Unhealed Wound – Page 125 – Passion for Art, Movies, and Culture

“Swimming with Sharks”–Taking a Dive from the Corporate Ladder

Written by diana on March 24, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Swimming with Sharks”–Taking a Dive from the Corporate Ladder

Our son graduated from college about a year ago and has had several internships in the entertainment industry, mainly reality TV and independent movies, while he searches for his next career step. One of his former supervisors recommended “Swimming with Sharks”, for an insider’s view of what working as a low-level assistant...

Seattle: A Blast from the Past

Written by diana on March 14, 2011. Posted in Art, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on Seattle: A Blast from the Past

On a recent trip to Seattle, in lightly falling snow, I took a guided walking tour of the city’s mid-19th century “underground” origins: its musty subterranean passageways of abandoned toilets, pipes, cast-off furniture and windows that once were the main first-floor storefronts of old downtown Seattle. Like layers of fossils built one...

A Harvest of Images: A Feast for the Eyes!

Written by diana on March 4, 2011. Posted in Art, Monterey Peninsula College, MPC Print Club.

The Pajaro Valley Arts Council gallery (PVAC) in Watsonville is featuring over 100 images that showcase a wide range of both traditional and experimental printmaking processes, including digital media. The show, “A Harvest of Images”, was juried by the highly regarded artist Howard Ikemoto, art instructor at Cabrillo College for...

“Departures”–“Between Life and Death”

Written by diana on February 15, 2011. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on “Departures”–“Between Life and Death”

For a guest lecture I am preparing for a course, “Philosophy through the Movies”, I decided to select the Academy Award® Winner for Best Foreign Language Film of 2009, “Departures”, (Japanese title: “Okuribito”, lit. “a person sent out or dispatched”), a look into the in-between of life and...

BLOOD LOTUS: Discovering New Voices in Literature and Art

Written by diana on January 31, 2011. Posted in Art, Literary and Art Journals, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on BLOOD LOTUS: Discovering New Voices in Literature and Art

I discovered the online journal, Blood Lotus, while doing a Google search for submitting my short stories to small boutique journals. While spending hours looking for an appropriate fit for my edgy short stories about growing up with wounds, both healed and unhealed, I discovered this literary and quarterly gem. Blood Lotus, established in...

“Restrepo” – Dangerously Close to the Action

Written by diana on January 24, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on “Restrepo” – Dangerously Close to the Action

This haunting documentary, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, chronicles very young soldiers (some younger than twenty years old) during their fourteen-month deployment in Afghanistan’s Korengal valley. A visceral view of modern battle, you cannot watch this riveting, real-life “Hurt...