tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68670152024-03-14T04:57:12.400-05:00PaleInkJanis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-19118567373669767762011-05-05T00:00:00.002-05:002011-09-28T23:47:07.309-05:00I love Paris in the springtime<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some surprises are sweeter than others and this one is pure delight. Delight like plum tart with </span>crème<span style="font-size: small;"> fraiche. And champagne. I am more than silly happy about this.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the last couple weeks, I've been engaged in a reluctant winding down from film fest exhilaration. The circuit is ending. The schedule is slowing. I'm seeing the posters — the new crop of posters for a new series of films. But now we have another screening of Florian Riegel's documentary HOLDING STILL in a place no less glorious than Paris. In an understatement, my spirits are buoyed. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was in Paris a very long time ago. I camped inside the city, not far from the last M<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;">étro</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">, when camping was crude and campers sparse, and I was near a river loaded with noisy construction equipment and I didn't care. It beat a hotel. I froze. I wore every layer of clothing I had, which wasn't much. The weather shouldn't have been more than chilly. It was <i>freezing</i>. My feet decided to itch maddeningly at night. I did not sleep. I rode the avenues on the back of a motorcycle with a Brit nicknamed Curly in the company of a guy whose moniker (sobriquet, eh?) was Hassle Bebop</span><span style="font-size: small;">. My husband was WizKid during those few magical days. Hassle and Curly were returning to London after a sojourn in Spain setting up sound for a rock concert in a cave. All together, we checked out Curly's exhibit in a Parisian gallery. The precise point of the visit was viewing a manquette of an inflatable dwelling. Inflate a room: Enter. Exit: deflate the room. This was an energy conserving home and it was Curly's design. Curly was ahead of his time and brilliant and out of his mind. We were kids </span><span style="font-size: small;"> then </span><span style="font-size: small;">and everything was possible. </span><span style="font-size: small;">I recall also high ceilings from which spun an installation of harlequin metal circus performers. </span><span style="font-size: small;">I saved those photos. Somewhere. We made forays throughout the city and shot and lost rolls of precious film. On our last night together, over a tiny butane grill, I seared at least four lamb chops, boiled new potatoes, and </span><span style="font-size: small;">tumbled </span><span style="font-size: small;">Brussels sprouts in a beurre noisette and served it all to these beautiful, creative, engaging, generous, unshaven, hippie artist/musician/bikers. They thanked me that fourth night for the best meal they ate in that fine city. High praise indeed! I remember it well. You cannot forget what you ate in Paris.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now HOLDING STILL is in competition again at <i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/francedoc2/">FranceDoc</a></b></i></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and screens on</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> Saturday, May 7, 6:00 PM, in the Key Cinema and Wednesday, May 4, 12:00 noon at l' universit</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">y Paris 8.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are in Paris, your schedule is:</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: left;">Samedi 7 mai à 18h au Cinéma La Clef</div><div style="text-align: left;">Mercredi 4 mai à 12h à l'université Paris 8</div></span></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Again we have a super fantastic <b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/54504543/Festival-FranceDoc-Experiences-documentaires-2011">poster</a></b> to grab. Here's the top. Get it!</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSW1cj4GX0N2OY30PXyCMz688BMs8J9KaX6G2lUKJhbSipA5aHWAbr_ErypqHPjDGm6G6JmMfYlmL7c0Lu8nx_KR1f8xmMsqypN88PXpS8x5HkLWus4lOrT2M0KZkFkVoIzvj/s1600/FESTIVAL+DE+CINEMA+FRANCEDOC++EXPERIENCES+DOCUMENTAIRES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSW1cj4GX0N2OY30PXyCMz688BMs8J9KaX6G2lUKJhbSipA5aHWAbr_ErypqHPjDGm6G6JmMfYlmL7c0Lu8nx_KR1f8xmMsqypN88PXpS8x5HkLWus4lOrT2M0KZkFkVoIzvj/s400/FESTIVAL+DE+CINEMA+FRANCEDOC++EXPERIENCES+DOCUMENTAIRES.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">While I'm crowing, I'd like to thank <span style="font-size: small;">David Gerber and </span>Herbie Cassavetes for the memories, memories of Paris, great food and wine, lots of pot, conversation, debate, a zippiest and harrowing ride, late nights, new found friendship, and nicknames. I forget what mine was.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: left;">I give you Hassle Bebop (l), Curly (right), moi (centre) et Paris <span style="font-size: small;">—</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And I thank you for the ride of a lifetime, Florian Riegel. