I could say you must change your way of looking at things to appreciate Vispo, but wouldn't want to assume that you don't already know how to 'look' at it. Besides, it's not so much how you look, but how you think, eh? I call this 'Vispo' because..,just because? Because it's more Vis than Concrete, maybe. It derives from an original piece created on the Olympia typewriter, then altered through scanning.
Going through a Woody Allen phase these days, having virtually ignored him since those classics around the time of Annie Hall....up to Zelig...oh, and Hannah And Her Sisters. I don't know why but he got...forgotten, which is criminal considering how great Bullets Over Broadway is...and Mighty Aphrodite is good too. Last night we watched Midnight In Paris - what a treat. As always, a great cast and story, about which I'll say very little in case you want to watch it. Toulouse-Lautrec makes an appearance, as does Salvador Dali, played with relish by Adrien Brody. Ernest Hemmingway features too. As romantic (of course) and funny as it is, Allen also explores what it means to be dissatisfied with contemporary life and yearn to have lived in a specific era.
Obviously, Paris (or even Berlin) in the 1920s would have been a good place and time to live. However, being an Anglophile, I would choose London in the 1960s. I know I'm over-romanticizing both the place and the period, and I suspect things might not have been as exciting as people think, but still...
ReplyDelete60s London would be a good choice. You'd just have to watch that you don't start out as a graphic artist in an Italian-style suit only to end the decade on LSD wearing a kaftan and spouting nonsense!
DeleteThinking of anybody in particular?
DeleteNo, but I think many would fit the bill.
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