Engineer's Daughter

work it out

Rjd2 - Work It Out

Work It Out - Rjd2
Director: Joey Garfield

I wanted to end this list with a burst of pure unadulterated joy.  Bill Shannon has a degenerative hip condition that means his legs can't fully support his weight, so he's devised another method of getting around.  You'll just have to watch.

And that is well and truly it for 2007.  I know this first month of 2008 has kind of universally sucked, but I truly believe there are good things yet ahead.  I think the universe is just waiting for the Year of the Rat...

weekend addition

Anmyle_small_wars

Though it's not technically going to be the weekend yet, Thursday at lunch I'm going to head over to SFMOMA to see the new An-my Lê photography exhibition Small Wars.  Downtown denizens, give me a holler if you'd like to meet up.  I'll probably be there a little before noon.

ship shape

Mary372

Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose will be reunited with thousands of objects in a new museum. See it here.
-£21m grant for Mary Rose

what's a girl to do?

Bat For Lashes - Whats a Girl To Do

What's A Girl To Do? - Bat For Lashes
Director: Dougal Wilson

Sparkly tights + blue eyeshadow + midnight bike riding = love.  I can see the edits and I don't even care.

weekend

Millhouse

Two more films from Emile de Antonio at SFMOMA this Saturday: 1970's America Is Hard to See and 1971's Millhouse: A White Comedy.  America Is Hard to See seems especially timely, as it deals with the 1968 Democratic primaries.  I bet you can guess what Millhouse is about.  America starts at 1pm, Millhouse at 3pm.

St Feuillien

After the movies I'm going to head back to the East Bay to check out The Trappist, a new Belgian and specialty beer bar in downtown Oakland.  Drinking beer definitely counts as culture, especially if it's worldly beer.  I should be there around 5:30 if you'd like to meet up, or just text me.  Maybe dinner at Ichiro after?

devil in the detail

Darren372

See inside Darren Almond's new shows.
-Adrian Searle admires Darren Almond's complex work

chaplet

New Astrarium: World Clique.  Please enjoy!

Otsuka

Text

Chino Otsuka, poem and treated photograph (the artist with her younger self) Paris, France 1982 + 2005 (Japan)

watch my feet

Dude N Nem - Watch My Feet

Watch My Feet - Dude 'N Nem
Director: Morocco Vaughn

I'd like to think I looked this cool when I danced the Cabbage Patch to Push It back in junior high, but I really didn't.  This video also reminds me that I really need to get back to Chicago this year.

a life of their own

Brodie372

from the Guardian:
There is nothing harder than the creation of fictional character. I can tell it from the number of apprentice novels I read that begin with descriptions of photographs. You know the style: "My mother is squinting in the fierce sunlight and holding, for some reason, a dead pheasant. She is dressed in old-fashioned lace-up boots, and white gloves. She looks absolutely miserable. My father, however, is in his element, irrepressible as ever, and has on his head that grey velvet trilby from Prague I remember so well from my childhood." The unpractised novelist cleaves to the static, because it is much easier to describe than the mobile: it is getting these people out of the aspic of arrest and mobilised in a scene that is hard.

video killed the radio star

Video Killed the Radio Star by The Wrong Trousers

Video Killed The Radio Star - The Wrong Trousers
Director: Smileypen

I've got a particularly bad case of the Sunday Night Blues tonight, but then I watch this video and my heart bursts with joy.  Next time I'm anywhere near Balboa Park in San Diego I'm totally seeking these kids out.