#lowery lens

[world-cinema-research]

The Green Knight (2021)

by Jacob Christopher

The movie I chose to rewatch for week one of class is The Green Knight (2021) directed by David Lowrey, a cinematic readaptation of the 14th century poem of the Arthurian tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The story follows that of the nephew of King Arthur, Sir Gawain played by Dev Patel, and his quest for honor in order to please his lineage. Accepting the challenge of the mysterious Green Knight on Christmas day to strike him with a blow, on the condition that Gawain must seek him out a year later to receive an equal blow in return. The film explores themes of honor, destiny, and mortality as Gawain embarks on a perilous journey filled with encounters that test his character and courage. It's praised for its stunning visuals, atmospheric storytelling, and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition. The impact left on me was more so the curiosity left from the end of the film, left wondering what it was that captivated my attention. 

The indie film is a financial success considering the budget of 15 million compared to the grossed 20 million worldwide and 3 million in the home market. Arguments can be made looking at the box office opening night of just under 7 million isn't considered an impressive metric. However looking at the historical context, for an indie movie to be released during the covid-19 pandemic many restrictions for public safety were still implemented. To add inclination for people to view the film the production studio known as A24 acts as a seal of theatrical approval for audiences. Despite being based on a pre-established text, the obscurity of it’s age doesn’t exactly tempt the audience with it’s popularity. What differentiates The Green Knight from prior medieval films is the usage of it’s psychological horror and abstract cinematography to add a sense of surrealism to it’s story. A24 before releasing the film released a video on YouTube titled as An Oral History of the Green Knight to engage audiences as well as act as a guide for background and historical context for the film. The critical response for the film has remained the same with the film’s popularity peaking during it’s theater release.

Only adding to it’s strength, the unconventionality of the film drew in many to witness and marvel at the almost confusing film.Rather than focusing solely on chivalry and heroism, the film delves into themes of mortality, honor, and the nature of destiny, offering a more introspective take on the Arthurian legend. Combined with director David Lowery's visual storytelling, blending elements of fantasy and realism, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that sets it apart from typical historical dramas. Taking a non-linear approach to storytelling, often meandering through dream sequences and nonlinear timelines for a muddied lens of fantasy and realism it challenges that of conventional narrative structures. Instead embracing ambiguity and symbolism, leaving much more to be open to interpretation. The meaning of certain events and characters is left intentionally vague to invitie viewers to engage in deeper analysis. This movie has it all, etching itself into the A24 vault as arguably one of their most fascinating films. 

My first viewing of this film I was puzzled and amused by the creativity and storytelling capabilities expressed. I watched half of it, rewinded it, went to bed and watched the rest in the morning with my roommate with bowls of cereal in hand. By the ending scene I was left in awe of how well written it was, and when the credits had started rolling the two of us sat in silence for what felt like minutes. Before my rewatching of the film once more I had done more research on the intricaciesof the film and the Arthurian poem of Sir Gawian and the Green Knight. With one of the bigger questions of the purpose and symbolism of the Green Knight himself being answered by one of the commonly agreed on interpretaions. Being the Green Knight is an embodiment of Nature and the cycle of life itself, and the actions Gawian takes againt the Green Knight exposes his human nature and all of it’s blemishes. The poem is a much more cheery tale of bravery and the heroics of what is expected of a knight.

The quote I chose to embody the film is by Essel, a woman from the lower class of society as well as the lover of Gawain, asking Gawain before his venture to find the Green Knight and seek his fate, “Why Greatness? Why is goodness not enough?” It is within this dialogue we find the message of the film. What is honor if not an excuse to run from your own humanity?

#Youtube

[banananutmilk]

The Green Knight (2021)

by Jacob Christopher

The movie I chose to rewatch for week one of class is The Green Knight (2021) directed by David Lowrey, a cinematic readaptation of the 14th century poem of the Arthurian tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The story follows that of the nephew of King Arthur, Sir Gawain played by Dev Patel, and his quest for honor in order to please his lineage. Accepting the challenge of the mysterious Green Knight on Christmas day to strike him with a blow, on the condition that Gawain must seek him out a year later to receive an equal blow in return. The film explores themes of honor, destiny, and mortality as Gawain embarks on a perilous journey filled with encounters that test his character and courage. It's praised for its stunning visuals, atmospheric storytelling, and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition. The impact left on me was more so the curiosity left from the end of the film, left wondering what it was that captivated my attention. 

The indie film is a financial success considering the budget of 15 million compared to the grossed 20 million worldwide and 3 million in the home market. Arguments can be made looking at the box office opening night of just under 7 million isn't considered an impressive metric. However looking at the historical context, for an indie movie to be released during the covid-19 pandemic many restrictions for public safety were still implemented. To add inclination for people to view the film the production studio known as A24 acts as a seal of theatrical approval for audiences. Despite being based on a pre-established text, the obscurity of it’s age doesn’t exactly tempt the audience with it’s popularity. What differentiates The Green Knight from prior medieval films is the usage of it’s psychological horror and abstract cinematography to add a sense of surrealism to it’s story. A24 before releasing the film released a video on YouTube titled as An Oral History of the Green Knight to engage audiences as well as act as a guide for background and historical context for the film. The critical response for the film has remained the same with the film’s popularity peaking during it’s theater release.

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Only adding to it’s strength, the unconventionality of the film drew in many to witness and marvel at the almost confusing film. Rather than focusing solely on chivalry and heroism, the film delves into themes of mortality, honor, and the nature of destiny, offering a more introspective take on the Arthurian legend. Combined with director David Lowery's visual storytelling, blending elements of fantasy and realism, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that sets it apart from typical historical dramas. Taking a non-linear approach to storytelling, often meandering through dream sequences and nonlinear timelines for a muddied lens of fantasy and realism it challenges that of conventional narrative structures. Instead embracing ambiguity and symbolism, leaving much more to be open to interpretation. The meaning of certain events and characters is left intentionally vague to invitie viewers to engage in deeper analysis. This movie has it all, etching itself into the A24 vault as arguably one of their most fascinating films. 

My first viewing of this film I was puzzled and amused by the creativity and storytelling capabilities expressed. I watched half of it, rewinded it, went to bed and watched the rest in the morning with my roommate with bowls of cereal in hand. By the ending scene I was left in awe of how well written it was, and when the credits had started rolling the two of us sat in silence for what felt like minutes. Before my rewatching of the film once more I had done more research on the intricaciesof the film and the Arthurian poem of Sir Gawian and the Green Knight. With one of the bigger questions of the purpose and symbolism of the Green Knight himself being answered by one of the commonly agreed on interpretaions. Being the Green Knight is an embodiment of Nature and the cycle of life itself, and the actions Gawian takes againt the Green Knight exposes his human nature and all of it’s blemishes. The poem is a much more cheery tale of bravery and the heroics of what is expected of a knight.

The quote I chose to embody the film is by Essel, a woman from the lower class of society as well as the lover of Gawain, asking Gawain before his venture to find the Green Knight and seek his fate, “Why Greatness? Why is goodness not enough?” It is within this dialogue we find the message of the film. What is honor if not an excuse to run from your own humanity?

#Youtube

[very-grownup]

I watched a movie made in this century and everyone is very impressed

On Friday I watched 2021's THE GREEN KNIGHT. I really liked it! I had a good time! I am not a person who knows or understands movies, particularly contemporary movies (whereas when I'm having attacks of confidence, I can usually acknowledge I have Some book knowledge)!

I did, however, do a seminar in medieval literature and so I've studied the actual text of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and similar poems.

The thing I really liked about THE GREEN KNIGHT is that it FEELS like an adaptation of the 14th century poem, instead of an adaptation of a modern text based on a telephone game version of an Arthurian legend hodgepodge. It's dirty and unglamorous and sexual, instead of pristine chivalric. None of these things mean it's drab, though. I'm used to people approaching the Arthurian legend with a heavy chivalric fantasy lens, with genre fiction writers especially leaning into the fantasy element, or armed with the HISTORICAL FIGURE OF KING ARTHUR mindset which for some reason translates as drab still historically inaccurate stabbing with horses.

(There is a third popular approach, which is weirdass time travel reincarnation but I think that's mostly in books and comics.)

When I say THE GREEN KNIGHT is dirty, I mean it in a textured way, rough and crumbling stone, scrubby moss, sticky blood, lived in and rotting in a natural way. Because the thing about THE GREEN KNIGHT is that it hits the strange space medieval literature was created in by acknowledging and embracing the clash between the pre-literate paganism and the literacy brought with Christianity (moreso than the centuries after the fact recordings of stories from Norway and Iceland). David Lowery clearly favours the natural pre-Christian state and a return to same, which may be the most modern aspect of the adaptation, with the King and Queen heavily adorned with holy imagery while being sickly and faded even when compared to the Mother, and the first thing Gawain encounters leaving the city being the rotting remains of a massive battlefield being pecked over by scavengers. Things become more vibrant and alive the further Gawain gets from this core of Christian civilization, even though it becomes increasingly dangerous.

