Engineer's Daughter

jillian mcdonald

Jillian Mcdonald

Jillian Mcdonald

Jillian Mcdonald

From Macdonald's site:

In Scotland, I cast fifty local residents, creating costumes on location in response to the landscape, traditional highland dress, and music. Oral folklore and local legends - both real and imagined, and the haunting romanticism of the landscape figure prominently. The camera reveals mossy glens, barley fields, heathered mountains, fairy knolls, rainbows, woodland creatures, animated avatars, and apparitions.
Masked animal characters appear frequently in horror - at once anonymous, uncanny, hybrid, terrifying, and disarmingly naïve.

See also:

• Glenfiddich Artist in Residency Program and OCAD University Announce Canadian Winner, 2012

agenda 11.28.12

My picks for the next week:

Thursday, November 29:

• Artist Talk & Reading for A WELL STIRS
• First Look Dinner at Headlands Center for the Arts
• Somewhere in the Fold at The Popular Workshop
• Lecture by David Goldblatt at SFMOMA
• Strange Sinema 58: Bizarre Cinema Histories at Oddball Films
• Mission Creek Oakland Presents: Believe, Teenage Sweater, and LESSONS! at the Uptown

Friday, November 30:

• Queer Punks in Conversation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Happy Hour/Closing Reception for X Libris at Root Division
• 2012 Annual Holiday Sale at Creativity Explored
• Fairy Tale Frenzy at Oddball Films
• Duane Pitre, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Jesse Sparhawk, and Zachary James Watkins at The Lab

Saturday, December 1:

• Mark Baugh-Sasaki artist talk at Krowswork
• Matt Connors :: Ian McDonald :: Gregory Lind at [ 2nd floor projects ]
• Come Out & Play SF Festival at SOMArts
• Johansson Projects presents Rachel Kaye and Opal Dust featuring Casey Watson
• Taro Hattori, James Sansing at Swarm Gallery
• The Bay Brewed at Public Works
• Simian Mobile Disco at Mezzanine

Sunday, December 2:

• [email protected]: Ikue Mori with Ken Ueno at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Koinonia Experimental Music Festival at the Subterranean Arthouse
• Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall

Monday, December 3:

• No Babies , Ni-Hao! (Japan) and T.I.T.S. + DJ Paul Paul at the Knockout
• Death Grips at Slim's

Tuesday, December 4:

• Werner Herzog at CCA
• The News at SOMArts

Wednesday, December 5:

• The Babies, Twin Steps, Younger Lovers, Wet Spots at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records
• San Francisco Olympians Festival III: Titans vs. Olympians
• Opening Reception for In Formation at the Berkeley Central Arts Passage
• Sufjan Stevens at the Great American Music Hall

What did I miss?  Let me know in the comments!

concinnity

Please rest assured I'll be posting about my recent trip to Istanbul quite soon.  But this evening I'm also thinking of Chicago, probably because I've had a lot of friends heading there recently, and of when I was there last fall with my brother.  We hung out in the sun in Wicker Park, ate huitlacoche tacos (I was in the midst of a corn smut obsession) and drank margaritas at Big Star Taqueria, watched the Cubs actually win a game at Wrigley Field.  Fall in Chicago is hard to beat.

fall open house

Shih-Pin Hsi

Zachary Royer Scholz

Emma Spertus

Judie Bamber

Chris Kallmyer

Andrew Norman Wilson

It's been a solid month since Fall Open House at Headlands, but I wanted to post a few of my pics from the afternoon and also casually mention the First Look Dinner happening out there this Thursday evening.  Chris Kronner is in charge of the food.  That's really all you need to know.

matokie mix 11.25.12

mix

I've been starting to do these quickie Spotify one-hour mixes every Sunday to capture some of the music bumping around my head that week.  I only leave them up for one week, so listen while the listening's good.