Top Posts of 2009
What’s the point of having a blog if you don’t post lists? And what’s the point of early January if you don’t compile a “best” or “most popular” list? So, in keeping with the insular nature of this blog, here … Continued
Visionary?
My Google alerts notified me of this very good article about an exhibit of Paolo Soleri’s work. But when I read the tagline, I had to smile: “Visionary architect unveils ecological architecture designs.” If you Google “visionary+Soleri” you’ll get more … Continued
“Will You Finish It in Your Lifetime?”
Sometime during the fourth year of production of A Life’s Work I recognized how long this film was going to take to complete and a joke was born: I’m making a film about people who may not complete their work … Continued
Not What Has Yet to Be Done, But What Has Been Done
In an earlier post, I showed a clip of the sample that featured Frank Lloyd Wright and his apprentice Paolo Soleri. Here’s a quote from Phoenix-based architect Will Bruder, who did an apprenticeship with Soleri in 1967. I learned about … Continued
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Just the other day Christopher Schon, a friend from across the pond, left a comment on the Facebook Fan Page of A Life’s Work. “When will this be out … ?” Christopher is not the first, nor will he be … Continued
Paolo Soleri at Dome House: A Clip
In October 2006, Wolfgang Held and I flew to Arizona to interview Paolo Soleri. While we were there Soleri visited his first commission, Dome House, in Cave Creek, AZ. I was told that his trip there was something of a … Continued
The Right Image
I’ve been revamping the A Life’s Work web site recently and that has me thinking about still images that represent the moving image that is my film. If I had to choose one image for a poster,* what would it … Continued
What Was I Thinking?
I recently watched “The Making of Touch the Sound,” one of the extras on Thomas Riedelsheimer’s film about percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In it Riedelsheimer reveals that he envisioned the staged improvisational musical segments between Glennie and composer Fred Frith to … Continued
“What the Hey Were You Doing in Chicago?” Part 4
Forgetting things, apparently. Such as a release from the person I went there to see. I hustled to get releases from everyone else, from the people in Captain’s Hard Time Restaurant, from the employees and shoppers at Hyde Park Records, … Continued
Little Red Dots
I have these stickers, they’re little red dots. They look like this: When I capture a tape (that is, put the miniDV tape in a deck and transfer that digital information to one of my external hard drives so that … Continued