DOG-EARED ON THE BOOKSHELF
A Book of Luminous Things, Czeslaw Milosz • The Abundance, Annie Dillard • American Primitive, Mary Oliver • Art is Work, Milton Glaser • The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher • Blood, Bones, & Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton • . The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad • . The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp • Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser •. Essential Writings, Thich Nhat Hanh • Felicity, Mary Oliver • The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand • From the New World, Jorie Graham • The Gift, Hafiz; trns. Daniel Ladinsky • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance, Angela Duckworth • H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald • In The Company of Women, ed. Grace Bonney • Innocents & Others, Dana Spiotta • Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, Simon Garfield • Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke • A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara • M Train, Patti Smith • Many Moons, Modern Women • The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley • Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster • Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf • My Berlin Kitchen, Luisa Weiss • On Writing, Stephen King • Ooga-Booga, Frederick Seidel • Our Inner Ape: Why We Do What We Do, Franz de Waal • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard • The Rise, Sarah Lewis • Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle • Sculpting in Time, Andrey Tarkovsky • Small Victories, Julia Turshen • Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness • This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff • This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, eds. Jay Allison & Dan Gediman • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee • To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston • The Turner House, Angela Flournoy • The Writing Life, Annie Dillard • Viviane Maier, Street Photographer, ed. John Maloof • You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero • Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with The Universe, Yumi Sakugawa
FAVE FILMS FROM THE QUEUE: 2019
3 Women, dir. Robert Altman • Atonement, dir. Joe Wright • Au Revoir Les Enfants, dir. Louis Malle • Big Night, dirs. Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott • Brideshead Revisited, dir. Jeremy Brock • To Catch a Thief, dir. Alfred Hitchcock • Cinema Paradiso, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore • Cold War, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski • Dogville, dir. Lars von Trier • Desk Set, dir. Walter Lang • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, dir. Ned Benson • Elizabeth, dir. Shekhar Kapur • Everlasting Moments, dir. Jan Troell • The Fall, dir. Tarsem Singh • Fanny & Alexander, dir. Ingmar Bergman • Finding Viviane Maier, dirs.John Maloof, Charlie Siskel • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, dir. David Fincher • Good Morning Vietnam, dir. Barry Levinson • I Am Love, dir. Luca Guardagnino • Ida, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski • Lazzaro Felice, dir. Alice Rohrwacher • The Lives of Others, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • The Lobster, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos • M. Hulot's Holiday, dir. Jacques Tatí • Magnolia, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson • The Master, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson • . Minimalism, dir. Matt D'Avella • Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins • Orlando, dir. Sally Potter • Pina, dir. Wim Wenders • Roma, dir. Alfonso Cuarón • A Room With A View, dir. James Ivory • The Red Shoes, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • Summer With Monika, Ingmar Bergman • The Square, dir. Ruben Östlund • Three Coins in the Fountain, dir. John Negulesco • Three Colors Trilogy, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, dir. Tomas Alfredson • Twelfth Night, dirs. Kenneth Branagh • The Two Faces of January, dir. Hossein Amini • Vanya on 42nd Street, dir. Louis Malle • The Violin, dir. Francisco Vargas • What's Up, Doc?, dir. Peter Bogdanovich • The White Ribbon, dir. Michael Haneke • Wise Blood, dir. John Huston
START TO FINISH: NINE ALBUMS FOR 2019
The Dharma At Big Sur, John Adams; Nonesuch Records, 2006.
Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition; Miles Davis; Sony BMG, 1959.
The Big Broadcast: 1920's Jazz Recordings; Rivermont, 2005.
Trouble; Ray LaMontagne; Stone Dwarf, 2004.
Rare & Unreleased: Aretha Franklin; Atlantic Recording Corp, 2007.
Reich: The Four Sections, Steve Reich; Nonesuch Records, 2014.
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works, Max Richter; Deutsche Grammophon, 2017.
History: America; Warner Brothers, 1975.
Zomba Prison Project: I Will Not Stop Singing; Six Degrees Records, 2016.
ONLINE GOODIE-BAGS: FAVORITE FREE RESOURCES
The New York Public Library Digital Archives
Explore the Planet: Google Earth's Showcase
MIT's Global Shakespeare Archive
Poetry Foundation's Online Collection
Stream Classic Films with your Library Card: Kanopy
NYPL's Jerome Robbins Digital Dance Archive
Google's Arts & Culture
Ovrtur's Digital Musical Theater Archive
The Metropolitan Opera's Video Archive Database
Free & Open Yale Courses
Tour The Louvre
IDEO's Design View of the Universe
John Berger's Ways of Seeing 1972 BBC Special
DREAM BIG: RESOURCES FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
Louisiana Channel's 8 Artists: Advice to Young Artists
The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge Archive and Access Website
Americans For The Arts: Young Artists Resources
And... everything listed below
HOPE CANDY: SPEECHES & AMMO FOR DARK DAYS
Neil Gaiman's UArts Speech on Dreaming Big (2012)
Elizabeth Gilbert's Your Elusive Creative Genius (2009)
J.K. Rowling's The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (2008)
Jennifer Armbrust's Revolution & The Feminine Economy (2015)
Nicolas Forzy on Making Your First Film: Whatever It Takes! (2013)
Froloche's animation of Ira Glass, on Ignant
Milton Glaser's How Great Design Makes Ideas Anew (1998)
Bill Moyers with Pema Chodron: A Calm Mind & A Warm Heart, Fearlessness in Difficult Times (2006)
John Waters' RISD Speech: Wreck What Came Before: (2015)
Law Alsobrook: A Life in Design & Making Meaning (2012)
Blockshelf's 50 Entrepreneurs Dish It Out Collection
Peggy Oki: Allowing Things To Unfold & Finding Your Purpose In Life (2016)
Karen Hutton: Finding Your Voice & Genius in Your Photography (2013)
Dewitt Jones on Vision, Creativity, & Authority (2010)