Month: November 2017

Fritz Lang, “Metropolis”: Film History Series

Fritz Lang, “Metropolis” 1927

“Metropolis” is the classic silent-movie industrial dystopia from 1927. It portrays a futuristic city comprising a two-tier society of haves and have-nots who are kept unaware of each other’s existence. It had a budget of five million Reichsmarks, making it the most expensive film produced in 1927.

Numerous attempts have been made to restore the film since the 1970s. A new reconstruction of “Metropolis” was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001, and the film was inscribed on  UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in the same year, the first film thus distinguished. In 2008 a damaged print of Lang’s original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina. After a long restoration process, the film was 95% restored and shown on large screens in Frankfurt and Berlin simultaneously on 12 February 2010.

Italo Calvino: “A Vague Murmur: The Sea”

Photographer Unknown, (Soft Morning Light)

“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds:a croaking and squeaking, a swift rustle in the grass, a plop in the water, a pattering on earth and pebbles, and high above all, the call of the cicada, The sounds follow one another, and the ear eventually discerns more and more of them -just as fingers unwinding a ball of wool feel each fiber interwoven with progressively thinner and less palpable threads, The frogs continue croaking in the background without changing the flow of sounds, just as light does not vary from the continues winking of stars, But at every rise or fall of the wind every sound changes and is renewed. All that remains in the inner recess of the ear is a vague murmur: the sea.” 

—Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees, 1957

 

James R Eads

James R Eads, “Gathering for the Healing Vibes”

James R. Eads was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, California. He attended college at Skidmore in upstate New York. After living in Brooklynn, New York for a few years, he relocated back to his hometown Los Angeles. He lives and works at the Brewery Arts in Los Angeles. His studio is open to the public during the bi-annual artwalks.

Garrett King

Garrett King, “Deep in the Forest”

Garrett King is an adventurous lifestyle and landscape photographer and filmmaker who travels all over the world working on personal and commercial projects. He currently is based in Seattle, Washington. Hi camera of choice for both photos and video is the Sony a7R III: he uses the Sony RX100 V and the Sony RX0 for video logging and quick shots.