EIGHTEEN PICTURES OF AMELIE

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:10:44 -0700

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 film Amelie has been streaming on Netflix for a few months now. I watched it again. I love the storytelling, fragmented in such a way the script must look insane. Secondarily, the colors of each scene appear so well conceived (and shot)

STAR MAP

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:39:27 -0700

Finally. I live in Los Angeles. A lot of people ask about the allure. The toughest thing about that question is filtering the number of answers: the food, the shopping, the diversity, the landscapes, the way people look at each other and the way people look. I could go on; it’s hard to stop answering that question.

I thought it would be fun to make a useless, inaccurate map of where I live now as it relates to a few of my favorite Los Angeles discoveries from my first months of unbridled exploration, experimentation, and improvisation.

*The starred distances represent miles from my new home in an old building in Koreatown.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:42:48 -0800

I’m very fortunate: I knew I’d lose my job in advance, and was able to move home, pay off debt, and save through my unemployment. Without returning to debt, I was able to indulge on a couple spending sprees, and a birthday didn’t hurt my recent accumulation of awesome stuff.

My parents took me shoe shopping for my birthday gift, and we found a pretty idiosyncratic pair of Timberlands, different from the bulky hip-hop-ish brand stereotype. These are light and soft, and each shoe is slightly different than the other. One of the nicest things I own.

EVALUATING JANUARY MOVIES

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:28:41 -0800

I watched 16 movies in January. While my second viewing of The Hangover lived up to the first, Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control sticks with me the most. It tells a patient story with unrelenting style. Every shot is like a painting, especially the shots of paintings. I have to put it on a different shelf than

EATING LOS ANGELES

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:34:25 -0800

Los Angeles seems like a novelization of everything a city can be. It takes great patience and guidance to remove the husk, but I’ve yet to see a limit to the kernels within. Even the sunset (pictured above from Venice Beach) looks like a mysterious, hyper-color cocktail of possibility. Below: the adventure told in meals.