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now, go see HOLDING STILL in Paris! I would.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span></div>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-70243467996399862982010-11-24T13:48:00.002-06:002010-11-24T13:53:14.645-06:00florian riegel. HOLDING STILL<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IQRoEYd54qU?fs=1" width="425"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The film festival circuit 2010 winds down and I get another sweet surprise grazie al <b><a href="http://www.festivaldeipopoli.org/">Festival dei Popoli</a></b>, Florence, Italy. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">As <b><a href="http://missbanshee.com/">Banshee</a></b> would write: ARMFLAIL</div>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-58447463095436040312010-11-08T01:14:00.003-06:002010-11-08T15:32:07.282-06:00I don't like upper case | Ireland, y'all?<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All along I've been writing about "Holding Still" or 'Holding Still' (see the discrete difference, yes?) (single quotes, better than double) because I'm reluctant to use upper case for more than two letters in a row, such as in state abbreviations (recent notables: AK and AZ. AAAK!) and even then, they're rather uncomfortable for me. But I'm using upper case to be proper.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At any rate, Florian Riegel's documentary film HOLDING STILL is screening at the </span><a href="http://www.corkfilmfest.org/"><b>55th</b> </a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.corkfilmfest.org/">Corona Cork Film Festival</a></b> on Tue 09 Nov <span class="pipe">|</span> 11:30am <span class="pipe">|</span> Cork Opera House.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Think about it: a week long festival of 300 films from more than 30 countries. </span>Big films, independent films, international documentaries and short films. <span style="font-size: small;">That's a lot of silver screen, people.</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK, the Cork Opera House. From <b><a href="http://www.corkheritageopenday.ie/thebuildings/culturalbuildings/buildings/mainbody,20054,en.html">Cork Heritage Open Day</a></b>, comes an exceedingly cool photo... I'm borrowing it, please/thank you, because it's the shot I'd take if only I could: </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See! Fantastic architecture and not at all the ancient stone edifice you expected. Yup, I expected that also. There is a wonderful history of the Opera House at the <b><a href="http://www.corkheritageopenday.ie/thebuildings/culturalbuildings/buildings/mainbody,20054,en.html">site</a></b>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">And, hey, I am Irish! Irish enough. Enough to wish I were there (sad that I'm not), at the festival, watching with a slew of other attendees. There's a trailer for HOLDING STILL at the bottom of this page. Go ahead. Scroll down and take a peek.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You <i>could </i>go to Ireland. Or you might actually be there already. And if you happened to snap a photo of a certain film up on that screen, you might shoot me a copy. Now that would be quite wonderful.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So go there. Quick.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">HOLDING STILL screens also as part of<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><a href="http://www.corkfilmfest.org/2010/programmes/163/this-is-our-world" rel="bookmark">This is our World</a></b> on Sun 14 Nov <span class="pipe">|</span> 12:00pm <span class="pipe">|</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Gate Cinema. You have time to get there!</span><br />
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</div>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-23816494826224691512010-10-13T01:47:00.002-05:002010-11-10T02:08:15.951-06:00Travel, or being here and there at the same time<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A friend wrote to me in email:</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: small;"> It's sort of amazing how you're traveling the world and people are looking at you—your life—on nearly a nightly basis, don't you think?</span></i></blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I realize I'd not been thinking. Not like that. And this friend is unique. He thinks in that way for me and asks the salient questions.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So, yes, it is quite amazing that I'm traveling in this way. Thank you for asking.</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">When you truly realize that this life and living is an<br />
absurdity, then you join in the dance. You take part in<br />
this absurdity. The body-mind organism continues to live<br />
in the world, but without any sense of personal doership.</span></span> </div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">— </span><span style="font-size: small;">Ramesh S. Balsekar</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">To be alive, to be able to see, to walk--it's all a miracle.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Arthur Rubinstein</span></blockquote><br />
