July 2010
4 posts
June 2010
4 posts
WatchSimple, but brilliant animated short film.
Mirror Inside, a poem
Mirror Inside Dreadful and shy He peers in the mirror Dying to feel what he’s trying to feel But he feels is denied him And the mirror’s inside him Head full of sky The clouds hide the sunlight Head pierces skin soon he’s peering within Dreams beginning in ebon Light streams in like a ribbon Furtively spy Through the camera obscura Shadows resolve reveal images of Shapes dissolve...
May 2010
1 post
Montauk Pictures
April 2010
4 posts
March 2010
6 posts
The Legend of Kitty Genovese
Forty-six years ago this month (March 13, 1964) a young woman named Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered at an apartment complex in Kew Gardens, Queens, NY. A couple of weeks later news reports claimed that 38 people saw the murder and did nothing. The report was extremely inaccurate, but there was some buck passing and failure to recognize the seriousness of events by civilians and the NYPD. In...
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315 Fifth Avenue - One of My Favorite Buildings
Out and About in New York
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November 2009
1 post
Fat is Funny
Last night I attended the Big Apple Film Festival. The program I saw included a short film that I was in. I played a character called Non-Stickman in a series of one minute shorts called New York Minutes. The filmmakers did excellent work. All three shorts packed a lot of impact in a very short space of time (contrasted with the feature length film in the program which had less impact stretched...
October 2009
2 posts
Brief Review of "Eye of God" by Tim Blake Nelson
Yesterday I saw a performace of “Eye of God”, a play by Tim Blake Nelson. This is Nelson’s first play written in 1992 when he was 24. It is only now making its New York debut, the innaugural production of the new theatre company, Theatre East. Tim Blake Nelson also has a successful acting career. You might remember him as Delmar, one of George Clooney’s sidekicks in the...
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September 2009
7 posts
Possessed, by Henry Gibson
The late Henry Gibson wrote this poem for my friend Jeff on the occasion of his 50th birthday. I post it here in remembrance.
Possessed
by Henry Gibson
(For Jeff on his birthday – June 27, 2003)
Film documentarians document things
Like why dodo birds died, the creped shape of their wings.
They analyze data with such circumspection
That – name any two subjects, they’ll detect some...
August 2009
6 posts
Best Worst Movie
Last night I finally got to see the documentary Best Worst Movie. I had been anticipating it since I first read a post from @K80Blog (YouTube, Twitter) about it when the film was accepted by the South by Southwest festival in Austin.
I love Katie. I think she is one of the most honest, engaging and funny vloggers in the world. What I didn’t know, until recently, is that she is a real...
Some Like it Short
I enjoy short stories, short plays and short films. It’s not that I don’t like the longer form, but something about the economy and compression of shorter forms pleases me. Attention spans are getting shorter in general, I suppose, and mine is as well. But there is also a special art to making something satisfying with less. I discovered a short film yesterday called Bugcrush. I guess one could...