I still don't fully understand the movie Pecker. I assume that a lot of the humor is reserved for those inside the NYC gallery scene and the very, extremely gay. But there is a growing list of indicators that it is a much more serious movie than it first appears.
First of all, there are serious people featured in the film. Cindy Sherman is hilarious as some version of herself - as a casual fan of her pictures I prefer to not know too much about her personal life - in Pecker she comes to the rescue of the manic, sugar-addicted character Little Chrissy, who is in the throes of a terrible jones, "Do you want a valium, honey?" The film also features Christina Ricci, who is probably the closest female professional-acting-career analog to Johnny Depp, so that bodes well. Lily Tayler is in it, too.
But I was most surprised by this movie, which I viewed for the first time last week, when this morning I caught up with the New York Times' Lens Blog, which ran a story on a blind photographer. This very improbability is presented as satire in Pecker.
30 June 2009
Pecker
29 June 2009
New photos
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28 June 2009
Takin a dump...
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25 June 2009
Longview Lake
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24 June 2009
Nikon F35 AF
This is a competent little shooter - and the interface is appealing and easy - but I think I should do my part to prevent the spread of Internet Overhype as regards this camera. It's not great. Not even good by my standards. The tone, color, and contrast were unpleasantly characteristic on the one roll of Fuji Reala I spent on this camera. It wasn't so far off that I couldn't bend the scanned, digital negatives back to reality, but it is not a good place to start from. Every bit of information I found about this camera online said that it was great. It's not. If it were as great as they say, you find some variation of this camera - Nikon One Touch, Sears knockoffs, etc. - in so many thrift stores. Since discovering this camera I briefly considered collecting all the fascinating variations on its design; it is like its own phylum in the taxonomy of film cameras. But the general crappiness of even the original made me think better of it.
Looking at this camera from my perspective - relatively ignorant, absolutely remote in time - it makes me wonder what made it so appealing. Actually it looked appealing to me after I read about the camera - I thought I had a great find. Even when I first got the CD of digital negatives from the lab, it took me a while to admit that they were junk. Sometimes when I am convinced of a camera's/lens' quality before actual use, it is very difficult to see what I am actually looking at.
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23 June 2009
test posting from blogger.com
looks like you have to do this...
to embed a flickr photo. no slick interface.
had to paste code from the flickr page for that photo. how do you do page breaks for headlines?
And here is the rest of it.
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