In a lot of medieval literature, we encountered a tendency where the non-Christian elements were TOTALLY RAD while we also had to acknowledge the order and rules and hierarchy of Christianity was Good, even if it wasn't nearly as TOTALLY RAD as a half-demon baby biting off the nipples of many, many wet nurses.

Even though Lowery's take on the inevitable return to nature is contrary to the righteous Christian goals of the original text (although not so much in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as it is in other works), the result is much the same in the nature of Gawain's quest. The strangeness and danger and beauty of the natural world, the conflict of chivalric codes and the rules of folklore, the fact that the plot stems from Gawain's flaws as a person. Strange things happen and they're accepted with minimal question. A part of the world that is frightening but still known to exist.

Portrayed by Dev Patel, Gawain's flaws are less character flaws than they are the correctable flaws of youth. He's impulsive, quick to act and slow to think, and naïve in both halves of the world. It lets the character journey become one of maturation through the quest, rather than being an archetype going through the steps of a quest.

It was just a good time. Beautiful and sometimes hypnotic and ambiguous in a way I appreciate both because of the inherently ambiguous, 'lost' nature of these source texts, and also because it makes the real goal of the quest an inner question of self without tying it to outside validation for Gawain.

#the green knight #movies #i watched a movie #not my most coherent collection of thoughts

[capiolumen]

Sunday Flowers Spring 2021 iPhoneXR Hipstamatic Photography Original Photographers Photographers On Tumblr Lowery Lens, Ina's 1982 Film, No Flash

#hipstamatic #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #orchid #orchid flower #art #spring #capiolumen #iphone #iphoneXR #iphotography #lowery lens #ina's 1982 film #no flash

[kristenswig]

Best Adapted Screenplay 2021

Winner:

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion, based on the novel by Thomas Savage.

-Bronco Henry told me that a man's made by patience, and odds against him. -My father said obstacles, and you had to try and remove them. -Another way to put it. Well Pete you've got obstacles, that's a fact. -Obstacles? -Take your Ma today or any day, how she's on the sauce. -On the sauce? -Drinking Pete. Boozing it up. I'm guessing you know she's been half-shot all summer. -I know she has. She didn't use to drink. -Didn't she now? -No, she never did. -Did your Pa Pete? -My father? -I guess he hit the bottle pretty hard. The booze. -Until right at the end. Then he hung himself. I found him, I cut him down but he was gone. He used to worry that I wasn't kind enough, that I was too strong. -You? Too strong? He got that wrong, you poor kid. Things will work out for you yet.

Nominees:

Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami.

-It doesn't end there. -You know what happens next? -Yes. -Who was it then? Who came up the stairs? -Another intruder. -Another one? -Yes. It wasn't Yamaga or his father or his mother. Just a burglar. The burglar finds her half-naked in the room and attempts to rape her. She takes a pen lying around and stabs the man in the left eye. She struggles desperately and stabs the pen in his temple and in his neck over and over. She notices the man has gone limp. She has killed the burglar. She washes the blood off in the shower and goes home. The token she left in Yamaga's room that day was the burglar's corpse. The next morning, she goes to school prepared to confess everything to Yamaga and face his judgment. But Yamaga looks the same as usual at school the next day. She sees him play soccer after school seemingly carefree as always. Things are the same the next day. Nothing has changed. What became of that body in Yamaga's house? Did she just imagine what happened? She goes to Yamaga's house but nothing seems out of the ordinary. Except for one thing. A surveillance camera has been set up by the front door. To not appear guilty, she walks past his house without stopping. Something terrible had happened and she was to blame, but the world seemed serene, as if nothing had changed. However the world had changed to something sinister. She turns back. "I must take responsibility for what I've done. I can't pretend it didn't happen because it definitely happened. I definitely killed that man." She searches under the planter but the key is no longer there. She stares at the surveillance camera because it's the only change she has elicited in this world. She looks into the lens and repeats her words over and over. Clearly, so she's understood. "I killed him." "I killed him." "I killed him."

The Green Knight - David Lowery, based on the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous.

-Why is he green do you think? -The knight? -Yes. Was he born that way? -Perhaps it is the color of his blood when he blushes. -But why green? Why not blue? Or red? -Because he is not of this earth. -But green is the color of Earth, of living things, of life. -And of rot. -Yes. Yes. We deck our walls with it and dye our linens but should it come creeping up the cobbles we scrub it out fast as we can. When it blooms beneath our skin we bleed it out, and when we together all find that our reach has exceeded our grasp, we cut it down. We stamp it out, we spread ourselves atop it and smother it beneath our bellies but, but it comes back. It does not dally, nor does it wait to plot or conspire. Pull it out by the roots on e day and the next there it is creepin' in around the edges. Whilst we're off looking for red in comes green. Red is the color of lust, but green is what lust leaves behind. In heart, in womb. Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die too. When you go, your footprints will fill with grass. Moss shall cover your tombstone and as the sun rises green shall spread over all. In all its shades and hues. This verdigris will overtake your swords and your coins and your battlements and try as you might all you hold dear will succumb to it. Your skin. Your bones. Your virtue.

The Humans - Stephen Karam, based on his play.

-No religion at the table. -Hey, my mouth is shut, you know where I stand. -You brought a statue of the Virgin Mary into our house how is your mouth shut? -All right I didn't mean to get us...I was just saying it's funny you guys'll try-you put faith in juice cleansing or yoga but you won't try church. -I did ONE juice cleanse. ONE. -You eat chard to feel your best but you still said half your friends are in therapy, YOU said that so I'm asking- -That's because I was trying to get you to pay for MINE. I can't afford it- -Well save some of the money you spend on organic juice and pay for it yourself- -Don't criticize me for caring about my mental health. -Well what about-Rich's mom is a therapist-why don't you get it from her? -Yeah Dad I'll get therapy from my mother-in-law, that's an awesome idea- -She's not your mother-in-law unless you get married- -Looking for work every day...it's depressing! -Well you've still got the will to east superfoods-if you're so miserable why are you trying to live forever?

The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante.

My mother was very beautiful. And I felt when I was Martha's age that she didn't share it. That she had-in creating me-she had separated herself from me like pushing a plate away from you when the food is repulsive. Martha and Bianca...it's funny...I mean as soon as you're born it's about deprivation right? A separation. And anyway what's most interesting are the secret resemblances. What makes Bianca seductive and Martha not, or vice versa? Well, they blame me. Like...when I was young I had large breasts. After I gave birth, no. Bianca has large breasts and Martha has almost none, like a boy. She doesn't know how beautiful she is. She wears a padded bra and it humiliates her. She thinks I gave the best of myself to Bianca. She feels deprived. I understand! And actually I even thought, only half-seriously about implants at one point. But they come from nowhere so what are they worth?

Passing - Rebecca Hall, based on the novel by Nella Larson.

-Well sir, you've got to admit that the average colored man is a better dancer than the average white. That is if the celebrities who find their way up here are fair specimens of your sort. -Having not tripped the light fantastic with any of the males I am hardly in a position to argue the point. Bianca and Co. are always raving on about the good looks of some Negro - especially an unusually dark one. Like Ralph Hazelton, there. Dozens of women have declared him fantastically handsome. What do you think? Is he? -No. And I don't think anyone else would either. Just plain exoticism. An interest in what's different. A kind of emotional excitement - that something you feel in the presence of something strange and even, perhaps, a bit repugnant to you.

Zola - Janicza Bravo & Jeremy O. Harris, based on Tweets by Aziah "Zola" King and the article "Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted" by David Kushner

Wanna hear a story 'bout why me and this bitch here fell out? It's long but I'ma speed it up. We meet at the restaurant she work at. I was with my community leader Jonathan. He has been helping me with the custody of my baby.  Anyways this very ratchet and very black woman comes to take our order. And listen, I know these girls are supposed to be flirtatious but not like she was. I'm a Christian. I fear God. I tell her that I go to church so we exchange numbers. The next day she calls me and is like "I'm a ex dancer. I'm broke. I need welfare." And I tell her I don't fuck with that life no more and she was like "who do you fuck with?" and I was like "I fuck with Jesus, my lord and savior."

#awards 2021 #never thought I'd need 7 for this category #the power of the dog #drive my car #the green knight #the humans #the lost daughter #passing #zola

[n1ght5h4d3-24]

Travel to Jurassic World -Chapter 11

Pairing: Owen Grady x Mitchell!OC

~Previous Chapter~ 

Maya was human again and with the others after having been thrown into a wall by the Indominus Rex. She was beside her brothers when she heard Gray counting quietly to himself.

