25 june 2003
i'm crossing avenue b at 6th street and see two things: a young preppy couple carrying bulging saks fifth avenue bags, and a young preppy guy i recognize from the elevator of my office building—he works at chase manhattan. it's not like i'm not gentrifying the neighborhood too, i tell self.
posted June 25, 2003 in delivery25 june 2003
i'm crossing avenue b at 6th street and see two things: a young preppy couple carrying bulging saks fifth avenue bags, and a young preppy guy i recognize from the elevator of my office building—he works at chase manhattan. it's not like i'm not gentrifying the neighborhood too, i tell self.
posted June 25, 2003 in delivery24 june 2003
gerda knig, the tiny director of germany's din a 13 ... has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair -- except when she is onstage ... a graduate student of psychology, knig started dancing in a workshop with alito alessi, a pioneer in the disabled dance field. ''he questioned everything, beauty, normality, what is professional,'' she says. ``there was one woman who was very very spastic, and he just said that's nice movement, and afterwards this woman did incredible movements no one else could do. that made everything in my head different." ... knig founded din a 13, a group of able-bodied and disabled dancers, in 1996, and the group has received considerable acclaim. knig thinks audiences respond because she stays focused on larger human issues. ''i never work on a disabled theme, i'm not interested,'' she says ... body distance between the minds, which knig and marc stuhlmann perform friday, portrays a struggling, passionate relationship. both dancers are nude and painted blue from the waist up. some have found the half-nude knig in an often sensual duet with an able-bodied man disturbing. knig calls this american prudishness.posted June 23, 2003 in delivery- jordan levin, "for disabled dancers, challenge is internal," the miami herald 24 june 2003
24 june 2003
gerda knig, the tiny director of germany's din a 13 ... has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair -- except when she is onstage ... a graduate student of psychology, knig started dancing in a workshop with alito alessi, a pioneer in the disabled dance field. ''he questioned everything, beauty, normality, what is professional,'' she says. ``there was one woman who was very very spastic, and he just said that's nice movement, and afterwards this woman did incredible movements no one else could do. that made everything in my head different." ... knig founded din a 13, a group of able-bodied and disabled dancers, in 1996, and the group has received considerable acclaim. knig thinks audiences respond because she stays focused on larger human issues. ''i never work on a disabled theme, i'm not interested,'' she says ... body distance between the minds, which knig and marc stuhlmann perform friday, portrays a struggling, passionate relationship. both dancers are nude and painted blue from the waist up. some have found the half-nude knig in an often sensual duet with an able-bodied man disturbing. knig calls this american prudishness.posted June 23, 2003 in delivery- jordan levin, "for disabled dancers, challenge is internal," the miami herald 24 june 2003
9 june 2003
did this this afternoon/evening right after i walked home and noticed how nice the light was. needs some work, in progress.
posted June 09, 2003 in delivery9 june 2003
did this this afternoon/evening right after i walked home and noticed how nice the light was. needs some work, in progress.
posted June 09, 2003 in delivery11 june 2003
"i have come to annoy you," announces michel bouquet as he barges into philippe noiret's apartment, and this may as well have been mr. blier's promise to the audience. the film, which starts out on a note of buñuelian surrealist farce, quickly becomes a curdled burlesque, in which mr. blier's once-daring sexual politics are shown to have putrefied into a turgid stew of retrograde attitudes, like a nursing-home edition of maxim.
- a. o. scott, "remembering cannes 2003: worst festival ever," the new york times 1 june 2003
posted June 01, 2003 in film