Recent “Musings” Posts
If you’re anywhere near New York City this weekend, and if you live/eat/sleep documentary films (and I know you do) you’d better be at the Cinema Eye Honors this Sunday night. The awards recognize outstanding artistic achievements in nonfiction filmmaking, and the attendee list is star-studded: Oscar-winner Man on Wire’s James Marsh and Philippe Petit, Morgan Spurlock, Laurie Anderson, Jehane Noujaim, documentary legends DA Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, and dozens more.
I’ve got one word for you: historic. Be there.
-Gary
Categories: Musings
You know when you tell someone you like robots, or toy cars, or whatever, and then every year people keep giving you robots or car-related gifts? And after a few years you’ve got a bookshelf full of tchotchkes? Here’s what I got in the mail today:
Okay, presents are awesome (thanks Co!), but… what in the world am I going to do with 20 different sized Helvetica note pads??? (I might actually use the Moleskine though…) And this is just the tip of the typographic iceberg, my friends. My life is getting taken over by this stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of Helvetica-related merch piling up around here: t-shirts, posters, skateboards…
I might have to hold a Helvetica-related rummage sale soon…
-Gary
Categories: Musings
If you’re in Minneapolis/St. Paul, you need to go to this tonight. And if you’re not in the Twin Cities, you can watch it live on the web, from 7pm to 9pm, CST. Snuggle up with your laptop and watch some serious Dutch punk rock modernists in action. It might be a lecture, or maybe they’ll just sit on stage and spin records? You never know with the Jetset…
Categories: Design News, Musings
Just got the Warhol Screen Tests DVDs in today… nice… get one.
Categories: Musings
Director Gary Hustwit is now on Twitter, posting updates from the Objectified screening tour and other randomness. Follow him.
Categories: Musings
Question: how many manufactured objects did you touch this morning, between waking up and leaving your house?
Categories: Musings, Production Stills
Plexifilm, the Brooklyn-based DVD label and distributor of Helvetica, is looking for a few volunteer interns interested in the utterly non-glamourous world of independent film.
If you:
- live in New York City
- eat/sleep/breathe independent film and music
- have a couple days a week to spare
Contact Brian Betancourt: brian [at] plexifilm [dot] com
Categories: Musings
One of the strange and beautiful things about living in New York is that eventually you’ll see every type of manufactured object, usually in perfect working order, lying on the sidewalk. Joe the Editor and I were getting lunch last week when we came across a lonely stereo system in the snow, and decided to immortalize it on film before its trip to the landfill. The beer bottles were also a nice touch. For all your years of rocking, Snowy Stereo, we salute you.
Question: What’s the most interesting object you’ve ever found on the sidewalk?
-Gary
Categories: Musings, Production Stills
It’s Helvetica night in America, the 53-minute TV version of the film airs on PBS tonight (in some cities it’s on this weekend, check your local listings for Independent Lens, the series that it’s part of). So I’ll be curling up on the sofa and watching… Louis Malle’s 1974 documentary Place de la République.
But I am going to watch the introduction to Helvetica, in which I think actor Terrence Howard, who hosts Independent Lens, says something along the lines of, “Hey baby, what’s your font?” Now that’s must-see television, my friends.
Happy viewing!
-Gary
Categories: Helvetica, Musings
Don’t get drunk while you’re watching Helvetica… or you might wake up the next morning with one of these:
We might owe this guy a free DVD. Full story here…
Categories: Helvetica, Musings
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