"Twenty-four…Fifty….we need more." He piped up.

Maya looked at her youngest brother in confusion, "More what?" she inquires.

"Teeth. We need more teeth." he says.

Claire looked at him before going over to a first aid kit and pulled out a flare.

"Okay, so…you just wait here. Everything will be okay." she tells her niece and nephews before grabbing a walkie-talkie off the wall.

She leaves the hut when she heard Maya call after her.

"Aunt Claire, please….let me go instead. There's no way you can run in those heels and even if you could, I'd be much faster." she tells her aunt.

Claire looks at her, debating the decision before handing the flare and walkie-talkie over to her niece.

"Okay, just…please be careful. I still need to get to know my one and only niece." she tells her.

Maya nodded her head before watching her aunt return to her brothers. She then saw Owen, who had been hiding behind a rock to shoot at the Indominus. She gave him a reassuring smile when he looked in her direction before she took off in a familiar direction.

"Mr. Lowery, are you still there?" she spoke through the hand-held radio, remembering that her aunt had mentioned his name before during her earlier phone call.

"It's Maya right? Where are you going?" his question crackled back.

Maya eventually stopped in front of a closed garage type door.

"I need you to open up Paddock Nine." she requests.

It was quiet for a moment before she heard some low beeping.

"Paddock Nine? Are you crazy?!" Lowery exclaimed in disbelief.

Maya looked around until she spotted a security camera in the corner, and looked directly into the lens.

"Damn it Lowery, man up!" she said firmly.

She heard Lowery sigh before he responded to her.

"You sound just like your aunt." he said.

There was a low humming sound before the gate opened up. Maya turned her attention to it and heard heavy footsteps. Out from the shadows stepped the T. Rex. She ignited the flare before putting it in her mouth and shifting into her wolf form then ran off, the T. Rex following her. When Maya got back to where the raptors were still fighting the Indominus Rex, she threw the flare in their direction before dashing forward to hide behind a giant amber model, becoming human once more. She looked to her right to see that the souvenir stand that her family had taken shelter in was right in the path of destruction as the two Tyrannosaurids fought.

"RUN!" she yelled at them.

"Go, Go!" she heard Claire urged her brothers.

They made their way to Maya and Owen joined them. They continued to watch as the two Tyrannosaurids and raptor pack fought until the Indominus Rex was cornered by a familiar section of open water. The T. Rex shoved the Indominus Rex back and then the Mosasaur leapt out of the water and grabbed ahold of the Indominus Rex's throat before pulling it back into the water with it. The T. Rex let out a loud roar that the Velociraptors copied. The group of five humans, came out of their hiding place to look at the dinosaurs before them. The T. Rex looked down at them for a moment before turning tail and walking off. The Velociraptors turned to Owen, waiting for a command from their alpha. When he gave them a subtle shake of his head, they gave small roars before they ran off in the direction the T. Rex had gone. Everyone hugged each other in relief, glad that it was all over now.

Chapter 12 

#Travel to Jurassic World #Jurassic World Imagine #Jurassic World Trilogy #Jurassic World Franchise #Jurassic World Imagines #Owen Grady x OC #Zach Mitchell #Gray Mitchell #Maya Mitchell #Mitchell!OC #Owen Grady #Owen Grady Imagine #Owen Grady Imagines #Claire Dearing

[bombshellsandbluebells]

2021 Year in Review

I was tagged by the lovely @iamnotawomanimagod and @dylanobrienisbatman :) Love ya both! We all made it through 2021 hallelujah!

Top 5 Movies You Watched This Year

I watch movies all the time but I have such a hard time remembering what movies I saw this year lol. Let me wrack my brain real quick.

1. Inside (dir. Bo Burnham)

I really, really loved Inside. As always, Bo gave us something that was funny, unique, out-of-the-box, and also, kind of painful in a too-real kind of way. I’ve been meaning to rewatch this one ever since I saw it to digest it better, but I haven’t quite been ready ready for the emotional journey yet.

2. The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery)

Visually stunning. The art director and cinematography in this movie is amazing and every single shot was beautiful to look at. And while it maybe wasn’t my favorite film ever, it was definitely a unique journey to go on. Glad I saw it. 

3. @Zola (dir. Janicza Bravo)

A wild ride. Definitely entertaining. Really creatively filmed and directed. 

4. Roshomon (dir. Akira Kurosawa)

A classic I FINALLY sat down to actually watch. I’ve finally seen a Kurosawa film.

5. Dawn of the Dead (dir. George Romero)

Loved it lol. I love zombie movies. Definitely enjoyed this one more than his original Night of the Living Dead.

Top 5 TV Shows You Watched This Year

Once again....I know I watched things lol but I’m struggling to remember what I watched so this is an incomplete list lol

1. Arcane

BEAUTIFUL!!! Absolutely obsessed with this series. The animation is beautiful. The writing is great. The characters are all very interesting. The character DESIGN is fantastic. The pacing is amazing. Just really, really loved this one.

2. Ted Lasso

I really love this one also. It’s both funny and sweet and earnest and I love that it can be both things without sacrificing one for the other.

Top 5 Songs of 2021

Shrugs.

I don’t really pay a lot of attention to what songs/albums I listen to tbh.

I listened to a TON of The Crane Wives though. Definitely my favorite artists of 2021. Also listened to the Hadestown album on repeat.

Top 5 Albums You Heard In 2021 Top 5 Youtube Channels in 2021

I’m stealing @iamnotawomanimagod’s :)

1. The Try Guys

My go-to relaxing, fun channel. They always make me laugh. I especially love their Without a Recipe series because as someone who bakes a lot and has a decent grasp of what should go in what I always get so stressed for them lol.

2. Sideways

I love this channel!!! Hugely recommend!! If you find music, especially musical scores in film/tv/theater interesting, you should definitely check this one out. Not only is his content fascinating, he’s also really funny.

3. Jacob Geller

Possibly my favorite channel ever - or at least in the top 5. Jacob Geller talks about video games, but not the way you would expect a youtuber to talk about video games. He’s not talking about walkthroughs or theories or how to beat the bosses or news - no he’s regularly getting existential and talking about life and philosophy through the lens of video games, and it’s fascinating.

Strongly, STRONGLY recommend this channel.

4. Mina Le

I’m not a super knowledge about clothes or fashion, but watching Mina talk about it is so interesting. She mostly talks about fashion through the lens of film/tv costuming and she tackles a lot of topics that deal with classism and other big issues as they relate to fashion and fashion history.

5. Micarah Tewers

Love her!!! I feel like she’s kind of replaced my Jenna Marbles needs of someone super positive and silly who’s not afraid to be herself and just does fun things that make me smile. She’s a super talented seamstress who also owns about a million animals and just lives life in such a fun and admirable way. 

Top 5 Books You Read in 2021

1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 

Technically this was a reread of a book I’ve already read before, but whatever. I love this book. I love this book so much. It’s my favorite book ever and it’s a dense brick of postmodern horror that might sometimes be too pretentious for it’s own good but is interesting and unique and worth it anyways. It’s my favorite book that I never recommend to anyone lol because I know it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea but I love it.

It was so worth rereading. I feel like I get something new out of this book every time I dive into it. And sometimes that something new is a headache, sure, but it’s worth it.

2. who i was supposed to be (a collection of short stories) by Susan Perabo

I picked this up randomly from a used bookstore I love because I liked the title, and I was really pleasantly suprised by this one. Every single short story is so well written and captivating. Really loved this one.

3. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher

I love linguistics!!! Language is so fascinating!! And this was a fascinating book.

4. Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood

Really interesting! A little slow to get through, not necessarily a page-turner, but all really interesting cases and information.

5. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid

I read this because I loved the movie, and while it was interesting and unique and Ian Reid is a great writer, I ultimately like what the film did with the story more than the original novel. Still a good read though. Incredibly depressing, but good.

5 Positive Things That Happened In 2021

1. This was my first year going fully freelance and working in the film industry full time and it went better than I ever expected!!! I’m so happy to have left my old job I didn’t really like and start pursuing something I really, really love.

2. Going along with the first point, I worked on my first feature!!! Which was kind of a disaster, admittedly, but still a huge accomplishment. :)

3. Working in a new industry means I met a lot of new people this year and made a lot of new friends, which is always great! Especially because my closest friends both moved out of town last year and it’s just not the same with them so far away.

