Month: March 2010

  • Leigh Bielenberg

    The last few days I’ve been getting a fair number of hits on my site for “Leigh Bielenberg”, which will have had to do with her death, most landing on the page I put up to do with Leigh’s talk before the Atlanta City Council in August of 2008. On Monday, Leigh died after another…

  • Almost Spring

    Almost Spring

    2010 March 9 Almost Spring (Before the Space Heater is Put Away) Seeing what my new iPhone app can do. Not adequate on its own with my 3g. I had to take it into Photoshop and add grain.

  • Doubt

    Doubt

    Not having seen “Doubt” on the stage, and having read some reviews of the play that laud it over the film and remarks on some differences, I feel at a disadvantage discussing the film, but as John Patrick Shanley, the author, also directed the film, unless he privately changed the motivations of his characters during…

  • Quick, what’s the first thought that springs to your mind when you view this image

    Quick, what’s the first thought that springs to your mind when you view this image

    Boingboing today pointed to this film, “Century 21 Calling…”, dated 1964 but courtesy of the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. Toward the beginning of the film, the camera following a teenage couple gleefully riding the monorail, we get this rear shot of them. What first comes to your mind? Me? I thought, ah, so here…