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Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Prescient of the terrible Cleveland tragedy! The women bonded as a captive family and only one dared to attempt the escape from the childhood fears, to soaring joys and tenderful love! Freedom from the tyrant! The healing begins. Dissimilar stories! ART imitating life again!
"A Measure of the Sin: Every childhood is normal...to the child that lives it. For Meridith that means an enchanted seclusion that is shattered when she is deprived of her mother. Desparate and alone, Meredith must join a household with other women and their children, a sinister man who controls every facet of her existence and a vicious bear that only she can see. As life in this world becomes increasingly strange and frightening, Meredith realizes
that she must flee, even though she fears she has not learned enough to survive on her own." Unashamed original artwork displayed in our faces! Touching childhood fears, soaring joys and unbelievable love with it's tenderful grace,
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
That *is* Natalie Grigson.
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
Proud to say I grew up here and still haven't attended PeopleWaste.
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
Perhaps Natalie Grigson underestimated Nashville's redneckery...
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
And to think I couldn't ride the long loop at Percy Warner while this was happening!
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
Tag = "visors" ... hilarious ...
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Not quite sure how this turned into open mic poetry night but at least it makes more sense than saying anyone was "exploited". Yes there is nudity and it's delivered very tastefully. Never once did I think it took away from anyone's performance nor did it feel unnecessary. If anything it helped the audience to identify with the environment. If we didn't get sense of depravity would Meredith's situation have seemed so dire? I think the fine actresses of this film should be proud of their work and their bodies. This film is pure art from start to finish. Would you paint black bars on Da VInci paintings? I'd hope not, the female body will always have its place in art, it's beautiful, the film is beautiful. Congrats to everyone involved, you are true artists. Well done
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
AMeasureoftheSin.com
Re: “Inside This Week's Art Story: Outtakes and Inspiration From John Scarpati”
thank you :)
Re: “Inside This Week's Art Story: Outtakes and Inspiration From John Scarpati”
Corrected. And my apologies for the screw up, Jon.
Re: “Inside This Week's Art Story: Outtakes and Inspiration From John Scarpati”
Hello author, I actually took the cover photo for Redd Kross' Researching The Blues - but John Scarpati did the color correction and noise reduction on it :)
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: Prescient of the terrible Cleveland tragedy! The women bonded as a captive family and only one dared to attempt the escape from the childhood fears, to soaring joys and tenderful love!
Freedom from the tyrant! The healing begins. Dissimilar stories! ART imitating life again!
"A Measure of the Sin: Every childhood is normal...to the child that lives it. For Meridith that means an enchanted seclusion that is shattered when she is deprived of her mother. Desparate and alone, Meredith must join a household with other women and their children, a sinister man who controls every facet of her existence and a vicious bear that only she can see. As life in this world becomes increasingly strange and frightening, Meredith realizes
that she must flee, even though she fears she has not learned enough to survive on her own."
"Powerful end of the rope drama! A Measure of the Sin! You will love it!We did!"
"Childhood fears, soaring joys and tenderful love!"
Re: “Don Evans, 1939-2013”
Years ago I was invited to a party at a friend of a friend's. I heard that in the barn was a guy making gunpowder to load into rocket engines. I loved model rocketry and decided that I needed to meet this guy. We talked about black powder rockets and he supervised while I loaded one myself.
At some point I realized that I was talking with “The Don Evans,” an “amazing artist” who many friends of mine had told me I needed to meet. We had a good laugh about our serendipitous meeting and became great friends. I was fortunate to have participated in several of Don's events, including Burning Banjos and a performance at Vanderbilt in which I played a dancing star.
I will always appreciate the way Don inspired so many of us to do something meaningful and creative with our lives. He lived what he taught and what he believed. You can't ask for more than that.
—Landry Butler
Re: “Don Evans, 1939-2013”
What made Don so special is that when the rest of us talk about living life to the fullest, he was actually doing it. Each day presented another opportunity to do something new and exciting. The process of making art can be intimidating, especially for those of us who don’t see ourselves as particularly gifted. When you took a class with Don, or were around him, he had no patience for that kind of thinking. Worrying about whether something was “good” or not got in the way of the most important thing about art: the process of making it.
Don’s favorite type of art was the kind that brought people together to create it. He was an expert at creating a community by engaging others to participate in one of his many projects to build a tower of fireworks tower or a rocket ship. When you got to that final moment of lighting the fuse on the fireworks or the rocket, watching Don’s excitement experiencing it was just as fun as watching the art itself. His infectious laugh and pure joy was what made it all so special.
Don never lost the beautiful imagination that most of us leave behind in childhood. Just last Saturday, he was telling me and my friends, Jim and Angela, about his trip to Mars with his friend John Hadley. He said when they returned, Sheryl wouldn’t let him in the house with all of the moon dust on his socks, so he had to take them off to enter. Don said he had to store them in plexiglass and sent Jim into the next room to find them. When Jim emerged, he brought a framed piece of art comprised of those socks covered in moon dust, which were documentation of that journey.
I feel so blessed that I was able to see Don just before he embarked on his latest adventure. I bet he’s looking down from the bright star that he’s on and becoming frustrated with us spending so much time fussing over him. So before he gets more exasperated with us, make sure to work on something fun. You know he is.
-Lucia Folk
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Only the Toreador dares stand eyeball to eyeball to his primitive opponent waiting for its furious charge to allow it's horns to be his safety guides as his ballet muscled body.Toro raises his head as to throw the puny human while toreador, raising up, has his sword drawn from his cape and with two hands forcefully drives his surgically honed weapon directly into the vital area, stopping the furiously charging beast by piercing the heart, Toro stops dead on the spot as has been demonstrated for the ages. Cheers and jeers scream from the crowds. Cries of nays or praise both echo but only the toreador risks life and limb by balancing between the horns and wielding the death blow.
Who in their right mind would try to please everyone. It is accomplished in all of the arts by gently massaging the Emotions, the emotions of the performers touching the viewer, or reader and turning them into participants. Apathy is failure. Emotional response is success!
The Arts are for the people! The people are for the Arts! Enjoy!
Re: “Don Evans, 1939-2013”
Don was my teacher and one of the most generous artists I have ever known. He was always focused outward, connecting with people - waking us up, spurring us to choreograph and make grand creations (The bigger the better!) - that was his art. I remember in the early nineties he was one of the early adopters of social media. He showed me how he was using the computer to connect with people he knew via their pictures, art and stories. This was really strange to me as I had only just been introduced to email (and had little interest in it), but it was very important to him and exciting. People were important to Don. In my artwork, he told me there were no mistakes and chastised me for taking my pen off the paper and working things over too much. The point was the process, and the richness of the experience caught in the thought and the effort of creating.
Re: “Stephen King-John Mellencamp-T Bone Burnett Musical Coming to Ryman Oct. 16”
I hope the Ryman has enough mops for the stage blood.
Re: “Cahiers du Coco: Brief Encounter”
I just wanted to say that I love this feature and I look forward to each post. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Hannah's books are still sometimes available through the Amazon network at bargain prices: Eves Daughter, 1962 and Time.Wait 1984. These petite hardcover literary giants are growing harder to acquire as prices escalate on readers demand. Either of these gems will bring joy to your soul. We especially like Eves Daughter for her scope encompassing her most treasured expressions. Enjoy!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A Measure of the Sin: This 16mm film on screen effort was unashamed original artwork displayed in our faces touching childhood fears, soaring joys and unbelievable love with it's tenderful grace, we accept or reject our lives in others opinions or as the Hippies said "let it all hang out." Life is not always as simple as the Mona Lisa or as deep as Anonymous Irish poetry.