4. My emotional/mental state was just way, way better this year than last year. 2020 was ROUGH. I’m sure it was for most people, but along with the shutdown and the pandemic fears, I was also dealing with a friendship going bad and feeling like a friend I really cared about suddenly had nothing but negative things to say to me, wasn’t in the right place job-wise and feeling miserable about it but terrified to leave the security behind to go freelance, hormone/auto-immune issues combining with likely undiagnosed ADHD and depression due to the everyting in the world basically meant I was super forgetful, foggy, unfocused, and lethargic like ALL the time which I just got mad at myself for.

So yeah. 2020 sucked so hard and 2021 felt so much better. 

5. I read 8 whole books in 2021!! I used to read all the time and haven’t read much since I left school, so I’m really, really proud to have reached that number. I think being in a better emotional/mental state let me pursue stuff like that more.

***

I know there was still a lot of bad in 2021 and the world still isn’t perfect, but overall, 2021 was a good year for me. A far better year than the one before. It had a lot of change, but it was all good change, and I feel like I’m finally doing what I’ve always wanted to do and it feels right in a way the past couple years just haven’t. I feel fulfilled!! And I’m excited for whatever 2022 has to offer. 

Also lots of love to all my mutuals!!

Tagging @laufire, @boomheda, @nicoleanell, @doortotomorrow, @saiyanqueenreads, @sarcasticdebate, @nomattertheoceans, @rosealie, @padawanyugi

Happy holidays!! <3

#tag game

[harvardfineartslib]

Happy Birthday to Jacob Lawrence who was born on this day in 1917.

Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayals of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters, bringing the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He was only 23 years old when he gained national recognition with his 60-panel Migration Series, painted on cardboard. The series depicted the 20th century Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

In the 1930s, Lawrence received early artistic training at the Utopia Children’s Center in Harlem where he was encouraged to pursue his passion. He received scholarships and grants to further his art education and was employed as a painter by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. He developed a unique style of narrative painting that often featured a flat picture plane with bold and colorful figures. Aspects of life in Harlem during the Great Depression inspired the colors, shapes, and patterns in Lawrence’s subsequent works.

Lawrence employed a critical and socially conscious lens in his visual storytelling of the African-American experience, as evident in the image shown here entitled “Bus.” Lawrence depicts segregated seating, and the visual contrast between the white people in the front and the Black people seated in the back is stark. Not only is there plenty of space upfront, but the Black people crowded in the rear of the bus are painted without visible eyes or mouths, often looking down.

Image shown: Bus, 1941 Gouache on paper 18 5/16”x 21 7/8” Image from: African American art : 200 years : 40 distinctive voices reveal the breadth of nineteenth and twentieth century art [exhibition coordinator, Michael Rosenfeld ; catalogue essays, Jonathan P. Binstock, Lowery Stokes Sims]. New York, NY : Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, [2008] 156 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm. Summary: Presents a pictorial review, accompanied by biographical essays, of the many artworks created by African Americans over two centuries, on special exhibit at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York in 2008. Exhibited artists: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert Scott Duncanson, William Edmondson, Allan Freelon, Palmer Hayden, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Charles Ethan Porter, Betye Saar, August Savage, William Edouard Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Laura Wheeler Waring, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. English Catalog of an exhibition held at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, Jan. 11-Mar. 15, 2008. Author / Creator Rosenfeld, Michael. Binstock, Jonathan P., 1966- Sims, Lowery Stokes. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery HOLLIS number: 990114867820203941

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Thoughts on Medieval Text Adaptations and Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

(Originally posted this on twitter, after hearing the news about this adaptation)

I am having some thoughts about the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight adaptation I posted about earlier. Not bad thoughts, I should mention! Just some contemplations. So here's a super nerdy thread of me doing some medieval musing.

So Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is my absolute favorite medieval text. Like, I did an entire self-directed study in my grad program dedicated to outlining my OWN proposal for a modern-setting adaptation to SGGK, including some art:

So obviously I don’t think adaptations are a bad thing. I am actually super excited because I hope that this one can make more people interested in the text and bring more people into the fandom (if that’s what you want to call it, lol).

Gawain in general is my favorite knight, for many reasons (ask me if you want more nerdy gushing about Gawain). One of the reasons I love SGGK is because it's such a rich text. But plot-wise, SGGK really isn't that dense. 

For those who don’t know what SGGK is about, a short summary: 

An entity comes to challenge Arthur at Christmas to a beheading game that is rigged in the entity's favor through magic. Gawain, being a good knight, takes his King's place in danger, and must suffer the trials put to him after.He gets one year to put his affairs in order and then has to go face the Green Knight at New Years. He gets lost, meets a lord, stays for Christmas, and engages in a competition to exchange their "winnings" at the end of each day. The lord goes out hunting while Gawain gets smooched.Gawain smooches the lord when he gets back in exchange for whatever the lord has caught. He's usually honest, but on the day he needs to go see the Green Knight and face being beheaded, the lady gives him a magical belt. Gawain does not share this "winning" with the lord.When he goes to face the Green Knight, he's spared from death because he was honest, except for a cut on the neck because he lied about the belt. (also ta-da! the Green Knight is the lord, who would have guessed). Gawain goes home alive, the end.

(this is super reductive, btw)

What makes SGGK such an amazing poem is how rich it is. I'm not being metaphorical when I say that reading SGGK is an experience. It was meant to be read and re-read. It's dense, and packed with an insane amount of small moments and visuals that are distinct and beautiful.For example, Gawain putting on his armor before heading out to find the Green Knight is a visually rich moment. We see him suited up in fine detail. His armor, the design on the inside and outside of his shield, the colors, his features, ect. 

Same with the first appearance of the Green Knight, who is described in what can only be explained as t h i c c medieval beefcake. Also, the poem oscillates between earthly sensuality and spirituality, which aren't mutually exclusive when performed according to chivalric values. 

Also also, if you want to do some deep dives into medieval texts through the lens of queer theory, there is just. So Much. in this text. Seriously, just read the part with Gawain & Bertilak snogging, it is NOT some quick peck on the lips. The subtext is strong with Gawain & Sir Beefcake! 

Gawain's internal struggle with his draw toward earthly life (Christmas parties, kissing men & women, feasts, games) and his spiritual & chivalric duties coupled with intense visual imagery are at the very core of what makes this poem compelling & evergreen.

This is why adaptations of medieval texts are often so hard. They are absolutely meant to be read and contemplated over and over again. They are the literary equivalent of lambas bread-- there's enough in one bite to keep you going for ages. 

Literally. It's been like 600 years.

So this is what makes adaptations really tricky. Because if you stick too closely to the original text, you'll often find that it's shallow and pale feeling in comparison. There just isn't that much, plot-wise. But stray too far and it loses the heart of what makes it special.

This isn't to say that its impossible to adapt while maintaining the heart of what makes SGGK important, mind you. But it will require a devotion to building complex characters that a lot of medieval movies lack, or replace with sword fights.

I can see this adaptation veering from the text in a few ways: 

1, they make it about a love triangle between Gawain and the Bertilaks,

2. they make the relationship between the Green Knight & Gawain adversarial,

& 3, they replace character building with sword fights and make-out sessions, i.e. turning it into most Arthuriana-based movie before it. 

Doing these things won't mean its not a success financially or even as a narrative, but I personally feel it wouldn't share the same spirit as the poem. Which is in general a problem with most Arthurian adaptations, tbh.

Anyway, I'm still looking forward to seeing David Lowery's version. I don't think it's blasphemy to be different than a text during adaptations. But there's a lot of difficulties in doing it, and the reasons for them aren't simple. It's gonna be interesting to see the results!

TL;DR because most won't read this thread (I don't blame you), some highlights: t h i c c medieval beefcake bertilak Gawain is a bi icon sword fights can't replace a lack of personality Arthur is a dick That last one wasn't really in the thread but is worth saying anyway. :p

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THE AARONS 2021 - Best Director

Good direction is going to get vaccinated. Bad direction is the hospitalization rates for unvaccinated individuals. Here is the Aaron for Best Director:

WINNER: James Wan - Malignant

Wan might have been out of his mind when he made Malignant, but no one else could have been the master of its puppetry. Flooded with Aquaman profits, the director cut loose with creative control in a loopy love-letter to his genre roots, a treat to his fans as much as to himself. Wan zooms his camera through the bloodbath with the same gymnastic glee as the film’s giallo-esque killer, enthralling viewers in his vision as the outside world melts away. In a formidable top-down tracking shot early on, Wan even lets viewers in on his perspective of pulling the strings; it’s an honor, and a horror, to share his headspace.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Janicza Bravo - Zola

Filtered through her judicious lens, the ill-advised adventure earns the director an enthusiastic bravo.

Steven Spielberg - West Side Story

West’s direction is more than alright; in ‘America,’ Spielberg’s slick staging stands up against the seasoned filmmaker’s strongest work.

