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d posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 26 2006 posted under entertainment and culture comments 5 comments three colors cezanne 2006 marks the centennial of the death of paul cezanne and it also marks the year that i finally got a long coveted documentary about the man and his work three colors cezanne this is a wonderful film in equal parts survey of his work discussion of particulars of some of his major canvases and a biographical sketch it s only a sketch because as the many artists and historians point out not much is known about cezanne beyond a few dates and some supposition an intensely private man he found the company of other people very uncomfortable and preferred to work in solitude there s some freudian speculation about his fear of women informing some of his early work which is robust dark and dramatic and frequently deals with colossal nudes and violent acts he returned to some of these themes late in life in fact using some of the sketches he had made of the old masters when he was a young man visiting the louvre freudian speculation i can take it s one of those things you can listen to and either ignore or believe but it rarely affects the perception of the work in question and the works in question are masterpieces of landscape and still life the various experts do a very good job of illuminating the themes and methods underlying these works which amazingly does not diminish their power instead where i once saw vague hints of future art schools in his work now they re right there in the open as obvious as the nose on uh my face his still life images always seemed to me like they were being upended on me as i looked at them and it s pointed out how he used different perspectives the raison d etre of cubism within the same canvas this film showed me things i had not seen before what more can one ask of any movie image and sound are excellent throughout and there are lots of his canvases on display as well as photographs and other archival material one trick that was employed only a few times was the presentation of a landscape with cezanne s canvas suddenly superimposed on it i d have liked to see more of that but that s a very minor quibble cezanne can probably be safely considered the first modern artist by which i mean the artist who wanted to put his own thoughts and feelings and impressions on the canvas and chose paint to make his point without first developing the painterly skills of the old masters he admired saying i think for the first time the heck with making things people might like this is what i want on this canvas because his ideas and vision outweighed his artistic shortcomings which are debatable if they exist at all his art transcends narcissism pity the same can t be said about those who followed in his footsteps who saw the self expression part as the most important aspect of being an artist but that s a rant for another time this past july while in new york i visited the museum of modern art and saw a dual exhibition of cezanne and his friend and contemporary camille pissarro these were canvases that the two did while traveling together this film brings the memories of those works back vividly highly recommended this review brought to you in part by f r angel to whom it is dedicated standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 26 2006 posted under nothing much and the rest comments 1 comment it s all true space the image tuesday s post below was created using truespace an animation program from caligari systems everything in it other than the photographs was created natively ie i didn t have to import any outside graphics or textures other than the photographs i ve been using truespace for years and i like the program a lot i haven t done a lot of animation with it but it s great for creating still images too considering the price of most computer animation software it s relatively inexpensive of course you can get a learner s version of alias maya for free i currently use version 4 3 of truespace they just released version 7 will i upgrade maybe one of the things i dislike about software upgrades is the fact that they give the user interface guy free reign i actually own truespace 5 2 but i never use it why because none of the damn buttons can be found where i m used to finding them when i upgraded from 3 it took me weeks to find everything again and i honestly find that tiring i can almost hear the ui guy a new version cool i ll move all the menu commands to different areas it ll be great and i can say i ve earned my keep honestly what s the point of changing the menus add new menus if you re adding new features cough well sorry about that folks anyway you can download trial versions of caligari s stuff and see if you like it too and i m not affiliated with them so i won t see a penny update one of the animations i did is here if you re interested it s a big file over two and a half megs so right clicking and saving to is recommended standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 24 2006 posted under digital art mental physical or financial state comments 3 comments not quite dead well it has been a while hasn t it as the title cleverly makes clear for those of you who might have thought i had died in vain or in milk i m not quite dead i think i could pull through in fact actually i think i m all right to come with you sir really i feel fine ah well i ll just wait here for a bit then well the bad news is i didn t find the grail the good news is hang on a moment inspected by number 34 damn wore the wrong pants again i m hoping to have things to say shortly but for the moment i think i must have left them in my other pants as well that s rather the problem with pants isn t it not that i m suggesting the alternative standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 13 2006 posted under mental physical or financial state random or unexpected comments 8 comments chu chu chu ha ha ha i don t consider myself a terribly superstitious person but that s a subjective viewpoint and someone else might look at me and think very differently or they might look at me and think i think that guy owes me money i don t though one of the things that does seem to bother me though is the number thirteen when swimming i go faster between laps twelve and fourteen and when doing miles on the treadmill i always plan the day s work so that i don t end on thirteen and here it is friday the thirteenth i think i read somewhere that thirteen was originally considered unlucky because there were thirteen people at the last supper and we all know where that led otherwise i don t have a clue i could look it up on the internet i suppose and laugh at my primitive foolishness but where s the fun in that besides it wouldn t be funny for the other people like the ones who think i owe them money they don t seem to think anything s funny though standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 8 2006 posted under nothing much and the rest random or unexpected comments 7 comments the 600 series had rubber skin we spotted them easy though i appear to scorn all appearance of vanity i should confess that i m not entirely immune so i have it set up here that when comments are left they re then emailed to me it gives me a nice reassuring feeling to know that i do in fact exist consequently i was a bit non plussed to receive a comment thanking me for my writings on gold nuggets informing me that the commentor had his own site