Meet the Author - Rory Dean
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Above the Line: Practical Movie Reviews- Some Safety Glass Distance (2013) May 11, 2013Writing is in my blood, it makes me feel connected to an often overwhelming sense of disconnectedness. Continue reading →rorydean
- Argo (2012) April 6, 2013So "Argo" should be on your list of movies to watch if you've missed it up to now. Be advised that the thrills come in bite-fulls and the story is much more about an ensemble cast than any one particular player. This has double feature written all over it. Pick up a couple of other movies while you're at it and if all goes South in a hurr […]rorydean
- 629 March 30, 2013This filmic is a multi-layered visual experience that takes place not in the dream-world but along the road that surrounds it. Continue reading →bleuravyn
- I Melt With You (2011) March 1, 2013“I Melt With You” feels like the mid-life rights of passage you've heard about or are living, the runway that many men land and take off from. Gathered for many drinks with the best friends of their lives quickly becomes a dangerous Bacchanalia of doomed ritualizing, darkly lit and disturbing yet familiar to anyone who has ever fallen off the beaten pat […]rorydean
- Female Directors Redux February 27, 2013Reblogged from Above the Line: Female Directors Redux - Women in Film in Hollywood and beyond After reviewing my original list "Female Directors - Above and Beyond a Call to Duty" and discussing female filmmakers with a variety of film aficionados, … Continue reading →rorydean
- Some Safety Glass Distance (2013) May 11, 2013
Tag Archives: bay area artist
Melissa K. Smith: Honey Hunter
Melissa K. Smith’s imagery and expressions reveal an exacting attention to the nether-spaces in color and form where layered, complex spatial formalities meet the intangible, often illusory places between destinations. These structured juxtapositions of space and imagined space tell us that the subjects of her worlds must first begin with their own command of comfortableness before being allowed to exist entirely on their own. “Honey Hunter is me returning to the paint and canvas shapes I love,” Melissa explains about the painting that was accepted for Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program exhibit “Honeycomb 2012″. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Speak-Freely
Tagged above the line, arts and consciousness, bay area artist, CAP Program, community arts program, dissave pictures, east bay, el cerrito, honey hunter, honeycomb exhibit, hospitality house, jfk university, melissa dean, melissa k. smith, multi-media, northern california, painter, photo-mâché, rory dean, sense of collective and collaboration, works of the moment
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I Write (2012) Not What You Think
I write for the sake of getting by when I’d rather be outside or near instead of rooted here, someplace else entirely, living like I use to when falling down was funny before it got so serious. Continue reading
Melissa K. Smith – Artist, Dreamer, Adventurist
Inspired by her dreams, Melissa is found incorporating impossible, at times impractical imagery across mediums, especially acrylic ones pushed into bound sketchbooks, serving both the binding agent for the fiber and the canvas for ink, pencil, coffee or tea – depending on the place, as much as the spaces, from the everywhere. Continue reading