David Lowery - The Green Knight

After the Aaron-award winning Ghost Story, Lowery’s far from a green director; the Green director makes enlightened decisions throughout his Dark Age fable.

Nia DaCosta - Candyman

DaCosta hooks viewers with her reflective filmmaking, abuzz with terrors both imaginative and all-too-real.

NEXT UP: THE 2021 AARON FOR BEST FILM PERFORMANCE!

#film #TheAarons #TheAarons2021 #TheAaronsFilm #best of 2021 #best director #an american werewolf in london #james wan #zola #janicza bravo #west side story #steven spielberg #david lowery #the green knight #nia dacosta #candyman

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10 Best Movies of 2021 (So Far)

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Can you ever really go home? Millions of cinephiles are likely asking themselves this as summer 2021 winds down with doubt again lingering over their favorite movie houses. For a time, theaters were once again open for big business in the U.S. and UK, and remain so in at least one of those venues. But box office reports paint an ambiguous future, and many casual moviegoers clearly remain reluctant about returning to the cinema.

Nonetheless, it’s still good to be back in those old familiar places, as well as to have an ever expanding list of options to discover on streaming. Compared to last year, 2021 feels like a sunny balm, particularly now that the heaviest hitters and biggest surprises of July and the dog days of summer have landed.

It’s why we typically save our “mid-year” ranking for that deep breath between the end of summer escapism and the awards season push that begins in September. There have been some real treats on the 2021 calendar, so whether you’ve seen the entire list below or are looking for something you missed, sit back and enjoy a collection of the best movies of 2021. So far.

10. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo wrote and star in this bizarre, brightly colored, and utterly joyful comedy that defies expectations throughout. The two are middle-aged best friends who take their very first vacation to Florida together to visit the idyllic Vista del Mar.

But it’s not all cocktails and banana boats. Behind the scenes, super villain Sharon Fisherman (also played by Wiig) has an evil plan for the resort. With shades of the best of Austin Powers (though far more sincere) Barb and Star is a good natured friendship comedy through a surrealist lens, which could scratch an itch for anyone missing a bit of beach time this year.

9. Psycho Goreman

Unexpected gem of the year surely goes to this utterly bonkers grue-filled cosmic horror B-movie which is also really funny and kind of sweet at the same time. It follows annoying little shit Mimi (Nita-Josee Hanna) who bullies her brother Luke (Owen Myre) mercilessly. After defeating him in a game of “crazy ball,” Luke’s punishment is to dig his own grave (!) but instead the pair discover an artifact which turns out to be the key to controlling a universal evil imprisoned on earth for trying to destroy the galaxy.

So of course Mimi names him Psycho Goreman and forces him to hang out with her family and friends despite his insistence that he will bathe in their blood the moment he is freed. From Steven Kostanski, the director of 2016’s The Void, Psycho Goreman is a spot-on blend of brutal slaying and hardcore gore, a cosmic plotline involving an alien council and a wholesome family comedy. An unexpected delight.

8. Cruella

Emma Stone is a punk rock designer in the mold of Vivienne Westwood in this vibrant London-set comedy, which is on paper a prequel to 101 Dalmatians. But in reality, take it as a standalone and you’ll have way more fun.

Up and coming fashionista Estella manages to impress one of the leading designers The Baroness (Emma Thompson) and secures a coveted job at her world famous fashion house. But when Estella discovers a dark secret relating to her own past, she takes on the outrageous alter-ego Cruella to destroy The Baroness by out-fashioning her at every opportunity.

Packed with banging tunes and great dresses, Cruella is a high energy spectacle but it’s the sparring of the two Emmas that brings the real electricity. Forget any future she might have as a puppy killer, in her own film, Cruella is a legend. 

7. In the Heights

The sunniest film to hit theaters this season, Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights was as sugary sweet as the frozen Piragua Lin-Manuel Miranda hocks around this movie’s block. Based on the Hamilton composer’s earlier Tony winning musical, the picture was the rare thing: a Broadway adaptation that actually soars as high as its stage production and (rarer still) the first Hollywood blockbuster with an all-Latinx cast.

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How Cruella Got That Crazy Expensive Soundtrack

By Don Kaye

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In the Heights: You Need to Stay for Post-Credits Scene

By David Crow

The film came under fair criticism on social media for not being as inclusive as it could be, but that shouldn’t be the last word on such a big-hearted achievement. From the buoyant performances which have already opened doors for Anthony Ramos and Leslie Grace’s immense charisma, to the Latin, salsa, and hip-hop infused melodies which celebrate a culture long left out of the Hollywood image of American life, In the Heights is a jubilant celebration. There really hasn’t been a giddier time at the multiplex this year. Plus, those “96,000” and “Carnaval del Barrio” sequences really are fire.

6. Zola

Based on a “true” story which was told via a series of tweets posted back in 2015 (and the subsequent Rolling Stone article that brought the tale to prominence), Zola is a stranger-than-fiction saga seen through the lens of social media. An ultra contemporary, experimental, low budget comedy-thriller with a backdrop of abuse and sex trafficking, the film is as willfully uncomfortable to watch as it is massively entertaining.

From the jump, Zola (Taylour Paige) is a Detroit waitress and part time exotic dancer who meets a customer named Stefani (Riley Keough) and agrees to take a trip with her to Florida to hit up strip clubs where Stefani promises they’ll make a lot of money. With them are Stefani’s feckless boyfriend (Succession’s Nicholas Braun) and her obviously dodgy roommate. Sometimes told through spoken tweets with switches in perspective, this marks director Janicza Bravo as a compelling new voice, and her cast of leads as nothing short of captivating.

How much of what you’re watching actually happened? Well, that’s the elusive quality of social media…

5. Judas and the Black Messiah

Fred Hampton was murdered with the consent and planning of law enforcement at both federal and local jurisdiction levels. That Judas and the Black Messiah made this common knowledge would be reason enough for consideration. Yet that director Shaka King tells Hampton’s story so thrillingly here elevates his film into one of the most compelling crime dramas in years—only with the FBI’s illegal COINTELPRO program being the primary criminal element.

Told from the perspective of the man who spied on the Black Panthers and eventually facilitated the raid that took Hampton’s life, Judas radiates a despairing quality which somehow can still feel electrifying whenever Daniel Kaluuya’s powerhouse performance takes center stage. Which is pretty much any time the Black Panther chairman takes the microphone. Kaluuya deserved his Oscar, but LaKeith Stanfield’s paranoid turn as Bill O’Neal, the poor bastard coerced into being a snitch while still a kid, is what gets under your skin and walks beside you after the credits roll.

4. Pig

Are there really folks out there who wandered into a screening of Pig and assumed they’d get the Nicolas Cage knockoff of John Wick? I like to think so, just as I love to imagine what they said to each other afterward. To be sure, Michael Sarnoski’s Pig sounds on paper like something in that ballpark: Cage plays a hermit living in self-exile from his past life when ruffians steal his beloved… truffle pig. In response, he comes down from the mountain, ready to reengage with the old ways.

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Judas and the Black Messiah Remembers Fred Hampton Was a Man of His Words

By Tony Sokol

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The Suicide Squad Character Guide, Easter Eggs, and DCEU References

By Mike Cecchini

Yet when you realize those old ways involve being the greatest chef in his state—and reengagement means partaking in a fight club that’s far more pitiful than it sounds and simply cooking gourmet meals—the more apparent it is that this is a sophisticated, nuanced allegory about grief and self-identity. Anchored by Cage’s best performance in a long, long time, Pig is a gentle and revelatory experience that slowly unpacks its brilliance piece by piece, vignette by vignette. For those coming in wanting fast food, this probably will be a disappointment. For all others, it’s a resplendent five course meal.

3. The Suicide Squad

For once the marketing wasn’t kidding. Writer-director James Gunn does have a horribly beautiful mind, and we at last get to see it fully unleashed on a superhero property. Yes, the filmmaker made many cry over a CGI tree and talking raccoon in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, but perhaps not since Logan has a storyteller seen such free rein over valuable studio IP. Gunn didn’t waste it.

The Suicide Squad plays very much like the men and women on a mission ‘60s capers its director grew up on, but that structure is channelled here through a filthy and deranged sensibility. How else can you describe a picture that makes you want to cuddle a land shark who just swallowed a bystander whole? The Suicide Squad does that and more while providing a showcase for sure things like Margot Robbie’s irresistible Harley Quinn, as well as the dregs and rejects of DC Comics who ultimately steal the movie: David Dastmalchian’s Polka-Dot Man and Daniela Melchior’s Ratcatcher 2, namely. Box office be damned, this is one of the best superhero films ever made and will be a classic in the years to come.

