yvonne and deac

this happens when you google your own husband just to find out from facebook or other wonderful toys whether he is actually going to make the dinner he promised for tonight (twitter hasn't reached us backwater zombies yet) or that he is still friends with you or what he actually looks like. what he actually looked like was also a revelation...good to know i'd have fallen for him then as well. cute!!!

STATISTICAL BRIEF: SIXTY-FIVE PLUS IN THE UNITED STATES

america's elderly population is now growing at a moderate pace, the statistical brief writes. and continues: but not too far into the future, the growth will become rapid. so rapid, in fact, that by the middle of the century, it might be completely inaccurate to think of ourselves as a nation of the young: there could be more persons who are elderly (65 or over) than young (14 or younger)! the elderly population has grown substantially in this century ....













happy birthday, darling!!!

opening of the rossell special collection

 a friendly crowd gathered last night at goldsmiths college to celebrate the opening of the deac rossell special film collection at the library













beautifully presented by special collections head jacqueline cooke and smoothly organized by richard bolley, deac's gift to his department and the greater college community has made the news in the nicest possible way







 
speeches from the warden, professor geoffrey crossick, and dr cooke were cheerful and down to the point that this is a great assett to the library with far reaching subjects from early german silent movies to international film studies.

people looking at the books, posters and broschures probably had the same kind of question: why is he giving this great stuff away? but although the answer 'because there is no space left in the house' was freely supplied by the wife nobody seemed to believe her

friends and colleagues had travelled far to be there

and deac's home department had sent the usual suspects

so there was ample provision of gossip and story telling

and because of the prospect of a delicious icecream later on in meze mangal even the junior photographer and occasional library help was happy - inwardly, that is...

publish or perish

yes, you too may have asked yourself what my dear husband actually does with his spare time when he's not lecturing in his famous courses or taking care of the many demands that city life, sax and child present to him







well - while it is fair to say that he does loiter on the sofa a good deal he's not only reading books - the man actually writes them

and just, -just! - before the house truly collapses under the weight of thousands of film books and magazines - he gives them to his college as a major donation

and they all live happily ever after...

yep!

 








(take a look at this fantastic list of publications in the picasa window on the right and come to the goldsmiths library one of these days to admire the rossell collection!)

lights - camera - action (part 1 and 2)

a man and his mission

...a strange phenomenon in great britain and elsewhere... is there a single day where you open a newspaper and this man is NOT hot news? and since when are magic lanterns so popular? we are on a mission to find out...

first we need the object - here's a nice one

or here

that'll do too (dare I say they all pretty much look the same to me)

some literature - or shall we call it THE most important work so far on the magic lantern?!

the culprit - don't let this harmless smile fool you! this man is on a mission ...


...'obsessive and pedantic' is what the critics call him - and you haven't heard the wife yet...

clearly, world domination is high on the agenda

boston, new york and finally...

washington as the last stop of a rather fantastic round of lectures

catch it where you can!

(just don't say we didn't warn you!)