Two Films I recommend

Melancholia 2011

I've seen two films in the last couple of days that I thoroughly recommend. The first is Melancholia which I saw at the Curzon in wimbledon. The film has a beautiful start with lots of slow motion and heavily emotional music and carries on in a similar manner with twists and odd eerie bits here and there. I can't really comment on the general theme of the film without spoiling it but it's not something to watch just before bed. It's doesn't touch on disturbing like Antichrist does but is still quite affecting. Quite intense and beautifully shot,it's definitely quite a realistic and moving film.

Marwencol 2010 
The other film I recommend is Marwencol. I've just finished watching this and it was amazing. It's a documentary film about a man who was beaten up so severely he suffered from brain damage. He then creates a world called Marwencol which he fills with dolls that act out different scenarios loosely based on his life. He has a doll for every person he knows in real life,including himself which he calls his alter ego. He then photographs the dolls and it becomes this real story. The photographs are amazing. Definitely worth seeing as I found the whole thing very moving and very much empathized with Mark Hogancamp.

Website for Marwencol here

Me and You and Everyone we know

I watched this film properly for the first time last night and I really enjoyed it. It's amazing. This is my favourite part.

John Stezaker at Whitechapel

I've got a great exhibition to recommend for those of you in the old london area. The pictures are great in real life and there's masses of work to look at. John Stezaker at the Whitechapel. He works in collage and most of his stuff is from the 70s but there are a few recent pieces too. What I loved about the exhibition was that the collages all looked so effortless but striking. All of his final pieces were found imagery I think and they really worked. Definitely worth a look.
Whitechapel website.

Nobrow and Celebration

So,Adrian and I went wandering around shoreditch last night for a couple of hours with the intention of going to the Nobrow private view. The artist exhibiting -Brecht Vandenbroucke made some really beautiful paintings in the show. I didn't get to take any pictures but here's some i've snagged off the Nobrow site and various other places.

When we left the private view,it was onto another exhibition in 'City,arts & music project' where there was some interesting posters all over the walls and some stuff to pick up and put in the old research log. Turned out to be a pleasant evening. Tomorrow-more exhibitions,just need to figure out which ones!

I want to see 'Rude Britannia' so badly. I've really got into comic books recently. Probably not as much as I should but I'm just starting out in my comic book interest. I've just started writing and drawing my graphic novel entry for the observers competition. I'm not going to post it up here for ages but I'm really enjoying making it. It's been nice to set myself a brief over the summer because I'm missing unversity a lot. I watched this little video on the tate britain website and thought it looked really interesting. I want to paint on walls!

Bargains from the chazza shop

In the last couple of days I've found these beautys at the local chazza shops and I'm so happy.
A quick run through the prices :
'Mighty Boosh Book' : £2.50
'20th Century Art Book' : £2
Fashion Book : £2
'The Art of Looking Sideways' by Alan Flectcher : £3.50

All these for a tenner!