Here’s some splendid progress in the quest to have more female film directors get behind the camera and add their voices to the medium*:
*Seriously though, go here for more on the matter from AFI’s DWW, and also browse Melissa Silverstein’s Women and Hollywood blog, e.g. here…
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Two things:
(1) If I did not already have a long set of deal-making reasons why the iPad is a marvellous tool for work and more – see some of the things I said in a post or few last Summer (here, here, here) – there’s a new reason. The New Yorker on the iPad is wonderful. It is so beautifully laid out and feels like the magazine, and then, rather than just reproducing the magazine, it goes beyond it. It has been around for some time now, but previously you had to pay for the iPad app for it even if you were a print subscriber, which seemed utterly ridiculous to me. They changed this at some point, and now, you just enter your subscription details and you can get the latest issue, and every issue going back several decades. More things to read on the bus, without any extra weight to carry around. Hurrah! (Will this cure my New Yorker Problem? My inability to throw old print issues away? Make me get rid of all the issues I’ve received since I was a postdoc in the early 90s? Er… I doubt it…)
(2) There’s an excellent article, in the June 6th New Yorker, by Louis Menand entitled […] Click to continue reading this post
Monday, Memorial Day, found me at the MOCA Geffen Center downtown, where there’s a huge retrospective of graffiti and related forms of street art, including marvellous works like this – elaborately decorated cars. Wouldn’t you just love to get an ice-cream from this van? The artist is called Mister Cartoon. I am sorry to say that the shot I took of a small child looking at it in awe was too blurry (I was in such haste to get the shot before he walked away). The exhibition is quite splendid, with a huge variety of pieces, including some that were created specifically for the exhibit, said to be the largest ever retrospective of its kind in the USA.
One such site-specific piece was “Wish You Were Here”, by an artist called Mode 2, […] Click to continue reading this post
