the end of the week a sunset came by i walked to the market this little new flower crossed my path a $2.99 chance of happiness or at least of an orange smile
the newest guest tomorrow to plant and lazy distracted a noisy orange feeling and i grab a big orange book tonight
last night i watched this rather interesting documentary about the typeface Helvetica
the films introduces a lot graphic design and typography talk but also a lot of interesting points on global visual culture and how we recycle the visuals presented to us every day
the documentary balances between beautiful photography of New York City, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zürich, London and Münchenstein, Switzerland, where Helvetica was born and dynamic urban shots presenting the stellar Helvetica
all structured in between interviews with an endless list of graphic designers, typographists, and other graphic gurus
one thing that i think keeps this films so alive is that is a little controversial the filmmaker Gary Hustwit interviews both Helvetica advocates and Helvetica adversaries Helvetica users and Helvetica haters
yes! a typography can have enemies but then you'll have to watch the documentary don't want to spoil it for you just recommend it ah! cool music too
so here waiting for the results of this rainy election day
after about 6 months of dryness in San Diego today finally rained not very helpful for Elections day but great for our city
it was encouraging to see people running to the polling place even under the rain and to see NO on Prop 8 supporters holding banners under colorful umbrellas
also praise to the supporters of YES on Prop 2 against animal cruelty
here the latest results
and those always interesting numbers
and good idea of Starbucks to give free coffee away to voters! of course i had to get mine
Halloween came again days of pumpkins horror films and sugary treats
a quiet evening for me a little warm here in hell but look! another pumpkin here the '4734'
next to the 4734 is an little artifact made out of a pumpkin too an Argentinian Yerba Mate drinking cup the 'straw' is made out of metal (silver, i think?) talking about art made out of pumpkins as for misses 4734 once opened showed was no cooking material it was a little old for that so, so...
since a was young girl i remember feeling this little empty space in my stomach every Sunday night the idea that the fun part of the week was coming to an end, i guess
and since then i've found little cures for this
Die schöne Melancholie des Sonntag the beautiful Sunday's melancholy la hermosa melancolía de Domingo
i've been to movies to forget or when there's a new Simpsons on Sunday that's my breaking point but also a good early evening walk will suffice for the mini-closing of the weekend celebrating my own way of saying to this week curtains downs and welcome a new week ahead
already used twice this morning steaming sweet potatoes and the ah! long-awaited stir-fry which i just munched now accompanied of some crunchy brown rice
but as always i end up with some extra unplanned product so this time the extra-not-on-the-shopping-list-completely-unnecessary product is
but i just couldn't resist the elephants and the colors, or the idea of elephants with flowers and patterns on their bodies or the little elephants dunno, but it reminded me of a Beatles song one of the silly ones they made (wink) and oh well it's an Ikea weakness heh heh
again tonight little time set aside and write here about an outdated date 'cause tonight i write not about today's date but about Monday's
too tired to work took a Monday off just sat around and watch old Horror movies
1st I watched a very young Humphrey Bogart he was the infamous Doctor X in The Return of Doctor X (1939) a lip-less pale make-up doctor with a stroke of white hair, and glasses who holds & strokes a little white rabbit and runs experiments with synthetic blood mmm? even though, he's not the main character in the film and this was his 1st and last appearance on a horror film still rather recommendable film little quirky, but it was just 1939! better plot and script and surely grammar than we get in many now-a-days films
and then I watched this exquisite suspense movie a ghostly woman in white, but not quite a ghost story but a great thriller The Woman in White(1948)
this wonderful film was based on an epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins and it is considered the 1st official and precursor of the genre of mystery novels! now I am looking for the book...
so Monday was and I did lost of seating around and movie-watching and TV-picture taking
as for this Wednesday I wish it was Monday again
[random* notes on old-film watching] and the moral of the post just now & then, take a day off and watch some old films but truly old something before the 60's
I feel old-films truly detach you from reality there are no cell phones ringing on the films they didn't existed yet and everybody smokes, apparently lung cancer wasn't 'invented' yet either they drank whiskey at 10am and true men wore hats but also knew when to take them off and women ran with very high-heels without getting their hair messed-up while hiding from fictitious monsters or very real gangsters
and if the film is in black & white even better! you get to exercise your imagination and color yourself the film you get to decide if that pale shade of gray on the heroin's dress is either a light blue or a soft orange
old films are the only cinematic art that i can think of as the closest thing as reading a book is it rather refreshing!
