LightKitchen Production Notes

Jun
14th

Sat

Past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom…..Now, as ever, we do ourselves best justice when we measure ourselves against ancient tests, as in the Antigone of Sophocles: ‘All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.’

— Robert F. Kennedy

Jun
13th

Fri

The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of “The END” “If you look at the final episode really carefully, it’s all there.”* These are David Chase’s words regarding the finale of the Sopranos. He is right, it is “all there”. This is the definitive explanation of why Tony died in Holsten’s in the final scene of The Sopranos. The following is based on a thorough analysis of the final season of the show and will clear up one of the most misunderstood endings in film or television history. Chase took almost 2 years to construct the final season of the show after the fifth season ended in June of 2004.

Deaf Malaysian Artist Wants to Help Young Koreans

Jun
12th

Thu

Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes.com A wonderful story about how an architect took it upon himself to build a scavenger hunt into one of his client’s apartments, all without telling them. (via kottke.org)

Jun
11th

Wed

re:frame Reframe is bringing together and giving due love to rare independent and alternative films, helping many become commercially available for the very first time.

Here is a 1970’s reminder of a pre-Photoshop montage world. This image is to be included in my new book. Its a single exposure with the model viewed through optical glass at 45º and the fabric positioned to the side. At the time there was zero retouching after the event. Now of course I have the luxury of scanning the transparency to clean and refine the image in Photoshop - God bless its digital socks. (via Sam Haskins Blog » Blog Archive » Pre-Photoshop Image Making)

Jason Kronenwald: A Fresh Pack of Gum Blondes

Comprised solely of chewed gum (all colors are inherent to the gum and mixed in the mouth), every portrait is manipulated onto a plywood surface, and sealed with an epoxy resin for protection and preservation.

Jun
10th

Tue

You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

— J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine

Jun
9th

Mon

Kiss Fist Magazine

Jun
7th

Sat

The Responsibility Project, Presented by Liberty Mutual: Films: “Transit”

Jun
5th

Thu