Behind the Curtain

Serenity Now

Grad school stuff, life stuff, stuff stuff...I'm taking a break from blogging to get through everything in one piece. I'll see you back here in late March. Hope everyone has a great spring!

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Starbuck's Invasion by Are You Generic?

Temporality

I'm writing an essay on the local street art campaign in Savannah, EVERYTHING WILL BE OK. It's exciting, but taking up half of my life. I hope to have it completed in a few days. I present it in a week.

Trust

43 Things

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Caitlin Hinshelwood

1940s Valentine

I can't tell if this card is sincere or facetious.

February Fourteenth

Rebirth

I had no idea that the movie Birth of Nation existed until Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) remixed it and created Re-Birth of a Nation. I highly suggest you view an excerpt from the piece and read Miller's essay on this work, it is haunting and quite impressive. Miller will be coming to Savannah in April and I'm curious if he will show this work or if he will refrain because of the south's history.

Miller also recently produced a song on Yoko Ono's newest album. You can hear it here.

An excerpt from Miller's essay:
...Griffith was known as “the Man Who Invented Hollywood,” and the words he used to describe his style of composition -“intra-frame narrative” or the “cut-in” the “cross-cut” – staked out a space in America’s linguistic terrain that hasn’t really been explored too much. Griffith’s films were mainly used as propaganda – “Birth of a Nation” was used as a recruitment film for the Ku Klux Klan at least up until the mid 1960’s, and other films like “Intolerance” were commercial failures, and the paradox of his cultural stance versus the technical expertise that he brought to film, is still mirrored in Hollywood to this day.

Flickr Faves

Door knocker in Paris
Boiling kettle
Detailed radiator
Mustard & green doors

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Alice Stevenson