Monthly Archives: January 2015

books, cinema, viajes

white spider

eiger nordwand/ north face of the eiger. bernese alps. switzerland.


via wikipedia

eiger. they say its name comes from the word ogre.
the north face wasn’t climbed until 1938. it was first climbed by Heinrich Harrer. the deadly history of the nordwand chronicled in the great book, The White Spider (1959).
one of its stories dramatized in Nordwand (2008):

-beautiful images, colors, textures.
-see when they drop a dead climber inside a sleeping bag and it disappears in the mist.

the north face used to be a deadly climb in the summer because of the avalanches formed at the white spider snow field. now ueli steck climbs it in the winter. in less than 3 hrs. thanks partly to advances in ice climbing equipment and the stability of the ice and the snow in the cold. plus there are very little changes in the weather during a 3 hour period. the unreliable weather, cold temperatures and changes in condition were main concerns for early climbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Steck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Harrer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Spider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Kurz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Hinterstoisser

cinema

beginners

mike mills filmmaker/graphics designer.

http://mikemillsmikemills.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mills_(director)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginners

he made the autobiographical film beginners (2010)
one of my favorite parts of the movie:
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STILL BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SUN, THE

STARS, YOSEMITE, GEORGE W. BUSH FLASH BY:

OLIVER (V.O.)
This is 2003. This is what the sun
looks like, and the stars, nature.
This is the President.

NOW PHOTOS OF THE SUN, STARS, NATURE, ETC. FROM 1955 FLASH

BY:

OLIVER V.O.
And this is the sun in 1955, and
the stars, and nature, and cars,
and phones, and movies, and the
President. These are what pets
looked like. These are fireworks.
This was smoking.

PHOTOGRAPHS, CROPPED IN ON FACES FROM 1955, VERY FAST

SEQUENCE OF PEOPLE KISSING:

OLIVER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
This is what it looked like when
people kissed…

FAST SEQUENCE OF FACES FORM 1955 LAUGHING:

OLIVER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
…When they were happy…

SEQUENCE OF FACES CRYING:

(CONTINUED)

10/29/07 4.

CONTINUED:

OLIVER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
…When they were sad.

FAST SEQUENCE OF MARRIAGE PHOTOS FROM 1955:

OLIVER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
My parents got married in 1955.
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liked the small things of this film. the simple graphics. the way the main characters meet and the girl can’t talk. the way we can read the dog’s thoughts. they way christopher plummer played his character. the main character’s mom.

mike mills’ wife is miranda july, also a filmmaker of sorts. i didn’t particularly enjoy her film “the future”

both in beginners (2010) and in the future (2011), we’re privy to the thoughts of domestic animals.

cinema, memoria

american sniper

Watched American Sniper but had to leave before seeing the end.
I wanted it to be good.
-The dialogue between husband and wife felt unrealistic and unmotivated at times.
-Throughout the movie I knew what was going to happen before it did which to me is the sign of cliches.
-Some wound shots were obviously CGI-ed. Like the boy with the grenade that gets sniped. I was surprised to find out the director was Clint Eastwood and the story based on a real sniper… and that it received Oscar nominations.
-I thought the evil sniper looked like a pirate.
-Bradley Cooper was great.
-I liked one scene in particular: It’s night and Bradley Cooper is perched on his sniper nest. The city is moon lit blue and there’s a small palm tree on fire. It seems odd because the green palm leaves looked noncombustible… the sight reminded me of Moses’ dream. In the scene we also see women in black hijabs trotting in the dark. Eerie.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kyle

cinema

boyhood

1Hr. 온천장 up to 동래. ran past large empty buildings. saw machines working on the canalization of the river near 연산 at 방서로. the trail lights turned off at 11. ethan hawk really likes to speak his mind. boyhood is a great melancholic experiment.

boyhood interview.
http://www.npr.org/2015/01/13/376746926/the-magic-of-the-boyhood-experiment-time-and-patience

made

memoria

echolocation – podcasts

podcasts:

this american life

Batman: (a blind man who can bike and hike through his use of tongue clicks and echolocation).
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/batman

secret identity:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/506/secret-identity

house on loon lake: a young boy, an abandoned house.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/199/house-on-loon-lake