brought to its full potential
by the farmer's match
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Kubrick Filmography
Stanley Kubrick is one of my favourite filmmakers. He is one of those artists who I find almost unimaginably good. I know some people who find him too controlled, too cold in his gaze. What I see is a complete clarity of vision. Every aspect of the filmmaking process, the script, the scene composition, the music, the acting, all work together to a specific end. And they are ends I find fascinating. There may rarely be warmth in his films, but there is an incredible intellect exploring what it means to be human. Here's a great animated short by the french graphic artist Martin Woutisseth that animates posters for the entirety of Kubrick's filmography. It's a great reminder of how many truly great movies this man created, and also how I need to get off my but and see the rest of them.
Breath
What is the quality of ones breath?
And how much can be devised from it?
Slow and deep can denote a peace and calm, or a barely controlled anger.
Quick and shallow can result from fear, or that most pleasurable of bodily enterprises.
There is the last breath of a loved one dying.
The breath of God.
The whip of a bus passing too close by or the wind on the prairie raging forth unchallenged or the lover blowing a lost strand of hair from your face or the cooling of you first cup of coffee for the day
long short, shallow deep
It is the great repetition. A never ending cycle, that is until its complete end. The end above all ends.
Until then we will continue, whistling through our noses, drinking in cool mountain breezes, gasping at the finish line, brushing our teeth furiously and sucking on mints, so as not to offend anyone.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Haiku Monday's
Dedicated to the 2011 Canadian Election results:
but it all sounds far too much
like a strangled cat
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