The Urban Sketchers website is really cool. This drawing is by Ilaria Petrussa.
Here’s another one.
Eleanor Doughty’s urban plein air sketches are wonderful.
I had never heard of takkyu-bin but it sounds great. At least in Japan. Can’t imagine it working reliably in the U.S. or Europe.
I wrote 5600 words today so I decided to reward myself with the Queen of Cocktails.
a silent adventure
Whenever people speak in L’Avventura I find their talk intrusive. I imagine a Phantom Edit of the movie that removes all the scenes in which people speak, and in which all sounds are replaced by one of Eno’s ambient compositions, so I could then contemplate the evocative images without distraction.
A letter from François Truffaut to Jean Renoir, telling the old master how much The Rules of the Game meant to him. Truffaut had lovely handwriting, I think, and made use of it in The Wild Child, where we see him, as Dr. Itard, writing in a journal about Victor’s progress, or lack thereof.
Truffaut wrote thousands and thousands of letters; he seems to have found it easier to speak his mind, and heart, in letters than in either phone calls or face-to-face meetings. Had he lived in the Age of Email I am certain that he would have continued to communicate by handwriting.