OCTAVIA'S WONDERLAND

THIS BLOG HAS NOW MOVED!

2010-07-26T09:01:00.013+02:00

OCTAVIA'S WONDERLAND HAS NOW MOVED TO OCTAVIA'S OTHERLAND Please come visit me here http://octaviamorris.wordpress.com Thank You! As you can see this address is still live, wih its hideous new design, but archive content has mostly been deleted. Fear not! I still have everything on file should anyone need references :-)

Sincerity = Bullshit

2010-07-18T13:26:00.011+02:00

"I am so depressed by the number of novelists who think that being sincere is enough" - so said Tom Sutcliffe yesterday on Radio 4, in reference to some excruciating novel whose title I don't remember. Case in point: an interview in the paper today with Turner

Those Glasto Moments

2010-06-30T17:33:00.010+02:00

The Film That Changed Her Life...

2010-06-27T14:38:00.000+02:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/27/film-changed-life-mia-hansen-love

My ShOEler

2010-05-27T00:16:00.008+02:00

Yinka Shonibare

2010-05-24T13:42:00.000+02:00

http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/images/ARTICLES/OBSERVER%202010.pdf

Varda month at the BFI

2010-05-03T15:39:00.012+02:00

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Ginger Killer

2010-04-28T14:55:00.016+02:00

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Water SLavery

2010-04-14T13:34:00.001+02:00

Environment / Character

2010-03-22T15:46:00.024+01:00

“A traveller is interested and curious and wants to immerse himself in a place; a tourist never really gets anywhere. Beautiful places are now increasingly evasive in the modern world, which makes it difficult to get anywhere for anyone. But every now and then you turn a corner or drive into a horizon, and you realise you are travelling, that something is coming towards

[Toothpick]

2010-03-16T11:25:00.009+01:00

∙ i only used one side of it ∙ excuse me? ∙ i’ll pay half ∙ it’s a toothpick ∙ it’s the principle ∙ [silence] ∙ you have to be joking ∙ i never joke about money ∙ i don’t know what to say to you sir ∙ i think you do ∙ do you want me to say it? ∙ not really ∙ is this a test? ∙ you appear to find me challenging ∙ i find you a tooth prick var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "

Earthbag Building

2010-03-16T11:11:00.031+01:00

Over the weekend I found myself on an island off the coast of Thailand, attending a workshop on how to build using bags of local natural materials instead of concrete. Adapted from old military practices, Earthbag Building is a recent trend in sustainable architecture that’s been springing up around the world over the last ten years or more. It’s

Project: Impossible?

2010-03-12T10:36:00.011+01:00

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Ooh! Hef, You Naughty Thing.

2010-03-01T13:25:00.042+01:00

The legend of Hugh Hefner has always fascinated me. My mental projection of the 83-year-old King of the Playboy Mansion, draped in his bunnies and boobies, may well be nothing more than a comic caricature. Who really cares? Hefner is, as we all know, a pop culture icon. But essentially he's a very simple symbol of energy, charisma and pure joie de vivre. Somewhere in the midst of the circus,

Chris Ofili: When You Think You Know a Guy...

2010-02-21T14:14:00.047+01:00

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Director's Seminar

2010-02-18T11:08:00.042+01:00

Everything I know about film, I’ve learned from interviewing brilliant filmmakers: all of whom have graciously let me bore them with my questions while maintaining the illusion of freestyle conversation. And for that I'm truly grateful. As it turns out, filmmakers learn from each other too. In this month’s Dazed & Confused OUT TODAY! I get a unique opportunity to step aside

Mia Hansen-Love

2010-02-18T11:03:00.011+01:00

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Me and the Devil

2010-02-15T13:54:00.011+01:00

Nausea

2010-02-10T02:08:00.016+01:00

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Commercials for the Status Quo

2010-02-05T10:19:00.013+01:00

So far my biggest discovery of 2010 has to have been German New Wave cinema - a sort of hangover from the French New Wave that lasted well into the 80s, with its own unique blurry vision. Until now my knowledge of the genre has been limited to a handful of Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders films, and not even the best ones at that. Walter Salles, one of my favourite (

New DecADE

2009-12-10T00:16:00.003+01:00

Back in 2010!