without them

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the Iranian artist, Shirin Neshat.
Her debut feature film, Women Without Men, will be playing next week.
From the preview and if her previous body of work is any indication, I am
confident it will be visually stunning and emotionally striking. The trailer
honestly brought me to tears.

Women Without Men
March 30. 615pm@MOMA
March 31. 915pm@Film Society/Lincoln Center

do you float up up up

oddsac, the animal collective film, coming soon.

la danse fantastique

la danse de l'opera de paris is an exceptional film.
its quiet, poetic, strong and humbling.

guapa penelopa.

one of the first things i wanted to do upon my arrival in espana,

was to see the new almodovar film, Los Abrazos Rotos.

i attended a late afternoon show with muchas abuelitas. i laughed out loud.

its always me and the old ladies, thats cool though, i dig their style.

penelope was great, as usual and she looks stunning in this picture.

but to be totally honest, i was un poco underwhelmed. its charms,

and there are many, lies in the similarity to his earlier films (say mid to late 80s)

and you must see Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988 or 89, i think)

to fully appreciate and understand Los Abrazos Rotos.

i don't want to reveal too much but when its stateside and worldwide, we will return to

this discussion. i plan to view it again with subtitles just in case i missed a few things.

nonetheless, viva pedro!

(ps, see Matador if you have not yet, its gonna blow your eyes open!)

mon dernier tango à paris

clips from paulo melim andersson's last collection for chloe, fall 2008.

i'm particularly fixated with the embellishments, details and wispy 70s feel.

although this being the collection that knocked him from his creative director post,

i love it and find it well aligned with the last tango in paris inspiration.

i'm attempting to try my hand at recreating some of these ideas.

hot rocks

i watched brideshead revisited monday evening, kinda just for the costumes.

all the lovely rhinestone costume jewelry in the film was brilliant.

my ebay finds include rhinestones and lead to amber and butterscotch amber.

your love is right in front of my eyes.

i'm amazed it took this long to occur to me i could be seeing through hearts.

considering my love and fascination with the human heart. and hearts of all sorts.

the search begins for the perfect pair and i see lanvin and karl jumping on this for spring oh nine.

the conformist

missoni fall 2008 adverts inspired by the bertolucci film, the conformist.

art, events, films, locales to discover.

+self healing material. nature.com

+superjam.co.uk

+exploding flowers. mummeryschnelle.com

+artist, roger dean. flights of icarus from floating islands series

+cassiemercantile.com

+herdubreid at home

+stalker directed by andrei tarkovsky. mosfilm. 1979

+artist, phi frost. totem

+der garten. arno fischer. riflemaker.org

+stardust. riflemaker.org

+stan brakhage. mothlight, 1963. by brakhage:an anthology. criterion 2003

+artist, peter doig. tate britain. judith nesbitt. tate.org.uk/peterdoig

+fiskedon by goran dyhlen. tate britain

+radical lave and subversive knitting. museum of arts and design ny.

+threads of light. chinese embrodiery from suzhou. UCLA fowler museum of cultural history

+hieronymus bosch

+simonfinch.com

+hotel portillo. www.drn.cl www.skiportillo.com

+artist, helio oiticica. the body of colour. tate modern. london

+gary hume. american fan XXVI (gloss)

+pear light by nick foley

+ruth.gurvich.free.fr

the only thing left is everything, the whole.

on tuesday, i went to a pre screening of reprise at the ifc. 

'i wish we could just meet all over again'

sten egil dahl, crystal

'the absolute language - to capture all the worlds nuances'

'out swimming with the commoners'

xxy

i viewed this film a while back, but wanted to catch up on it at least.

an argentine film of a girl born with both sexes. the story compelling and the actress quite good-

i was most struck by the colours and setting of uruguay coastline. it had a salt covered look to 

it- beach comber. 

l'amour doit être réinventé

notes from this fantastic piece of art.

'love must be reinvented'

'you said we'd see it through the end, yes, the end of the night'

'the language of poetry rises from ruins'

'because you speak to me in words and i look at you with feelings'

'remembrance of things past'

'the feather in your cap'

'we are made of dreams and dreams are made of us'

'nostalgia for continuity'

'i believe you, liar'

'i'm just a huge question mark hanging over the mediterranean'

and kicks off the five week Godard fast at film forum 

long awaited

i'm highly anticipating the opening of this film in new york,

reprise by joachim trier, released in norway two years ago

the cool school

pictured john altoon, craig kauffman, allen lynch, ed kienholz, ed moses, robert irwin, billy al bengston

thursday evening- I saw the documentary about the beginning of the Ferus Gallery and 

modern art late 1950s, early 1960s- here lies the record of my notes and thoughts

-artists and work - ben bartosh/john altoon/ed moses, 'vreeland'

-abstract expressionism to assemblage 

'venice beach was the place to go to and vanish or create new worlds'

'you don't want people to know you are hungry'

-roy lichtenstein, 'white cloud', in personal collection of irving blum

-light, plastic and colour work - candy apple paint jobs, custom car culture, reflection of surface, 

light on colour

-art primarily made in the mind and language as a visual experience (ed ruscha)

'art offers the possibility of love with strangers' -wallace hopps

-cal arts, the last plastic show

-centre pompidou, 2005/06?, LA art show