I remain wide-eyed and dumbfounded about all this accidental wandering. And a whole lot in awe. <br />
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HOLDING STILL, a film by Florian Riegel, is being screened at <b><a href="http://www.duisburger-filmwoche.de/festival10/programm_101103.html#holding">Duisburger Filmwoche 34</a></b> on November 3. It appears I'm going to be traveling again.<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">Die Duisburger Filmwoche ist das Festival des deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilms.</span> The Duisburg Film Week is the festival of the German documentary film.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrd-ASFo5a-um2FwLbv4ysqdhQJzDtSlRZp9dbkyyMheH71j55NfuUfgM1l2QiYH2Du4RNm6L7hxLp_76HO_JufEyI5wLoS87X_YVGB96PneRWykXcViXOLb-31I97BCVokWc/s1600/doxs_logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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</a></div>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-74087614178037826362010-08-02T03:06:00.003-05:002010-08-03T02:03:39.000-05:00DOKUFEST 2010 KOSOVO has begun!<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What are we doing here this week when we could be in Prizren, Kosovo, at the film festival, <i>playing</i>? What I've read about this relatively young but established venue is that it's fun, </span><span style="font-size: small;">delicious, rollicking</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>fun</b>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Major</span><span style="font-size: small;"> content is being added to the <b><a href="http://www.dokufest.com/2010/?cid=2,1">DOKUFEST 2010</a></b> website daily. </span><span style="font-size: small;">'Holding Still' directed by Florian Riegel, with photography by Luciano Cervio, and produced by Ute Dilger, is screening on August 5 (there's still time to get there) and is in competition. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frankly, I'm rather wild about the idea of Kosovo, so indulge me. This all seems quite the adventure. I mean, Kosovo! I'm posting a screen grab of a bit of the schedule way below. Check <b><a href="http://www.dokufest.com/2010/?cid=2,22">here</a></b> for the complete online listing.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've linked to fantastic sites and blogs in the sidebar on the right. Please check them out. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am working with photography. I say this looking at +/- 4,000 new images since I've last posted a photo. We've been busy and distracted on the Gulf Coast, and it's time to be happily productive again. In that spirit, I'm posting provisional, in-progress photos. We're deep into summertime. Kids are in the water, both saline and chlorinated; a friend brings me snapping juicy plums; gulls dive in for fish or crabs or toes. And it's hot. So hot.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>So little of what could happen does happen.</i> — Salvador Dalí</span></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But anything could happen. S</span><span style="font-size: small;">omeone could make the loveliest, most improbable film and surprise you forever. Things happen. What is least likely to happen, sometimes does. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Go. Go. Go!</span></span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-2862890927285836062010-06-23T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-23T01:00:42.194-05:00I'm late! I'm late! I'm STILL HERE at Silverdocs<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Silverdocs, Silver Spring, Md. on Wednesday, June 23 and Thursday, June 24 — midday.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Calendar <span><strong class="bs_title"></strong></span><a href="http://silverdocs.bside.com/2010/films/shortsprogram2stillhere_silverdocs2010"></a><a href="http://silverdocs.bside.com/2010/films/shortsprogram2stillhere_silverdocs2010"><strong class="bs_title">Shorts Program 2: STILL HERE</strong></a><span><strong class="bs_title"></strong></span><strong class="bs_title"></strong> and GO if you live in NYC or DC! It's hot and humid or rainy or too sunny or you just need a break, and these are some dynamite documentaries. Five of them, including Florian Riegel's '<b><a href="http://silverdocs.bside.com/2010/films/holdingstill_silverdocs2010">Holding Still.</a></b>' Remember documentaries? You love them. You know you do. Sweet bites of nectar laden fruit. The glow on the moonstone. Haiku, plural. Halos of flickering cinema. Distillations. And you may be surprised if you attend. Isn't that almost too much?</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Weezer has a cameo. You don't want to miss her. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I would tell Roger Ebert if I were bold or brave. I'm not. But, read this Ebert <b><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/06/tweet_tweet_tweet.html">piece</a></b> and <b><a href="http://sparksheet.com/speaking-through-the-web-qa-with-roger-ebert-part-ii/">this</a></b>. You'll love him, too.