Moon Dust, directed by Ezequiel Romero, is a pretty cool short film:
A pilot crash his landing pod from the Moon in the middle of a forest. He carries a secret with him that could cost him his life…
I certainly wanted to know more after finishing it.
Via.
Some shiny things that caught my eye last week:
♦ Dreaming of Paris.
The trip to Paris was absolutely wonderful, thanks to the fine planning of my colleagues Molly and Patrick and to a terrific group of students—so wonderful, in fact, that I didn’t want to come home. Ah, well. I suppose what this means is that I mustn’t take too long to go abroad again.
I had three favorite things on the trip: the visit to Musée d’Orsay, our Baguettes to Bistro: Culinary Traditions of Paris food tour with Alisa Morov, and the reading by John Baxter at Shakespeare and Co. I hadn’t been to the Musée d’Orsay before, but I think it must be my favorite museum in Paris (yes, even more so than the Louvre). Their gallery of marble statues was just breathtaking, like Vierge au lys (1878) by Eugène Delaplanche, at left, which just enchanted me. I was also quite taken with The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst exhibition, which our friend and art historian extraordinaire Laura had alerted Molly to, and we actually saw it on the day after it opened (how fortuitous for us!). The exhibition had a bit of everything: paintings, sculptures, films.
Here’s what shiny that caught my eye last week:
♦ A Month of Letters.
In just a few days, February will close and the 2013 Month of Letters Challenge will end. I’ve been very good, mailing something every day the mail runs, even if I did not diversify my recipients as much as I perhaps should have. I even received a few letters, which was quite a delight. For the last two days of the month, I want to write letters rather than postcards, so wish me luck in scraping out some time to compose some proper missives!
Here’s a real treat for those of you who like David Lynch and lithography (doesn’t everyone?): Lynch’s new short film, Idem Paris, about the fine-art printing studio of the same name in Montparnasse, Paris. Here’s Lynch’s introduction to his documentary (from the Idem Paris website):
Hervé Chandès from the Fondation Cartier brought me over to Idem and introduced me to Patrice Forest. I see this incredible place, and I get the opportunity to work there. And this was like a dream! It just opened up this brand-new world of the lithography and the magic of lithography, the magic of the stones. And it was a great, great thing! This thing of lithography, this channel of lithography opened up and a bunch of ideas came flowing out and it led to about a hundred lithographs. I will say that Idem printing studio has a unique, very special mood, and it is so conducive to creating. Patrice has the greatest attitude for all the artists and he creates this space of freedom and this joy of creating. It’s so beautiful! And I think the place is very important—in other words, the same stone could be moved to another place, and I think that the work that comes out would be different. It’s a combination of the stone, the place, the people, this mood, and out comes these certain ideas.
Via.
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ The Horns of Elfland.
Does anyone else remember and love “Downtown” by Petula Clark as much as I do? Well, you’re in for a treat because, even if you have no idea who the 80-year-old Petula Clark is, her new single “Cut Copy Me” is fantastic. And, yes, I’m currently obsessed with it.
