March 4th, 2006
I Heart Brazil + Macs
A working piece of art using a 1988 Mac SE, a 1923 Underwood typewriter and a Fresnel lens. Such a beautiful ode to Brazil — my all-time favorite movie.
(via Neatorama)
Tags: Apple, artsy fartsy, Brazil, creativity, sculpture.
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This is a sweet pic. In 1985 I dragged a bunch of my friends to downtown L.A. to see Brazil, this was back when downtown L.A. still had theaters that actually showed movies. Needless to say after viewing it none of my friends liked the movie. I had already seen the movie 3 or 4 times and was enthralled by the retro-futuristic, anti-utopian, Orwellian images, so when I tried to explain to my friends that the movie required multiple viewings in order to be better understood and appreciated, one of them commented that I was responsible for dragging them to see “The Gods Must Be Crazy” the previous year and that pretty much denied me the ability of ever choosing a movie on the groups behalf.
the gods must be crazy! that’s one of my other all-time favorites. those scenes of him leaving the moving car to get the gate open/closed had me rolling… the card playing, lazy kidnappers… so good.
yeah, my father took me to see brazil when it opened in new york. i think i was 16 or so. it completely blew me away. when it opened nation-wide without the labotomy ending, i brought a close friend and he walked out with a look on his face as if he just swallowed a bag of sour candy.
i think that’s when i first began to realize that some people “get it” and some people don’t.
Ain’t that the truth. I long ago let go of that feeling of dissapointment when someone walked away from a movie with different experience from mine. I now relish those rare moments in which I speak to someone regarding cinema and I discover that they are also a fan of Akira Kurosawa or even Sergio Leone and I then wallow in the comfort of being in the presence of some who “gets it”.
so true.
and to tweak my “get it” comment… obviously, we all “get it” on various levels, to various degrees regarding various subjects. every day i add to my sense of “getting it” and find out the next day that there’s so much more for me to “get”… that’s what i love about life, and especially artistic endeavors. subjectivity is like a nice dip in the river… now when you connect with other people’s object subjectivity, that’s where things get interesting.