PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (1944) shows cinematographer James Wong Howe filling the screen with atmospheric light and shadow and making every close up a thing of chiaroscuro beauty. More screen caps in comments.

Jim Henson’s proposed idea for The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made

I was in Mississippi for a couple of days and thought I’d look at this app but nope. Weirdly just ten miles away on the beach in the *same state* I had access.

Just found this at a free library. That’s this weeks reading sorted.

I only discovered the under-discussed Redford film The Hot Rock a few years back but I bring it up every chance I get. I’m sorry that today gives me reason to bring it up.

Shooting some old Fuji peel peel apart instant film today. The emulsion has held up beautifully.

Well if you insist.

Sleepy baby

More score recreations. This was a fun challenge.

I’ve been delinquent in posting pictures of Ziggy so please accept this photo with my handmade peacock cape behind him

I can’t wait for this!

Behold! My girlfriend’s Mardi Gras costume.

Ziggy takes a break from writing to contemplate the meaning of life

I post a few pictures of my cat and now my feed is full of cat pics. I see what’s going on here!

Blue steel

After a long, arduous day of sleeping on the stairs, Ziggy has retired to the couch

A cat adopted us during the blizzard. Welcome Ziggy Snowdust

God rolls his own

Black & White Wednesday!

Check it out: unheard Bernard Herrmann sketches from c. 1945, orchestrated by Bill Wrobel and mocked up by me

Love these silhouettes

A short walk at dusk in Uptown #neworleans