I’m putting together and idea that should become a short film triggered by some of my photography (compositions and portraits) from the last few years. The first shot – as it stands today – is of a plane flying high above us… arrivals and departures is a theme as is friendship and dislocation but the film will mostly be a portrait of some of my real friends and any story that ties us together I haven’t yet found but I’m excited about that.
The ’script’ exists as a number of shots and locations. There’s an architectural quality to the compositions (as there is to most of my photos – I think) and there’s no dialogue at the moment. The sound is somewhere between David Byrne & Chopin. Just thought I’d keep you up to date.
Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola having a bit of fun on the set of Marie Antoinette- found here in the DVD features in a pastiche of that odious MTV programme ‘Cribs’, which many have confused with a real way of life…
published on September 20, 2009 » filed under Music, Noteworthy
Its true that Gang of Four had been and gone before I was around… now that’s not much of statement because so had The Beatles, the Clash and Elvis… but for a band who’s sound so defines the end of a decade, my decade, these guys totally past me by. I’ll try a little comparison by way of introduction to anyone else in the dark: Gang of Four are a post-punk group that sound somewhere between DEVO and The Specials, their material is political and somewhat dated but they sound great on the albums I’ve found online. The only track I recognised was ‘Natural’s Not It’ as used in the film (I think it was actually the trailer) “Marie Antoinette”- brilliant song, go find it!
On Friday Editor of The Leither (check out the fancy new website at leithermagazine.com) and myself trundled up to the Picture House on Lothian Road. Read On »
It probably took longer to actually upload this (using SVN) than it did to fix the bug! What an awful system that is.
Anyway: By way of a patch by John Berdard here’s my Wordpress plugin “Starred Review” which now works on Wordpress 2.8.4+
You can download Starred Review from the plugin homepage. Or by clicking the ‘update plugin’ button in your Wordpres Dashboard. I apologise for the time it took to fix this, ultimately the fix came from John- thanks a million!