2. The Green Knight

When you hear the name “King Arthur,” certain elements spring to mind. It’s one of those classic properties which have been adapted, exploited, and parodied with killer rabbits ad nauseam. Even so, it’s safe to say you’ve never seen the lore become as foreboding and startling as this. Reimagined through the gaze of writer-director David Lowery, the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at last takes on a trippy and witchy connotation. An interpretation that pulls as much from medieval paganism as it does obsessions with chivalry and Christian virtue, The Green Knight successfully reinvents its Arthurian quest into a journey toward certain doom.

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The Green Knight: Why David Lowery and Dev Patel Reimagined Arthurian Legend

By David Crow

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The Green Knight Ending Explained

By David Crow

As the central figure on that mission, Dev Patel reveals superstar charisma and the ability to completely command the screen. His version of Gawain, the wayward nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris), is vain, cowardly, selfish, and somehow wholly sympathetic as he searches for Ralph Ineson’s Green Knight: a godlike creature who has promised to behead Gawain when they meet again. Through it all, Lowery and company craft a sumptuous world that in every shot looks like the most transportive Dungeons and Dragons cover you’ve ever seen. The atmosphere is oppressively brooding, and it will not appeal to everyone. Yet like the very best films released by indie distributor A24, there is a touch of mad genius at work here that demands to be seen and then seen again.

1. Inside

As arguably the best piece of art to come out of 2020’s torments, Bo Burnham’s Inside was not marketed or even conceived of as a film. Nevertheless, it slowly transformed into one throughout its months-long production process, which forewent mere sketch humor to reveal an undeniably cinematic, experimental, and ultimately bleak heart. In other words, it’s a perfect distillation of how all mediums are blurring into that loathsome word: content.

Through heavily edited, conceived, and revised set-pieces, the film’s director, star, writer, and composer lays his insecurities and vanities bare. Filmed inside Burnham’s home studio space, Inside is the result of the young filmmaker behind Eighth Grade becoming acutely aware he’s regressed to his early resources as a teenage YouTube star: a camera, a music keyboard, some synth programs, and hours of idle boredom.

Within those numbing hours, Burnham built something both reflective and suspicious about technology, the internet culture which gave him his career, and even his own self-image. With a catchy songbook of synthesized bangers, many of which echo ’80s pop ballads, Burnham crystallizes better than any typical three-act film the anxieties and delirium of a year spent mostly at home. He also provides a scathing critique of how our concepts of communication and identity have been co-opted and undermined by tech companies whose products incite division for profit—all while still releasing his film on the biggest streaming platform in the world. It’s a challenging, self-loathing, and haunted piece of work that will invariably become a time capsule for its moment in history.

Runner ups that almost made the cut: Annette, Black Widow, Coda, Mr. Soul, No Sudden Move, Raya and the Last Dragon, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, The Sparks Brothers, Val.

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IBOTW: LENNE

Introducing LENNE, the new project with Jim Taylor, Morgan Rose, and Lenny Cerzosie Jr.

NEW SINGLE “Letting You Down” OUT NOW via IMAGEN RECORDS can be downloaded/streamed at

  https://songwhip.com/lenne/letting-you-down

  Back in the early 2000’s, Leonard Cerzosie Jr. started a band with his brother called The Infinite Staircase that did very well as an independent band. the band worked with artists like Earl Slick from David Bowie’s band, Candlebox, Sevendust, and even Zakk Wylde. In 2009, they scored a slot on tour with Black Label Society, Sevendust, and Dope that sealed a lot of friendships they still have to this day.

“In 2010, the love of my life passed away suddenly. Pill overdose. It was a devastating time. She was only 27. Morgan Rose and I wrote and recorded the EP, No Amends that was a dedication to my love” says Leonard Cerzosie Jr.

He continues, “Over the years, I’ve had my hand in multiple projects. I formed “Le Projet” around 2013 that featured members of Candlebox, Sevendust, and The Infinite Staircase. I also joined the Baltimore band “The Mayan Factor” a few years ago and have toured with them in Mexico City and the states. During all this, my mother was diagnosed with ALS. One day- after performing a friend insisted on introducing me to someone. He was confident we needed to meet. That was the day I met Jim Taylor. We did get along immediately and have since been composing all sorts of music together.”

“When my mother passed away, Morgan got very involved with what was going on with me and my dad. He invited us out to his place in Atlanta multiple times. We started recording songs with Corey Lowery that would ultimately become “LeNNe”. We spent much time digging deep for the right lyrics and tones. There were multiple artists involved over the course of a few years, but the official line up is me and Jim led by Morgan” he adds.

“Lenne is one of the most real artists I’ve ever come across. He wears his heart on sleeve, and expresses vulnerability that hits you in the heart. I love how he tells a story. These songs are an emotional roller coaster into the mind of a tortured soul” says Morgan Rose.

“We are very excited to have Lenne on the Imagen Records roster. I can’t wait for everyone to hear the music” says Bob Winegard, President of Imagen Records.

“Letting You Down” is the first single to be released. The song features Leonard Cerzosie Jr., Morgan Rose, Jim Taylor, and Corey Lowery.

  Why did you pick your band name?

Lenny: It kind of picked itself. We had various musicians record with us. The only constants were me, Jim, and Morgan. So, a name for the project never seemed that urgent until Imagen was interested. We were writing very personal stuff & had no gimmick. Just naked. So, Morgan felt we should just call it “Lenny”. Plain and simple. We decided to change the spelling to differentiate from other artists like Lenny Kravitz, among other reasons.

  Anything you would like to share, from new merch to upcoming shows/tours or songs/albums?

Lenny: “Letting You Down” is just one of 5 singles we’re going to release over the next few months. Hopefully, we’ll release a full album after that. If a touring opportunity comes up this year, we’ll definitely jump on it.

  How do you describe your music to people?

Jimmy: Big melodious heavy hooks with an ambient soundscape.

  How do you handle mistakes during a performance?

Jimmy: Adapt depending on the situation but DON’T STOP altogether!

Lenny: Pretend it didn’t happen. Laugh about it later. Learn from it for next time.

  Do you get nervous before a performance or a competition? What advice would you give to beginners who are nervous?

Jimmy: ALWAYS!!! Take a step back, breathe, then give it hell!!

Lenny: Nervous every single time. Best advice is to be prepared. Practice. Know your material so well you can play it without thinking. It’ll give you confidence on stage.

  What type of recording process did you use? Who produced your recording?

Jimmy: We started recording these in Corey Lowery’s studio in Georgia, then headed to Jose Urquiza in Illinois for additional overdubs and vocals.

Lenny: The songs themselves didn’t have much pre-production. We did most of the writing “in studio” and recorded as we went. Morgan is credited as producer. His brain is a wild place.

  How often and for how long do you practice? What do you practice – exercises, new tunes, hard tunes, etc.?

Jimmy: It depends but it’s generally a couple hours a day and I tend to switch it up between keys, mando, or guitar. I have books I’ve used over the years with music theory and scales. I’ve also been developing odd patterns and repetitious exercises for practicing. A HUGE one for me is playing alongside Youtube playlists or our own mp3s and finding something different each time. Lenny: My practice habits depend on if I’m in home mode or show mode. If there are shows lined up, I strictly practice the material I’ll be performing. In downtime, I like fingerpicking classical acoustic stuff or running modes on the electric. Jim and I always say you should touch your instrument at least once a day. Pun intended.

  How does music affect you and the world around you?

Jimmy: Simply put,I cannot live without it.

Lenny: It’s been such an important part of my life for so long. I can’t even imagine not having it to escape to.

  How did you form?

Lenny: Introduced by a friend. Invited to Atlanta by another friend. Studio chemistry with a new friend. It was a few years of this particular group just getting together every so often to record music. It became a thing. There was a natural vibe. Sometimes a bit dark but always honest.

  Which instruments do you play?

Jimmy: I do my best at keys, mandolin and guitar and typically weird stringed instruments haha

Lenny: I’m just a guitar player. I’m only a singer in the rock world. lol

  Where do you usually gather songwriting inspiration? What is your usual songwriting process?

Jimmy: We jam from the gut and then take the pieces that fit for a particular song we jam out and Len constructs his vocals around that. The riffs that we cut away we throw to something else! Morgan has this way of not only his insanely brilliant drum patterns but these hooks and melodies that grab ya! It’s wonderful!

Lenny: Inspiration for songs typically come from life events. It can start as a lyric or a chord or riff. We usually hit the studio with some idea or maybe a set of lyrics. Everyone does it differently but with this particular project the songs are molded as they’re recorded.

  Who are your favorite musicians? Groups? CD’s?

Jimmy: Metallica, The Chieftains, movie composers like Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Max Steiner, Junkie XL, Dire Straits, Floyd, In Flames

Lenny: Sabbath, GnR, Floyd, Tool, Alice in Chains, Pantera, BLS.. I really dig Blues Saraceno & Richie Kotzen, too. My guilty pleasure is Sarah Brightman. Ha!

