Just a quickie today.
There’s a great post at Messy Nessy Chic that includes 20 documentaries, free. If you love documentaries like I do, or even if you’re a little “meh,” I think you’ll find a couple to enjoy. Here are a few I plan to delve into. And P.S. You might want to spend some time at her site. Paris lover or not (she’s an American living in Paris), you will appreciate her extraordinary eye for interesting things.
A preview of today’s poem.
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films that explore the idea of home; what makes them, how they represent us, why we need them.
Anaïs Nin Observed (1974) gives you an intimate glimpse inside the home and reflections of Anaïs Nin, acclaimed multi-cultural diarist, novelist, and mentor, whose stories of frolicking around Paris with Henry Miller enchanted the world.
Sign Painters is all about the lost art, profiling sign painters young and old, who actually use a brush, paint, tools, and old-school techniques to create beautiful shop signs, sky high murals and generally produce some of the most stunning typographic art in the world…
At the Museum. MoMA’s 8-Part Documentary on What it Takes to Run a World-Class Museum
HD close ups of Wright’s Mesoamerican-inspired masterpieces, but the real takeaway from That Far Corner of the Mind (2018) is how well it weighs the role of Wright’s past, equal parts eccentric and horrific, in the design of his jarring Los Angeles’ homes.
Also, a reminder that on yesterday’s post, there’s a free download of a January screensaver.
And a place to subscribe for a January-only illustrated poem a day in your mailbox.
You have to specially subscribe to it, though. It will be posted as part of some original artwork by me, in a format you can save to print a card, postcard, or small poster, if you wish to keep it around. If not, just enjoy the poem itself. Select it from the blog home page or hit this link.