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This is from 2 years ago:

This is from last week:

They are disappointingly similar. Oh well.

I discovered Grey Gardens this week. Do people know about this? I didn't, but what I've read about it tells me that people know about it. I'm going to write about it now as if you've never heard of it.

OK, so an article about Drew Barrymore showed up on my Google News page and for some reason caught my eye. She's in a new HBO movie about these 2 women who were the subjects of a documentary in 1975. The documentary is apparently a "cult classic". I found it in segments on YouTube and just finished it all last night. These women are FASCINATING. The mother-daughter pair were former socialites of New York City and lived together in this old mansion (Grey Gardens) in East Hampton, that they let decay around them over the years as they turned a little nutty.

The documentary was so well done - no narrative and almost no intended interaction with the subjects by the photographers/filmmakers...just the two of them, raw, by themselves at their home. In the movie, they had raccoons living in the attic that by the end were coming down to the upstairs level...for the loaves of Wonder bread that the daughter would leave out for them! Apparently the house reached such decrepit-ness while they were living there that trees grew into the walls. This reminded me of Admiral's Row in Brooklyn. I wish there was a documentary about those houses. The world wide web hasn't quenched my want for a good history of them. And I'd like to think that there is an equally fascinating story to tell about them.

This is an animation that I made last semester for my Fundamentals of Digital Design class. The project is not my design (see credits at the end). I can only take credit for the digitizing and video composition. It's really rewarding to have a finished product that moves and dances to the music, but I must say animation is not my thang.

FuDD animation from Stephanie Power on Vimeo.

Tonight at school, is our Housing Studio show. Each team (there was about 40) made a 1-minute video of their housing project from last semester that will be shown tonight. My rockin' partner, Kelsey, put this masterpiece together showing our design. I knew I liked our work from last semester, but this video has reignited my flame for our project. I can't wait to see it on the big screen (from the projector in room 114).