</div><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">Imagine me ecstatic. Florian Riegel's film was chosen to screen at SILVERDOCS in <a href="http://silverdocs.bside.com/2010/films/shortsprogram2stillhere_silverdocs2010"><b>SHORTS PROGRAM 2: STILL HERE</b></a> on June 23 at 10:00 PM, AFI Silver Theater 2, and June 24 at 12:00 PM, AFI Silver Theater 1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I remember when we took this photo. It was a year the cicadas appeared. We had spent that sun dappled afternoon with the new camera making time-delay photos of ourselves at the weathered picnic table behind the house. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">As an adult, t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">here are few bugs you care to play with. The ones that you might indulge on a wine soaked afternoon are vestiges of childhood — ladybugs, lightning bugs, crickets. Or shells of cicadas, the crackling remains of the insects snagged from trees. We played with them that day. Somewhere there are photos of me with exoskeletons stuck on my cheeks, climbing my arms, tangled in my hair. <br />
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Cicadas are noisy, the males outdoing the females by virtue of a body built for amplification of sound. Cicadas like heat, and that summer in Texas we had heat. An excess of heat. We were hotter than we needed to be. We were young. I have the photos to prove it.<br />
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Florian Riegel's short film '<b><a href="http://silverdocs.bside.com/2010/films/holdingstill_silverdocs2010">Holding Still</a></b>' has been chosen for competition at Silverdocs in Silver Spring, Maryland, this June. This film is a testament to that summer's heat and the personal fallout from that incendiary season. Thank you again, Florian, for documenting the lightning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you're in NYC or Washington DC or <i>anywhere</i>, come see this film. You're invited.</span><br />
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</span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-84232852149499968412010-05-28T02:01:00.002-05:002011-04-24T11:31:04.279-05:00Short Notice: Visit Krakow, Poland in June 2010! KFF | Krakow Film Festival<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I am partial to '<b><a href="http://www.kff.com.pl/en/films/in_competition/76/holding_still">Holding Still</a></b>' with its other-worldly hiss-pop music, and I am exceedingly fond of director Florian Riegel. I understand Krakow, Poland is quite the place to be. So....</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Established in 1961 as a national short film competition, KFF is the oldest film festival in Poland. Given the planet's history in the last several decades, how did it do that? How did it persist? Must have been passion. The current iteration is an international festival dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Check it out: this <b><a href="http://www.kff.com.pl/en/festival/about_festival">event</a></b> is a survivor, and t</span>he city is ready for a party. They're celebrating their 50th!</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florian Riegel's documentary film '<b><a href="http://www.kff.com.pl/en/films/in_competition/76/holding_still">Holding Still</a></b>' is in competition on June 3 at Mikro Cinema at 16:30 and on June 5 at Kujów.Centrum Cinema at 10:00.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The logo is cool as all getout. (I'm learning the awards are about creatures and critters and dragons and such — <i>raar</i>.)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you're in Poland (and who isn't?), make plans to enjoy a week or so in and out of the dark. Do you remember real documentaries and love short films and animation? They still have them. <i>In Krakow.</i> Go now! Step into the flickering light.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-44515554708773237382010-05-08T00:29:00.009-05:002011-09-29T00:11:13.247-05:00We have a WINNER!<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><blockquote><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/metanavigation/press/press-releases/latest/the-winners-of-the-56th-festival.html"><b><span lang="EN-GB">First Prize of the NRW Competition</span></b></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">1,000 euros, sponsored by the NRW.Bank</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span>Holding Still</b></span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florian Riegel </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Germany 2010, 26 min 30 sec, HDCAM, colour </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Statement:</span></span> </div><div style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">A film that develops its narrative slowly. Edited to reveal nothing predictable, it takes its audience right into the tensions of a moving story that gradually unfolds to achieve its full power. The fact that the author takes up this story and the way he does it, even though he came across it by chance, is testimony to his ability to recognise an impressive subject and treat it with respect. A thoughtful cinematography steers us through its own images and the protagonist’s, which are her means of access to her world via her laptop. At the end, the perspective expands once more to include the outside world and gives us a moment of respite</span>.