|
||||
|
visual arts |
|||
|
The visual arts covers a very wide range of things, so I've broken the main category down into smaller parts: big-screen moving pictures, small-screen moving pictures, and nice stuff made by living creatures. Eventually, I will add two more categories: photographs and electronic artwork. There are also catch-all categories that deal with the things I refuse to see and those that I wish I hadn't see - the lists may horrify some, but many of you will nod your head in agreement. I've combined animé, foreign-language, and plain-old English items in these lists. The big-screen moving pictures category covers my all-time favourite movies. I didn't bother dividing them up further based on why they made the list. This is, of course, a very small sample of my ultimate list of faves; it's the list of most influential to me at this point in my life. Small-screen moving pictures contains the rare few television programmes/series that I actually liked to watch. Some of these will probably never see the light of day again, but I would highly recommend checking them out if you happen to see one listed. Nice stuff made by living creatures is a bit of a catch-all category. It includes painting, jewellery, drawings, sculpture, lithography, architecture, even typography. It'll probably be split up into smaller categories as time progresses. The next category, things that I will never willingly experience, is one of my favourite groups. These visual items made me cringe merely from the promotional excesses prior to its release. Most of the films listed were super-duper-extra-loudly-hyped... that's a sure way to keep me and my money away from the theatres. I refuse to be pushed to see something. Period. The last category, things I wish I didn't see, is a dumping ground for those visual things that caused me to experience an unacceptable level of strain. The remake of "The Island of Doctor Moreau" isn't on this list because I really liked the movie. However, it was a stressful experience, as the audience was openly hostile throughout the presentation, and as I left the theatre I had to dodge the fistfights, cops, and blood-spattered entryway. |
books visuals music sewing decorating Gary Numan |
|||
|
big-screen moving pictures |
||||
|
2001 - A Space Odyssey Airplane! series Alien series Apartment Zero Bad Taste Bagdad Café Being John Malkovich Blade Runner Brain Damage Brazil The Bride With White Hair A Clockwork Orange Crash Dr. Strangelove |
Escape from L.A. Escape from New York Evil Dead series Free Enterprise Ghost in the Shell Hellraiser series High Frequency The Killer Tongue Liquid Sky Man Facing Southeast Mars Attacks! The Matrix Network The Nightmare Before Christmas |
Orca Perfect Blue Proof Repo Man Rollerball (original) Ronin Shanghai Noon Silent Running Strictly Ballroom Tales From The Gimli Hospital Tampopo Wings of Desire A Zed and Two Naughts |
||
|
small-screen moving pictures |
||||
|
Absolutely Fabulous American Gothic Babylon 5 Brimstone Dave Allen At Large |
Doctor Who DragonBall Z The Hilarious House of Frightenstein Kolchak: the Night Stalker |
Square Pegs Strange Paradise The Prisoner Wild Kingdom |
||
|
nice stuff made by living creatures |
||||
|
Escher drawings H.R. Geiger artwork Group of Seven paintings Hand-dyed fabrics |
Handmade quilts Heritage clothing Inuit carvings |
Paintings by elephants Roadsters Stained glass work Frank Lloyd Wright designs |
||
|
things I will never willingly experience |
||||
|
1492 Babe Bambi E.T. |
Forest Gump Home Alone series Saving Private Ryan |
Schlindler's List Society Toy Story series |
||
|
things I wish I didn't see |
||||
|
Battlefield Earth The Benny Hill Show Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death |
Chia Pets Independence Day The Polka Dot Door Precious MomentsTM figurines |
Norman Rockwell paintings** The War of the Roses 2103 - The Deadly Wake |
||
| ** About the Rockwell stuff: his paintings have always creeped me out. The animals are cute enough, but each and every human looks like it is a soul eater. It truly belongs in both the 'never willingly experience' and the 'wish I didn't' categories. |
Copyright © 2002 by Barbara Anne Richardson. All rights reserved. Send comments here. |