Brooklyn Hilary

Explore #388 July 28, 2010

On July 20, 2001, the film Ghost World was released in NY and LA.  It was written by Daniel Clowes (the creator of the comic book) and directed by Terry Zwigoff.

Here I am as the main character, Enid.  In the film she was played by Thora Birch.

When I was searching for costume items, I found this t-shirt on indigofeet's Etsy store!  Isn't it amazing?!  Perfect recreation of the t-shirt in the film.  You can get one too and check out the other great items she has!
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The skirt came from Target and the suitcase was $6 at St. Vincent's.  I got a green one too, but decided I liked the red better for the photo.

Thank you to Rick, who drove all over town with me looking for a bus stop that would work!  He even looked up the actual film location, but learned that a bus stop was placed there for the movie and then taken away again.

This one is in Altadena in a spot that in way too sunny and shadowy all day long.  So we got up at 6am today to take it.  (It also happens to be overcast today, which is great!)

I'm typing a lot.  Just one more thing, though...

This was in part for my friend Jimmy, who loves this movie too and who named his cat Enid.

Yay!

In 1996, a new version of the Muppet Show called Muppets Tonight began airing!  It didn't last nearly long enough, in my humble opinion.

My very favorite episode aired on April 4, 1996.  It guest-starred Cindy Crawford.  In one sketch, she plays a much younger version of herself,  &quot;Cinderella Crawfordopolis&quot;, the newest member of the Frogeteers! This has given me a chuckle every time I've remembered it for the past 14 years.  :D

In it, Kermit asks her about her hobbies and she tells him that she likes to  dress up in really pretty clothes and walk up and down her driveway.  Teehee.

You can watch it if you go here and skip to 6:30...
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Oh, lordy.  I loved that show.

Oh, and you can get this hat at Sears.  Who knew?!

On February 14 (Valentine's Day!), 1991, The Silence of the Lambs was released in US theaters. The film was directed by Jonathan Demme and starred Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.

Which reminds me...I was at the NY premiere of Red Dragon in 2002. Sitting behind me the whole time? Ralph Fiennes. CREEPY! ;)

Thanks to <a href="http://flickr.com/silav">Rick Baker</a> for drawing the skull! And I found the moth at a paper store...

On March 19, 1947, actress Glenn Close was born.

One of her most memorable roles was in Fatal Attraction, in which she played a *slightly* obsessive lover of Michael Douglas. He got more than he bargained for with this one night stand!

The term "bunny boiler" came from this film. It refers to a former lover, usually a woman, who stalks the man who spurned her.

Be careful out there!

On March 16, 1850, "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published.

Thanks to Rick (silav) for painting this scarlet letter...

On March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel was born. You probably know him as Dr. Suess! In honor of Dr. Suess, March 2 is also National Read Across America Day!

This grafitti is (was?) at 5 Pointz, Long Island City, Queens, NY. I went there on a photo walk with my friend Lee Semel.

March 1, 2010 marks the 60th anniversary of Silly Putty's debut!

It was an accident... In 1943, James Wright (a Scottish engineer for General Electric) combined boric acid and silicone in an attempt to make synthetic rubber. When marketing consultant Peter Hodgson saw it, he purchased the idea and packaged 1 ounce clumps of it in plastic eggs.

A writer for The New Yorker bought some in a bookstore and wrote a short article about it. Within three days Hodgson received 125,000 orders for Silly Putty!

In 2001, Silly Putty was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.

I bought a couple newspapers today thinking I'd use the Silly Putty on one of the images from a March 1 news story. Unfortunately, most of the interesting photos seemed to be in color and the Silly Putty didn't pick it up very well.

SO! I drew my self-portrait today in pencil, picked it up with Silly Putty and asked Rick to hold it for a test shot. I took some photos of myself holding the putty, but decided I liked the test shot best. And...well, it's still a self-portrait, right?I drew myself AND took the photo! OH! AND you can see me in the reflection in Rick's ring. Sweet. :D

Go get some Silly Putty. It's fun! And cheap!

A Tree Grows in BrooklynHilary!

On February 28, 1945, the film A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (directed by Elia Kazan) opened in US theaters.  The novel, by Betty Smith, was published two years earlier.  It's a coming-of-age story about a girl living with her impoverished family Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the early 1900s.

I've never read it or seen it.  Have you?

Once in a while, I mess up on the dates of something and so have to make a decision about what to do with it.

I took this photo thinking that the movie Be Kind Rewind was released on February 28, but it was released on the 22nd!

So I looked at the other possible dates for the film and picked the release date in SWEDEN!

As you know, if you've seen Michel Gondry's film, Jack Black's character accidentally erases every single video in a rental shop.  The easiest possible fix to this solution was to re-make all the films himself!  Right? The process, they claim, is called &quot;sweding&quot;.

The first film they re-make is Ghostbusters.

Here I am sorta sweding the sweded version of Ghostbusters - specifically the library scene. I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

Thassright.

Rick made my awesome costume with aluminum foil and duct tape.  I made the Ghostbusters sign with construction paper.  The book is hanging from a hook in the ceiling with fishing line and a fish hook.

This was FUN.

Happy birthday to John Harvey Kellogg (born February 26, 1852)!  He was the American physician who developed dry cereal!

I asked Twitter &amp; Facebook what cereal they think of first when they think of Kellogg's...here are the results!

Frosted Flakes - 8 (They're g-r-r-r-eat!)
Corn Flakes - 6
Special K - 4
Raisin Bran - 1 (Two scoops!)
Rice Krispies - 1 (Snap Crackle Pop!)
Froot Loops - 1 (Follow your nose!)
Honey Smacks - 1

I watched a bunch of old commercials on YouTube.  Remember when Honey Smacks were called Sugar