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Snow in Wellington New Zealand
Apparently it almost never snows in Wellington and someone had the foresight to capture the moment by focusing on the people’s faces as they took in this special event. For those of us who see snow more often, like myself, it helps to reignite the wonder of seeing snow for the first time. Thank you Roy Tierny!
This Is Where We Live
It’s been a while since I posted anything to do with paper. I guess I am long overdue. This is as much a celebration of a book publisher (another form of paper art that I enjoy) as it is a marvel in stop motion video, but with paper. Enjoy.
This Is Where We Live, posted with vodpod
Fifty People, One Question
It’s a simple question in London…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQk30nYUOAw
It’s a simple question in Brooklyn…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAUGg4081Q
It’s a simple, but different question in New York…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e53VeQ-pmc
Now go ahead and ask your self these same questions: they’re not always so simple…
Share your answers by leaving your answers in the comments.
Forgetfulness – Billy Collins Animated Poetry
Poetry has always had an oral side to it’s history, now with video added we have a third way of receiving poetry.This poem by Billy Collins incorporates the written text, the spoken word and the visual images for a different way to take in poetry. Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America’s best-selling poets, reads his poem “Forgetfulness” with animation by Julian Grey.
The Gift of The Unknown
As our culture changes, Walter Brueggemann has observed, we must restate eternal truths in order for them to remain truthful. For the faithful, the artistic imagination can safeguard the strangeness and newness of the gospel, preserving it from domestication by our ideologies and culture. This year, the Trinity Arts Conference theme urges us to curiosity and courage as we approach the changes essential to vibrant art.
Each year the Trinity Arts Conference draws filmmakers, journalists, actors, writers, poets, composers, visual artists, dancers, and musicians for three days of workshops, seminars, lectures, readings, exhibitions, and performances. We’ll meet in the congenial and relaxed atmosphere of the University of Dallas, a wooded cloister of studios, classrooms, auditoriums, and galleries.
The above was taken from their brochure
Interested? Here’s the link –> Trinity Arts Conference
Typolution
Minimalist art from a typewriter or so it would seem. All the images are built using the type found on a typewriter. Simple, graceful, and full of Story!
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Worth the 3:11 minutes of your time
The Color Keeper
Here is something I stumbled across (isn’t that how we find everything?). I knew I had to share it here even though it is a small work as art goes, but with a big heart. The background music is by J Tillman from his “Minor Works”
The Color Keeper from Grandchildren on Vimeo.
The Dead: Billy Collins Animated Poetry
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80 Years of Oscar Movie Posters

Are you a movie poster addict? At least the online type? If so, there is a link just for you and its called Movie Poster Addict.
Foreign Films
If foreign films aren’t the kiss of death for you then will you share with us what foreign films you have seen in the past 6 months or at least what’s in your queue? My Netflix queue contains the following “foreign” films:
- Jean de Florette
- Manon of the Spring
- The Lives of Others
- Shower
- Bread and Tulips
- As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
Perhaps soon I will compile a list of all the foreign films I have seen; at least for the past 5 years. Now let’s see your list.
Pane e tulipani: Bread and Tulips

A friend of mine just sent me the following:
“If you haven’t seen this movie, you need to add it to your (large) to be seen list. Italian with english subtitles. It was funny and touching. Good for the next cold winter night. If we get any more of those! Maybe you have to be Italian to really understand. But this is a delightfully funny picture with moments of tenderness and pathos, a quintessentially Italian approach to the bored housewife story. It’s also a wonderful view of Venice from an Italian perspective. It’s a bit of a fantasy, a bit of a fem-flick, a bit of a travelogue. I’ve been to Italy several times. This movie makes me want to go back again. Bravissimo!”
The movie she refers to is Pane e tulipan, or Bread and Tulips in English and since we share some of the same interest the movie has now been added to my Netflix queue. Once seen for myself, I’ll let you know what I think; but remember my list is “large” so it may be awhile.
The Air I Breathe; is it fresh or stale?
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“Four short fables in which characters collide with fate — and each other.” Is this another Crash which won 3 Oscars, including Best Picture and 35 other awards within the film industry. Or, will The Air That I Breathe be as thin as the air we breathe? The trailer above makes me curious but it’s the clip below, though limited in what it reveals, that has me ready to see it. As short of a clip as it is, it shows a level of acting from Sarah Michelle Gellar that I would not have expected. The movie, like Crash has a large ensemble cast which should prove interesting.
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“What makes you deserving?” Hmmm, I hope no one ever asks me that question.
Cloverfield: Not for those who avoid adreneline rushes

Cloverfiled is frenetic, frightful and fun. Shot through the view of a single lens, several post college young adults find themselves running from one of the scariest monsters to be filmed in years. It’s an old trick not to show the audience what is happening to increase the tension, and old tricks work well; at least in Cloverfield. We only get views of the monster when something is being destroyed and you’re never sure if you saw an arm, leg, or other part of the creature. Since our view is always at street level, from a camera held by one of those on the street, not a cameraman out of harms way, the viewer is placed exactly in harms way. In one very intense scene the viewer finds him or herself in between the monster and the military: the missiles, mortars and military rifles are going off all around you and you want to hide. The heart pumps and the body squirms in the theater seat because you forget your in the seat and want to run! This is a movie ingeniously done and worth the trip and cost to the theater.
Cloverfield is rated PG-13 for violence that places it on the edge of R. It is not a feel good movie where everything works out in the end and there are a lot of questions unanswered about the monster. But this monster movie is not about the monster; it is about how we might react as the world falls apart in front of us. There are scenes that mimic the fall of the Twin Towers which are unsettling and strangely appropriate. They cause you to ask “how would I have reacted on 09/11?” And “would I have run toward the danger to save someone, as this small band of young people do?” Clearly on 9/11 many did just that, but would you? Is a monster movie the right venue for asking such questions? If not, you don’t need to worry, you can watch this movie and walk away not asking any of those question. They only fully came to my mind a day later.
Cloverfield may be about many things, and I am sure you will think of other things to reflect on, but mostly it is about going to the movies and having fun and being scared. Like the haunted tunnel at your local amusement park when you were a child: you go to be scared but are glad when it’s over.
Walking backwards can lead somewhere

This short film by Chris Vincze, titled Evol, considers what would happen if you walked in a direction different than the rest of the world. I love it’s implication that those we connect with are following similar paths as ours. Some would call that fate; I would call it intentionally orchestrated by Love. Note the similarity in the gifts each possesses.

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