EULOGY FOR DAVYD WHALEY
October 25, 2014 Thornton Wilder wrote, “The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” So first of all, I am deeply grateful to Davyd, for all that
DAVYD’S MESSENGERS
October 18, 2014 It has been three days since Davyd Whaley passed away. Above is one of his paintings, which hung in our house for a long time until he
THE SOMETIMES UNCONSCIOUS WORLD OF AIMS AND METHODS
The PRETTY LITTLE LIARS summer finale airs tonight, wrapping up the first half of season 5. How quickly time flies. I came across an interview I did with Maria Mercedes Lara
FEAR AND ANXIETY IN “PRETTY LITTLE LIARS”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” –Soren Kierkegaard “…There is a darker side to adolescence that, until now, was poorly understood: a surge during teenage years in anxiety and fearfulness. Largely because
DREAMSCAPES
“Everything we see hides another thing. We always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” –Rene Magritte “Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a
FELLINI: CONSIDERING THE IDEAL
March 19, 2011 On our recent trip to Rome we went to the Trevi Fountain. Unlike the evocative scene in Fellini’s LA DOLCE VITA, the fountain was not deserted and
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLACE
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” –Shakespeare November 12, 2010 There’s an idea
“PRETTY LITTLE LIARS”: HOPPER AND TEEN NOIR
“Hopper has been a huge influence on me. His work is grounded in an American sensibility that deals with ideas of beauty, theatricality, sadness, rootlessness and desire. I think
PARALLAX VIEWS
parallax |ˈparəˌlaks| noun the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, e.g., through the viewfinder and the lens of a
ADAPTATIONS AND INSPIRATIONS
March 14, 2010 This past week I shot a series of fragrance commercials, three for women and one for men. They’re brief and, since the viewer is not able to
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