</span></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Cross your fingers as well.</span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-5268256332631690372010-04-22T12:54:00.004-05:002010-04-27T17:15:02.058-05:00Short Film Festival | Oberhausen Germany TONIGHT<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you will be in Oberhausen, don't miss the Festival. (How could you?) And please don't miss 'Holding Still.' Florian Riegel has made a lovely film.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
From Different Perspectives:</div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Those who hold still do not necessarily see less - they see things differently. The slowdown allows us to peek beneath the surface of the visible world."</span></blockquote><br />
Go!Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-44673220985705059432010-04-21T17:38:00.001-05:002011-09-29T01:46:51.927-05:00'Holding Still' a film by Florian Riegel — tomorrow night<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florian Riegel's short film, 'Holding Still,' is screening again at the ShortFilm / <a href="http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/index.php?id=2147&L=2">Kurtzfilm Festival</a> in Oberhausen, Germany on Thursday, April 22. <i>Tomorrow</i>. So, if you happen to be in Germany and have a little free time, try to see this short film. Really try! Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders and Gerhard Schröder praise this venue.</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BONUS: I love this part. Kurtzfilm / Oberhausen has one of the most fantastic bizarro posters ever. You can download a high resolution image <a href="http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/fileadmin/Kurzfilmtage/Kurzfilmtage_2010/pressebilder/KFO_Visual_100x150_gro%C3%9F.jpg">right here!</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Get it quick. They're going fast. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"> A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She navigates a Magic Carpet.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">It's a holiday town on St. Patty's Day, so we ate corned beef and cabbage with the wind at our back, of course.</span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-8353603806362103672010-01-31T15:49:00.015-06:002011-09-29T02:07:46.702-05:00"Holding Still" | a film by Florian Riegel<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is something daunting about writing here, about writing what has happened and what has been said in private. What was disclosed so quietly has been made so public.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have personal stories you might never tell. Who would you tell? Who would listen? How close to the bone dare you go? <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you trust someone, if you believe they will not pervert your truth, if you believe they are not unlike you in your better and worse moments, if you believe they possess exceptional tools and insights, you might tell things you'd never told in this way before.<br />
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And this was the case when I spoke my stories and treasures and secrets into the microphone, forgetting the microphone, because I trusted my audience-of-one who hadn't come looking for this story at all. But a <i><b><a href="http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/holding-still/">film</a></b></i> which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam was born of it.</span><br />
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Just so you know — My trust was not misplaced. I wish I had fed you heartily. I wish we drank all the coffee in the world. I wish you had smoked like crazy in my room. I wish I were in <st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rotterdam</st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city> right now.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Thank you, Florian Riegel<span style="color: #3333ff;">.</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-77954508655518761552009-12-31T22:31:00.000-06:002009-12-31T22:31:19.389-06:00In appreciation of a New Year's Eve blue moon...<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">...and anticipation of a stellar 2010...<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">...we'll enjoy traditional Hoppin' Johns + Bloody Marys + collards + corn bread (with bacon) (and Irish butter) with a houseful of friends.<br />
</div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><blockquote>Once in a blue moon it all goes away. The clouds clear.... <i>[You can </i><i>make up the rest for yourself and just </i><i>hum; it's a good song] </i><br />
</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">—Randy Prentice<br />
</blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the <i>Miami Herald</i>, my old hometown newspaper...<br />