dealing with gold nuggets and finishing by saying that while i was not exactly helpful in his quest he found my blog interesting enough to add it to his bookmarks before he had to move on in his endeavor normally that sounds like a spam comment doesn t it i have however turned word verification on which leads me to two conclusions the word verification thing has been cracked at last or this was a genuine commentor adding evidence to the former case was the fact that i couldn t remember ever writing anything about gold nuggets but i went though some entries until i found the one where the comment was left my way overlong ruminations on spirited away s no face who could produce gold nuggets from his hands a ha so perhaps this was a legitimate comment after all using my computer at work i m not much of a fool i looked at the chap s profile which led me to his blog there was a single entry there about a particular kind of gold which was rather interesting i have to admit along with the same link to his website which i was not going to go to i also noted that he had comments on this entry clicking to see if they were something along the lines of stop spamming my blog i instead discovered two comments both exact duplicates of the one i had received on my entry including the bit about how the info wasn t here wasn t helpful so he was going to move on after bookmarking posted an hour apart from each other well mr gold nugget i certainly wish you well in your endeavors i hope you don t end up like fred c dobbs remember to ask about badges but if you re a genuine commentor and not a malevolent robot you really should learn to write a bit less mechanically and perhaps make a couple of variants yes yes i know the answer just get off my back just stay off my back will you get off my back don t you just hate people who have to make movie references all the time i do standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 5 2006 posted under entertainment and culture random or unexpected comments 2 comments normally i don t indulge i m not a big fan of blonde jokes but as far as they go steven den beste links to one that s pretty good made me laugh anyway standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 4 2006 posted under entertainment and culture comments 2 comments and back 2005 last year seemed to be a banner year for me as i saw thirteen films in the theatre usually it s about half that number did it help well let s go see note i m not counting 2005 stuff i saw on dvd like hitch or charlie and the chocolate factory are we there yet okay kid s comedy not really aimed at me funny at times but remarkable for its predictability batman begins a lot of people loved this one i admired it but it was too cold for me to really get involved like the last christopher nolan movie i saw memento it seemed more like a technical exercise than a story still it was fun in spots and had the right tone not as good as the cartoons though chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe excellent really classic storytelling where the film makers aren t ashamed to believe in the world they ve crafted though long it never feels that way i d love to see the next one corpse bride do i need to say anything my favorite movie of the year like last year s sky captain it seemed personally made just for me and i responded as i rarely do at the movies yeah i already have it on pre order fantastic four a shrug movie didn t do much for me though i enjoyed it while i watched it i wonder why the makers of live action comic book films have such a compulsion to screw with the core elements doctor doom in this case animators like those responsible for batman the animated series are able to stick to the core elements and make terrific entertainment why can t live action movie makers i would suspect that the animators just want to tell the story while the live action guys feel that it s not their project unless they can put their stamp on it ie screw it up harry potter and the goblet of fire all the harry potter movies are great this one no exception like narnia not embarrassed to believe in the fantasy without a lot of self satisfied in jokes and poke in the ribs film references and an admirable job of compression a lot of it was better than the book though necessarily less rich with detail thank god they didn t have the damned elves king kong i kind of liked it though it didn t really fire my imagination better than a lot of summer fare but too long i really lost patience with it toward the end i was tired of it and just wanted it to be over it s much harder to remake a classic film than it is to remake a failure there are so many expectations brought to it by both film makers and audiences still a good film i guess land of the dead another shrug movie though very watchable probably the summer film i liked the most considering the competition that s not high praise madagascar a kid s comedy again not really aimed at me i found many parts of it funny but the energy level was set at feverous and it started to become exhausting serenity yet another shrug movie though better than the others i liked it i thought it was smart and fun and it didn t seem to hurt that i hadn t seen the tv show it was spun off of i did sort of feel like i was overhearing a private conversation though dumbest title of the year star wars iii revenge of the sith good grief charlie brown another shrug movie this whole second trilogy really went downhill after phantom menace there s a slide it began to seem like a series of jeopardy questions he started out as a young slave child and ding who is darth vader or as i mentioned in my review at the time the first fan fic movie ever made by professionals wallace and gromit in the curse of the were rabbit lots and lots of fun clever thoughtful admirable hilarious appealing on many levels probably my second favorite film of the year war of the worlds i bought this on dvd when it came out thinking it couldn t have been as bad as i remembered and i was right it s worse i honestly don t think steven spielberg has any idea of what makes a story work to him i would suspect everything is the shot either that or he was bored out of his mind making this movie easily the worst 2005 movie i saw what s coming up for 2006 films i ll see m night shyalaman s lady in the water david lynch s inland empire i m a big fan of these guy s work even at their worst there s an intelligence and a vision to their films that i rarely see elsewhere christopher guest s for your consideration sure his films are all the same thing but they make be laugh like a fool love that title snakes on a plane i heard samuel l jackson signed on just because of the title damn john carter of mars in the hands of robert rodriguez or kerry conran i d be there in a heartbeat jon favreau wait for the dvd if then the books are a lot of fun and this should be too but i dunno i d want to be sure before i stood in line mmmmmaybe the third x men movie yawn another superman movie not really interested aqua teen hunger force the movie love the athf but a whole movie of that the new pirates of the carribean movie kind of liked the first one pixar s cars they usually make good stuff but the appeal varies everything else is either remakes sequels or tv shows sometimes all at once i may save some money this year looks like standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 2 2006 posted under entertainment and culture comments 1 comment 2006 forward 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