January 2012
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Book log 2011!
The top 25 books I read for the first time last year (one per author):
Island People [Coleman Dowell, 1976]
A Minor Apocalypse [Tadeusz Konwicki, 1979]
The Ice Palace [Tarjei Vesaas, 1963]
Joko’s Anniversary [Roland Topor, 1969]
62: A Model Kit [Julio Cortazar, 1968]
The Dragon: Fifteen Stories [Yvgeny Zamyatin, 1913-1933, pub.1968]
The Hearing Trumpet [Leonora Carrington, 1976]
The...
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Leonora Carrington, The Seventh Horse
And here is another thing: the objects around me are becoming terribly clear and vivid, much more alive than I am. You know, Eleanor, I’m afraid… . Listen, the chairs in this room are very old, and so is all the rest of the furniture. Last week, I saw a little green bud on one of the chairs, the kind of bud that appears on trees in the spring. And now … how horrible … it...
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Film log, october through december 2011
Once again: brief notes on everything my eyes touched over a select period. Some images to tantalize, words after the break.
City of Pirates [Raul Ruiz, 1983, 111m] As I’m sure I’ve written in these pages before, Raul Ruiz made well over 100 films in 40 years, a frenetically productive career brought to an end only by his death in July at the age of 70, leaving behind a body of...
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Tom requested an alternative ball drop for his NYE party. I watched some previous versions on youtube and they were real boring. So I made this.
(all drawn/animated on new years eve itself, between things at work, rendering literally at 11:50 — I mean, who wants to spend more than a day making a ball drop. Gah. Except for the sound, which I stuck on this morning).
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