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‘Work No. 16 (2011): Stories’, Season 2
Part of the art collaborative Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, the ‘Stories’ project is an ongoing series of true short stories, told on camera by fascinating people around the world. We’re excited to say that Season 2 is now underway. If … Continue reading
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Aka Pygmy music
From Wikipedia: “The Pygmies are a broad group of people who live in Central Africa, especially in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Music is an important part of Pygmy life, and casual performances take place during many … Continue reading
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Tagged Aka Pygmy, music, polyphonic, West Africa
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Micah Hahn, on Typography
Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.
Posted in art & design, film, friends doing cool things, people i admire, video
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I’m looking for films about L.A.
I’m looking for short films that present alternate (authentic) narratives about Los Angeles, preferably by L.A.-based filmmakers, for an upcoming program I am curating for Big City Forum. Please drop me a line at saskia [at] saskiawilsonbrown [dot] com with … Continue reading
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This week’s list: Filmmakers I’m drooling over
Seven Nine (!) filmmakers I am way excited about right now. Michael Medaglia: Because he is about to release his short thriller Kitty Kitty on VODO (look for it on June 10th) and because he has a script he’s shopping … Continue reading
LA
And now for something even more awesome: ‘Los Angeles: A Love Poem‘, by Dylan King (featuring a poem by Sandra Beasley)
Posted in art & design, dispatches, photos
Tagged Los Angeles, love letter to LA, the standard
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Exercise for the new year
My friend Regina Gelfo sent this to me in the first few days of 2010 as an exercise to help me establish and put clarity into the year that had passed. She found it somewhere on the internet, not sure … Continue reading
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Hey Pachuco!
Zoot-suiters in Los Angeles, and the girls who loved them. Sources: a. http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL272/8157143/15269508/231094190.jpg b. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80643375@N00/356743212 c. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HCcB7IDJQ6Q/0.jpg
‘Tree of Codes’ by Jonathan Safran Foer
Visual Editions, started in 2009 in London, publishes books that are very aware of their materiality. As they put it “books should be as visually interesting as the stories they tell”. On Nov 15th they will publish their second book, … Continue reading
