Looking on Cassidy Shearrer's blog, I just found out about the future residence of three of Columbia's best businesses. The RagTag Cinemacafe, Uprise Bakery, and 9th St. Video are all moving to a place on Hitt St.! For ease, and in honor of the typical clientele of these fine establishments, I shall take to calling the complex "indie-ville" or "hipster-town," whichever catches on first. The article (here) says that a lot of Columbia artists are working hard to make the renovated space beautiful and unique. It should be open in time for the True/False Film Festival in February. I'm excited. I've never been to True/False because I've coincidentally been out of town each year and wasn't cool enough freshman year. It's a festival of all indie movies and they're all super-wonderful and interesting and they bring in lots of producers/directors. I'll probably stop going to class that Friday.
My second stolen thing comes from Mondo. I love public art and (as it is called here) subconscious art. Here's a sweet video from Mondo's blog on the accidental beauty that comes from covering up public graffiti.
the subconscious art of graffiti removal (excerpt) from matt mccormick on Vimeo.
Fwiw, I think that "hipster-town" is the catchier of the two, though combining them into "hipsterville" might be best of all.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in an odd coincidence, Matt's "Subconscious Art . . . " video was shown back in the early days of Ragtag, and was certainly an inspiration (one of many) for the genesis of the T/F Film Fest. And, if you're an indie trivia buff, that's Miranda July on the bicycle.
best,
david w.
(ragtag & t/f co-founder)
my mistake. That's Miranda doing the voice-over.
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A) REALLY COOL!!! that he commented ^^^
ReplyDeleteB) I have my movie list on a blog now
(www.thefilmlist.blogspot.com)
C) Good Luck Chuck wasn't completely terrible, it had some cute moments but it is pretty vulgar... very rightly rated R
D)Mere Christianity is going well, I'm on chapter 5 or so..I only reaad one chapter at a time so I can digest it properly
E) I signed up to volunteer for T/F
and I'm really freaking excited
hopefully equally cool local businesses will move into the old locations instead of expensive clothing stores. they should screen the new people and maybe hold a local Hipster Olympics to make sure they're good enough and have a level of artsy-ness.
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