June 30ths
December 30ths 6/30/1999 On the Red Violin film: Years ago it was the instrument itself that became the memory, now it's the sound, the recording or the cultural footprint that the artist makes that gets remembered. [2025: Containers of Music ] 6/30/2001 Interesting: Bill Kurtis traveled the world and found that he resonated with a simple place like Kansas. Everyone has one place where they fit in perfectly. Went to Davis Theater to see AI . It had its moments, good and bad. Kubrick was always like that: brilliant moments spoiled by stupid stuff. Things I liked: the “designed” scenes, camera angles, reflections, and so on. If they repeated some of that throughout the film, it would have made it 100% better. Also, the Amen people circa 4500 AD. [6/30/2025: Like all paradigmatic technologies, AI is a trope, a mythology, woven into the human experience. For artists, these things are typically grist for the mill.] 6/30/2002 ...
