louise on the left (coast)

Hamlet: "What a piece of work is a man,  how noble in reason,  how  infinite in faculties,  in form and moving how express and  admirable, in action how like an angel,  in apprehension how like  a god!  the beauty of the world,  the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me— nor woman neither,  though by your smiling you seem to say so." Extraordinary film footage narrated by movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival International’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes .

-- "Superlatives" by Roz Chast You know what? -- I do have everything I want. And, yes, "Right Now!" In fact, I have to say, life is good.  (It's great in both flavors; "Regular" or "Fabulous.") It's sure not always easy, but it is sweet. It's sweet because I can feel it.  And that's  about as lucky as we get.

Creep (Radiohead) - Scala & Kolacny Brothers  from Alex Heller   on  Vimeo .  The above film is a short "stop motion" art piece, set to a  haunting cover of Radiohead's 'Creep' (also heard on  The Social Network trailer  - by Scala & Kolacny Brothers choir). Alex Heller, the seventeen year old who made this brilliant short film,  describes herself on vimeo:  "Seventeen.  Trapped in the suburbs.  I root for the underdog." Well, so do I.  W hich is why I encourage Heller, and other talented kids like her to continue experimenting with technology to tell stories and to keep alive the art of making film.  We desperately need visionaries like Alex Heller these days.   So, Alex, I hope you win a big, fat scholarship to whatever school you feel would serve your work the best and that we hear a lot more from you in the future.

Amazing choral work of Radiohead's version of "Creep" turned into a statement about "mean girls."  The filmmaker uses uber creative film work using dolls and the choral version of "Creep," which was also, interestingly used in the film The Social Network. The filmmaker of this BRILLIANT short film is seventeen year old,  Alex Heller , who describes her self on Vimeo as:  "Seventeen, Trapped in the suburbs.  I root for the underdog

Fascinating and creative.  Very watchable. Had several moments which felt very "1968 Yellow Submarine," to me. valse statique-la théorie du combo from maxime bruneel on Vimeo . Train of thoughts... Created and animated by Maxime Bruneel music by Fréderic Chapron   title music by The Avalanches. maximebruneel.com

-- No?! Actually, as a mid-century brunette who wears glasses, I'm not sure if this offends me, or not. - Should it? *In case you are too lazy to watch the imbedded link above:  Tracy Morgan is asked live on Inside the NBA  who is hotter, Sarah Palin or Tina Fey?  Morgan goes on to share that actually Palin is  not only "good masturbation material, she's great masturbation material!"

Man Ray and  Lucia di Lammermoor di Donizetti Two perhaps not so strange bedfellows ~