call me for a reel good time

Sam Marine: Director's Reel from Sam Marine on Vimeo.

i guess this is why i was fired.

Had a dream last night in which I was sent to get miso soup for the crew of OCC before their flight, in some fantastic version of NYC where all of the workers are Asian and all of the tourists are Eurotrash. From the bar where Jody gave me my order--and refused to give me money, telling me to seek out someone I didn't know how to recognize--was a complicated set of wooden stairs. Very steep. After climbing them, I found only more stairs. And more, and crowded areas of Europeans under umbrellas whose drinks I kept bumping into. I was losing my mind and with every step my feet got heavier and heavier. Little Asian feet will take you much farther; I couldn't figure out their efficiency, but they kept swooping past me with plastic bags full of hot food. Finally I broke down and asked a friendly-looking Swedish couple to help me interpret the address I was given. 96C79Z Street?

I was just beginning to see buildings when it occurred to me that I should have just ordered delivery.

romance may not be dead, but it can be dying

i'm feeling a little romantic so here are some of my favorite, brief, flickering instances of love in film. bon appetit.











as doomed as they might have been, sometimes i think this is the most we can hope for.

artsy stuff i've done

here's some stuff I worked on in college

sets:
- tree for living room (gaffer's tape: 2006)

- the all nighter (spray paint: 2006)

movies:
- see you. cinematography: shan huang (16mm: 2006)

- amadeus. cinematography: sam marine (video: 2006)

- real girls. cinematography: sam marine (video: 2007)

- game 6. cinematography: shelly kamiel, taylor williams (video: 2007)

- memories are xysters (autobio). cinematography: shelly kamiel, shan huang, nathan rogers-hancock, brian marine, sam marine (video: 2007)

- 3 perspectives. cinematography: taylor williams (video: 2007)

- apiary. cinematography: sam marine (video: 2007)

- making tom rourke is a vegetarian. photos by yoon michelle jung. cinematography: shan huang (video: 2008)

- making motion sick. photos by alan lapointe, anna todd. cinematography: shelly kamiel (HD: 2009)

poses:
- by Bob Clyatt (2009)

- by Miriam Schulman (2008)

make-up:
- zombie. zombie prom 2009

- clown. married girl by alex lopez (2009)

- chinese. halloween 2008

4 years goes so fast

who died and made you king of the zombies?

Since 2007, SUNY Purchase has annually celebrated the mystery of death and the even greater mystery of un-death with our very own ZOMBIE PROM. Dancing, mayhem, the feasting of brains, and a ton of fake blood--who short of Michael Jackson would dream this up?

A: Art school kids.

1. Me & Kelley 2. Jake 3. Boy-Sam (all from 2008). Photos by Alan.

If you enjoy getting drunk and playing dress up, which any post in this blog should tell you I do, then zombie prom is a great time. I've never been able to give it the proper documentation it deserves, but this year they set up a green screen for pictures. Huzzah! Braaaaaaaainnnnns.

And people wonder why I'm gonna miss this school.

Fela Kuti - Zombie!

insane clown posse (art must be beautiful)

I recently read an article on how to be a great conversationalist. It advised against bringing up certain topics that could potentially offend, including politics, religion, unpleasant smells, and "dark topics such as serial killers and stalkers." If I can't bring up serial killers, then WHAT am I supposed to talk about? The weather?

Along that line of thinking, I give you a few snapshots from MARRIED GIRL, a film by Alex Lopez, aka A. Lo, i.e. my classmate (shown above). She needed extras dressed as clowns emerging from a giant vagina, for a shroom hallucination sequence. Try to note the smiley face balloon which aptly represents the clitoris. The dress I wore is vintage mod gear from the 60s that I inherited. I did my own make-up; going for the "dead clown" look, I was often mistaken for a member of Kiss. I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHICH ONE.



The answer is Ace Frehley.

This week I was also subject to Marina Abramović's ART MUST BE BEAUTIFUL. It comments on society's obsession with beauty and the pain it inflicts on women (in this case, translated literally) who are expected to carry the burden. It also goes on for much longer than that and we had to watch most of it. "Wow! Gross! Deep." Personally I think the 30-second clip suffices.

I guess that makes it a feminist friday??

silent hill, the dance.

Silent Hill, the game:


Silent Hill, the movie:


Silent Hill, the dance:


Thanks to Jord. Further reading on Butoh here.

"The body is the costume of the soul." - Kazuo Ohno