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Brooklyn filmmaker, raised in Pennsylvania, of Catalan and Texan descent.
Recently completed the short New Territory.
Currently developing a feature.

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strangewood:

That 1963 disappearance was a scandal. She had been the most beloved of film stars, her handsome face, accepting smile, known to all. And then, suddenly, rudely, without a word of apology, she was going to disappear—to retire.

Here, where the stars hang on, voluntary retirement is unknown, particularly for one the caliber of Setsuko Hara. She had become an ideal: men wanted to marry someone like her; women wanted to be someone like her.

This was because on the screen she reconciled her life as real people cannot. Whatever her role in films—daughter, wife, or mother—she played a woman who at the same time, somehow, was herself. Her social roles did not eclipse that individual self, our Setsuko.

— Donald Richie, Japanese Portraits

Setsuko Hara
Born June 17, 1920

Posted on Monday, June 17th 2013

Reblogged from This Must Be The Place

Shot: 20C.Fox’s Trailer for Weir’s ‘Master And Commander’

Posted on Sunday, May 5th 2013

fylatinamericanhistory: The entire April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine was devoted to Machu Picchu and the National Geographic Society-funded expedition of the Inca site which had taken place during the previous year. American academic Hiram Bingham, III claimed to have “discovered” the centuries-old site on this date in 1911. The original article is up at the magazine’s website.

fylatinamericanhistory:

The entire April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine was devoted to Machu Picchu and the National Geographic Society-funded expedition of the Inca site which had taken place during the previous year. American academic Hiram Bingham, III claimed to have “discovered” the centuries-old site on this date in 1911. The original article is up at the magazine’s website.

Posted on Saturday, May 4th 2013

Reblogged from Latin American History, F*ck Yeah!

life: On the birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted — the father of American landscape architecture — we celebrate Olmsted’s and his partner Calvert Vaux’s best-loved creation: Central Park. Here, photos of Central Park from the summer of ‘61. (Leonard McCombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

life:

On the birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted — the father of American landscape architecture — we celebrate Olmsted’s and his partner Calvert Vaux’s best-loved creation: Central Park.

Here, photos of Central Park from the summer of ‘61.

(Leonard McCombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Posted on Saturday, April 27th 2013

Reblogged from LIFE

karlstraube: Willie Mays, “The Catch.”  Game 1, 1954 World Series.  New York Giants vs. Cleveland Indians at Polo Grounds. 

karlstraube:

Willie Mays, “The Catch.”  Game 1, 1954 World Series.  New York Giants vs. Cleveland Indians at Polo Grounds. 

Posted on Saturday, April 13th 2013

Reblogged from Heirlooms