That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about
SORRY! THIS LINK WAS TAKEN DOWN. NONETHELESS THE QUESTIONS REMAIN…..
How do you free yourself from the burdens of the past? How do you enter the present when the past shackles your every move? How do you move culture forward?
Hat tip (again) to Open Culture.
Scarlet Street: produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson.
Evidently the link was taken down for copyright reasons. I was told Walter never made a penny on this one as he had to sell off the rights to pay some bills. I was hoping everyone could then see it, but…
Before I moved to San Francisco, I had a dirty rumor that it was difficult to shoot in San Francisco. After I moved to this jewel of a city, I saw this short promo. The proof is in the pudding:
Time travel is go. When we look into Extreme Deep Field aka Space we see the past. We photograph the past. We approach the past. It is time travel.
When you look into space, when technology renders it real for us, when we capture the images, our imagination soars. Without art, we’d have less science. Without science, we’d have less art. Peanut butter & jelly. Blucheese and fresh figs.
“Fog is cool” I said to myself as I stumbled in from a weekend nosh of idiosyncratic food and drink. Diverse places and people in a city nestling with nature. It sure isn’t NYC — and that’s a good thing. I took it as an omen that this video popped up as I thought of my wife soon joining me here in my new home. Change is a wonderful thing, particularly positive change and the joy of having someone to share it with.
How great would it be if San Francisco was the Indie Film Hub, and this time instead of a group of aspiring artists and entrepreneurs trying to make it, it emerged as a true community that knew that it had to work together, amassing and learning from mistakes, forever aiming to make deeply resonate work, regardless of individual authorship, work that celebrates the expansive aspects of life today, doesn’t shy away from complexity or lack of comfort, and is based on exploration far more than declaration. Ah, a person can dream….
