Mindblown:
A blog at the intersection of life and art.
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CLASS SHOW: Intro to Nonsense w/ Chad Damiani
WEDNESDAY, JAN 24, 2024, 7:30 PM PST The Elysian Theater 1944 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA https://www.squadup.com/events/class-show-save-the-show-intro-to-clown-w-chad-damiani-1 Doors at 7:00pm, show at 7:30pm
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Link: Best live comedy in LA right now is…a clown show?
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/comedy-loneliness-broad-museum/clown-show
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Santa Ana College News: “In Focus” Guest: Ezra Lunel
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Make Your Own Vertigo Shot
via the New York Times: Make Your Own Vertigo Shot by Mekado Murphy You’ve seen the shot. That woozy moment when a character’s world is transformed. The camera zooms in or out. The background bends.It’s often called the “Vertigo Effect.” Here’s how it works… Scan this QR code to open in your smartphone and Create…
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The Feminine Sublime: Pedro Almodóvar’s Filmic Treatment of Women
(top) Penélope Cruz & Pedro Almodóvar – photograph by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello (bottom) Elena Anaya and Pedro Almodóvar – photograph by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello by Ezra Lunel Pedro Almodóvar’s evolving depictions of women – within his films’ narrative conceits and glossy artifice, multifarious genres, social and pop-cultural references and his highly-crafted sense of…
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Leo and Mr. Bean
Leo and Mr. Bean Palm Springs Art Museum May 30, 2017 Canon EOS 6D EF-50mm f/1.4 1/100 ISO 250 Posing through: Red Lens (1983) by Frederick Eversley (American, born 1941) cast polyester resin Gift of the Estate of Eugene V. Klein
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Martin Amis on “Herzog”
Martin Amis, Zachary Leader and Sarah Churchwell join Matthew Sweet to discuss Saul Bellow and his masterpiece, “Herzog,” with readings by Kerry Shale. “Born exactly one hundred years ago on June 10, 1915 in Quebec, Bellow spent most of his life in Chicago and it formed the backdrop for many of his novels. In 1976…
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Picasso in Mougins
Pablo Picasso in Mougins, France, in 1971. Courtesy of RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images. Source: news.artnet.com
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The Idea of Carnival in Shakespeare’s Early Plays
Detail of Bottom from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Phunny Phorty Phellows 1883 invitation. Images from the Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. The Idea of Carnival in Shakespeare’s Early Plays The idea of carnival, a festive period of license and subversion of hierarchical order figures very strongly in several of…
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Photo: San Clemente State Beach
San Clemente State Beach, California Photo by Ezra Lunel
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Photo: San Clemente State Beach
San Clemente State Beach Photo by Ezra Lunel
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Photo: Shoreline Village
Shoreline Village, Long Beach, CA Photo by Ezra Lunel
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Audio: Anne Enright Reads “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
Anne Enright Reads John Cheever Read a synopsis of the podcast. Listen to John Cheever’s reading of the “The Swimmer” at the 92nd St. Y in 1977. Additional links, clips and interview snippets. Read “The Swimmer” by John Cheever, originally published in The New Yorker in 1964. Download the audio file of Anne Enright’s reading of “The Swimmer.”
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Photo: Modjeska, CA
by Ezra Lunel
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Photo Essay: “Paris Overnight” by Mark Power
From The New Yorker Online: The British Magnum photographer Mark Power was in Paris for the annual Paris Photo fair, having dinner out with some colleagues near the glass-domed Grand Palais, when news of the terror attacks started to trickle in the night of November 13th. The following morning, he says, “there was a silence…
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Excerpt: What’s behind the dream of colonizing Mars?
…the problem with thinking of Mars as a fallback planet (besides the lack of oxygen and air pressure and food and liquid water) is that it overlooks the obvious. Wherever we go, we’ll take ourselves with us. Either we’re capable of dealing with the challenges posed by our own intelligence or we’re not. Perhaps the…
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Review: “Prayers for the Stolen” by Jennifer Clement
Review and synopsis by Ezra Lunel A young girl comes of age amidst the threat of abduction and the brutal violence of narco-terrorists, in the rubble of families devastated by the loss of their men who immigrate north but never return. This is a deeply empathetic, keenly observed first-person narrative of what it’s like for…
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Zoomable Panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided a newly-assembled, sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy: “The image captures an area of almost indescribable proportions, some sixty-one thousand light-years from end to end, encompassing more than a hundred million stars.” The zoomable panorama is at: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/ The article is at:http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/slide-show-nasa-golden-age-vintage-photographs
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Kimmy at Cafecito Orgánico
Kimmy at Cafecito Orgánico (Anaheim, CA) Photo by Ezra Lunel
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Comic Relief: Guido-Visión!
Check out the extraordinary talent, imagination and adventure in my friend Lic Guido-Visión Rosas Duarte’s comic. Breathtaking! Direct link: http://guidovision.blogspot.mx/2015/01/in-heartbeat.html
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The Virtues of ‘Likeability’
There is a funny, wonderfully illustrative scene in Truffaut’s 1968 film “Stolen Kisses” in which one of the characters hires a private eye to follow him around to discover why people don’t like him. Despite how dopey (and charming!) this act appears, it in fact contains more self-awareness in it than most people, I suspect,…
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Photo Essay: Irvine Spectrum Center
Photos by Ezra Lunel, April, 2014.
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Photo Essay: MainPlace Mall, Santa Ana
Photos by Ezra Lunel, April 2014.
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Poem: “The Emergence of Oregon”
(PHOTO: JUSTIN FRANZ/COURTESY OF AMTRAK) Deep in the picture, pines spothills which open and give wayto ice-patched, snow-swathedlakes, jagged gray breaks, pilesof snow, formations of snow.The train pushes on insistently.Silent lengths, lines, clusters and copsesscintillate in the sun’s crazy white eye,the soapy bushes ready to be shaved;swift deer marks path along in the snowa color…
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Pop Quiz: Baader & Meinhof
Beerdigung Funeral 1988 | 200 cm x 320 cm | Catalogue Raisonné: 673 Oil on canvasGerhard Richter The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Pop Quiz I’m listening to a podcast in which an author, Chang-rae Lee, reads a short story, “Baader-Meinhof,” by Don DeLillo, about a woman and a man in a museum…
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Fiction: “Lecture Night for Jean-Paul Sartre”
Lecture Night for Jean-Paul Sartre by Ezra Lunel I was inside a densely crowded, humid, cigarette-smoke-fouled barn, constructed of simple plywood slats painted red. Closely-set chairs were arranged in rows of about twenty, and around the edges of the barn were narrow tables where food and drink were served. The barn was spacious, with soaring…
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Artifact: “In Event of Moon Disaster”
I encountered this gem of a historical document in a tucked away corner of the Nixon Presidential Library Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Penned by the late Bill Safire, this is the short, tragic, poetic address Richard Nixon presumably would have delivered to the nation (and the world) in the event of a disaster that left the two…
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The Codex I came through the door stumbling and unprepared, feeling myself pulled out of the sky, clapped down as it were like an insect, or like a fleeing, fluttering fowl brought forcefully to earth by an unseen hand. I landed — if “landed” is in fact a fair description of what I did,…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s (Sometimes) “Tough” Acting Technique Download this clip. TERRI GROSS: So, what kind of discussion do you have about a scene before doing it when you’re working with her? [i.e. Meryl Streep on the set of Doubt (2008)] Mr. HOFFMAN: Well, you’re with a director, too, so it’s not like it’s – you’re…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman by Michael Muller. Source: pinterest.com
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