On My Calendar

Exciting things coming up in August both in and around Rockridge and further afield:

Subculture the East Bay Express’s Best of the East Bay Party:  With something for everyone (and I mean everyone), the East Bay Express will be celebrating everything wonderful about the East Bay at the Oakland Museum this Friday, August 7 from 5pm [...]

Begonia’s Lomography; Dreaming New York, Dreaming Morocco

All of these photographs were taken by Begonia Colomar.  The preceding were taken in New York with a Lomo LC-A+.

The preceding three were taken in Morocco with a Lomo LC-A.
Begonia is at http://begoniacolomar.com/

Synesthesia

Terri Timely’s most recent short film is called “Synesthesia,” which even I had to look up.  From Merriam Webster online:

Main Entry:
syn·es·the·sia
Pronunciation:
\ˌsi-nəs-ˈthē-zh(ē-)ə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin, from syn- + -esthesia (as in anesthesia)
Date:
circa 1891

1: a concomitant sensation ; especially : a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than [...]

Actor Out Of Work-St. Vincent

An extremely jarring depiction, but absolutely fascinating. My inner voyeur can’t get enough of watching these freak shows. I’m going to watch it again now on silent maybe. Video by Terri Timely.

Banksia Rose

Big huge bushes of banksia rose are all over Rockridge these days. 

For some reason, these roses remind me of Connie’s wedding in Godfather 1.  That whole sequence at the wedding has sort of a yellow-y seventies light to it.  Can’t you just picture Kay and Michael stopping to smell them?…and then discovering that they have [...]

Spate of Education-related posts

The Teacher Salary Project, a group of educators and citizens committed to raising teacher salaries in order to improve the quality of education, is having an event in San Francisco on March 23, 2009 from 6:30-8:30.  The evening will include clips from the new film of the same name, based on the New York Times [...]

There Will Be Blood

I am teaching Shakespeare for the first time.  Macbeth.  At Harold Bloom’s urging I’ll be screening Kumonosu jô; Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of the play.  I’m SO EXCITED. 

The stills alone!  I can’t wait!!!
Do you think my 10th graders will go for it?  I’m going to start with a clip rather than doing the whole thing at once.  Fingers [...]

Song of the Day

“Leave_Her_Alone,” Rimpletide

This image reminds me of the opening sequence of Volver

It Was A Rainy Night

We stayed in and watched Married to the Mob.  You should really watch the trailer here: Married to the Mob trailer.
Have you EVER seen shoulder pads that big?  Honestly!
Michelle Pfeifer’s outfits are so insanely out of control and I love it.  But the reviewer on IMDB is right–as adorable as Michelle Pfeiffer is, the paranoid Connie [...]

These kids can really O____o!

This has been an obsession around ARL this week:
Check out the link here
You’re going to have to take my word for it and click on the link since I can’t embed it.
O___o