Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Spinning & Dyeing the Natural Way

Ruth Castino, Spinning & Dyeing the Natural Way (Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1974). So aweso...

Monday, August 29, 2011

Cleaning my office today. Admiring baggu postcards on my corkboard while listening to this. Brain-addled on Fantastik fumes. Everything is coming togeth...

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Elf

Tape-slides from "The Elf," an audio-visual work created by a group of 5th form students at Madeley Court School, Telford, Shropshire, in the early 1970s. Here is John Paynter's description:'The Elf' began as a classroom assignment in creative experiment. The boys in the group (playing trumpet, clarinet, guitar, percussion and saxophone) started with a rudimentary 'story line' about a group of elves living in an idyllic forest setting with little...

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

A Week in Daniel's World

I think I am the only person who browses the free books table at our local library. This book popped up recently -- A Week in Daniel's World by Sabine and Hugh Weiss. It's from a series exploring how children live in various parts of the world. Today I learned that French children occasionally have a drop of coffee in their milk and that on special occasions they are allowed a half-glass of wine. Sabine Weiss also did the photos for one of these...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Mix

Ať Žijí Duchové - Jaroslav UhlířKarjase pühapäev - Reet HendriksonElectro Gavotte - Adrian WagnerL'hiver - Catherine LaraSmiling - DarlingFruit of Paradise - Zdenek LiskaSecrets of the Deep - P. RenoFrogman - Reynold WeidenaarThe Guna Song - Ann Ree ColtonMr. Fox - Mr. FoxKui mina alles noor veel olin - Reet HendriksonΜάγισσες - Lena PlatonosLongue Naissance - Claude YvansRain - Eighth Penny MatterLa longue route - Claude YvansMaybe one day (version...

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Pacific Film Archive

Well I'm back after a quick but super fun trip to the west coast. The weather, food and company in LA were almost comically good, and San Francisco, despite being cold and gray as ever, yielded many new discoveries. So great to see family and friends old and new. Really lovely in fact. There is much to tell, most of it food-related (Korean tacos really are as good as they say, whereas Mission Chinese is not). But more à propos to this blog was a...

Sunday, August 7, 2011

In transit between San Francisco and Los Angeles. I love this unintentionally profound airport shop. Seeing so many cool things -- will debrief once I'm back ho...