</div><h5 class="storyPublishDate" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Posted on Thursday, 12.31.09</h5><h2 class="kicker" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NEW YEAR'S EVE</span></h2><h1 class="storyHeadline" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/1404075.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Rare blue moon will illuminate skies on New Year's Eve</span></a></h1><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><h3 class="byline">BY SUSANNAH BRYAN</h3><h3 class="credit_line">Sun Sentinel</h3>When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, remember to do one thing: Look up. A full moon will be shining down from its highest point, illuminating the landscape.<br />
``It will be so clear it will take your breath away,'' said Jack Horkheimer, host of the PBS show <i>Star Gazer</i>. ``It will be super bright and super high for us.'' <br />
It will be the second full moon of the month -- a phenomenon known as a ``blue moon.'' A full moon on New Year's Eve last occurred on Dec. 31, 1990; it won't happen again until 2028. <br />
Horkheimer, 71, held a ``Howl at the Full Moon'' party 19 years ago for families with kids in his Miami neighborhood. <br />
``They came in their bath robes and pajamas,'' he said. <br />
``It was the most fun New Year's Eve I ever had in my life. Those children are now adults, and they still remember it.''<br />
Horkheimer encourages families to ring in 2010 in similar fashion. <br />
</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those who do can send photos or videos toStarGazerHowlIn@gmail.com. Twelve winners will receive a new telescope. <br />
</blockquote><h1 class="storyHeadline" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I remember Jack Horkheimer from Miami Space Transit Planetarium.</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Whoa.</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b></h1><h1 class="storyHeadline" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Best wishes for a Brand New Year, y'all!</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<big><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> It is the</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> in the sunset.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> - Crowfoot, 1890</span></span></span></big><br />
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</div>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-71099622124693339542009-10-18T01:20:00.015-05:002010-04-21T17:54:28.453-05:00Fewer than 70°<div style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the sheets are flannel. Everyone is pulling on sweaters at the beach.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9u3Sr-7s_ljYO-c1a0pvZEQabYi4s9vInzccQrsKwpguwM5sQjTpnWyT5y53OVJp5H70bQaPobMq8HHD3oNFPgvJYb6BFXvUM1WbRjBUknueas_-o571yb46WR_b1EUa9GB3o/s1600-h/flannel_sheets2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9u3Sr-7s_ljYO-c1a0pvZEQabYi4s9vInzccQrsKwpguwM5sQjTpnWyT5y53OVJp5H70bQaPobMq8HHD3oNFPgvJYb6BFXvUM1WbRjBUknueas_-o571yb46WR_b1EUa9GB3o/s640/flannel_sheets2.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People are eating filet mignon in lieu of shrimp...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBodWeT7cQKcMLNXd7HTK8kIGOgbjvmB5JfOPoG95tEqxyrt3voTIei4QnIkJcccPg3wivJcOS-WFtXLwQI9q4zCN_x79qEPPR9L87YJNZdSq4uT3xbgdcGgDHAhFEiPeAnl3/s1600-h/filet_mignon2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBodWeT7cQKcMLNXd7HTK8kIGOgbjvmB5JfOPoG95tEqxyrt3voTIei4QnIkJcccPg3wivJcOS-WFtXLwQI9q4zCN_x79qEPPR9L87YJNZdSq4uT3xbgdcGgDHAhFEiPeAnl3/s640/filet_mignon2.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">....and reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You could eat 15 bean soup. Acorn squash + olive oil + butter + garlic + salt/pepper. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Cranberry scones. Feisty Rooibos chai from <b><a href="http://www.pekoesiphouse.com/teas.html">Pekoe Sip House</a></b> (order by phone). Walnut halves in a cast iron skillet + butter + kosher salt. Cauliflower gratin. Roasted beet salad. Risotto with winter squash. Roasted asparagus + parmigiano reggiano with scrambled eggs. Pan seared scallops. Sweet potatoes + sour cream + caramelized onions. Rustic fruit tarts. Toasted marshmallows. The ultimate: <b><a href="http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/2005/04/david_eyres_pan.html" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">David Eyre's Pancake</a></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">. Look at the photos. You'll need to make this. And then you'll need to make it again.<br />
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</span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-67202977854436490422009-10-11T01:48:00.004-05:002010-04-05T01:53:03.246-05:00Into the night<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Welcome to the neighborhood. It was an old ragtop flying through this October night.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Friday, Oct. 18, 1963</span> <br />
