He Met the Walrus
1969+clever teenager+John Lennon+reel-to-reel audio tape = Oscar nominated short film.
Go to the Youtube site for a high-res version.
Archive for the ‘art’ Category
The Magnetic Movie
Would be nice to have a little color around here. You’ll learn something, too.
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Posting will be slow, er, slower, until the home internet thing is straightened out.
The Abenteuer of Prince Achmed
I recently saw a scene from a film called The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed), accompanied by original score, on an arts channel a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a short clip of what I saw, with a new score by the Khoury Trio. Achmed has escaped to China with the [...]
Enormous Changes, Last Minute: About Grace Paley
Grace Paley died two days ago. She was a sweet and humane poet and short story writer, one of those individuals for whom many will admit a familiarity with the name if not a specific knowledge of the work because some high school English teacher somewhere along the line (but a fan, truly) assigned [...]
I Want One: The Sultan’s Elephant
One of my Flickr contacts is a talented photographer named Simon Crubellier. I like his photos very much. They possess a certain elegance, such as this haunting, lovely photo of Canary Wharf. And there must be something to the kind of person whose interests would run to “urban paranoia and dereliction,” part of the description [...]
Makin’ movies. How do you do it? What’s it like?
An older and very accomplished journalist once wrote to me that the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he went, is “a jealous god.” And sometimes, I think, so am I. Let’s say “demigod.”
That accursed Wes Anderson. He is so good, our sensibilities are so complimentary, I would love to make the movies he [...]
Cold As Hell?
On Monday, as I was about to go out to lunch, I peered through my window to see if it was raining (it has rained every day for the last two weeks, it seems). I mentioned to a colleague that it doesn’t look like it will rain. “No,” interjected someone walking by, “but it’s cold [...]
This Week in Tim: February 26 to March 3
I don’t have much patience for those blogs that dwell on the minutiae of their authors’ lives, so I will probably hate this post. But, I can take some satisfaction in the fact that this post is about one of my favorite subjects: Tim. And Tim had an interesting week, so I’m calling this “This [...]
Wendy Wasserstein and Generosity
Wendy Wasserstein was a generous person. This I know not because I’ve seen her plays (I haven’t), not because I’ve seen her speak (I didn’t), not because I knew her (I knew her not at all). In fact, I seem to have missed every opportunity to get to know Ms. Wasserstein or her work until [...]
