#bestnine2017 // This year has been AH-MAY-ZING. Sad to see it end, really. But I believe that many more great things are in store for 2018. Happy New Year, everyone!
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A last little thank you to all the kind folks who preordered a copy of the special limited hardbound edition of the new book. There are still a few copies available but two of the print options are almost gone. Info at the link in my bio.
More updates after the break.
Happy Holidays!
Photograph from Quanah, Texas, March 2017.
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#Halloween with @turnerclassicmovies . . . Well. It's Day 9 of this hotel stay. The Wapi is in the garage, having issues being taken care of. I am getting a bit too comfortable with such easily accessible luxuries like cable tv. Wi-fi. Non-stop running hot water. Itching to get back on the road again before cabin fever sets in! 😵😲😱 (at Dieppe, New Brunswick)
TAKING THE FERRY FOR THE FIRST TIME GUYS. Feel so grown up...#Repost @wapikonimobile with ・・・ #CinemaOnWheels is heading out, on this cloudy #WestCoast morning, to K'ómoks First Nation with a screening later today at I-Hos Gallery. Stay tuned to see where they're heading next! (at Horseshoe Bay Ferry)
“I decided, a long time ago, that I prefer not to experience negative emotions - I like emotions, but the positive ones…and so, the negative ones, I sort of…‘meh…’ ”
“The other day, I was thinking about being annoyed, cause I was annoyed at the time and was like, ‘This is annoying. What if being annoyed felt like an orgasm?’ ”
- Hank Green on TABLE TALK.
Hank Green. He’s been increasingly more of my favourite Youtubers.
Aside from Rhett & Link.
Crash Course Philosophy is one of the best things out there… Look it up.
Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day, and as much as I also enjoy those little cards sent out to everyone around...or the cheesy love songs that get over-played and are requested out to everyone...
It’s also a day that one can become pretty annoyed with should you find yourself not hitched/single or even just alone by yourself on this day.
At a time when our thoughts should turn towards more love than hate, I’m finding that those difficult feelings that one may be dealing with can always be turned into prose, or, some sort of rap-battle/song-writing.
Buck 65′s 2014 album, Neverlove, was such a perfect antithesis to love and relationships. It centres on his devastating breakup and his experiences afterwards...
What I enjoyed though about this album, is that these feeligns can be pretty universal. Especially after an experience such as a break-up, or even just the experience of failing out of a friendship with someone close...
His words and rhymes though have let him communicate this universally, and therefore also (I believe and hope for his sake) have let him reach a catharsis.
It's definitely a good feeling to be able to write-out these difficult feelings. Heck, maybe you'll be able to find that you're incredibly gifted in terms of songwriting or slam poetry...or something.
Either way...
To give you a taste of the album, and to introduce you to Buck 65 if you haven’t heard of this guy yet, take a listen to these tracks:
I want to share this with you. A few thoughts about my hair & the trifles that I am sure are felt by us at one point or another in our lives. I wrote it out & am sharing it because... Well. I can.
That is a question that Samantha asks Theodore in Spike Jonze’s film, HER.
It’s also a question that has been sort of jumbling in the back of my mind, ever since hearing of the separation of Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington.
I don’t know why this news has affected me so, but I feel that it is more sad than of the celebrity deaths of recent news.
I think one of the hardest things in life that humans must endure is that of choosing to separate from the one you love, after years of being together, because you feel the love…die.
For me, Spike Jonze will always have that ability within his films to truly hit the right emotional levels that human beings feel - but can never really understand or fully explain or don't want to deal with, and...his films become that outlet for them.
Or at least, I feel like I can relate to the ways that he expresses these intense emotions.
With the release of HER, there was an accompanied short documentary - her: love in the modern age - which is just a 15min~ documentary that I do suggest you watch (especially after watching HER since...well...spoilers.)
I guess, where I initially felt that sadness, I was more just afraid of my own relationship and thinking about that incredibly sad possibility that it may also, one day, fall into nothingness.
People do change.
People grow apart.
Why am I letting this possibility scare me though?
