Shuffle Festival @ St. Clements Social Club

St. Clements is a fomer mental facility in Mile End that recently opened its doors again to give place to a very peculiar Social Club. To help get the word out Danny Boyle*, the friendlier neighbour they could wish for, organised a mini Film Festival called Shuffle.

Both Shuffle and St. Clements are incredible good ideas, so watch this space for a second Shuffle and go and have a look at that incredible building in East London, they have cafés, bars, music, vintage stuff, nice gardens, incredible stories, and mysterious places for you to enjoy!


*He was always around, you can see him in my shy fan photo ;)

Emotional Pantone

A couple of weeks ago I saw on TV a little bit of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. As I was watching I started to remember how I loved that film the first time I saw it. I thought it was amazing how that wonderful couple (Gondry/Kaufman) managed to create Lacuna Inc, something that I guess we all have wished it existed at some point of our lives. I was happy to see that Jim Carrey was a surprisingly perfect fit for the Joel character, same goes to Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst and (creepy) Elijah Wood, and specially I loved Clementine, that "fucked up girl looking for her own peace of mind", that had so much yet so little in common with me.

Anyway. Clementine's hair-color changed depending on her mood. When she and Joel meet on the train she was wearing it blue, Blue Ruin. This name supposedly was given to that color (and mood) because of a Tom Waits song: 9th and Hennepin. Dark.

It is known by everyone that colors have influence in our emotions. I've been reading that since my early days in uni, for saying the least. But just so you know the reason I decided to make this badges was not that distant theoretical knowledge, it was Blue Ruin, Clementine, Eternal Sunshine, Montauk and its overrated sand. Someone has to have the job of naming colors, she said on that train. Why not me?

The badges are almost ready. I'm adjusting colors and designing the packaging. I'll keep you posted about this and I hope you like them.

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."  

Alexander Pope. 

Indoors

View from my balcony.

I don't like the summer that much you know? And I think, ironically enough, that's because I grew up in the Caribbean. In Caracas to be more precise. The higher temperatures there are not as high as in south of South America or in Europe (France, Spain, Italy) for that matter. Our eternal summer is around 25-30 degrees all year, a little colder (18C) in December. For that reason feeling that much heat without being on the beach doesn't make sense to me.

This past week was really hot, therefore I spent a lot of time indoors watching movies. I've seen already The Iron Lady, The Ides of March, Drive and Sherlock Holmes 2. I almost ready for the Oscars minus The Descendants and The Artist, which I'm looking forward to see. If you were fancying a good movie, or you were needing an excuse to see Ryan Gosling, I recommend for very different reasons any of the above.

The Future

Yesterday I saw Miranda July's The Future and I think I liked it. True to her peculiar and too-cool-for-school way of telling stories this movie was somehow magic and complex at the same time. At the end of the movie I really didn't know how to feel. I can only compare it to the end of a psychotherapy session. Mixed feelings of confusion, relieve and lots of new questions popping into my head. Nevertheless I recommend it. Even if you ended up hating it. Why not?


Here's a scene that didn't make it to the final cut of the movie to which I can relate completely.

Midday in Paris

The past Saturday I saw Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and I really really enjoyed it. I specially liked the reflection he does about that sensation that I reckon we all experiment sometimes in our lives of being born in a time that doesn't suit us. All times past always seems better... but that's just an illusion, or as Rachel McAdams says being in love with a fantasy. Even though I don't agree with her character on anything else, I think she's right about that because one shouldn't waste too much time with illusions from the past you can't do anything about, specially if you can focus your energy in making the best of your present and shape it after your dreams... right?

Nevertheless I expend a lot of time on Sunday watching the photos of my last trip to Paris, and listening to Cole Porter... a little nostalgia and contradiction is allowed after all.

The Dark Side of Oz

I guess everybody knows the urban legend about syncing Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon but just a few have actually try it out. Well, now is your chance. Bryan Pugh a Sound Engineer from Brooklyn has done all the dirty work, now you just have to click on his Vimeo Channel and see/hear for yourself if it was just a legend or if Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Sid Barret were actually this crazy playful Oz/Wonderland fans.

PS: Did you check the new Blogger look already?

Good Night

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"It was easier when I just imagined you."

Rubber

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"Rubber" film by Quentin Dupieux (Mr Oizo) scored by him + Gaspard Auge (Justice)

No tengo palabras más que decirles que vean el trailer aqui.

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I have no words except: watch the trailer here.

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Misceláneas de Black Swan

Once you black... swan... you never go back... swan.

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