Hopperesque

Friday, 31 May 2013
How Close to the Edge
Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine how life is lived there, the violence and unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate it's impermanence, it's unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
Joan Didion
reblogged from Taylormorley
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Gary Winogrand 1964
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Memento Mori
Taken from his brother Jonathan Nolan's short story Memento Mori on www.impulsenine.com/homepage/pages/shortstories/memento_mori.htm, published in Esquire magazine, the haunting Neo Noir Christopher Nolan made as his debut in 2000 is still one of the best examples of the genre. One of the best reviews of Memento and the number of ways it can be considered can be found on www.filmsufi.com/2013/04/memento-christopher-nolan-2000.html
Memento Mori
Jonathan Nolan
March 2001 Esquire
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Memento
2000
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Death of a Cyclist
Juan Antonio Bardem
1955
http://www.mubis.es/titulos/muerte-de-un-ciclista-blu-ray/capturas-blu-ray
Monday, 27 May 2013
Black Shape
........... first, there was nothing out there, nothing in sight there. Then, as though the street-bed were water and this bulky black shape were a grotesque gondola, it came floating up out of the darkness from nowhere. And then suddenly, still with no sound whatsoever, there it was at a halt in position.
Cornell Woolrich
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Maartenoortwijn
reblogged from Flickr
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Thunder Road
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And i'm pulling out of here to win
Thunder Road
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen
1975
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Danny Lyon
reblogged from LeClownLyrique
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Sketches of Night
'Hopper read Life and he smoked cigarettes. Though i couldn't find out what brand he smoked. This magazine might have been on his nightstand. The woman in the painting, what is she holding ? A pack of Luckies ? A wad of money ? Hopper's wife said it was just a sandwich'.
Edward Hopper's Details
Jeremiah Moss
The New Yorker
May 23rd 2013
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Study for Nighthawks
Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper
Whitney Museum
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026289316
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