“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
~Murakami

burden. curse. life. unconscious.

so many ways to look at it.

really like fiest’s take on it as a collaborative effort (as evidenced by her work w/ broken social scene in years past). the new documentary on her grammy nominated album “the reminder” called look at what the light did now features great pieces from her “amplifiers” as she calls them.

brilliant trailer + concept. why isn’t photography more like this? or is it?

“it’s just more exciting to bring it to life with people.”

via holiday matinee
This week, I was lucky enough to attend a screening for the new documentary about Feist, “Look at What The Light Did Now.” The film follows the recording of Leslie Feist’s 2007 album The Reminder, and includes interviews with her “amplifiers” — everyone involved in the creative process, from laying down tracks to designing album artwork. I especially loved seeing how Montreal artist Clea Minaker developed the shadow puppetry that Feist’s live shows are famous for. If you like her music, or if you’re just interested in seeing an awesome artistic movie, you should check it out.

for some reason, i think of daniel johnston here too.

a refreshing look at an age old conundrum:

as if anyone needs proof that in the hands of skilled media just about any material regardless of how innocuous can be moving, slanted, pointed, motivating, distorted, etc look no further then this clip. funny how it all can twist our emotions – i’d go see this.

now just imagine that power + control in the wrong hands. oh wait, i’m sure you’ve all seen that before. advertising, love it or leave.

in the words of holiday matinee, “If “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” came out this year instead of my birth year (1986, thank you very much), would hipsters flock in droves to see it? What if the movie trailer portrayed it as a coming-of-age, quirky (and perhaps, at times, dark) indie flick like that of Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides”? Watch UK filmmaker Joseph Brett’s recut trailer and revel in the slow-mo.”

this just in from an esteemed colleague of mine, athena, whom i’m sure you’ll be hearing about if you haven’t already. priceless email + i thought (with her permission) i’d share the pain we’ve all come across. some days are just harder then others.

“I’m in Thailand right now on my annual adventure. I met this Thai breakdance girl last night. I set up a meeting to photograph her. I was soooooo ssooo excited…stayed up all night thinking about it….”woke up” and scouted, planned, charged my batteries and bought her water….she was no show…I’m so sad…all my friends are laughing at me and my heart ache…I got stood up by a Thai girl and I will never she her again…she was so pretty and so talented…oh the photographic pain.”

if you need a push to keep going, here’s a nice take from edward norton appropriately titled innovators: you will feel the terror.