IdyllopusPress Presents

Day: April 19, 2009

  • Hiroshi Teshigahara

    This morning IFC was running Hiroshi Teshigahara’s “Face of Another”, based on the book by Kobo Abe, screenplay written by Kobo Abe. It was through Teshigahara’s films that I was introduced to the works of Kobo Abe many years ago. Highly recommend both.

  • An Unexpected Gift

    H.o.p., at the Dogwood Festival, had the amazing good fortune to be gifted by an artist with a handcrafted glass globe he’d been admiring. “You like that?” the vendor asked. H.o.p. had been ogling for a while and said he did. The artist boxed the globe and gave it to him.

  • Liu Yan video at Youtube

    Was reading about Liu Yan in the NYTimes, the celebrated dancer who was paralyzed from the waist down due to a stage malfunction during rehearsal for opening night performance at the Olympics. I read she’s studying to be a television announcer now. Her emotional quality in dance is riveting, what she’s able to project. I…