Broken Embraces

Watched the new Pedro Almodovar film, Broken Embraces. It was very enjoyable (not counting the woman with stinky perfume sitting next to me for over 2 hrs. yuck!) Back when she was trying to be an American star and was dating/married to Tom Cruise (?) I couldn't stand Penelope Cruz, but under Almodovar's loving lens and attention she really shines (although I thought she was good in Vicky Cristina Barcelona also) which is good because Broken Embraces is pretty much all about her. The film is layered with multiple characters and the storyline isn't linear which shouldn't be new to any fan of Almodovar's.

Here's a synopsis from the film's website:

The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour fou”, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.

I'm a survivor

Spacious Thoughts

been running across really kool animation lately. this one has been making the rounds because of the music of Kool Keith and Tom Waits which is actually completely uninteresting in this video. for me, the merit is in the incredible future forward animation done by Fluorescent Hill.

freaky

this is some sports I can get into

This video is AWESOME. It's about Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Dock Ellis and a game in which he pitched a no hitter while flying high on LSD and various uppers. Not only is it a funny story, but the animation by James Blagden, is just wonderful and fresh and exciting. A true pleasure to watch.

bellies full of plastic

I came across these amazing photos by a guy named Chris Jordan of dead baby albatross birds. Apparently the birds parents feed them plastic, thinking its food, and then the birds die from obvious complications. the content matter is very sad and generates alot of thought about humans and their responsibility/impact on nature. if you detach from the content, the pix are visually beautiful in a strange exotic way. from the artist's statement:

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

random Fall

I'm being watched.

this was right outside the subway entrance of my stop.

hilarious.

seems like just yesterday I was taking pix of the first burst of green

in Central Park and now I'm taking pix of everything dying. sads.

at least Fall is colorful that's the compromise I guess.

get ready for grey, grey and more grey for the next 6 months. yeah!