I Heart Miranda July

Miranda July is one of my favorite artists in the world today. I say 'artist' because in addition to her most well-known work, the film "Me And You And Everyone We Know"*--which she wrote, directed and acted in--she is also a great writer of short stories and a brave-ass performance artist who's done her shit at the fucking Guggenheim.

She has a new film premiering in DC this Friday. It's called "The Future" and though it features a talking cat narrator and an anthropomorphized moon, it looks like it'll be fantastic, at least to me it does--it's getting a fair amount of Twitter hate right now, but who cares about that, really? Anyway, I'm going to see it with a friend on Sunday, and in my excitement I've been relentlessly watching Miranda July clips on youtube, which I will now share with you.

Here is the trailer for the film...



followed by an awesome out-take therefrom about how to be creative...



and also a nice short film she made back in 2005 with John C Reilly, Mike White, and a fellow named Chuy Chavez. It's called "Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody?"



*MaYaEWK ranks EASILY amongst my top-5 favorite films of all time. SEE IT if you haven't. It's perfectly lovely.

Kseniya Simonova

I'm really late to the party, but I just came across this amazing video from the finals of the 2009 season of "Ukraine's Got Talent." It's this artist, Kseniya Simonova, working with sand and a back-lit tracing table. Just amazing...