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IBOTW: LENNE was originally published on RockRevolt Mag

#Corey Lowery #Jim Taylor #Lenne #Leonard Cerzosie Jr. #Morgan Rose #RockRevolt Magazine

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Happy Birthday 9th Algy from "Lola The Dog" and her fake cat Winter 2021 iPhoneXR Hipstamatic Photography Original Photographers Photographers On Tumblr Lowery Lens, Montjuic M29 Film, No Flash

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Hauntology and Nostalgia

Provocations:

Consider how these themes are applies to practises and how art remakes are prominent in contemporary art and design.

Emotional investment.

Melancholy for something that has passed and is no longer happening now.

Particular works have a nostalgic quality, usually when they are repeated or if it was observed during childhood.

Clip showed from 'Lala land', it's a rejuvenation of pre modern musical with its colour and historical context.

Nostalgia: homesickness or a sentimental yearning for a past period.

Disney remakes preying on this phenomenon. A good representation of its value.

Repurposing and remix are good examples of adaptation of nostalgia.

The keep calm poster is an example of nostalgia within British culture and how it has been reused for it's original purpose in market crashes.

In psychology we usually amend our memories to make ourselves seem superior.

Nostalgia is very prevalent in political policies.

Svetlana Boym, theorist who wrote 'the future of nostalgia' "nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time". I disagree with this statement, as I find the euphoria comes from the place entirely, and it can be recreated with the correct conditions in my own experience.

Hauntology: as much about our relationship with the past. A binding of memories to your present self.

David Lowery's 'A ghost Story' has a good example, focusing on ideas of being and memories.

Personally disagree with 'stranger things' being hauntological and more nostalgic, as the time period is extremely fetishised. It preys on general audiences yearning for the past, that they have some semblance of control over in their mind; perhaps offering comfort, or peace of mind.

Hauntology has a more theoretical angle, rather then deconstructing the past it focuses on the pasts effect on the present.

Jacques Derrida "it incorporates the notion of non-origin in which the present is neither present nor past".

Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian American filmmaker, who believes a merging of the past and present (hauntology) is beneficial in film works, as its unclear where any piece of life goes together. In a sense, there is order in disorder.

Mark Fisher on electronic music believes that the genre no longer sounds like it has a sense of the future. "Anything recorded I the 2000's could have been recorded in the 1990's.

Sounds that once had a sense of the future now have a sense of the past (seen within synth music and such).

Mark Fisher’s Belief that electronic music sounds less of the future now then it once did, is very reminiscent of what we now consider genres such as ‘synth wave’, which focuses on retro themes, much unlike electronic music’s intended purpose. This has inspired the development of my own scores within screencraft, as our aestheticism is one of the 60′s. that coupled with the genre of sci-fi makes synthesised music a perfect reference for creating my own music for the film. At first I began looking at genre’s like ‘dream wave’, since our film has a light-hearted tone, and the euphoric nostalgic tone of the genre would work well. During production I decided not to use this, as a sense of euphoria was already apparent in the visuals and sound design, therefore music of this calibre would be wasted. 

Piece inspired by dream wave, specifically the work of  Kenji Yamamoto in ‘Metroid’

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gPdpLFvNVroa1mB8Uz__pViz3W7ZjqG7

This piece went unused as the film already touches on its nostalgic, euphoric feeling, stemming from the enthralling, yet familiar nature of video game music. Furthermore the dramatic nature of the synth choir and the drastic melodies is out of place in the world of the film (as mentioned from peer feedback). 

Electronic theme:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rsXRmoOFE0rhTBADhz9eLXywtyg5ENY1

The sense of nostalgia in this piece is apparent in its wispy, ethereal tone. Furthermore the simplicity and lack of layers makes it seem more familiar, like most traditional sci-fi soundtracks. I also find that the electronic sounds I produced are also reminiscent of the past, relating back to its nostalgic aura and Mark Fisher’s beliefs. 

This piece we decided to use in the final film, however peer feedback deduced that at times it could seem quite sinister, so some amendments are still required, however I am much more content with the feeling this piece produces, rather than the others. 

Hauntology and Nostalgia Cont-

Concept of future nostalgia: Present in Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’, since you are not; as a viewer nostalgic for the beginning, since it’s quite dowry, instead you are nostalgic for the scenes or the end of the story, shown before the end. 

Term nostalgia coined by Roman soldiers, when they were sent to new lands and found a longing for home. Research has shown it’s not just a yearning for home, but a romanticised past.

British propaganda is not shy on this topic, i.e. Take back control, send them back, all past pronouns. 

Examples of nostalgia and hauntology in film disciplines.

We still shoot on film, which is inherently a nostalgic medium, however in a lot of instances it’s used to idolise a period of the past, since it’s iconographic of the historical context.

Forming an argument for non-nostalgia.  

Film is more a portrayal than a romanticism. Just because it’s being shown dosen’t mean it’s good.

Sometimes used for homage, you may not miss it, but enjoy it. Film more relevant to hauntology.

Film being nostalgic implies anything of the past is nostalgic.

Currently there is a choice of digital too, which is much more accessible, demonstrating a lack of demand for an ode to the past.

Hauntology Cont:

Technological determination: belief in future technology solving modern problems I.E. the common consensus on climate change.

The return of vinyl records, craving the return of imperfections, despite past technologies attempts to remove them.

Animorphic lens, similar to fish eye, makes images pop out, but blurs the edges. "Ultra close up lens". Used in 'John Wick' to capture action at a mid range with a close up effect. (For practical reference).

Hauntology is idealised by ghosts, something that can have an impact from the past. It's more of a practical response then nostalgia, since it discusses how something has influenced someone, not the act itself.

Derrida is a very iconic theorist amongst academics, due to his work on hauntology. Later in life he discusses social issues around christmas, and ethics of animals and consumption. Most known for post-structualism. Looking at a wider sense of social life and challenging its structures. 'Spectres of Marx' is his most accomplished publication, being made after the loss of his friend. One sentence is mentioned about hauntology, but mainly focuses on mourning, especially in 'Hamlet' misquoting "time is out of joint." The period of mourning is what created the ghost, time is our own application, and anything that comes from it is from deep within man.

"Film is a time based media", we can capture a moment in time for whatever need. Ghosts create a problematic issue in the timeline, it portrays the past through the filmmaker, for a medium bein used in the future.

Films including a dead cast or crew, are momentarily revived in that moment of time while watching.

Hauntology is a play on ontology, the study of being (referenced in 'me, myself and I' blog).

Epistemology, related moreso to our knowledge and what is learned. Considering how a child would be sired. That act of consideration and tension.

When co-prescence is removed, a phantom is replaced. Communication is done indirectly, therefore as a ghost.

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Violence Vs. Non-Violence in the Civil Rights Era

Warning: There may be some sensitive material.

There were many groups that existed and were created in the Civil Rights Era. Some of them believed in violence, others self-defense (violence if necessary), and most were non-violent. My goal is to examine the groups and deem them right or wrong based on a traditional sociological scale. Most people have a learned instinct of what is right and what is wrong, but some people don’t have that same scale as most. For example, the Ku Klux Klan which I will be speaking of below created children’s chapters, they may or may not have participated in the violence, but it was a good way for families to pass on their beliefs and alter what otherwise would most likely have been the same developed sense of right or wrong. 

The Ku Klux Klan has existed long before the Civil Rights Era, being founded on December 24, 1865 by Confederate Veterans in Pullaski, Tennessee, shortly after the end of the Civil War. For a while the public didn’t realize the use of violence the Klan has become known for. The KKK has a history of beating, burning, and lynching African Americans because they disapproved of a world in which African Americans were free and had the same rights as whites. 

The KKK was revived during the Civil Rights Era by Edward L. McDaniel who lived in Natchez, Mississippi. His chapter of the Klan eventually became known as the White Knights of the KKK  and were involved in at least 10 murders. One of these murders too place on June 16, 1964 where 3 Civil Rights workers were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their names are James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner and they worked for CORE (see below). After being released from jail for a speeding ticket, the Klan followed the three men onto the highway where Klansman James Jordan shot Chaney and Wayne Roberts shot the other two. They then put the bodies in the vehicle they recognized as belonging to CORE and drove it to a farm where they buried the bodies. 

Note: The KKK is still in existence today, but violence against African Americans has become highly scrutinized and people are more likely to be prosecuted and sentenced today. 

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was known to be a non-violent Civil Rights organization that was created to defend African Americans from injustice and aid in gaining equal rights for them. Founders include W.E.B Dubois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Lillian Wald, Archibald Grimke, Henry Moskowits, Oswald Garrison Willard, and more.

