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So, more or less random stuff from 2012, with artwork from this year scattered throughout:
The year started intensely, by ending my first semester at the Graduate school for Systemic Neurosciences. I quite "fondly" remember that the first week of February was the coldest week of the year... because an fMRI-course had me running around in this very cold, from one institute to another, all week. This course also complicated studying for the "fundamentals of neuroscience" exam I had a few days later. But I passed!! Later, they said, I wouldn't even have had to pass, being a lowly philosopher and all
Anyway, I pass exams because I can. Hah!
February and March had
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drop by on a visit! (Separately. One each month. They don't know each other.) Which meant I finally found out that on the other side of the dA interface, there are REAL PEOPLE @_@ (Real cool people, at that.)Also in March, I played croquet for the first time in my life. And two of my friends got married. They had a beautiful wedding in July. Awww.
The summer semester had my colleagues and me give a tutorial on neurophilosophy and correct a whole lot of essays, which (together with a whole lot of colloquia, conferences, symposia, meetings, other courses and formalities) ended up completely destroying my comic-making routine. This is one thing I'll have to re-implement in 2013... art-making routine.
The apartment I'm living in was sold, which caused me a lot of headaches and evil spying visitors over the summer months. Well, eventually, it WAS sold and I'm still living in it. For now. On the plus side, I had my apartment full of awesome people for my birthday party! For the past ten years or so, I had always gone out for my birthday, so this wasn't just the first time I celebrated my birthday in THIS apartment, but also the first time for a lot of my current friends to be together in any place I could call home. That was swell.
In September, I spent a few days on a seminar in Venice (like last year [link] [link] ). I didn't bring my camera this year though... the whole thing is getting old
Also in September, I completed a remix LP: [link]And also also in September, Holon won "best sci-fi comic" in the dd awards
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Okay, so I lied about the movie part. Here are classic movies I watched for the very first time this year (most of them at home, some at cinemas):
Army of Darkness. Indiana Jones. Once Upon A Time In The West. Jaws. Close Encounter of the Third Kind. Carrie. Lawrence of Arabia. The Island of Dr Moreau (1977). Commando. Silent Running. Diner. All movies by Nicolas Winding Refn (except for his Pusher-trilogy). North By Northwest. Faster Pussycat…. Kill! Kill! Phenomena. The Thing. Way of the Dragon. Repulsion. Bicycle Thieves.
I recommend you watch all these, too!
And a lot of other stuff happened, which I am either too lazy or too forgetful to add to this journal.
At last: Happy 2013 everyone, and thank you so much for your support and friendship!
2011 review: [link]
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Friends:
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May 2013 hold more of the same for you.
Okay, there are one or two there that I haven't seen either. But Lawrence of Arabia? Indiana Jones? Silent Running?
Actually, I think I may have to envy you a little. It would be so cool to be able to watch those now as if I'd never seen them before!
Anyway, it's the advent of affordable hi-def home cinema technology which has ultimately motivated me to finally hunt down all these classics. I don't think I've ever seen as many great/classic movies as in the past year, and there are hundreds still waiting...! And yes, it is extremely cool to see all of these for the first time.
I'm not generally a fan of either war films or biopics, since both genres are so often riddled with cliches. However, along with Patton (add it to your list if you haven't already seen it!), Lawrence of Arabia is exceptional.
More generally, I think each generation has a blind spot when it comes to films made before they were born. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why films like Total Recall or Judge Dredd (or even True Grit) get remade. It's not that they have anything new to say, it's just that the studios realise that very few people over a certain age are ever going to be interested in watching the originals. (But only one of the reasons!)
And I agree that some remakes can be traced back to a change of generations in the audience, and associated blind spots. (Although that's not what I believe to be the case with Judge Dredd - I think the franchise deserved another shot, regardless; and the new film isn't so much a remake of the old one as a new, original attempt to adapt the comic successfully, which the previous one failed at.) But at the highest level, the producers who get to decide which films are going into production aren't motivated by filling in blind spots (i.e. something like cinematic education), but by whether a property can be sold again. And it seems that these days, remakes are having an easier time being sold.