They can't know you

I was in my trailer, working on Godfather II or III in New York, and there was a knock on the door. The guy working with me said that John Gotti would like to meet Mr. Coppola. And I said, "It's not possible, I'm in the middle of something." There's an old wives' tale about vampires — that you have to invite them in, but once they cross the threshold, then they're in. But if you say you don't want to meet them, then they can't come in. They can't know you.

Francis Ford Coppola in an interview in Esquire

Cambridge Inspiration

Do what makes you happy.

Mark Zuckerberg - early days.

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

At first I was all...



And then I was like -

And now I'm all 

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle"
- Robert Alden

 "When you possess light within, you see it externally."

- Anais Nin

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle Onasis

The Light in Winter

This Melbourne festival brings together artists, designers, architects, filmmakers and multicultural groups in a free, month-long program of light sculptures, talks, events, workshops, performances and the Solstice Celebration.  This year’s program, directed by Robyn Archer, is inspired by the National Year of the Reading and will celebrate the enlightenment that reading sheds on our lives. Literary texts, oral traditions, calligraphy, music, body art and braille are all viewed in a new light, along with imaginative light sculptures, and surprising collaborations from top international and local artists, designers and architects.  This morning on the river terrace I enjoyed cBraillie by Rob Caslick.  Located in a shipping container, cBraille focuses on emotions as the direct link between visitors and a visually impaired person.

 

I want to be a Coppola too #2

Adam Stockhausen - production designer on Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom and supervising art director for another great Anderson masterpiece - The Darjeeling Limited and Charlie Kaufman's Synechdoche.  Wow.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and escape into the wilderness. I can't wait.

 The hand-painted poster of floral font and children's storybook illustration below is gorgeous.

 According to the New York Times quoting Wes himself (that's right, we are on a first name basis), the film was inspired after his watching of François Truffaut's ''L'Argent de Poche'' (Small Change) released in the United States in 1976. A short improvisational comedy about schoolchildren in a petite French town.  'People talk about how the early French New Wave movies were so free, and the camera was so liberated and everything, especially in comparison to the films that came before them,'' Mr. Anderson said. ''But not like this. In 'Small Change,' the camera is even more free. I think Truffaut makes a kind of point of not obsessing about anything involving light, or anything like that. The whole movie had a real documentary feel to it. It makes you realize how meticulous some of those earlier New Wave movies really were.''  

And just like me, Wes says he tends to go on jags, immersing himself in the work of directors.  After seeing and enjoying one film by a particular director, he will then try to see as many of that director's other works as quickly as possible.

 And OMG if the fact it's called Camp Ivanhoe isn't some kind of divine sign that our destinies are bound to intertwine in the very near future...

 "Here I am with Khaki Scout Troup 55 and Kara Hayward, who plays Suzy. This was shot on a farm in Rhode Island. The boy, Sam, has just been struck by lightning."—Wes Anderson.

 "Tilda Swinton. She plays a character—an institution, really—named Social Services. Half Deborah Kerr/ half Maggie Smith." —Wes Anderson.

 The great styling of leading lady Suzy (Kara Hayward) is a lil
Lana Del Ray mixed with the 1960s French chic of Anderson's favourite music era.

 

Surfing milquetoast tsunami flotsam

JEREMY BLAKE

- relieved of the weight of history 

and the hackneyed romanticism of high art.

WINCHESTER

A video trilogy shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005 focusing on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose - a 160-room mansion with mazes of hallways and dead-end staircases built by Sarah Winchester (widowed heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune), in an attempt to protect herself from the ghosts of gunshot victims whom she believed would haunt her. 

 

PUNCH DRUNK LOVE

 Memorial exhibition

 All Mod Cons, 2001
digital C-print, 41 x 102 1/3 inches 

 

Stills from Jeremy Blake's video for Beck's song "Round the Bend" 

for a cool art class on it - go here

Stills from Jeremy Blake's video  Reading Ossie Clark, 2003 

The errorists win

Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.

Andy Denzler 

 

Less than zero

Beautiful Winter photos from Kristina Petrosiute

Baby it's cold outside.