Spring is here
Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I last added an entry so thought it time I that I clocked in. To be honest this is always the quietest time of the year for artists and most are getting ready for new shows and upcoming exhibitions. I personally am taking things a little slower to start with this year, no doubt this will change as the year continues and shows start to become demanding. I have yet to confirm any shows dates as yet but will keep all informed as and when I finalize them.
On a totally different note I was pleased to see the Werner Herzog movie 'Grizzly Man' on tv last night. I have been waiting a while to see this film for many reasons. I love the films of Herzog, I obviously love bears and the great outdoors but was also interested by this strange character Timothy Treadwell. I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary as I knew I would ,but found the whole story quite moving. I think it is quite easy to become disillusioned with people and life in favour of animals, trouble is, this is often a romantic notion and in Timothys case a tragic one. His heart was no doubt in the right place if not a little misguided, I am not sure his conservation efforts in the field were of any value (probably more so now than then) and I am always a bit wary of human animal encounters becoming so close. It is only a rare occasion that this happens naturally and even then I would call it a freak event, it is more often the human enforcing his want of companionship on a wild animal.
If you get some free time watch the film, if a little upsetting at times it more than makes up for it as a well composed entertaining documentary.
It's been a while since I last added an entry so thought it time I that I clocked in. To be honest this is always the quietest time of the year for artists and most are getting ready for new shows and upcoming exhibitions. I personally am taking things a little slower to start with this year, no doubt this will change as the year continues and shows start to become demanding. I have yet to confirm any shows dates as yet but will keep all informed as and when I finalize them.
On a totally different note I was pleased to see the Werner Herzog movie 'Grizzly Man' on tv last night. I have been waiting a while to see this film for many reasons. I love the films of Herzog, I obviously love bears and the great outdoors but was also interested by this strange character Timothy Treadwell. I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary as I knew I would ,but found the whole story quite moving. I think it is quite easy to become disillusioned with people and life in favour of animals, trouble is, this is often a romantic notion and in Timothys case a tragic one. His heart was no doubt in the right place if not a little misguided, I am not sure his conservation efforts in the field were of any value (probably more so now than then) and I am always a bit wary of human animal encounters becoming so close. It is only a rare occasion that this happens naturally and even then I would call it a freak event, it is more often the human enforcing his want of companionship on a wild animal.
If you get some free time watch the film, if a little upsetting at times it more than makes up for it as a well composed entertaining documentary.
Posted by David Dancey-Wood at Wednesday, March 25. 2009 
Categories: David's Blog
Tags: Timothy Treadwell Brown Bear Spring Sleepy Grizzly Man David Dancey-Wood artist Werner Herzog
Categories: David's Blog
Tags: Timothy Treadwell Brown Bear Spring Sleepy Grizzly Man David Dancey-Wood artist Werner Herzog
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