treachery of images
Saturday, 18. November 2006, 23:43:09
So much to talk about but I'll keep it to three topics:
I moved into our new apartment today. There is a new album (under the photos tab) that takes you on a little journey from the street where I work, to the stairs leading up the hill, to our building, and inside. The apartment is less than 6 blocks from the office but there are 105 stairs up to our street and another 66 in the building. It's a nice little neighborhood, very kid friendly, and the park is full of kindergartens, ducks, and dog walkers. From the top of the park you can see the fjord. The area is called St. Hanshaugen: turns out this means St. James Hill and any search through the list of saints for a Hans Haugen or Hanshaugen will yield very little indeed. The apartment is significantly smaller than anywhere we have lived since college and certainly smaler than anywhere we have lived with dogs and a child but we think that proximity to all the city's resources will make this a better option than some of the larger apartments we saw and certainly a better way to get to know our new home than the suburbs. Maybe after we've been here a while and are comfortable getting around and have seen all the major sites, then we might look further afield. It will be especially nice being able to get home so quickly to see my wee one and get in some good play time before her bed time.
Given the name of this blog, I would be remiss in not mentioning the positive coverage of the new Magritte exhibit in Los Angeles. In the NY Times there is a little video interview with the artist who helped curate the show and some images of the installation where they have tried to make a playful space, bringing concepts and images from the art into the room such as clouds on the floor and objects out of scale with their surrounding. An interesting coincidence: local TV just showed the Thomas Crown Affair remake last night and the original the night before. The remake features Magritte references quite heavily.
Well we don't know yet about whether these images are treacherous but there's another article out about Wong Kar Wai's first English language film. I'm a little more encouraged than I was in my earier post on this film. Still a pity that Doyle isn't doing the cinematography. It will be interesting to discover how dependent Wong Kar Wai was on him or whether the new cinematographer, most famous for having shot Se7en for David fincher (a horrible little script that I blame for the current rash of torture films like the Saw series), can deliver for him. But as much as I love the lush perfection and tone of his last two films (2046 is as emotionally brutal as it is gorgeous to look at), that this is a return to the fast improvisational style of Chungking Express can only be a good thing. And if there is anyway to get a DVD of the short film mentioned in the article thathe made when In The Mood for Love was still intended to be Three Stories About Food, please please let me know.
you must be extatic to have a place to call home and knowing that the womenfolk are on their way. looks like you can make this into a nice cozy spot for the fam. you'll all really get into shape with all those stairs (both those in the building and those on the hill). on with the next phase of the adventure....
By anonymous user, # 20. November 2006, 19:43:59