A film worth watching. Make sure you are living life… It doesn’t last for ever.

Wooo. Lots of stuff to post about New York this week.

Jonas Mekas tickles my mind every time I hear him speak. I briefly met the man at one of his openings last year in New York. We were stuck back in a far corner of the gallery. I looked over at him and said, “We’re trapped.” Jonas slowly looked over at me a yelled, “There’s always a way out!” and proceeded to push his way through the crowd and out of the gallery. I followed.

Don’t forget to take a look at Jona’s video diary website.

VBS.TV: Vice Guild to Travel

HBTV: Depth of Speed

HUH

I saw this film at the Omaha Zoo Imaz theatre. I’ve never seen a tornado in real life, and I think this was close enough.

rsvp here

Last night I stumbled upon a bar called On the Rocks. A hair metal cover band made up of 17 year old looking boys jumped on stage and began gusseling Finnish beers and playing the most classic American metal tunes by such artists as Def Lepeard, ACDC, Guns and Roses, mixed in with a few by the Ramones. The girls were in love.

Quick update: I’m in Helsinki. I am trying to find a ride to a small city two hours north called Tampere. Then I am planning on going back down to Helsinki to take the ferry across the Baltic Sea to the city of Tallinn, Estonia. After my stay there, I will go back to Helsinki for the weekend, then fly to Denmark to catch the train to Lund, Sweden.

I also dropped my first roll of 120 film while trying to take it out of my camera. I think I saved it, I hope. I was thinking about how much it would suck to drop a roll of film while assisting a photographer, then it just flew out of my hand. Fuck!

A few days ago, Cat and I went to Far Rockaway beach, met a man named Kwame, made a movie and then purchased a bottle of whipped cream at stop n shop. These are three stills from the film.

THE BEAST PAGEANT is a feature film full of fantastical characters, costumes, puppetry, animation and original music. It was shot on 16mm with a Bolex camera rescued from a dumpster. Albert Birney and Jon Moses wrote and directed it together in Rochester, New York.

I just watched Let The Right One in, it was great. The trailer dosn’t do it justice.

and a good song from the final scene.