Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Great video...but such unflattering trousers! As for that bilious yellow suit!
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Many thanks, Sofie. There is something deeply satisfying--almost visceral-- about cinema interiors like these. No wonder they used to call them 'dream palaces'.
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We pay (donate?) $15 a month to Werewolf and would be happy to do the same for this new venture (and PA, of course!). All it might entail is stopping another subscription or two.
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Venetia King,
I am focusing on cinemas still operating as there are historians far better than I to record those which have passed on. Kaurismaki, eh? One of my all-time favourite directors. Have you seen Le Havre ?
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Danielle,
Excellent, Danielle!
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
That Patsy Kane strip is a bit of a treat, eh. Rather risqué for its time and, artistically, far superior to the average seaside postcards of half-clad young women?
I used a strip from September 1956 by Gore, where he was promoting the cause of Gustave von Tempsky as a more appropriate local hero for local boys, over imported figures such as Davy Crockett. It was all connected to the 1955 Rabbits Act and the banning of rabbit meat and rabbit skins---to forestall the manufacture of Davy Crockett hats. I donned my own hat (made in NZ from possum fur!)' to rapturous applause. Interesting corners of social history!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Venetia King,
Hybrids...and lovely
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asparagus
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Plum blossom (edible by Christmas):
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Some first signs of spring: the first shoot from the new asparagus bed (and garlic beyond) and the first plum blossoms. Also a shot of the pink-flowering oxalis.
