MD3000 = DESIGN

“Watch” a film by Michael Dwyer and Robert Todd.

Watch is a portrait of Konrad Brzezinski, a master watchmaker, and his wife Ursula in Rye, NY. 

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Danny McBride is a comedic  genius as evidenced by his LOFL hit on HBO “Eastbound  and Down”. I was determined to get to a real theater and see “Your Highness” based on my enjoyment of the HBO show, plus the movie has Natalie Portman’s Oscar winning a$$, and James Franco who was good in Spiderman and really good in “Milk”.

Portman played here  role without any sense of irony or absurdity which would have helped.

What a colossal letdown. The movie only tried to be funny for  about  20% of the time. The other 80% was a straight-faced action ? adventure? fantasy? I’m not even sure what it was, except un-funny. 

How  does this happen, that someone so talented as a writer  and actor can create something that is not  even close to hitting the mark? I have no idea, except to guess that Hollywood or just plain bad judgement is  to blame.

I eagerly await the third season of  Eastbound  and Down so that Danny McBride can redeem himself.

This movie is a puzzle with no answer.

Backyard, Saturday night.

The installation is composed of 16 eight-foot-tall aluminum “trees” containing audio speakers, lights and photo-electric sensors placed in a 4 x 4 grid. As people touch the “trees”, they trigger an ever-changing score of melodic and environmental sounds. Depending on the time of the day, participants may also trigger pre-programmed sound patterns—a flock of frogs, crickets crawling through the open space, or a swarm of fireflies passing overhead at night, essentially provocative “sound images.”

Anything you say…

The outward environment is merely a reflection of the inner life condition.

Art gone by