THINGS I LOVE RIGHT NOW

This re-release:


This room:


This news:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/01/opening_ceremony_to_open_fourt.html

These songs/videos:




This look:


These Proenza Schouler shoes:


But most of all, these eyes:

THE 503 - "THE BLOCK PARTY"

Mid-summer in Portland brings trips to Sauvies Island, block parties, lots of local bands and chaos in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEANNE MOREAU

It's Jeanne Moreau's birthday today (in France, they're a day ahead now)! She is one of my favorite actresses and she is turning 81. Moreau has been in some of my favorite films of all time from the 60's, and is still going strong today. And what a beauty.

Here she is in a famous scene from Truffaut's "Jules and Jim":

WKE FEATURE OF THE WEEK

"Sandcastles", a music video/short I made for Keegan DeWitt's "Introduction" was selected as Wieden & Kennedy Entertainment's Feature of the Week.

This is very cool for me, WKE has been creating some really great content under the direction of Aaron Rose... including two fantastic episodic documentaries- "D.I.Y America" and "Don't Move Here".

The Feature of the Week is available for viewing for seven days only, so go check it out!

http://www.wk.com/wke/show/feature_of_the_week

COMPLICATED MUSIC VIDEO

A few months back I got the chance to work with the amazing Keegan DeWitt again on a new collaborative project, a music video for his song "Complicated". It was always a standout track for me on the "Islands" album, really quite moving and delicate, and to be asked to create images for it was really exciting.

The video is now online at MTVMusic.com, which you can watch by double clicking the player below (since it's cut off on this page):

Keegan DeWitt |MTV Music

"Islands" is available to purchase digitally now, and with your download you get a free copy of the album on VINYL. Yeah you heard me. So go to KeeganDeWitt.com to get your hands on it.

1/18 UPDATE:



We are now in the Top 5 most viewed videos of the day.

GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER

I just discovered this amazing art gallery/bookstore in East Hampton called Glenn Horowitz Bookseller.

Rare books on art, design and science. Check out these beautiful vintage book covers from their collection:










Horst's PATTERNS FROM NATURE book is my holy grail...

R.I.P ERIC ROHMER

We lost a tremendous filmmaker on Monday.

Eric Rohmer helped lead the French New Wave in the 1960's, and continued to make his classic brand of wise, romantic and human cinema into the digital 2000's. He absolutely influenced the generation of filmmakers that followed him, and you can see his spirit in the work of contemporaries like Noah Baumbach, Richard Linklater, and Andrew Bujalski.

I got my first taste of Rohmer only a few years ago when Criterion released his collection of films THE SIX MORAL TALES.



May he rest in peace.