The incident that resulted in their founding was the on-going violence against African Americans and the Springfield Race Riot of 1908 in which a mob attacked African Americans resulting in many deaths which included lynching. After its founding the NAACP won many major legal victories in the 50′s and 60′s. The most-known case would be that of the 154 Brown v. Board which took place in Topeka, Kansas. Thurgood Marshall worked with a group of NAACP attorneys to win the case. 

Note: The NAACP is still in existence today.

Core is another non-violent Civil Rights group that was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1942 by James Farmer, George Houser, Bayard Rustin, and Bernice Fisher. They were known to work with other Civil Rights groups for the freedom rides, which were organized in the effort to desegregate public facilities, starting with bus terminals. They also fought for the right to register for voting and were apart of the March on Washington in 1963. Their efforts were often met with violence and arrests.

It was in 1962 when CORE continued participating in the Freedom Rides which were met with violence. They were traveling on the interstate through Anniston, Alabama and a mob met them with firebombs and fists. The activists were beaten and some even died as they attempted to escape. This didn’t stop CORE from participating in efforts to gain their civil rights who co-sponsored the March on Washington.

The White Citizens’ Council was founded on July 11th, 1954 as a result of the Brown V. Board Decision to end segregation of schools. This day became known as “Black Monday” to Southern whites. Targets included those participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The first meeting of the Citizens’ Council was two months after the Brown V. Board case ended. They were known to have a system which would track both blacks and whites. Those who tried to help register black voters, or black voters themselves would be targeted: they would lose everything, including their lives. They were active within the Mississippi Delta where Emmett Till was beaten beyond recognition and heavily disfigured then dumped in a body of water. Today the WCC is known as the Council of Conservative Citizens.

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was definitely anti-violence: Its in the name! This organization was founded in April of 1960 (my mother was born in December - wild!) at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina by Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Julian Bond, Bernard LaFayette, and Charles Sherrod. They were most known for their participation in the Freedom Rides and Sit-Ins at lunch counters. Many members died during the Freedom Rides because the police were told not to protect the African American participants. The Black Panthers were founded on October 15, 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale after the assassination of Malcolm X and the wrongful shooting of Matthew Johnson, and unarmed black teenager, who was killed by San Francisco police. They believed in Self-Defense or violence if necessary and were known to wear leather jackets and black berets which is depicted in the photo above. They believed in embracing your African roots by dressing as one would in Africa and doing your hair like one would in Africa. 

It was on April 6, 1968 that the Black Panthers had an altercation with the Oakland police after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, just two days earlier. While the Panthers stated that they believed in self-defense, this term typically applies to situations where someone defends themselves after being attacked. What happened on April 6th, by this definition cannot be classed as self-defense because the Panther’s were the ones who bombarded the police, which resulted in a 90-minute long shootout and the death of Bobby Hutton, one of their members. He was just 17 years old at the time. Eventually it came to an end when the police used tear gas on the Panthers’. Two police officers and two civilians were injured. 

Note: The Black Panther Party became inactive in 1982.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded on January 10, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia by Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Bayard Rustin, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Joseph Lowery. This organization was non-violent, which is to be expected because of the non-violent stance MLK Jr. himself held in his work toward gaining civil rights. The SCLC mostly worked in the South to perform leadership training programs, citizen education projects, and voter registration drives. Their efforts in this and their participation in the March on Washington during the early 1960′s eventually led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965). 

On February 18, 1965 an Alabama Civil Rights activist was beaten and shot by an Alabama State Trooper while he was participating in a peaceful march trying to gain the right to vote. The victims name was Jimmie Lee Jackson and the officers name, James Bonard Fowler. Jackson would die 7 days later on February 26, 1965. His death resulted in the organizing of the Selma to Montgomery marches by the SCLC Director of Direct Action, James Bevel. There were a total of 3 marches, one on March 7 the day that became known as “Bloody Sunday” where 600 marchers peacefully protesting had tear gas thrown at them and were beaten with billy clubs, another on March 9 in response to the death of Jackson and one MLK Jr. himself organized, then another from March 21st to March 25th. 

By looking at the history through an objective lens and stating the facts for everyone to see its obvious where each organization stands on a scale of right or wrong. It’s clear that the KKK was a group that encouraged and performed violence against those of a different race as did the White Citizens’ Council. The Black Panther Party based on their claim of a self-defense stance would ordinarily go in the middle of the scale, but because they didn’t always act out of self-defense as shown above this makes them a group that isn’t necessarily trustworthy which could be part of the reason they are no longer active. Groups such as SNCC, SCLC, CORE, and the NAACP who are non-violent tended to make the most progress in gaining their civil rights and are more likely to exist still today.

Disclaimer: I own none of the images.

Sources:

1.  Seltzer, Rick, and Grace M. Lopes. “The Ku Klux Klan: Reasons for Support or Opposition Among White Respondents.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1986, pp. 91–109. JSTOR, https://www-jstor-org.proxyse.uits.iu.edu/stable/pdf/2784043.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_expensive%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3A82c874052f38d91359ec94903d1f9304

This article gives a brief history on the creation of the Ku Klux Klan and discusses research on racism and authoritarianism. The authors of the article created a survey for people to take so they could determine the extent of support for the KKK or the extent to which people don’t support the radical group.

2. “KKK Founded.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 4 Mar. 2010, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kkk-founded

This article gives a more detailed history of the Ku Klux Klan including when they were founded and by who. It also explained why the KKK was formed and the views they held of pro-violence. The Klan’s formation led to many deaths of African American men, women, and children through burning, lynching, beating and even bombing. The Klan had many reprisals despite the Supreme Court declaring the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional. This is a useful source because it clearly displays the information needed to provide to readers and aids in furthering the conclusion that the Klan was clearly wrong.

3. History.com Editors. “NAACP.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/naacp

This article gives a detailed history surrounding the founding of the NAACP and its goals. The NAACP was an organization created to further the Civil Rights Movement and defend African Americans against the injustices brought on by white society and government officials. Their most-known case is Brown V. Board which some white people didn’t approve of and protested against, often using violence as a tool.

4. History.com Editors. “CORE.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/congress-of-racial-equality

This article gives a detailed history surrounding the founding of CORE and their goals in aiding the Civil Rights Movement and the peaceful protests they participated in which resulted in violence. It goes on to give more information surrounding what they do, however I didn’t use this as a main source of information.

5. History.com Editors. “SNCC.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 12 Nov. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc

This article gives a detailed history surrounding the founding of SNCC. They were a non-violent group of young African Americans so they could have a voice in the Civil Rights Movement. Like the other articles from history.com I did not use this as my main source of information, just a few snippets.

6. “White Citizens’ Councils (WCC).” The Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute, 5 June 2018, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/white-citizens-councils-wcc

This website gives a biography on the WCC starting with the Brown V. Board decision. I used this to find an example of casualties at the hands of WCC members. In this case, it was Medgar Evers, local chairman of the NAACP.

7. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Southern Christian Leadership Conference.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 12 Feb. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Southern-Christian-Leadership-Conference

This website provides background information regarding the SCLC and its founding. Like the other groups it played a critical role in the Civil Rights Movement through carefully coordinated non-violent teaching opportunities and at times protest rallies such as the March on Washington.

8. American Public Media. “American RadioWorks – State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement.” APM Reports – Investigations and Documentaries from American Public Media, http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/mississippi/e1.html

This article details the White Knights of the KKK in Mississippi and the amount of violence they were responsible for throughout the 1960’s, led by Edward L. McDaniel. There is an insight given as to what it was like for African Americans living in Mississippi and the danger they were in at the hands of the local chapter of the Klan.

9. “Murder in Mississippi.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/

This article discusses the deaths of three CORE members traveling through Mississippi: Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Henry Schwerner. After being jailed and forced to pay a fine for a speeding ticket, they were followed by the KKK and brutally murdered.

10. Niekerken, Bill Van. “The Death of a Black Panther: 50 Years after Bobby Hutton’s Killing.” SFChronicle.com, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2018, https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/The-death-of-a-Black-Panther-50-years-after-12855923.php

This article is about the death of 17-year-old Bobby Hutton during a physical ambush from the Black Panther Party to the Oakland police. This set out to prove that despite the BPP’s claim of self-defense they are inclined to instigate violence, thus tarnishing their reputation far more than the media could have.

11. “1965 Selma to Montgomery March Fast Facts.” CNN, Cable News Network, 27 Feb. 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/us/1965-selma-to-montgomery-march-fast-facts/index.html

This describes briefly the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March in bullet points. It provides the three dates of the March that I was unable to find elsewhere and even provides a video of the March where you can clearly see protestors surrounded by tear gas.

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