who will i be there?

alamar, another amazing film to add the the list from the first person rural program.

getting excited for a few SFFS movies.

attending a BAVC presentation offered to "media maker" fellows tomorrow via nadia shihab! the presentation is on new media strategies which i'm not sure what that entails, but i think it will be cool to meet a new network of artists, particularly video artists who are working in the form of social/cultural documentary. i think it could give a lot of insight into my project overseas.

i have already been drawing on ethical questions about my project. some times the people who can help the most are already in the community. even if i stay two years, that is just a fraction of a lifetime. it's one of those things, i just need to play by ear, but also keep an open dialogue with myself and never lose sight of that awareness.

first person rural

agrarian utopia was good (on the long side and projected awfully in digital format) but kalendar by naomi uman was fantastic. and the next feature the sky turns by mercedes alvarez was amazing. more naomi uman to screen in the first person rural program. i'm so very excited by her. female FILMMAKERS. female MAKERS. i love it. not for the feminism theory aspect, but for the determined creative execution in an industry of men.

a similar but different industry to be noted is BioFuel Oasis, a women-owned and operating biodiesel station on the corner of ashby and sacramento in berkeley. they are amazing and offer support for the environmentally minded diesel drivers.

went to see la libertad by lisandro alonso. so good. day in the life of an argentinean wood-cutter: from dinner to dinner, defecating, eating armadillo, selling barked-stripped trunks for wood posts, looking for girls in a nowhere. it is part of an (to be expected) amazing week long program at the pacific film archive entitled, "first person rural: the new nonfiction". z and i plan to see all 6 screenings. looking most forward to "agrarian utopia" a documentary piece about rural life in thailand. potentially inspiring.

2/3 done with july1986 v.4.0

getting some days off, which means, more opportunities to photograph. to wrap up my northern california flora and fauna project in the little time i have left. usually, i am hesitant to say a project is at an end, but for the most part i am starting to understand that my photographs come from a very personal place in time, a mental state i can never expect to fully return to. at least not right now. looking back through all the various stages of my work, it is nice to see the overlap from the culmination of one project to the next. nothing dramatic, but there is thematic progression.

i like to hear about fellow peers moving on to grad school. it is looking farther and farther away for me. because life is unfolding surprisingly well. many petals in this year's flower.

would like to note what i choose to wear when i am working at home: fuchsia sweat pants and uggs. messy hair.

z says it is lillith fair on my end of the house (when i am working). he is typically listening to ambient drone jazz noise music, but i really like listening to fiona apple.

LOUISE NEVELSON:

Once her friend and patron Howard Lipman showed her an early American rocking chair that he had just acquired.
He asked Nevelson’s opinion of the chair.

“I couldn’t care less about the chair,” she said, “but look at its shadow.”

enjoying all the best parts of being alone.

a lot of anticipation and curing my sickness with boat noodles!