March 19, 2012 • 2 notes
ForYourArt Announces Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City, a 24-hour event from noon on March 24 to noon on March 25 This is the kind of event I’d program if I were the director of some arts program. An excuse to have donuts during a film showing. Brilliant.

ForYourArt Announces Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City, a 24-hour event from noon on March 24 to noon on March 25

This is the kind of event I’d program if I were the director of some arts program. An excuse to have donuts during a film showing. Brilliant.

January 13, 2012 • 1 note

One of the best promotional visuals I’ve ever seen. Hands down.

October 17, 2011 • 2 notes
LACMA’s been super ham on their film events as of late. I mean, if you’re a museum thinking about cutting a majority of your events, then Martin Scorsese visits your facilities and says that cutting back on resources is a foolish move, you kind of gotta step your game up, right? Jason Reitman directs a surprise cast of actors for a live-read of John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. He already revealed Patton Oswald and Mindy Kaling as part of the read. (Update: add James Van Der Beek to that list). Dig.

LACMA’s been super ham on their film events as of late. I mean, if you’re a museum thinking about cutting a majority of your events, then Martin Scorsese visits your facilities and says that cutting back on resources is a foolish move, you kind of gotta step your game up, right?

Jason Reitman directs a surprise cast of actors for a live-read of John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. He already revealed Patton Oswald and Mindy Kaling as part of the read. (Update: add James Van Der Beek to that list). Dig.

October 3, 2011
Such an awesome exhibit. Whoever curated this exhibit, kudos for politicizing every piece in this collection. Whether it discussed nuclear fallout, Cold War fears, changing perspectives on female sexuality, or how California set the standard for national house trends, every piece pretty much made me have a “hmm, that’s interesting” moment. Check out California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way” if you have a chance.

Such an awesome exhibit. Whoever curated this exhibit, kudos for politicizing every piece in this collection. Whether it discussed nuclear fallout, Cold War fears, changing perspectives on female sexuality, or how California set the standard for national house trends, every piece pretty much made me have a “hmm, that’s interesting” moment.

Check out California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way” if you have a chance.

July 21, 2011
Christian Marclay’s The Clock Once in a while there are events that remind me how much of a film nerd I was, am, and still could be. This is one of those times. The Clock is an experimental film that has a total running time of 24-hours. Here’s a better description of it: Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is shown. The result marks the exact time in real time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours. Now, when I heard an ad for this on KCRW, my brain literally expanded. Also, it reminded me of an Andy Warhol film, Empire, which is an 8-hour film that depicts the Empire State Building through a single static shot. The Clock is going to screen at LACMA on Thurs, July 28 at 5pm and end at 5pm the next day. 24 hours of consecutive footage in a single piece of work. How awesome is that? I really want to go to this, even if it’s only for a couple hours.

Christian Marclay’s The Clock

Once in a while there are events that remind me how much of a film nerd I was, am, and still could be. This is one of those times. The Clock is an experimental film that has a total running time of 24-hours. Here’s a better description of it:

Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is shown. The result marks the exact time in real time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours.

Now, when I heard an ad for this on KCRW, my brain literally expanded. Also, it reminded me of an Andy Warhol film, Empire, which is an 8-hour film that depicts the Empire State Building through a single static shot.

The Clock is going to screen at LACMA on Thurs, July 28 at 5pm and end at 5pm the next day. 24 hours of consecutive footage in a single piece of work. How awesome is that? I really want to go to this, even if it’s only for a couple hours.