Fianchetto

This re-released european version was just shown in LA, with Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni in attendance. I can’t wait to see this in UK.

Quote from someone who attended the screening:

“…The film was indeed beautiful. It is EXACTLY the
European version (which has been available as an Asian
DVD made from a laser disc). The team that “restored”
the film were introduced but they acknowledged to me
in private that rather than do any restoration, they
just found and used the best original negative
material.

The quality was indeed excellent, both
visually and aurally. The colors were so much better
and the sound track came through really beautifully.
Thus there were many new nuances that I noticed for
the first time, ones which further support the magic
of this film, that will be much fun to go back to.

I hope we might be able to view it more than once in
late October [when we will have it in Chicago].”

ntry for Gadsby in wikipdia.

Being English in Scotland, by Murray Watson. An Edinburgh Uni release. One of my next book purchases, hopefully. Tom Devine of History of Scotland and Strathclyde Uni fame rates it (blurb wise!).

this made me larf, (quoted as being from a Big Issue, by David Sklar)

"One of the primary reasons cat flaps are called cat flaps is that
they're flaps specifically designed for cats, as opposed to dogs, or
giraffes, or humans. All of this became abundantly clear to teenager
Jason Evans, of Eastleigh, Hampshire, when he recently spent six hours
stuck in one after using it in an attempt to get into his house. He
was eventually cut free by firemen. In Germany, meanwhile, Gunther
Burpus remained wedged in his front-door cat flap for two days because
passers-by thought he was a piece of installation art. Mr Burpus, 41,
of Bremen, was using the flap because he had mislaid his keys.
Unfortunately he was spotted by a group of student pranksters who
removed his trousers and pants, painted his bottom bright blue, stuck
a daffodil between his buttocks and erected a sign saying 'Germany
Resurgent, an Essay in Street Art. Please give Generously'. Passers-by
assumed Mr Burpus' screams were part of the act and it was only when
an old woman complained to the police that he was finally freed. "I
kept calling for help," he said, "but people just said 'Very good!
Very clever!' and threw coins at me." "

Glasgow Tart School helping out Computers for Art.

blog on oulipian stuff

more mega flyers from the early eighties NY scene

Stewardesses: all the pages are great, but this one came up according to N.s disclosure that the longest word typeable on a QWERTY keyboards
left side is Stewardesses. A highlight from this page:
In Estonian, OUEAIAAARE means “edge of a fence surrounding a yard”.

Wow! Excerpts from the TV film about Ellis Island by Bob Bober and Pere Perec QT, WMV and Real formats.

David ‘Elsewhere’ Bernal was interviewed a while back, but I missed it, so I thought I’d post this. An eloquent guy, although he sounds a little disenamoured with dancing, which surprised me. The images are not really safe for work down the side of the magazine’s pages (scantily clad ‘latino babes’)

http://www.oyemag.com/elsewhere.html

The detours web site has the latest news about Mr Elsewhere, and he was in the GTI Golf ad recently in a homage to Singin’ in the Rain. I am still in the dark as to his relation to the Korean American group Kollaboration - I guess it is just because he is from the California BBoy scene and he mentions Asian pals in the interview. But blogging about dancing is like architecturing about blogging - just look for a couple of videos of David Elsewhere / Bernal if you want to see something amazing, and don’t know what I’m on about.

here’s a starter
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/13782/

GHOSTBUSTERS!

where do i submit Oeufs a la micro-onde?