Monthly Archives: December 2011
happy new year
Final thoughts about 2011 What inspired me the most? Documentary film: hands down the best doc I saw was Wasteland by Lucy Walker, a film about an artwork by Vik Muniz and how the work touched the lives of dispossessed … Continue reading
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In Praise of “The Story of Film”
Late 2011 saw a remarkable television series hitting UK screens, a 15 hour complete history of cinema up to the present day. Created and narrated by Mark Cousins, who also interviews a number of signficant film-makers, the history is important … Continue reading
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in praise of: Pipilotti Rist
Rist’s website: http://www.pipilottirist.net Video artist Pipilotti Rist had a huge show in London’s Hayward gallery this season and it is fabulous. I had seen bits of her work but was not prepared for the sensorial overload of delight that was … Continue reading
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2011 Roundup: In praise of – Czechs
In praise of … I’m rounding off 2011 with some thoughts about remarkable people or things that have added something positive to the world. Rather than dwelling, in these tough times, on the negative, I want to fulsomely praise some … Continue reading
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commodification of the revolution
this is a screenshot of something i saw for sale on a web page yesterday. I am not going to have a go at the company and say whose web page, because although I am outraged I do assume they … Continue reading
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mahjong titans crack universe
noooooooooooooo….. once I get onto this I can’t get off. I’ve never played real mah-jong but if it is this addictive I will definitely stay away. so sad.
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Kurt Andersen: You Say You Want a Devolution?
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-201201 By Kurt Andersen “For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style … Continue reading
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a little walk in Soho
Today I was walking around in London going from Oxford St to the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square (to see Melancholia, which is a great film) and I walked through Soho which I hadn’t done for quite a while. … Continue reading
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