera when I’d forgotten my own.
