Posted December 13th, 2008 | Filed under: Reading
From an interview with director Paul Haggis about the film CRASH:
“It’s an odd life we live in Los Angeles, a city that uses freeways and wide boulevards to divide people by race and class. We spend most of our time encased in metal and glass; in our homes, our cars, at work. Unlike any real city, we only walk where “it’s safe”-those outdoor malls and ersatz city blocks we’ve created to feel like we’re still part of humanity, if only humanity could afford to shop where we do.
We no longer truly feel the touch of strangers as we brush past them on the street.”
Kottke
Posted December 10th, 2008 | Filed under: Reading
“Stations are all alike, it doesn’t matter if the lights cannot illuminate beyond their blurred halo, all of this is a setting you know by heart, with the odor of train that lingers even after all the trains have left. The lights of the station and the sentences you are reading seem to have the job of dissolving more than of indicating the things that surface from a veil of darkness and fog.”
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Posted November 22nd, 2008 | Filed under: Photography, Reading
Karenkun mentioned tonight that she really liked a posting I sent her from Google Reader so I’m adding it in the blog to share with everyone.
Originally posted by Sean Marc Lee
“it’s the stuff like this. cameras. technology. people always talk about the newest digital thing. the newest red camera (though i am excited in ways too). how many megapixels so and so have. or how they want a lomo or a holga to get that “cool saturated look.” or only shooting on polaroids.why don’t people ever wonder how to take a better photo? how to make a better film?
why don’t people ever question their motives? why don’t people ever stop to think about the thought why they shoot something? why aren’t people challenging a vision… a singular vision of how they see the world? instead of asking how i can get that look, why not wonder how that person lives to see the world the way they see it?
we’re all obsessed with the “look” and style of what we do… we forget about the thought and the deepness creating often involves. “I want it to look like this film… or like so and so’s pictures. I want it to be noir, or jump cutting, or hand held.”
why can’t we ask a question like, “i wonder what makes so and so take photos like that? i wonder why that film works the way it does?” Why does the setup from one scene to another make it so much more effective?
why is it always the question of “WHAT CAMERA ARE YOU USING.”
CONTINUE READING
Posted October 22nd, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Life, News, Reading
Worksongs reminds me of the days when I used to sneak into old highschools after hours and pretend to be an ex-graduate. I would stare at the real grad class pictures in awe and peek into abandoned lockers with the sound of running feet and children voices always nearby.
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