Ahead: PULLOUT at Past Forward
Posted on December 4, 2003 at 11:26 am | No Comments
The Oni Gallery’s Past Forward Film Series returns on Saturday, December 13th with their 16th event, a showing of the documentary PULLOUT hosted by the director herself, Jyllian Gunther. In a real-life take on a slice of High Fidelity, Gunther appeared on the doorsteps of five ex-boyfriends to delve into “what went wrong?”. Sounds… messy. I’m there.
From the Oni site…
Oni Gallery Presents …
PAST FORWARD #16
“where film + fine art meet”
$7 suggested donation – food & beverages includedSaturday, December 13, 8pm
PULLOUT
with Director Jyllian Gunther, in person“15 years. 5 wrecked relationships. 1 girl’s reckless idea: go back and find out why…”
Over the course of one long, hot summer, filmmaker Jyllian Gunther showed up on the doorsteps of her most significant ex-es to pose the question: what went wrong? From New York to San Francisco to Paris, PULLOUT pulls out all the stops – what happens along the way includes a rekindled romance, tattooing, rejection, a stakeout, tarantulas, sex, accusations, indifference, and a nostalgia that climaxes with the realization that the past is subjective and memory is selective.
The Oni Gallery is at 684 Washington St, on the 4th Floor, between Kneeland & Beach Streets in Boston’s Chinatown. For more info call 617-542-6983 or visit the Oni website at www.onigallery.org. Tickets are at the door only, and as usual, refreshments and freshly baked goodies are on the house.
R.I.P. BlogShares
Posted on December 3, 2003 at 2:01 pm | No Comments
Seems that the virtual blog-stock market known as BlogShares has packed it in, with developer Seyed Razavi moving on to other things after a major database failure. He decided not to try and recover from the setback, so after 9 months, his excellent experiment disappears. The final update from the Blogshares site:
Dear BlogShares players,
I am sorry to announce that BlogShares will not be reopening after the current technical difficulties are resolved. Currently, the database server is dead and looks to be for the next few days.
The latest system crash has highlighted to me that deliverying a fun, useful service for the BlogShares community requires an active operator and developer. As most of you are no doubt aware I’ve been neither for the past couple of months. That has led to a decline of quality service, new features and ultimately income for the site and it looked likely that there wouldn’t be enough to pay for next month’s hosting.
It’s been an interesting and very rewarding nine months bringing a bit of entertainment to bloggers (and blog lovers). I’d like to thank especially all those people who donated money or their valuable time, those who became premium subscribers, those who worked on cool toys which made use of the fledgling API and all those who could be found on the forums and IRC channel. You turned a silly fun idea of a mad monkey coder in London into something worthy of the attention by thousands of bloggers and the press.
My goal with the project was always to embrace the power law and to provide a new way of highlighting blogs with a little bit of fun. I’ve been pleasantly surprised of how well it did and stupefied it did it for so long. Now, however, it is time to move on to other things. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from me in the not so distant future. You can also find me at my perpetual home: monkeyx.com.
All the best,
Seyed Razavi
Thanks for the diversion, Seyed.