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Yearly Archive: 2013
Lou Nell Gerard
December 28, 2013
(OK, I exaggerate, but I can’t help myself…) When Klee and I took the MSF course they were teaching SIPDE: Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute; and look where you want to go. Both of these not only improved my riding…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 19, 2013
What’s the connection? Smaug in The Desolation of Smaug put me in mind of Ray Harryhausen, master of special effects who died earlier this year. Apparently the thirteen year old Harryhausen saw the 1933 King Kong, with stop-motion animation courtesy…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 18, 2013
There is something about Peter Jackson’s vision of Tolkien’s world that works really well for me. I think we all develop strong visuals of the books we read, especially such richly penned works like The Hobbit and The Lord of…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 14, 2013
Être et avoir, (To Be and to Have), 2002, directed by Nicolas Philibert. French with English subtitles. This award-winning documentary captures a year at a rural one-room school in France with a dozen students ranging in age from 4 to…
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Lou Nell Gerard
November 7, 2013
This wonderful gouache by Franz Marc is only one of the ~1,400 artworks found in a Munich apartment among piles of garbage which has me thinking about a few films related to this story. I have three in particular in…
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Lou Nell Gerard
September 5, 2013
We were in Cabo San Lucas many years ago and had taken a water taxi to Land’s End. We were to jump off the bow into the surf and walk ashore. Our companions and Klee had all gotten off unaware…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 29, 2013
Interested in industrial design, husband and wife creative teams, designs with lasting influence? Then check out: Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011), written by Jason Cohn, directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey. This is probably one of the…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 22, 2013
Recently watched “The Return” directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (2003). Superb direction, cinematography and acting working a good story. Mystery that is not solved, suspense & human drama without exclamation marks and expletives. A man, a husband a father returns after…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 18, 2013
We recently saw four documentaries about film. There were common threads intertwining these films on film and I was glad we saw them in close proximity which highlighted their connections. I recommend watching these as a set, but each one…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 17, 2013
So, mom was a photo journalism major. She used words and used them well though, like many other mothers of the late 1940s and 1950s she elected motherhood and community service over career…it seemed more of an either/or matter in…
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