<h1 style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Books: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873803,00.html">Regarde</a></span></h1><div style="font-family: georgia;"></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE BLUE LANTERN by Colette. 161 pages. Farrar, Straus. $3.95. </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The last word uttered by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on her deathbed in Paris in 1954 was "regarde." To her, it meant to look, feel, wonder, accept, live. For all her 81 years she obeyed that injunction with an immense, daylight sense of reality and a pagan delight in the sensuous experiences that delivered the world to her mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work—a moving but unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"></span>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-50083582065325276182009-08-01T02:35:00.007-05:002009-08-23T02:04:07.997-05:00Sweltering on the Florida Panhandle....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholsjpiQ71co09C7dIwWR6ee2cV8eLNu_8TZUGdFDwX7mzlclKi2Mq54Ah4XaYigtWuAMV60xPwVW_4Ku1pNQWYFxlc02oKS8mUb6ooeFNeoBYcmvW9G-f8Jq7H329-oeGV6WC/s1600-h/heat_crop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 353px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholsjpiQ71co09C7dIwWR6ee2cV8eLNu_8TZUGdFDwX7mzlclKi2Mq54Ah4XaYigtWuAMV60xPwVW_4Ku1pNQWYFxlc02oKS8mUb6ooeFNeoBYcmvW9G-f8Jq7H329-oeGV6WC/s400/heat_crop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368594858474211058" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span class="indquote_link"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo: Fred Sawyer</span><br /></span></span><blockquote><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span class="indquote_link"><br />Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. </span></span> <div id="authortab" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> —<span class="author_text">John Berger<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div></blockquote>Janis Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891688447413621107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6867015.post-88477431643004095482009-07-19T21:32:00.020-05:002009-09-22T19:02:27.290-05:00Bowl, hairline fracture<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
I photographed the gardenia for a week as it swam and shrunk and migrated to the far side of the bowl. And then I saw the crack that said I now had only 3 usable, intact iterations of this favorite white vessel. I must have an odd number of everything now. Stemware, silver, linen napkins become gossamer</span>... </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">It's that we keep what we love as it matures and eventually comes undone. We're all bruised and fractured and cracked. It's how we stay interesting.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-Df4Se-FHBHeK5dUgcRwm_bZAK3NclqRyK0HUnO8GENz4yWIX6HKN5rv2pPjtVy7GmLmqag2B9CX6nAlySoE7nxzwfJMyTLRbQWoSQiHutExV9dAMkDJ8rl7DgNK7Xs7XmlW/s1600-h/crack_in_the_bowl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360366190213452434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-Df4Se-FHBHeK5dUgcRwm_bZAK3NclqRyK0HUnO8GENz4yWIX6HKN5rv2pPjtVy7GmLmqag2B9CX6nAlySoE7nxzwfJMyTLRbQWoSQiHutExV9dAMkDJ8rl7DgNK7Xs7XmlW/s400/crack_in_the_bowl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<dl style="font-family: georgia;"><dd><span style="font-size: small;">When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-size: small;">damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-size: small;">that when something's suffered damage and has a history it</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-size: small;">becomes more beautiful.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</dd><dd><span style="font-size: small;"> — <a href="http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3639327/k.8366/Barbara_Bloom.htm">Barbara Bloom</a></span>
</dd></dl><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;">On my dentist's advice, I once had a porcelain crown replaced with gold.</span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;">My dentist told me the gold crown was softer and would last longer. It did.</span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;">Bend. Don't break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This flower, not better. Just earlier. Younger. Lying over the crack.</span></span><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;">If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.<br />
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;"> Edward Bulwer-Lytton</span></span><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Too serious?</span><br />
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</span> </span><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;">In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner.<br />
If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's<br />
on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak<br />
with an accent.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">— </span><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;">Roman Polanski<br />
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True.<br />
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