$%FIRST GIG IN 2010!*

I just got my ticket, I'm officially seeing Fanfarlo tonight

Fanfarlo - "I'm A Pilot" live at Johnny Brenda's (12/10/09) from Jenny Tate on Vimeo.

I'm looking forward to it :D

Bittorrent: 'Twin Peaks Season 1 has finished downloading' YAAAYY!!! ;)

:{THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL*!

I like Sparklehorse, I like David Lynch and not too long ago the two collaborated with Danger Mouse that guy who mixed together The Beatles' The White Album with Jay-Z's The Black Album and turned it into The Grey Album. He's also the other half of Gnarls Barkley who are best known for their hit song Crazy. So the three of them, Lynch, Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse worked on some music together with Lynch taking photographs inspired by the songs. For the songs to be recorded they asked the help from some other musicians such as The Strokes' Julian Casablancas (oh how I love his last name!), Nina Persson from The Cardigans and A Camp, as well as Suzanne Vega, Iggy Pop, and The Flaming Lips. However, the record company who was supposed to release the project pulled back with the result that the guys released the project onto the internet themselves and have started selling copies of both the album as well as the book of photographs from Lynch. So far I haven't been able to find a lot of those pictures, but I found some that I would like to share. So here you go. For more info on the project visit the official website. To listen to the album go here.







Pictures found here, here, here, here, and here.

$!MR. LYNCH HAS BEEN MEDITATING FOR OVER 33 YEARS|}

Last night I had to work at SMART cinema and got to watch my first movie there for free. Because my colleague Carina didn't mind me leaving early as all movies were already playing and those would be the last ones for the day, instead of leaving I asked if it would be alright to watch the movie that was playing in the big cinema. She was alright with that, so therefore I ended up seeing this documentary about David Lynch, called Lynch, or Lynch (One) by blackANDwhite. I have to say I feel so cool showing the movie for the people and then getting to watch the movie myself. It's so fun to work at this place. I love this job. So what I learned from the documentary. Well, firstly, Mr. Lynch meditates. Funny. He loves visiting old factories. And started making photographs dogitally. I already knew he shot his last film Inland Empire digitally, so nothing new there, but stil it was nice to see some footage of him at the set of the film. I learned how he works with his actors like Laura Dern, how he directs. I love him for the fact that he´s very involved and does a lot of things himself. That's something I can really appreciate. I love artists who are really in control of their work. I once again realized how it has to be like working on a film set as an actor and how fun it is to act and really be able to be busy with it and get directions from the director you are working with. It´s really fun. Lynch is also a sound engineer and used this old gramophone player to get some freaky sounds. The guy loves France and celebrates the 14th of July, Bastille day. I guess there was more, but so far this is what I could remember right now of all the things I found out about the guy. I also loved his appreciation of a good photograph, it's nice to see someone so passionate about something. And of course his hair, so fun this guy must be.

^\I'M GETTING MORE AND MORE CONFUSED~?

I feel that this is something that has been going on for months. It's all a mixture of photography and the use of things like photoshop, film and the whole digitalization etc. etc. I was supposed to work on university stuff, but I lost my focus. Right now, someone explain me please what exactly is the real exact difference between shooting a film on film or doing it digitally?! Or wait, I think I know very well what the difference is, I just don't seem to really know what the kind of camera is they use for most films. Here you will find a clip of the greatness that is mr. Gus Van Sant who apparently edited Elephant by hand! He's what you call a 'splicer', someone doing all the editing by cutting up the filmstock, instead of using all these editing software programs which exist for the computer. I found this clip at YouTube and one person replied by saying, I didn't know it was shot on film! But then I think, aren't all films, except for e.g. David Lynch's Inland Empire, shot on film? But then they just digitalize it to be able to cut? So I'm all confused, maybe I do know the difference and everything, but I still feel this is something I just can't truly get my head around. The photoshop thing in photography is another issue, something I'll one day bring to this blog as well. ;)