pferguson | August 29, 2021
Letting Go C-216…sir… This is Abilene…right here under your feet…but now its Avalon. Now, how can that be possible to have those two things in the same place? (Kepper. The Last Full Measure, 1:15:37 – 1:15:58). It was a recent re-watch of The Last Full Measure, a film in search of the Medal of Honor […]
pferguson | April 18, 2021
Radium – Light the catalyst… She’s wonderful isn’t she…her dance…her name is Loie Fuller [pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting] if you wish to see her again…she calls it… this dance…her fire dance…[Why?]…I believe its because she’s interested in the way flames move. Henri Curie speaking to Marie Skłodowska from Radioactive. Screenplay by Jack […]
pferguson | July 26, 2020
Complications and Anticipations A chance encounter with the unfamiliar…a Sheffield Billiken lends itself for today’s discussion of the film series Parade’s End. Based on four books written by Ford Madox Ford the novels are: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926) and Last Post (1928). The tetralogy visits […]
pferguson | May 23, 2020
Three People Never Having Met Beneath the sky, the moon – the sun – this ground, this coast, valley, or ridge. Along the long, long trail that is our path through Gully Ravine – or our crest at Lone Pine. I return this day to wanderings across places of conflict and to now distant interests. […]
pferguson | May 6, 2020
The Sweet Sound that Calls Every once in a while we are able to step outside the shade and into the light. I enjoy seeing little suggestions turned by creative minds into joy and laughter. Two recent ideas have proven popular and with each day in the shade I continue to try and cast a […]
