tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post6570636424998342631..comments2024-02-15T02:22:39.587-08:00Comments on the art of memory: plato's cave fifty three (being a film journal)the art of memoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748087818232571209noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-64992110483420734612018-02-21T17:22:07.451-08:002018-02-21T17:22:07.451-08:00here are some : https://vimeo.com/user10040637
I w...here are some : https://vimeo.com/user10040637<br />I was looking at some notebooks from when I was a kid and writing down like 4-5 films a day and inspired lately to step it up.... I can imagine with a youngster it being slowed down. i have a pup that makes it hard to watch many films because he barks any time a critter appears on the screen.<br />I have to go to Queens more! sounds perfect. I wouldn't mind living there. Brooklyn can be pretty funky, especially where I live. Dirty, lots of buildings in disuse. Very attractive. French connection related visuals anytime I am underneath the J train on Broadway. Dark dirty and full of lowlifes :) some hip steers though too....the art of memoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748087818232571209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-88542628459955646022018-02-21T05:47:29.693-08:002018-02-21T05:47:29.693-08:00Do you show your work anywhere, online even?
When...Do you show your work anywhere, online even?<br /><br />When you started this blog I was watching just as many films as you do. Then in 2010 I had my first child, and in 2012 the second. Goodbye film time. For a while now I'm here to help filter out what I'll be able to watch. You do a great job with it.<br /><br />My brother lives in NYC. A few years ago during a visit I had the pleasure wondering into Jamaica, Queens. Gritty NY is alive and well! Jamaica Ave was a treat. Same with the train station. Possibly some of the best aesthetics in the city, at least a few years ago. The colors, the obnoxious signs, the Chinese homes clad in gold and marble. It was great. Looked untouched by big money. A really neat place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-83218703136967385362018-02-20T16:49:37.289-08:002018-02-20T16:49:37.289-08:00yeah even in Seinfeld! funny. I love how the city ...yeah even in Seinfeld! funny. I love how the city looked then. Also in "News from Home", some early Ernie Gehr films. Really beautiful.<br /><br />Thanks for reading all that time :). I moved to NYC about a year and a half or so ago and tried to get a film related job or sound design but gave up. I was shooting and editing personal films for a long time and have not completed anything in a couple of years, but have been shooting a lot. Hope to start editing again. Honestly my computer is not totally up to it so I have not done as much, doing more sound related stuff... sound design without picture, like the new CD I am putting out in a month or so, uses only sounds collected from the Apu trilogy.<br /><br />The grit of the city has inspired me for sure though to get into that world.the art of memoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748087818232571209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-11109960836118717612018-02-20T11:24:02.983-08:002018-02-20T11:24:02.983-08:00Re: "pipe bomb" 70s NYC, I'm always ...Re: "pipe bomb" 70s NYC, I'm always tickled with how the "gritty" city aesthetic found it's way into mainstream TV and film sets in the post 70s decades. The sitcom 'Taxi' is maybe the best example. Even the early Seinfeld sets carried on with a few dingy walls and interiors. Same with the film 'Muppets take Manhattan', which I turn on for the kids anytime I feel like checking out the set design. <br /><br />They just don't make them like they used to.<br /><br />Also, I've read this blog probably since it got started. Are you currently doing anything in film? From everything I've ever seen on here I imagine you to be quite the cinematographer/photographer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com