alright march, bring your ides!

A little more breathing room this time. Nothing exciting happening photographically up in my yard. Mostly spending my time doing the kind of work that pays rent in Boston (let me state the obvious here: not photography). Meanwhile I've been cleaning up the flickr bucket and re-examining a lot of of my photography to consider various ways to integrate it into my hopelessly out of date website. Perhaps I will finally print a couple of portfolios and send them out, recenter the website around better work... So much to do, so little time but I really need to take care of this.

I did get to see "Thin" By Lauren Greenfield as well as attending her talk about the process of making the documentary. I saw the first scene of that film about two years ago to this date I think. At that time I had gotten the impression the majority of the work was done. Not so. For somebody of the stature and talent of Lauren to work on this sort of time scale, as a dear friend pointed out, "bespeaks of the difficulties involved in making a documentary." So true. I won't bore you with a discussion of the film itself, that's for some other kind of blog, but you ought to go see it.

I'm also knee deep in the middle of surveying a great number of silent films from the 20s and 30s. It is incredibly inspiring to see how much was done with so little equipment (isn't that always the case?). Here are two of my favorite stills this week. First one is a frame out of the beginning of Zemlja (Earth) by the Ukranian Olexandr Dovzhenko. The second one is from the Dane Carl Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (youtube).





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