Local Group SE

Kickstarter project for "Date Number One" December screenings

2009-11-08T11:50:00.001-08:00

Robert Frank's elevator girl

2009-09-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Great story about a woman recognizing herself in a famous photo, check it out here.

Blog for The Screening is up

2009-08-25T20:34:00.001-07:00

Check out the blog for my 2 Week Film Project The Screening - now in production, should be done & available to watch in about 2 weeks.

Two works about a city on Earth: Buddha's Savage Peace article & book Kandy at War

2009-08-12T20:01:00.000-07:00

Two recent finds about a city that I've been to - Kandy in Sri Lanka. First, a recent Atlantic article: Buddha's Savage Peace. From the article:

"Yet Buddhism, as Kandy demonstrates, is deeply materialistic and demands worship of solid objects, in a secure and sacred landscape that has required the protection of a military. There have been Buddhist military kingdoms—notably Kandy’s—just as there have been Christian and Islamic kingdoms of the sword. Buddhism can be, under the right circumstances, a blood-and-soil faith."

Read the rest of the article at Atlantic.

And another, a book that I just heard about (from the same Atlantic article) - Kandy at War: Indigenous Military Resistance to European Expansion in Sri Lanka 1594 to 1818. And here's a quote from the book (provided in the Atlantic article):

" “Like many other armies in peasant and tribal societies,” writes Channa Wickremesekera in Kandy at War: Indigenous Military Resistance to European Expansion in Sri Lanka 1594 to 1818 (2004), “the Kandyan army fought in loosely organized and highly mobile units depending on a flimsy logistical base,” making optimum use of its rugged, jungly terrain. It was very much like a 21st-century guerrilla insurgency, in other words—inspired, in this case, by the need to defend faith and homeland against heathen Europeans. The dense forest through which I had passed on my train ride constituted the graveyard of European attempts to reach Kandy, with many a Portuguese, Hollander, and Briton dying or giving up, exhausted and demoralized, afflicted by disease amid the cruel jungle..."

Here's the link the book on Amazon.

So that, I guess, is new material to add to my Sri Lanka related reading list.

Edison rest stop, 5:49 AM

2009-08-11T20:24:00.000-07:00

And now, for some music & video

2009-08-11T20:13:00.001-07:00

Reid Gershbein & 2 films in Brooklyn!

2009-08-11T20:05:00.000-07:00

Get all the info. about the upcoming (8/26) art gallery screening here.

Where the blogname came from

2009-08-11T20:02:00.000-07:00

From this Ask an Astronomer for KIDS! article.

From the article:

"Earth is located in the universe in the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. A supercluster is a group of galaxies held together by gravity. Within this supercluster we are in a smaller group of galaxies called the Local Group"

More at the article.

Welcome to Local Group SE blog!

2009-08-11T19:37:00.000-07:00

A new epoch deserves a new blog. Having grown tired of most of my other blogs, I am starting over here. Get ready for photos of NYC on my iPhone (& links to that blog), real indie film news, other film news, info. on my own movies, other L.O.S. (Life Of Sujewa) items, and hopefully interesting & goodylicious matters of many kinds. Posts will be created as the spirits deem them necessary.

- Sujewa