Back in 2017, I got the idea that we should designate a weekend to collectively documenting our lives in Ypsilanti. I called the initiative #DocumentYpsi, and the results were pretty awesome. In fact, I was 100% committed, given the response, to make sure that it became an annual thing. But, like so many other things, […]
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Documenting Ypsilanti in the time of COVID-19
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Werner Herzog… eating shoes, fearing chickens, and exploring the desolation of mankind with hypnotised actors
It’s not at all how I intended to spend this evening, but, thanks to stumbling on an epic Metafilter post about Werner Herzog, I’m now jumping around between the 43 of his films which can be found streaming online. At the moment, I’m knee deep in Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass), Herzog’s 1976 film […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged aimlessness, art film, chickens, documentary film, Film, glassblowing, Heart of Glass, Herz aus Glas, hypnosis, Joaquin Phoenix, John Waters, Klaus Kinski, murder plots, Roger Ebert, sense of purpose, shoe eating, shoes, Werner Herzog 10 Comments