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workbench
I watched Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) last night. I hadn’t seen any Fassbinder films before and I know now from watching the second disc that this film marked a turning point for him from making stark emotionless films. Fear Eats the Soul is stark in some ways but also lucious, warm, and saturated and is filled with emotion, tenderness, and the social complexity of simple personal choices.
The film is somewhat based upon Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows which Fassbinder credited as changing his entire outlook on filmmaking. Sirk’s film is the same film that inspired Todd Haynes’ Far from Heaven.
I’ll have to see more Fassbinder I guess. I’m not sure if I’m as interested in his more stark films prior to 1974 but I’ll have to see. Any recommendations?
dragon city
An old-ish shot from Dragon City in Toronto’s Chinatown. I should have some new images back from the photo place tomorrow. I took in 3 rolls of the pile that I had here and I’m not sure what they were of so it will be a bit of a surprise pack.
votives
One disadvantage to not using a digital camera most of the time is that I couldn’t come back from yesterday’s Toronto Photoblogger Meet-up with any instant shots of the geeky good times. I did take a few shots with the AE-1 but those won’t surface for a while still.
Here’s a rundown of who attended:
Rannie : Photojunkie
Gayla : Making Happy
Davin : Low Resolution
Jon : Groundglass
Zee : I’ll call you Zee
Chris : Free Delivery
Chris : Visual Palate
Simon : Three Apples High
Carrie : Delineated
Matt : The Photo Mat
Natalie : Luminescent
Matt : The Narrative
Alison : Hello and Lala Land
David : This Boy is Toast
There was some talk, some of it from me, of making the meet-ups monthly. It was good to see everyone and meet some new people and overdose on camera talk big time. Chris was talking about doing something at his place with projections and drinks and such so maybe next month before Toronto freezes over.
Oh and here’s a funny picture taken by Jon at Ground Glass — a pricey tableload of cameras new and old.