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Shann-on-and- on-and-on

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About Me

I make videos out of film and gold from lead. Here's a little article about these activities at Apogee Magazine .
I've got a website featuring clips of my film and video installation artwork at: shannonwkelly.com .

My Interests

Reading, researching, jotting little notes down for future projects, pondering, taking my time when I can, and sometimes even when I can't... Good food, bad food, good music, bad music, conversing, cursing and contemplating...

I'd like to meet:

Those who inspire, who are interested and engaged... and who are up for a new twist on what they already thought was great.
Oh yeah, and her:

... and these guys:

Music:

Liaisons Dangereuses -- Holy crap! (and I love the analogue video bleed...)
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And as of late Lansing Dreiden's album The Incomplete Triangle. I have no clue how this snuck past me in 2003, but this gem is to not be ignored.
Shaking my musical world to its foundations = the new Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom two-album LP Days of Mars. I simply cannot emphasize this enough.
This is doing for me now what Fischerspooner's first album did for me in 2000. I kid you not. Everything else is trivial.
Except, of course Oppenheimer Analysis' "Devil's Dancers." I'm completely addicted -- bought the single for $20.
Play electric drum pads while you may!

Movies:

Comingled Containers (Brakhage), Nostalghia (Tarkovsky), My Life to Live (Godard), Das Boot (Petersen), The Cranes are Flying ("Letyat Zhuravli," Kalatozishvili), Eyes Without A Face (Franju), Goodbye Lenin! (Becker), Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)

Television:

An occasional treat.

Books:

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, Bill Viola; On Photography, Susan Sontag; The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich...
I'll get back to James Joyce when I'm 60.

Heroes:

I don't need another one, do you? I doubt we need to know the way home, either.
Alright, this guy, but not only for his fashion sense:
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My Blog

Not so much a resolution as justification for a purchase I can't afford

So at 4am the other morning last week -- no I wasn't drinking, just back on the winter vacation vampire schedule -- as I was making yet another online record purchase from London, I promised myself th...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:36:00 PST

In anticipation of the night...

Great movie title, but in case you're in the habit of waking at 2pm in the wintertime, there isn't much. I know, this isn't even Scandinavia so what am I complaining about? Just trying to see what i...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:32:00 PST

Launch'd into the Outer-Web...

For the life of me, I can't figure out who's been reading my blogs since they're such ancient news, and not really news at that. In any case, on to something with a bit more substance:Like a grownup ...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:24:00 PST

A (Pretty Unfounded) Theory of Stolen Gear

Is it possible that bands post faux "stolen gear" messages in order to brag to the world about all the sweet gear they've collected? Granted many (most likely all) of these bulletins are legit, but I...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:14:00 PST

Addendum to Deep Shit

All seems lost in the world of right, wrong and u-turns until one looks toward more poetic and inspiring means of expressing the thought:"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our expl...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:23:00 PST

Filmmaker Lestat

I have finally succeeded in turning my days and nights completely backwards...A few side effects of a nocturnal existence: All "days" begin to blur into one another; I've become (even) pale(er) and my...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:58:00 PST

"Cullinary Word to the Wise" or "On the Hazards of Reheated Foods"

Be forewarned -- despite what experts and your parents say (as the old advertising adage goes), food, especially of the reaheated sort, can be hazardous to your health. Take for example the unassumin...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:41:00 PST

Deep Shit

In an attempt to out-dig the depth of my craisins observation:If two wrongs don't make a right, then two rights only result in a u-turn. I guess the next step in this progression would be: Two u-turn...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:24:00 PST

Fruit Hybrid Urbanology

I think the word "craisins" is for "crunk raisins." 'Nuff said for now...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:24:00 PST

Cell phone drooling fool...

Why is it every third song or so I listen to seems to mimic certain notes of my cell phone's ring tone? Has T-mobile trained me so well to answer my phone in some sick Pavlovian way? The result is: ...
Posted by Shann-on-and- on-and-on on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:23:00 PST