The trailer for Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones” is up on Apple’s site. My wife and I have been waiting for this one for awhile. She’s primarily interested because she seemed to enjoy the Alice Sebold book it’s based on, while I’m into it because it was filmed in and around the Philly suburbs where [...]
An interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1958 from the record “Famous Photographers Tell How”. Henri Cartier-Bresson talks about his philosophy on photography.
OK. I get the US economy is pretty beat up. But when a piece of performance art goes wrong and unintentionally emphasizes the hole we are in you can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever escape all the negative imagery and messaging. See Mike Bouchet’s piece for the Venice Biennale here to see what I [...]
Monday night I went to the Piazza at Schmidt’s in Northern Liberty’s which is an “80,000 square foot open-air plaza with free events year-round, surrounded by three new buildings including 35 artist’s studios and boutiques, four new restaurants, 500 apartments and 50,000 square feet of office” (you can read more about the Piazza here). Since [...]
Sometime last week, I came across this video created by TAXI NY for the MoMA. It is the first of the museum’s new series in which they will play short films directed by rising film-making geniuses as an intro to main screenings shown at the MoMA’s theater.
So this month it’s one year I am living in Philadelphia, the city of pretzels, brotherly love, huge city parks and that “old” – spelled with an “e” at the end – neighborhood filled with historic landmarks and people wearing white scruffy wigs. As you know, I come from the Old World and this is [...]