every frame a painting

back! now that was unexpected!

 

drive my car

 

george miller

 really interesting interview with george miller, not least because of the buster keaton references. i had an interesting discussion post, about how one might, these days, develop a visual lexicon when, in these days of streaming, access to these old classics, is almost non existent 

plastic bag

 short film. peak herzog 

local hero

went to pennan to see the 'most famous phone box in scotland' tho  i'm not sure not if you're under 45 that it is. the phone box in the film isn't the one in the village, which has a garage built next to it, a post box in front of it and, when i was there, a car parked and blocking it entirely. but it's still the pennan of the film, even if it isn't. it's still beautiful but i'm guessing, as with so much of rural scotland these days, i'd hazards it's all holiday cottages these days, if indeed anyine lives there at all. the pennan inn is closed, up for sale, and not even functional as a bar - no real surprise. worth a visit but saddening. am watching the film for the first time in years this weekend, can't wait 

road to resilience

 it's the start of the giro and here's jumbo lease a bike's patchy run in. ouch! 

claire eleanor fergusson

 another one of these, like a breath of fresh air. i feel the lack of anyone left in my life like this! 

the slow lane

 

the flandrien challenge

it being the holy week of classics cycling what better way to kick back before/after the ronde than this. the flandrien challenge is definitely on my tick list of things to do but time is definitely running out as i want to do it on a proper bike, not an ebike, but equally not a modern bike. my modern bike, geared as it is for younger racers just wouldn't work for me but my old workhorse, once it's refurbed, will eat these hills. but not the cobbles - there's a lot of modern technology i'm neither here nor there about but fatter tyres is defintiely comfier and i hate a cobble! lol

i actually lost a friend over this trip a while back for, in his eyes, having the temerity to suggest he might want to do some proper training as the route isn't for the faint hearted. i was right then and watching this i feel even more right now. equally i do love the sight of those frituur. as does benji i reckon, who's representing those of us wiht a more normal body shape! patrick does very well but looks like his ageing process stalled at about 19!

entertaining vid. love the classics. love flanders. 

*at the time of writing i'm waiting for the ronde to start. given the weather and the crash at dwars earlier this week here's hoping that it's great racing and everyone gets thru without incident

planet fungi

 can't go wrong with a fungus 

commute

the first step is to get out.... 

stalker

 the whole film! while the festive season's great for rubbish movies it's worth remembering that, not so long ago, there was such a thing called film and it's just not so easy to see anymore. not for everyone for sure, but just watching the opening sequence of this was like a breath of fresh air! 

*try and get a tarkovsky box set these days (subtitled not dubbed). more and more i see these types of films either not available, priced way beyond what you'd expect on the disappearing format of dvd, or just absent on streaming. what a shame. when i was young (and even our video shop stocked such things!) and we watched everything, we didn't realise how lucky we were!

the battle of maldon

now this is what lego is for! it's a shame it's not in oe but, as they say, they wanted it to be more accessible. i'm not sure accessibility equates to interest which is a great shame. nevertheless, good effort! 

tomten

 guaranteed to bring a tear to my eye - this traditional classic (with subtitles!) 

poem plus two english translations here

the alchemistress

 very large format photography! i also love the prisoner pictures but no idea where they come from 

sonic storyboard

i love this idea! i've been absolutely unmotivated to do any sound recording since i came back to this country (and lost all my swedish sound files, possibly deliberately. maybe probably but i can't bring myself to accept someone would do such a thing!) but this actually wants me to get a decent mike set up, get out and capture soome sound, plus set up the electronics. 

*i'll add a bit here seeing as a lot of this summer has been involved with medium format photography for which i have no negatives. should something happen to these images there's no back up, they exist solely as themselves and, as they age, they will disappear. that my sound files should be subject to the same vagaries plain never occurred to me. this notion appears in byung-chul han's writings - the notion that in the digital panopticon nothing is forgotten - and not in a good way. i need to think on it a bit.

metropolis

 here's some christmas cheer! an absolute classic. i did find a rescored version but i wasn't superfussed for the score but, when i've more time on my hands, i'd love to try and score an old silent movie!

the madness of max

 more australian documentary (and just a bit of spanish practice!) 

hinault

 what a legend 

ufo

this was my personal favourite from back in the day. couldn't make any sense of the series then or now but loved eberything else about it. string vests in submarines? why not! lol 

barry gray info here