November 04, 2013 in Film | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Tom:
Paul:
It always amazes me when I read the Feedjit Live (the blog traffic cop in the lower right sidebar), how by way of my varied subject matter - it brings people here from all over the globe and from such diverse origins. A glimpse of the feed today showed a range of people looking for: my pillow project with placemats from Pier 1 Imports; Handsome Bob, the Guy Ritchie gangster (played by Tom Hardy); and English textile designer Paul Vogel. The readers who searched these three topics were from Kent, Cardiff and Birmingham, England, Salt lake City, Utah, and Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Several times a day I get visitors searching for Danny Kaye's daughter. Go figure.
P.S. I forgot to celebrate my fourth blog anniversary last month! Could it be because I was in the hospital? Can't be my memory failing. Nah. You think that's bad, my neighbor introduced herself as Charlotte, "Oh no wait. I live on Charlotte Way. My name is Cathy." Hah. That one has been keeping me laughing for days.
March 08, 2010 in Film, Textiles | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Guy Ritchie's latest film, RockNRolla was just released on DVD and it's so much fun! His writing is as raucous and entertaining as ever (Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels). Handsome Bob is Ritchie's best character yet, played by one of my faves, the captivating and endlessly believable Tom Hardy.
February 06, 2009 in Film | Permalink | Comments (2)
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So many people have been abuzz about the interiors in the film Mamma Mia so I thought I'd do a post on sourcing the look. Mind you I haven't seen the film. I must say, I really can't stand Abba (sorry Abba fans) and I'm too much of a Pierce Brosnan fan to have the illusion shattered by hearing him sing. Nice boys should be seen and not heard, ha.
One of the things everyone is obsessed with in the film is Donna's (Meryl Streep) bedroom. This still photo shows the serene palette and lovely textiles:
courtesy of CinemaBlend
Everyone seems to love the bedspread. If you like that sort of red embroidery on white cotton or linen there is an old art form known as Redwork. In fact I belong to a Redwork group on Flickr. You can find vintage pieces that resemble the spread in the film, like these shams found on Ebay:
If you visit the web site for Arolithos you will find examples of Cretan embroidery and rugs. And for mediterranean feeling rugs check out this jute one from World Market:
Here are some offerings from my shop that would fit in with the breezy island decor:
World Market has this bed for $99:
You can read my interview with textile designer Paul Vogel, whose pieces were used in the film and who is a great artist in his own right.
P.S. I just came across this post at Erin's blog, Elements of Style, with more ideas.
September 03, 2008 in DESIGN & Inspiration, Film, Textiles | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Stick with me here. It's a tangled yarn. This has been a morning where the message is "outsider art". First I went to "visit" Victoria over at sfgirlbybay and she had this excellent post on the film Beautiful Losers, a documentary about underground American artists (still trying to find out how to see it).
Then I received an email from my Maman telling me about Craig Cramer's blog, Ellis Hollow, because she thought I might like his post with music videos, and audios. Oui Maman! He includes one of Gogol Bordello, the gypsy punk band (coincidentally, I just watched the documentary on the Ukrainian lead singer, Eugene Hutz; The Pied Piper of Hutzovina.)
Ellis also has a video of Manu Chao, a Parisian Spaniard, who I saw at the Roxy in L.A. (Madonna was there, sitting on Warren Beatty's lap). That was around 1990 when he was fronting Mano Negra. Believe it or not, you can see this brilliant band in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on August 22nd at the Outside Lands Festival!!
Ellis also had a Loudon Wainwright III video, stay with me now, that led me to discover this artist from Chicago: John Kline, a.k.a. Johnny Smooth.
His bio on Etsy:
"John Kline was
born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His mom was an artist and his
dad was a policeman. He has one older brother.
His mom gave him art
materials at an early age, so he would leave her alone. He drew and
drew and drew a lot of naughty pictures.
He currently resides in Chicago. He belongs to a street gang. Male, born on August 17"
I could go on with many more degrees of separation that would fascinate you! But it's not morning anymore and my tummy is calling....lunch time. In closing, please consider this: indulge in outsider music, outsider art, outsider activities...outside the box! I'm going to do like the guy in the trailer for Beautiful Losers and walk backwards today, into a youthful and unscripted state of mind. Ciao!
June 09, 2008 in Art, DESIGN & Inspiration, Film, Music | Permalink | Comments (2)
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I am so incredibly pleased that the song Falling Slowly from the movie Once won the Oscar for best song. The Oscar show, which is all too often so commercial, found some heart last night. Twice in fact. The song's female singer/pianist Marketa Irglova of the duo The Swell Season was cut off from giving an acceptance speech. I pleaded outload, "They have to bring her back...someone should give up their time to her...let her speak instead of showing another silly montage. Pleeeeeease." My partner Richie says he continues to be stunned by my psychic directoral powers over the television. Ha! They brought her back out!
It's been almost two months now since I spent three and a half hours (partly due to my computer still being very buggy) writing a post all about the film ONCE. When I finished writing the post and clicked "preview" the whole thing disappeared. I haven't been able to return to posting til now.
I can't say enough about this sweet story. Everything about it really does inspire hope; the music, the $100,000 budget, the use of handycams and non-actors (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova), the writing -- an archetypal story of love and longing and second chances -- and the directing (John Carney), all made in three weeks on location in and around Dublin, Ireland (without permits!). Real people getting together and making real art. That's why it's a film that moves me like no other in a very long time. It's very real and raw.
P.S. Bassist Alaistair Foley and I share the same surname :)
Congratulations to all involved in the process of making such a fulfilling and simply lovely piece of work.
"Raise your hopeful voice...you have a choice...you make it now"
February 25, 2008 in Film | Permalink | Comments (10)
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