He's a model

More sleepy rejoicing, from the getting to be more-and-more beautiful Luca Duncan Winegar.

Keep it coming!

It's the Deseret News again, with a more in-depth report of that award winners' reception at the Church History Museum last week.

https://bit.ly/2W5jtkb

We are proud of Sarah!

All over, but the shouting

Master's degree candidate Caitlin R/D Miller modestly makes a rather significant announcement.

There are a few projects left to complete, but those are near-formalities. After that, the future!

Shutter speed!

Languor

Do you guys know about this?

Drew, with co-conspirators Mallory Everton and Brenna Phillips Perry, is producing and participating in a podcast. They're several weeks into things now, and they're really starting to hit their stride. Long co-acquainted, having studied and worked and lived together on numerous occasions through the last number of years, these former promising young adults are now mixing a pretty potent brew of grown-up female power.

Here are the co-conspirators:

How 'bout a program title, and a graphic to go along?

Let us assure you that this is important, deeply engaged stuff, as you can see by their inspiring tag line:

“Life is hard, so let's talk about something else.” 

It's relevant, it's raucous, it's even, often, Rabelaisian. Why not? Or, look out! If you want, you can subscribe on iTunes. 

Clear the track!

Wedding flowers

Another update

Here's the latest on Sarah's art exhibit, or at least the exhibit that is showing and even featuring (Purchase Award!) Sarah's piece.

This is from the Church's website:

https://bit.ly/2Hwm2b1

Breaking news

This just in, from the Deseret News, on an about-to-open international art exhibition (Meditations on Belief) at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. 

Sarah!

https://bit.ly/2F7ssvy

Here's a fun photo that they ran with the story:

Update: the Salt Lake Tribune has a report on the exhibit as well!

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/03/12/artists-nations-one/

151 works, out of 947 entries!

As with the Deseret News story, you'll find a photograph of Sarah in the attached picture gallery.

The caption:

“Artist Sarah Winegar of Salt Lake City, who's relief printing was on display, pushes her sleeping son Luca, 3 months in a stroller while looking at the other works of art.”  

Sarah informs us that she and two other of the exhibiting artists, including Sharon's (and Sarah's) old Springville pal Jacquie Larsen, were invited up for a pre-opening with the museum's curator, three of the five jurors, and the local press. Then the press went on to prepare their stories, and the art folk all went to lunch. 

Moving up in the world, we'd say. Congratulations to Sarah!

A fun thing from BYU's film department

Twice a year students apply to get into BYU's film, or media arts, program. One of our requirements is that the applicants watch a movie, and then make a presentation to the combined faculty about their experience with that movie. The faculty selected a group of films from across the decades and around the world, that the students can choose from. Our design-intelligent program administrators made this good-lookin' page that lays it all out, and makes the process more appealing.

Maybe you should all look into this ...

http://film.byu.edu/?page_id=18227

Young people, driving

Optical illusion

March birthdays

Something new

Drew's new job

Drew has recently joined the gang at JK! Studios, a new-ish enterprise comprised of the former cast members of BYU TV's long-standing uber-hit, Studio C. They have now struck out on their own, undertaking to continue with and at the same time elaborate upon the family-friendly comedy that they've been serving up for most of the last decade.

Here they are:

Some of these defectors went through BYU's film program, which is where Drew originally ran into them. Some room-mating resulted, and a bit of writing, and attendance at numerous of their debauched parties.

Now that they have re-incorporated, the JK's have set up shop in a happenin' facility in Lehi, Utah. Here are some shots:



Drew, who is natively a writer, and podcaster, and hermit, has just been hired on as their editor. You've got to actually do some work once in a while, don't you?

Here's an array of JK programming, produced over the last few months. Drew cut episodes 2-5 of the Loving Lyfe brand. Good job, Drew, and friends!

Take a look:

https://bit.ly/2TvycHB

Trip to LA

Dad got to go to UCLA's Festival of Preservation, this last February 15th to 17th. He drove down the day before to get all situated in La Crescenta, where Grandma and Grandpa hosted him with their usual gracious generosity.

He drove to St. George on the day after the festival, where the Millers also hosted, with their usual gr. gen. It should be recorded that Dad did have that accident, which Lucy kind of supervised, with the exercise ball.

He drove the rest of the way home on the day after that.

Here is his Festival report:

The drive was a bit blustery!

The event was down in Westwood, ...

... in the Armand Hammer Museum, ...

... which houses the kinda new, extremely nice Billy Wilder Theatre.

It's been a long time since the days when I worked on the restoration of vintage and classic films, and more than twenty-five years since I went to this particular annual event. I'd forgotten how many extremely dedicated (skilled, public-spirited) and quite unusual (eccentric, obsessed, possibly dangerous) individuals work in and loiter around this part of the film industry.

Of course the very last part of this last observation doesn't have anything to do with me.

This year, for the first time, the entire festival was crowded into a single weekend.

I saw the following films.

Day one:

Swing Hutton Swing (musical short, US, 1937)
My Lips Betray (musical feature, US, 1933)
Krakatoa (documentary short, US, 1933)
Voice in the Wind (dramatic feature, US, 1944)
The Crooked Way (dramatic feature/film noir, US, 1949)
El Fantasma del Convento (horror, Mexico, 1933)
Wings Over Mt. Everest (documentary short, UK, 1935)
The Mortal Storm (war film, US, 1940)
Trapped (dramatic feature/film noir, US, 1949)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (dramatic feature/film noir, 1951)

Day two:

Brotherhood of Man (dramatic short, US, 1912)
Captain Jinks' Evolution (comic short, US, 1916)
The Frame-Up on Dad (comic short, US, 1915)
Across the Hall (comic short, US, 1916)
The Hobble Skirt (comic short, US, 1910)
The Sale of a Heart (dramatic short, US, 1913)
Beware of Married Men (comic short, fragment, US, 1928)
The Killing Floor (dramatic feature, US, 1985)
Enamorada (dramatic/comic/romantic feature, Mexico, 1946)
Smouldering Fires (drama/romance, US, 1925)

Interlude:

In case any of you were wondering, I also, as did June Gittelson's character in the immortal Three Stooges' comedy False Alarms (1936), went places and ate things.

The LA County public library, Westwood branch:

Various upscale eateries, what with my generous expense account and all:

The Hammer Museum itself (Rembrandt, Daumier, Magritte, PP, Hopper, Gris, Gauguin, VvG, Bernard, Corot):

And, on a beautiful clear Sunday morning, the place where our family originated, so to speak:

Day three:

Alibi (dramatic/gangster feature, US, 1929)
Jasper Goes Hunting (cartoon, US, 1944)
A Hatful of Dreams (cartoon, US, 1944)
The Old Man of the Mountain (cartoon, US, 1932)
Pink Elephants (cartoon, US, 1937)
The Banker's Daughter (cartoon, US, 1933)
Caviar (cartoon, US, 1930)
Freight Yard Symphony (cartoon, US, 1963)
The Battle of the Century (comic short, US, 1927)
Perfect Day (comic short, US, 1929)
Hog Wild (US, 1930)
Brats (US, 1932)

That's 32 titles!

I also read this book, which has a number of uncomplimentary things to say about Glendale, CA:

Back in La Cañada, it continued fresh and clear and California cold.

And always, this ...

Lots of fun. Thanks, all!

Expeditionary

During these late winter days Matt has been out in the truck and up in the mountains, digging out and filling up various customers' propane tanks. While he's at it, he'll pause to consider his surroundings. Do they, or are they ever!