Some Art Ideas

1. Art As Hobby
Find people with corporate jobs. See if they make art. Be varied in the selection of art they make. Buy their art at a low price and expose it. The exhibition of their art is the artwork. Sell it.

2. Take pictures of the books in my library which I’ve yet to read.

3. Somebody’s reflection faintly etched “inside” a mirror.

4. Make a committee of well-known artists that will approve all my art before it is publicly released. The debates are documented.

Rohmer

Conte d’été
1. Assertive characters with powerful commitments to their principles. It gives them an aura of determination and self-confidence. Nobody is never truly vulnerable. Instead they always negotiate rationally with circumstance.
2. Thick-bottomed women. Shapely.
3. Verbalize their psychology.

Golden Tracks

1. ras kass - anything goes remix
http://www.zshare.net/audio/118204016bb407c1/

I had this on an old tape. It turns out that it was not on the actual “Anything Goes” single but as a b-side on the Jack Frost 12”. Something about that flute.

ideas for film II

1. the discarding of ideas
2. the meaning of montage (see book put together my Montand’s wife in “La Guerre est finie”
3. The primacy of the camera–all else is secondary.
4. Straub-Huillet base all their films on already existing material–The tension between the wholly original and the referenced….(the impetus behind a wholly original segment in a wholly original story)
5. A film that reflects on its own formal/stylistic devices. For instance, if WKW would include in his story annotative comments about his use of slow-motion…
6. Something has to replace the clichés of self-reflexivity. The beautiful tracking shot of a tracking shot in “Contempt” as the credits are read out…should be replaced today by something new that indicates the same issues…The ‘essence’ of this sequence which I’m in love with….is something I wish to reproduce…but maybe it can be done without going through the path of self-reflexivity. The obvious alternate path would be to have a sequence with narrative meaning (unlike the extra-diegetic sequence of Contempt). So now the question would be…what are the other filmic emanations apart from extra-diegetic self-reflexivity, diegectic sequences,…I am not sure. What about the false takes an actor makes, when he taps into the ‘wrong’ feeling and the director must correct her/him? What about the kind of footage that is never in the script but ends up being shot out of sheer opportunity at the moment of filming (and the audience can feel that)?

7. A movie directed by Michel Gondry about a man who tries to convince a woman that they met the year before at a 35mm screening of Marienbad. Seeing that the woman is clearly unconvinced, he makes a short film recreating their encouter. The man is played by Peter Greenaway. The last remaining print was destroyed in an Afghan cave before a special screening for US Soldiers. During a trek to a humanitarian mission, Olivier and Hugo find bits and pieces of the print and try to put it back together.

8. Obsessive-Complusive Personality Disorder is defined by absolute denial that there is a problem. Good way to explore in an explicit way that space where the viewer knows more than the protagonist.

Foods

he top ten common high antioxidant foods include:
Walnuts
Pomegranates
Sunflower seeds
Blackberries
Cranberries
Blueberries
Dried apricots
Ginger
Raspberries
Prunes

The following foods contain the most pesticide residue:
Apples
Bell peppers
Peaches
Spinach
Strawberries

List: Camera Placement

1. Dont be too far. Get closer. It is okay to cut off the lower body somewhat and parts of the set. (But leave headroom)
2. Dont be afraid to be slightly slanted. Too straight is too cute. All morality is slanted, so the camera should reflect that.
3. Plan camera movements to give characters memorable introductions.
4. Emotional Space. Be aware of actor height. Look for visual anchors around the shot. Think of the weight and balance of the frame according to the emotional intensity of the shot/scene.
5. If someone leaves:
6. Do you track along….(only if they turn back)
7. Do you place yourself close to them and then pull back quick when they make a violent movement to leave
8. How far do they have to move before being off-frame?
9. Or better yet…is it the camera that moves to render them off-frame? Do we leave them, or do they leave us?
10. The handheld camera covers three mistakes: Bad acting, bad set design, and bad directing.

On WKW

1. Faces. Presence. (Taken from Godard) (Blueberry)
2. Intuitive motifs. Seemed to be selected playfully. (Blueberry & Mood)
3. 2046: generating stories.
4. I saw some outtakes from Mood and they were very commonplace. The lighting was good, but the scenes themselves were the stuff of early still-uninspired improvisations. Herzog seeks ecstaticness in the spaces he visits. Wong builds a space (the most flattest and cliche), rides roughshod with ideas (many commonplace), and then sculpts something with unity in tone/mood. His shooting ratio must be 40:1.

List of Books I Should Read

1. Shadow of The Wind

If you love A.S. Byatt’s Possession, García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the short stories of Borges, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas or Paul Auster’s “New York” trilogy, not to mention Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame and William Hjortsberg’s Falling Angel, then you will love The Shadow of the Wind.

List of Jay-Z Luxuries

1. Audemar Piguet (wrists) off “Allure” and “Upgrade U (Remix)”
2. Mr Chow’s off “Success”
3.Breitling off “Dead Presidents”

On Jay-Z’s Gangsta

“Feelin’ It”

To all the girls I bought a girdle to conceal my bricks
No doubt, they can vouch my life is real as shit…

The ganstaness in this line comes from the originality of the gangsta motif. To speak of the act of smuggling by women friends/lovers, specifically the girdles they have to wear.

“Allure”

Say hooray to the bad guy, and all the broads
Putting cards in their name for the stars of the game
Putting ‘caine in their bras and their tomorrows on the train
All in the name of love
Just to see that love locked in chains and the family came
over the house to take back, everything that they claimed
Or even the worst pain is the distress
Learning you’re the mistress only after that love gets slain
And the anger and the sorrow mixed up, leads to mistrust
Now it gets tough to ever love a-gain

—Yet another reference to friends/lovers who transport cocaine across states. This time he goes deeper and describes the emotional ties, even drawing out a possibly dramatic situation (”Learning you’re the mistress only after that love gets slain” How dramatic!).

But the allure of the game, keeps callin your name
To all the Lauras of the world, I feel your pain
To all the Christies in every cities and Tiffany Lane’s
We all hustlers, in love with the same thang

–That mention of Charli Baltimore’s government name probably goes largely unoticed. But for those who notice, it further mythologizes Charli who was once rumoured to be Biggie’s ride-or-die chick.