Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Winter Coat from Dry Cleaners $25.00
Pho lunch special L'Annam $7.00
Win 49 Japanese Bento Box $7.59
Win 49 Green tea in a can $1.63
Anthology Film Archives (Let's Play Fascination) $8.00

Finally picked up my wool coat from the dry cleaners, it's the coat I love, but being the light green it is, I was constantly spilling coffee on it and it was ridden with stains...
It was an asian cuisine extravaganza for me yesterday. With the comforting Pho from L'Annam for lunch, co-workers and I ate out of these ridiculously large bowls. Then to Win 49 with R&B to have scrumptious bento boxes for dinner, before the screening. We went to and event at Anthology Film Archives. "Let's Play Fascination" was the event curated by a friend of R's, Marian St, Laurent. It was a screening of Ads and short films in all different media formats, and a discussion of the images focusing on, people as objects, fetishism, and the romancing of products. We viewed old commercials from the 60's and 70's, current ads of today, experimental films from the 30's and even peep show films from 42nd street back in the day. I really enjoyed seeing the fashion photography and short films of Guy Bourdin from the 70's and the 80's. There was talk that his films will be shown again somewhere in New York soon. The photo I've posted today is one of his fashion photos, looks like a shoe ad, and you can see more on his site.