September 2007
21 posts
I’m without internet. Why is internet supposed to be capitalized? I guess here is an explanation. Personally, I don’t want to capitalize it.
But really, I’m without internet.
Hotel Chevalier: NO
I want to like Wes Anderson. I really do. Honest to God I want to enjoy his films. I do think parts of his films can be fun and cute, but for the past month I’ve been getting into these small internal discussions over him and what he means to me. I know it’s ridiculous to spend so much time thinking about him, but I want to know what I truly feel while watching his films. Is is...
In reference to German Expressionism
Combat the bourgeois decalcomania of naturalism with its mania for recording mere facts, and its paltry aim of photographing nature or daily life. The world is there for all to see; it would be absurd to reproduce it purely and simply as it is. — Kasimir Edschmid
I want to see this
“Eric Satie’s score for Entr’acte (1924) shines as an anti-narrative, proto-minimalist gem; like Clair’s film, it is designed both to dazzle and to disorient the audience, partly by parodying the medium’s customary product, partly by following a subtle formal logic beneath a deceptively random surface.”
From Music and the Silent Film by Matin Marks. Found in...
14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring... →
“There were girls lying everywhere—draped over furniture, sprawled spread-eagled in the corner, and huddled close like animals,” FBI Special Agent Curtis Froman, who oversaw the raid, said at a press conference. “Many of them had been given nothing more than a pair of tube socks or men’s briefs to wear.”
haha, The Onion
9pm coffee craving
I tend to drink tea consistently throughout the day, and drink a pot of coffee 2 hours before I go to bed. I want some answers to this ridiculous behavior.
Is It Art Yet? And Who Decides? →
Interesting article. I really like Christoph Büchel’s work.
project
Affordable art would be nice, in the sense that a man without expendable income would have the opportunity to collect good art. A part of me likes the exclusiveness of good art, but the poor student in me would like something fantastic to hang on my wall.
I’m in the process of developing a project where this would be possible.
This probably makes no sense, but it will.
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The unhappier you are, the more ice cream you get →
“Employing voice stress analysis of the user’s answers to specific questions, varying degrees of unhappiness are measured and the counteractive quantity of ice cream is dispensed: The more unhappy you are, the more ice cream you need.”
via wemakemoneynotart
As an atheist
I think I’m going to put film on the back burner and try and come up with a solid argument for the existence of God.