Saturday, September 16, 2006

Synecdoche, New York + 24" Imac


The Desk
Originally uploaded by Paul Stamatiou.
It would be really kewl if one of those Dave Winer-esque inventors came out with a new medium slash app slash something, that was the online equivalent of writing a feature film script. Kaufman has a new one he's punched out "Synecdoche, New York." and this time he's directing.

Oh, and Paulstamatiou.com has the new 24" iMac. Schweet (Steve Jobs why do u do this to this - my 20" iMac + 14" ibook are so 2004/5), except Paul's Macbook like others sounds waaay problemattic.

LA-Times : "Synecdoche" nominally concerns a theater director who thinks he's dying, and how that shapes his interactions with the world, his art and the women in his life. But it is really a wrenching, searching, metaphysical epic that somehow manages to be universal in an extremely personal way. It's about death and sex and the vomit-, poop-, urine- and blood-smeared mess that life becomes physiologically, emotionally and spiritually (Page 1 features a 4-year-old girl having her butt wiped). It reliably contains Kaufman's wondrous visual inventions, complicated characters, idiosyncratic conversations and delightful plot designs, but its collective impact will kick the wind out of you."