September 2011
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jennilee:
chantal akerman - la chambre (1972)
16mm, colour, silent
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"The Paris you loved is dead"
…a friend [René de Chochor] said to me while we were having lunch in a luxurious restaurant in New York.
-the first line of “Paris Revisited,” late memoirs of Anaïs Nin, edited by Karl Orend.
One year ago today, I arrived in Paris with two overweight suitcases and the crumpled address of a Couchsurfing host in Montreuil. The memory of my first few weeks in France blend into a...
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Decomposition: The process in which the traditional cultural forms have...
– A Situationist International definition, 1958.
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Petrichor →
(wonderful word of the week)
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Antonio split the spines of books, spilling leaves of Austen and Cervantes,...
– an excerpt from the prologue of The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia.
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(I love having photographer friends.)
kimathomas:
I’m moving my blog to here:
http://kimathomasblog.squarespace.com
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Herzog wrote,
Will never understand what women want. What do they want? They...
– One of Moses Herzog’s proverbs from the novel, Herzog by Saul Bellow.
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A companion to Teenage Head
Someday you’ll remember me, and picture my face.
A few years ago, these lyrics were playing through my little Toyota speakers when a van crashed into the back of my car. It was my first accident. It happened in Rutland, a less respected - but often under-appreciated - area of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Kelowna is my hometown and my current location for the next few years while I...
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