louise on the left (coast)

We went to the LACMA Kubrick exhibit last month and didn't stop taking pictures so that you wouldn't have to. My blog post is self-explanatory. It tells in pictures all that captured my eye.  The LACMA exhibit, called  STANLEY KUBRICK , is a complete, chronological survey of the director's oeuvre guaranteed to leave all who go entirely gobsmacked. (Did I mention it's  13,000 square feet of film making awesomeness?) The collection of all production and design items (ie: Props, story boards, costumes, set design and all the other completely OCD research for his films) are for my former brilliant and creative students in my 2011 Production and Design students at The Orange County School of the Arts . (Warning: The body of work by Mr. Kubrick is not considered appropriate viewing for youngsters, so I suppose you shouldn't look at these if you are under 18.  Just sayin'.) May you all be inspired to take your creati

The first time I saw Kubrick's gorgeous film, Barry Lyndon when I was an impressionable fourteen. And so it should not be too surprising to learn that it profoundly changed the way I thought about all film and theater. I had not realized how much music contributes to bringing something to life. In the case of this film, the music IS it's life. I can't imagine this film without it's soundtrack. The only other filmmaker who has this kind of understanding of how intwined the two mediums are is Martin Scorsese. However, seeing Kubrick's Barry Lyndon for the first time was also the moment I saw that something visual could be experienced also as classical music. So much so, that it could quite possibly, become upstaged by it's soundtrack. In any case, lately I have been thinking about film experiences that changed me, and I think this one film may have been contributed to my falling madly in love all things classical. (That, and all those Metropolitan Opera