I think for one, change is such a huge thing to deal with - to confront. Some people don't want to admit that they change, but they do.
Since you can either change for the better...or the worst.
I feel that the majority of humans nowadays tend to lean towards pessimism than optimism, so of course change is such a daunting thing, and you wouldn't want to change for the worst.
Going back to that specific question that titles this random blog post: How do you share your life with somebody?
It's a question where answers change from person to person; from relationship to relationship.
It's a question that can ultimately invoke a ton of introspection for a single individual, once asked.
It's a question that is incredibly important to everyone, and should be thought about at some point in life - and at whatever stage in life you are at: young or old.
How do you share your life with somebody?
* More Spike Jonze-related content:
Short film I'M HERE.
As we move into 2017, I wanted to capture a real photo, with natural lighting, and my real self and share it with you as a bit of a reminder of how silly we should be. Of how we need to just be present in the here and now. Of really appreciating the time that we have with friends, family... Don't be sucked into the hatred that the social medias is spreading about 2016 being the worst possible year. Take a look back at your own year and think about all the good times you had. Happy New Years everyone ❤
FRODO: “This is what?”
SAM: “If I take one more step, this is the farthest away from home I’ve ever been.”
And so, with that one mighty step, into the unknown, does Sam and Frodo continue on their journey through Middle Earth.
15 years ago (yesterday) was the release of Peter Jackson’s FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. A film that indeed changed the history of film - and personally changed my very own history.
15 years ago, I was only a pimple-faced teenager, who wasn’t quite into anything artsy, except for having a bit of a panache for drawing...
I was the geeky nerd. Not really fitting in anyway.
And then, there was Tolkien.
I think, initially, my father introduced me to the books, by giving me the first installment to read over the summer, before the film would be released in theatres. I can’t quite remember reading the first book, except that I took to reading them immediately and that I would read them over the summer, at our cottage on a lake, where there was nothing to do except lounge about in the sun and read to your heart’s delight. Perfect environment to read a long trilogy (and then some afterwards, with the History of Middle Earth series).
I definitely remember watching the VHS tapes of the Fellowship of the Ring.
Yes, so...funfact: I never ended up seeing the first installment of the Lord of the Rings in theatre...despite my love for them all.
I must say that my first impressions though of the first installment of the films was absolutely positive - possibly to the point of bordering obsession.
But then, now that I think about it, I think it was this ‘obsession’ that really honed in on my current passions and talents - which is both cinema and art.
After watching all three films, my mind had definitely changed from wanting to study architecture in university - to studying the art of film. Film Studies.
I remember one of the first university program presentations was from Carleton University. They happened to have a great Film Studies program.
But they also had a great Architecture program.
Dilemma ensued. I was to choose between Film Studies or Architecture.
Ultimately, I did end up choosing Film Studies. Rightly so.
I can still appreciate architecture to this day, but not to the point where I want to create new and modern buildings from my schooling.
I sincerely wanted to go into architecture to study the building of miniatures - a specific field in film studies that I was particularly interested by in the first place because of Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s extensive use of miniatures for film sets.
As I studied film throughout, more and more, I grew a love for the look of film.
Cinematography, basically.
I can continue watching all three Lord of the Rings films because I truly appreciate them for their artistic sensibilities. I enjoy them for all that they are, basically.
I can enjoy the films, shot for shot, as they are presented onscreen, throughout each individual scene. I can appreciate every single detail that is presented throughout each film, and feel the love that each individual who contributed to each frame of these films.
I realize that I am basically quoting myself, but I feel like these are the points that I truly want to convey in this article about a film - or films - that have been around for 15 years now.
Because I truly feel like they are a part of cinematic history.
Not only because they did have the ‘state-of-the-art’ computer graphics/effects or that they had these Hollywood names attached to the marquee...
Go back and watch the films. The EXTENDED EDITIONS. (Which are the only true versions of the film...duhhh)
I challenge you to not be completely enthralled and drawn into the cinematic world - and also imaginary world - that Peter Jackson has created.
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